Includes letters discussing Taylor’s research and writings, and those of others. Correspondents include fellow academics, museum and planning professionals, and professional and learned societies.
E. G. R. Taylor's research materials on cartography, geology, navigation, and exploration
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Contains research notes, lecture notes, maps, photographs, transcripts of manuscripts and rare books, traced maps, and notebooks. Includes: a list of instruments by listed makers in the Whipple Museum; tables relating to the North Star and the dip of the horizon; notes on rare books and manuscri...
Includes: catalogue for an exhibition of scientific instruments, Brussels, 1945; flyer for Town and Country Planning Summer School, Durham University, 1946; The Billingham Works of I.C.I.; sale catalogues; The Institute of Navigation Supplement at 30 June 1961; The Festival of Britain 1951, a gu...
Includes journal articles, notes, suggestions for the content of various sections of the atlas, correspondence, a draft plan, meeting notes, British Association committee papers, Association Française papers, and Royal Society papers. Taylor was chair of the committee established by the British A...
Material collected by Eila Campbell, historian of cartography, who considered writing a biography of Taylor. Includes letters from Taylor to Campbell, correspondence of Campbell and Derek Weber discussing the project, bibliographies of Taylor’s writings, biographical notes, a copy of a press cut...