Some notes next to findings. Loose pages at back containing more notes and figures comparing 2 spotted and 10 spotted ladybirds.
Recordings of day, time, mating cycles, eggs laid and hatched in each experiment. Some loose sheets recording experiment data inserted into back of notebook.
Notes on the politics of the 18th century in Britain.
Notes on the Enlightenment in Scotland. Includes some further notes on Hume, Smith and Montisquieu. Also photocopies of many printed articles and dissertation including copies of presentations given by Istvan Hont, John Robertson, Nicholas Phillipson and John Pocock at the Scottish Classical political economy and the civic humanist tradition 26th-27th May 1979, part of the King's Research Centre Colloquim; general notes on Scottish historians and Scottish historical thinking of the 18th century
Proofs - sections of the printed text in format as originally published.
Review of Ralph Vaughan William's second symphony published in The New Statesman.
Comprises:
(1) accounts of income and expenditure, 1799-1858 (with loose papers, 1849-1867 and nd)
(2) marriage settlement of Posthumous Bullivant and Ann Hussey Coles, both of Grantham (Lincs) (Thomas Coles was a Trustee), 1806
(3) bank account book, 1810-1852
(4) lease of land (46 a.) at Walcott (Lincs), 1813, with assignment, 1814
Envelope with the typed address label - Professor Noel Odell, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
And ‘My graduation address at V.U.C.’ written in pencil in Odell’s hand writing.
Contains copies of the address given by Odell at the Victoria University College Graduation Ceremony in 1952 and related papers:
(1) manuscript draft of the address written in a black notebook
(2) two typed copies with manuscript corrections
(3) printed booklet, ‘Adventure and Enterprise in Our Time’ by N.E. Odell
Loose letter inside dated 10 Feb 1953 and signed Malcolm Dylan Hutt thanking him for the booklet and mentioning his plans for walking in the hills
(4) Order of Ceremony booklet for the Victoria University College Graduation Ceremony 1952 at which Odell gave the address. Loose inside:
- Order of procession
- newspaper cutting about the ceremony
- loose letter dated 12 Jan 1953 thanking Odell for his graduation address to Wellington and wondering how it was received as Odell spoke to them ‘very straight’.
(5) newspaper cuttings reacting to the address in which he said N.Z. people had a “complacent and lazy” attitude towards life.