Ardal dynodi
Cod cyfeirnod
Teitl
Dyddiad(au)
- 1869-1970 / (Creation)
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Fonds
Maint a chyfrwng
0.126 cubic metres (9 boxes, 1 wallet and 2 rolls)
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Enw'r crëwr
Hanes bywgraffyddol
Herbert John Fleure (1877-1969), zoologist and geographer, was born in Guernsey on 6 June 1877. He was the son of John Fleure (1803-1890) and Marie (née Le Rougetel). In 1897, he obtained a scholarship to the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth. He founded the Student Representative Council, published articles in the college magazine and obtained a first-class honours degree in zoology in 1901. He was awarded a fellowship to further his marine biology studies at the Zoological Institute Zurich, Switzerland, 1902-1904, and gained a D.Sc. (Wales). He returned to Aberystwyth as a lecturer in botany, geology and zoology, 1904-1917, Head of the Department of Zoology, 1908-1910, and the first and only Professor of Anthropology and Geography, 1917-1930. He was the first Professor of Geography at Victoria University, Manchester, 1930-1944. In 1905, he began an anthropological study of the Welsh people. His paper on the geographical distribution of anthropological types in Wales appeared in 1916, 'Regions Humanies' published in Paris was translated into several languages and was joint author with H. J. E. Peake (1867-1946) of the series The Corridors of Time, 1927-1956 (Oxford). He was the secretary of the Geographical Association, editor of its journal, Geography, 1917-1946, and President, 1948. He was also President of the Cambrian Archaeological Association in 1924, elected FRS in 1936 and President of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 1945-1947. He married Hilda Mary Bishop of Guernsey, 1910, and had three children. He moved to London after retiring in 1944, and later to Surrey where he died in 1969.
Hanes archifol
Ffynhonnell
The main group was deposited by his son Mr J. Fleure, Great Bookham, Surrey, per Mrs J B Alton, M.A., Oxford in 1976, and an additional group was donated by Dr Elwyn Davies, Butts Field, Tenby, Dyfed, in January 1982.
Ardal cynnwys a strwythur
Natur a chynnwys
The 1976 group comprises autobiographical data, reminiscences and impressions of Aberystwyth, 1900-1904, recollections of Welsh colleagues, correspondence, 1951-1967, notes and working papers, 1904-1910, notes and drawings for lectures, 1906-1907, copies of addresses, slides, maps, and ordnance survey charts of Aberystwyth, 1905 and 1912; brief manuscript and typescript account of life in the Channel Islands under German occupation during World War II mainly Guernsey, 1944-1954; letters of condolence to Mrs. Fleure; cash books, 1869-1914, which, for the period 1869-89, was kept by Fleure's father; research papers and correspondence relating to the distribution of blood groups in the United Kingdom, with particular reference to Wales. The 1982 group comprises the research notes of Herbert John Fleure, 1966-1967, mainly concerned with the distribution of blood groups in the United Kingdom, with special reference to Wales, comprising notes and drafts for Ada C. Kopc, The Distribution of the Blood Groups in the United Kingdom (London, 1970), lecture notes of Dr. Kopc, 1963-1965, and offprints of articles by Elizabeth S. Brown and I. Morgan Watkin, 1963-1967; correspondence, 1963-1968, mainly from Ada C. Kopc, A.E. Mourant and R.A. Pelham; miscellaneous papers and correspondence on the archaeology of the Channel Islands, Cornwall and Devon, 1963-1965.
Gwerthuso, dinistrio ac amserlennu
Action: All records deposited at the National Library of Wales have been retained..
Croniadau
Accruals are not expected.
System o drefniant
Arranged into the following: 1976 group: biographical and personal; printed material; bibliographies and studies; notes and working papers; manuscripts, papers and addresses; correspondence; and slides, maps, charts. 1982 group: research notes, lecture notes, offprints of articles, correspondence.
Ardal amodau mynediad a defnydd
Amodau rheoli mynediad
Readers consulting modern papers in the National Library of Wales are required to sign the 'Modern papers - data protection' form.
Amodau rheoli atgynhyrchu
Usual copyright regulations apply.
Iaith y deunydd
Sgript o ddeunydd
Nodiadau iaith a sgript
English.
Cyflwr ac anghenion technegol
Cymhorthion chwilio
Hard copies of the catalogues are available at the National Library of Wales: Herbert John Fleure Papers; and NLW, H. J. Fleure Papers in Minor Lists and Summaries, 1982, p. 22.
Ardal deunyddiau perthynol
Bodolaeth a lleoliad y gwreiddiol
Bodolaeth a lleoliad copïau
Unedau o ddisgrifiad cysylltiedig
Ardal nodiadau
Nodiadau
Title supplied from contents of fonds.
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Project identifier
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Pwyntiau mynediad lleoedd
Pwyntiau mynediad Enw
Pwyntiau mynediad Genre
Ardal rheolaeth disgrifiad
Dynodwr disgrifiad
Dynodwr sefydliad
Rheolau a/neu confensiynau a ddefnyddiwyd
Description follows ANW guidelines based on ISAD(G) 2nd ed.; AACR2; and LCSH
Statws
Lefel manylder disgrifiad
Dyddiadau creadigaeth adolygiad dilead
February 2003 and September 2006.
Iaith(ieithoedd)
- Saesneg
Sgript(iau)
Ffynonellau
Nodyn yr archifydd
Compiled by Seri Crawley and J. Graham Jones for the ANW Project. The following sources were used in the compilation of this description: NLW, Schedule of Herbert John Fleure Papers FRS and Minor Lists and Summaries 1982; Dictionary of Welsh Biography, 1941-1970 (London, 2001); National Cataloguing Unit for the Archives of Contemporary Scientists website (www.bath.ac.uk), viewed 12 February 2003;