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31. Add MS 89153/28

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Title:
W. Ross Ashby: index cards (2)
Scope & Content:
Draw top right: Contents consist of a small section of address cards arranged alphabetically and a larger section titled ‘Collected Equations’.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1928-1972
Extent:
1 file

32. Add MS 89153/29

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Title:
W. Ross Ashby: index cards (3)
Scope & Content:
Draw bottom left: ‘1-25’. Index of Ross Ashby’s journals arranged according to subject: 1. Natural selection 2. Society 3. The Multistable System 4. DAMS and DAMS (Mark II) 5. Epistemology 6. Higher geometry of fields and matrix theory 7. Psychiatric applications 8. The Conditioned Refle...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1928-1972
Extent:
1 file

33. Add MS 89153/30

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Title:
W. Ross Ashby: index cards (4)
Scope & Content:
Draw bottom right: ‘Alphabetical’. Index of Ross Ashby’s journals arranged alphabetically according to keywords. Also includes a small section of bibliographic references numbered between 4 and 156 with some cards in the sequence either missing or blank.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1928-1972
Extent:
1 file

34. Add MS 89153/31

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Title:
W. Ross Ashby: book ('Introduction to Cybernetics')
Scope & Content:
Introduction to Cybernetics (London, 1956). W. Ross Ashby’s copy (11 September, 1956). Hardback with handwritten title on the spine. Handwritten notes recording ‘Serious misprints and mistakes’. List of languages the book has been translated into on the first page along with a list of people the ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1956
Extent:
1 file

35. Add MS 89153/32

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Title:
W. Ross Ashby: book ('Design for a Brain')
Scope & Content:
Design for a Brain, 2nd Edition (London, 1960). Paperback proof copy with handwritten title on the front and spine. First page has a handwritten list of people copies of the book have been presented to and a short list of pages with typesetting errors on the following page.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1960
Extent:
1 file

36. Add MS 89153/33

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Add MS 89153/33
Title:
W. Ross Ashby: manuscript (autobiographical notes)
Scope & Content:
Autobiographical notes, (7 January, 1951 – 3 June, 1957). Small hardback notebook. 60 pages of handwritten text.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1951-1957
Extent:
1 file

37. Add MS 89153/34

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Add MS 89153/34
Title:
W. Ross Ashby: manuscript (‘Collected statistical equations’)
Scope & Content:
‘Collected statistical equations’ (1928 – 1972). Hardback notebook. 425 pages of handwritten text including index.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
circa 1950
Extent:
1 file

38. Add MS 89153/35

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Title:
W. Ross Ashby: manuscript (‘The origin of adaptation’)
Scope & Content:
‘The origin of adaptation’ (19 November, 1941). Hardback notebook. 195 pages of handwritten text including index.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1941
Extent:
1 file

39. Add MS 89153/36

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Title:
W. Ross Ashby: collected notes and offprints
Scope & Content:
Collected notes and offprints with subject dividers originally bound in a ring binder. 1. Elementary examples in Information Analysis 2. Bounds for H, T, Q. 3. Coordination (including) Examples of information flow in systems showing coordination Example of information flow in coordination wit...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
circa 1950
Extent:
1 file

40. Add MS 89153/37

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Title:
W. Ross Ashby: offprints, articles and papers
Scope & Content:
Collection of offprints, articles and papers authored by W. Ross Ashby including both typescript and published material. (1966 - 1969). Some material includes minor corrections and annotations. Numbered 101-131. (102-105, 107-108 are missing).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1966-1969
Extent:
1 file