Mika Hyman. 'Shifting Boundaries: A Study of William Heberden's (1710–1801) Materia Medica Cabinet in St John's College, Cambridge'. Dissertation. 2023.

Dissertation on the history of Heberden's cabinet, submitted to the University of Cambridge for the M.Phil in History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine. Includes a full catalogue of the contents of the cabinet drawers as of summer 2023. Typescript with colour photography.

Manuscript extra information

80 pp. Donated by Mika Hyman, October 2023.

William Wesley Ellison. Notes on 'Law of Tort' lectures by Glanville Williams. 1930s.

Lecture notes with occasional insertion of cuttings. Manuscript and typescript.

William Wesley Ellison, generally known as Wesley or WWE, was born in 1917 in Barrow-in-Furness. His father was the town's mayor. Ellison studied at Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge in the 1930s and became a partner in Poole & Son solicitors.

James M. Wordie. Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition: Weddell Sea Log 1914-1916.

Transcript of the personal diary of Sir James Mann Wordie, published by the Wordie family in 2015.

John Philip Morley. 'Mining in East Greenland'. Dissertation. 1965.

'Mining in East Greenland': The mining of lead and zinc at Mesters Vig, with reference to the problems of exploitation and transport in the Arctic.' A dissertation submitted for Part II of the Geographical Tripos. Typescript.

Norman Brooke Jopson (1890-1969), ‘History of the Uncommon Language Department (London and Liverpool) 1939-1945’

Typescript account of the history of U.L.D. during the Second World War, written by N.B. Jopson, Censor, U.L.D. and Professor of Comparative Philology, University of Cambridge. Dated July 1945. A contents list at the beginning outlines nine chapters and seven appendices. Appendix seven is by R. Bigwood, D.A.C.

C.W. Shawcross Go in Peace! (1939-45)

Cyril Wilfred Shawcross (1903-1969) matriculated at St John’s College in 1921 and gained a BA in Natural Sciences in 1924. Volunteering on the outbreak of the Second World War, he was appointed Political Officer of the Kufra Oasis during the North Africa Campaign, then transferred to the Iraqi army. His typescript record of his war service is written in verse, and illustrated with numerous black and white photographs, all of which have handwritten captions. Parallel title in Arabic.

Alfred Domett (1811-1887) and family, Poetical commonplace book. English, predominantly 1861-69.

Alfred Domett studied at St John’s from 1829-32. A life-long friend of Robert Browning, he published his first poetry collections in the 1830s. In 1842 he emigrated to New Zealand, where he became a skilled administrator. He served in both the House of Representatives and the Legislative Council before taking office as Colonial Secretary [i.e. Prime Minister] from August 1862 to October 1863. He returned to England in 1871 and resumed a literary career.

Liuhe neiwai suoyan. (Tales of the world) 六合內外璅言. by Shuyu Yisun (i.e. Tu Shen). ca. 1800.

A collection of short stories by 屠紳 Tu Shen (1744-1801), published anonymously in Guangzhou (aka Canton) shortly after 1797 as a revised edition. Each story has a corresponding full leaf illustration.

Sancai fami. (The secrets of the three powers [heaven, earth and mankind]) 三才發秘. by Chen Wen. ca. 1697.

This work is an exploration of the secret of the triad of Heaven, Earth, and Man. Its eight volumes are divided into three parts, each concentrating on one of the three powers : heaven, earth, and mankind.