Showing 133 results

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.

Correspondence with Stanley Smith and Dr Dorothy Hill about the analysis of some rock samples from the Canadian Rockies and general matters.

Folder containing notes, newspaper cuttings and articles written by other authors.

Typed book review of Economic Geology of New Zealand by G.J. Williams in collaboration with the New Zealand Geological Survey.

Booklet for the Geologists Association 1936-37 session which advertised a meeting of the Association to be held on 7 May 1937 at which a lecture titled ‘Nanda Devi, Central Himalaya’ would be delivered by N.E. Odell.

Folder called ‘Caledonian (& Alpine) Orogeny (Harvard Notes) Advanced Physical Geology containing handwritten notes and diagrams.

Cambridge University Local Lectures. Syllabus of a course of twelve lectures on Modern Exploration and its Contributions to Science and Progress by N.E. Odell.

There are two copies. One copy contains loose a flyer advertising the lectures by Norwich University Extension Society in connection with the Board of Extra-Mural Studies of the University of Cambridge to he held from 1st October to 3 December 1935 in Stuart Hall, Norwich.

Archive material (personal papers collections) of Masters, Fellows, Students and Alumni of Clare College.

Researchers should be aware that the College holds no personal papers of the College's foundress, Elizabeth de Clare, but extensive correspondence and accounts relating to her estate can be found at the National Archives in Kew.

'Clare College A List of Subscribers to the Fund Commemorating the Retirement of A.G. Parsons in 1949'.

Typed copy of a talk called 'Geological and Other Observations in the Mount Everest Region' given by Noel Odell to the Boston Geological Society on 9 November 1925.

Attached are two letters from Walter Lambert asking for a copy of the address and the other thanking him for it.