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Photographs of a Trans-Arctic expedition and the sledges used, with copy of certificate awarded to Major K. Hedges, the expedition's medical officer
Date: 1968-1969Reference: RAMC/775Part of: Royal Army Medical Corps Muniments Collection- Pictures
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A polar bear is devouring its prey, a seal, on an ice floe in the Arctic sea while three arctic foxes watch eagerly from an adjacent ice floe. Colour lithograph.
Reference: 41279i- Pictures
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A polar bear standing next to its prey, a dead seal, on an ice floe in the Arctic sea. Colour lithograph after W. Kuhnert.
Kuhnert, Wilhelm, 1865-1926.Reference: 41303i- Books
Myths and traditions from northern Alaska, the Mackenzie Delta, and Coronation Gulf / by D. Jenness.
Jenness, Diamond, 1886-1969.Date: 1924- Archives and manuscripts
"The Unknown Land", from unknown American newspaper, reporting on the search for the Arctic land-mass Peary claimed to have sighted and named Crocker Land
Date: c.1914Reference: MS.7487/11Part of: Polar Exploration: Townsend Thorndike Collection- Books
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Results derived from the Arctic Expedition, 1875-76. I. Physical observations by George Nares and [H.W.] Feilden; II. Medical report on the Eskimo dog disease, by B. Ninnis.
Great Britain. Arctic Expedition 1875-6.Date: 1878- Archives and manuscripts
"The Hidden Tragedies of the Arctic Whaling Fleet" by Robert Dunn, from Harper's Weekly, plus a cutting showing a photograph of Dunn in 1898
Date: c.1906Reference: MS.7487/2Part of: Polar Exploration: Townsend Thorndike Collection- Books
A journal of a voyage of discovery to the Arctic regions in His Majesty's ships Hecla and Griper, in the years 1819 and 1820 / By Alexander Fisher.
Fisher, Alexander, approximately 1790-1838.Date: 1821- Archives and manuscripts
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Sir Joseph Fayrer's scrap-book: General interest items, including cuttings re an expedition to the Arctic in 1876, the Hibbert lectures, 1878, and war with Afghanistan, 1878
Date: 1876-1880Reference: RAMC/179Part of: Royal Army Medical Corps Muniments Collection- Books
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Museum Normanianum, or, A catalogue of the invertebrata of Europe, and the Arctic and North Atlantic Oceans, which are contained in the collection of A.M. Norman.
Norman, A. M. (Alfred Merle), 1831-1918.Date: 1886- Pictures
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Captain Cook's men shooting at a herd of walrus in the Arctic Ocean during his third voyage (1777-1780). Engraving by E. Scott and J. Heath, 1784 after J. Webber.
Webber, John, 1751-1793.Date: [1784]Reference: 566702i- Archives and manuscripts
Letters by Franklin's second wife Jane, Lady Franklin
Date: 1851-1857Reference: MS.7402/15-19Part of: Franklin, Sir John, (1786-1847), Arctic explorer- Archives and manuscripts
'Comparative chromosome map between the Japanese raccoon dog, Arctic fox, red fox and domestic dog and its implications for the ancestral canid karyotype,' with Alexander S Graphodatsky et al.
Date: 2000Reference: UGC 188/4/1/31Part of: Papers of Malcolm Andrew Ferguson-Smith, geneticist, Professor of Medical Genetics, University of Glasgow, Scotland- Archives and manuscripts
Letters by Sir John Franklin
Date: 1827-1835Reference: MS.7402/1-10Part of: Franklin, Sir John, (1786-1847), Arctic explorer- Archives and manuscripts
1 newspaper cutting giving notice of the testing of a message balloon with a view to using it to communicate with the lost Franklin expedition
Date: 1850Reference: MS.7402/21Part of: Franklin, Sir John, (1786-1847), Arctic explorer- Archives and manuscripts
2 signatures of Sir John Franklin
Date: 19th centuryReference: MS.7402/12-13Part of: Franklin, Sir John, (1786-1847), Arctic explorer- Archives and manuscripts
1 autograph note to Lady Franklin, accepting an invitation
Date: 19th centuryReference: MS.7402/20Part of: Franklin, Sir John, (1786-1847), Arctic explorer- Archives and manuscripts
Part of an autograph letter as a sample of Sir John Franklin's handwriting
Date: 1811Reference: MS.7402/11Part of: Franklin, Sir John, (1786-1847), Arctic explorer- Archives and manuscripts
1 autograph letter, signed, by Eleanor Porden, later first wife of Sir John Franklin
Date: 1817Reference: MS.7402/14Part of: Franklin, Sir John, (1786-1847), Arctic explorer- Books
Cold injury : transactions of the fifth conference March 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, and 15, 1957 Arctic Aeromedical Laboratory, Ladd Air Force Base, Alaska / edited by M. Irené Ferrer.
Conference on Cold Injury 1957 : Alaska)Date: [1958]- Books
A Victorian earl in the Arctic : the travels and collections of the fifth Earl of Lonsdale 1888-9 / Shepard Krech III ; with a biographical introduction by J.V. Beckett.
Lonsdale, Hugh Cecil Lowther, Earl of, 1857-1944.Date: [1989], ©1989- Archives and manuscripts
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Correspodence between Pontecorvo and Dr Uppeandra Dhar concerning a possible postgraduate position in the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research in Colorado and possibilities of fellowships or exchange arrangements for high altitude botanists
Date: 22 Jun 1979-24 Apr 1982Reference: UGC 198/5/3/1/19Part of: Papers of Guido Pellegrino Arrigo Pontecorvo, geneticist, Professor of Genetics, University of Glasgow, Scotland- Books
Aero medical subcommittee, USAF School of Aviation Medicine & Arctic Aeromedical Laboratory supplement. Vol. II : case no. 5-3, report no. 4 ; Air Force semi-annual technical progress report, 30 June 1951.
USAF School of Aviation Medicine.Date: 1951- Books
Aero medical subcommittee, USAF School of Aviation Medicine & Arctic Aeromedical Laboratory supplement. Vol. II : case no. 5-3, report no. 5 ; Air Force semi-annual technical progress report, 31 December 1951.
USAF School of Aviation Medicine.Date: 1951- Archives and manuscripts
Letters by Ross
Date: 1828-1853Reference: MS.7403/1-11Part of: Ross, Rear-Admiral Sir John, (1777-1856), Arctic explorer