Pitt-Rivers Pamphlets
(Collection description created in 2002. Links checked 2009)
Location
Haddon Library of Archaeology & Anthropology, Cambridge University
Publication date range
1820-1900
Number of items
ca. 400
Description of the collection
24 bound volumes of pamphlets and off-prints collected by the archaeological pioneer Lieut-General Augustus Henry Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers (1827-1900). The collection as a whole bears the title 'Tracts relating to the science of man'. Pitt-Rivers wrote: "In these Volumes I have put together all kinds of papers, from some of which I cordially dissent, yet none are so bad but that they may contain some facts or ideas not known to the best. Whilst others may have in them the germs of truths that are capable of development in after years and which being little appreciated in their time are on that account less likely to be preserved."
Provenance
Presented by Mrs Stella Pitt-Rivers, 1991
Language(s) of the material
Mainly English, with a sprinkling of French and German
Access
Please ring +44 (0)1223 333506, or e-mail [email protected], if you wish to consult this material. It is not available for loan. Readers are advised also that access to the Haddon Library involves stairs and that on-site parking is strictly limited.
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