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StorageSiteUCL Special Collections
LevelCollection
Reference Number MS ADD 275
TitleDarbishire Notebooks
Datec1902-c1904
Date21942-1955
DescriptionTwenty-four laboratory notebooks, c1902-c1904, giving records of Alfred Dukinfield Darbishire's studies of 'waltzing mice'; another similar notebook, 1904, latterly used as a visitors' book, 1942-1955, by Helen Darbishire.
Extent3 boxes
AdminHistoryArthur Dukinfield Darbishire (1879-1915) studied heredity. He conducted studies on mice at Balliol College Oxford and Owens College Manchester.

Helen Darbishire (1881-1961), sister of Alfred Dukinfield Darbishire, was Principal of Somerville College Oxford (1931-1945).
AcquisitionTransferred from the Department of Statistical Science, University College London, in 1980. Additional notebook given by Dr W D B Darbishire in 1999.
AccessStatusOpen
AccessConditionsThe papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.
FindingAidsOnline catalogue
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