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[Source - Cambridge University Library website, 2017: The Haddon Papers are housed in the Manuscripts and University Archives within the Special Collections of the Cambridge University Library. The collection includes items relating to Haddon’s life and expeditions, as well as lecture notes, professional correspondence, and a large collection of offprints. The FHYA selection of the Haddon papers focuses on material about Haddon and his involvement in the 1905 Natal leg of the British Association for the Advancement of Science tour of southern Africa. The FHYA ordered this material according to the arrangement set out by the CUL whereby each series is named ‘Haddon Papers’ followed by an identifying number demarcating different sets of material. Within these series, there are ‘files’, in which ‘items’ are housed.]

[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA using the Cambridge University Library website, 2017: Alfred Cort Haddon was a zoologist, ethnologist, and anthropologist in the late 1800s and early 1900s. He was a lecturer at the University of Cambridge and was a Fellow of Christ’s Church. His papers, and their associated materials, were deposited at the Cambridge University Library by the Cambridge University Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology in 1968. The FHYA selection of Haddon items consist of material collected by Haddon in the Natal leg of the 1905 visit of the British Association to South Africa. During the course of this trip, Haddon collected items which are currently held in the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology in Cambridge.]

[Source - Cambridge University Library website, 2017: The Royal Greenwich Observatory Archives collection is housed in the Manuscripts and University Archives within the Special Collections of the Cambridge University Library. The collection includes all of the surviving historical paper records of the Royal Observatory from 1675 until around 1980. The FHYA selection of the RGO material focuses on the correspondences and the associated items relating to the 1905 Natal leg of the British Association for the Advancement of Science tour of southern Africa. The FHYA ordered this material according to the arrangement set about by the CUL whereby each series is named ‘Royal Greenwich Observatory’ followed by an identifying number demarcating different sets of material. Within these series, there are ‘files’, in which ‘items’ are housed.]