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Newspaper article describing his ascent of Everest in the late 1930's.

Correspondence between Forbes and Waszek. Correspondence was kept up between Waszek and Mrs Forbes after Duncan Forbes' death. For this correspondence please see CCPP/FOR/4.

Collection of memorabilia of Norman Dawson, (Clare 1966) including an account of his time at Clare; Boat Club menus, Amalgamated Clubs fixture lists, play programmes; administrative papers, Musicians VIII Boat spoon; Trundlers cap and scarf; DVD of 8mm films that were taken during his time at Clare.

The DVD contains:

Lent Races 1967. He was accompanied by Jim Bennett (1966), Graham Nicholson (1966), Martin Bartholomew (1966), Robert Murray (1966), Geoffrey Foley (1966), Paul Lincoln (1965).

Easter Term 1967: Clare and College Backs, punting trip with Richard Bauckham (1966) and Geoffrey Foley, Fenner's Cricket

May Races 1967

Long vacation 1967 visit to Cambridge

Michaelmas 1967, snow on Clare Bridge

Easter Term 1968: the Backs and University congregation including Sir Eric Ashby, Lord Butler, and Lord Adrian (Chancellor)

May Races 1968: Includes CUWBC and the musicians boat (VIII) with Norman Dawson and John Guy rowing

Long vacation 1968

June 1969 BA Graduation

May 1973 MA Graduation

Copy of memoirs written by his son, Peter Hilken.

Black hardback notebook with green spine containing handwritten exercises and calculations:

• Heat. Exercises 2, 19 Feb 1914
• Exercises I, 17 Feb 1914
• Exercises III, 24 Feb 1914
• Expansion of gases, 26 Feb 1914
• Mechanical equivalent of heat, 3 Mar 1914
• Vapour pressure and conductivity, 5 Mar 1914
• Expansion and surface tension, 10 Mar 1914
• Work done in expansion, 12 Mar 1914
• Expansion of gasses, 17 Mar 1914
• Expansion, 19 Mar 1914
• Light, 24 Mar 1914
• [more exercises without titles]
• Magnetism, 7 May 1914

At the back loose are pages from a smaller notebook with notes on inorganic chemistry, Oct 1913

Notebook containing hand drawn diagrams of the following rocks and minerals [undated]:

• orthoclase feldspar
• orthoclase
• plagioclase feldspar
• micas
• chlorites
• clintonites
• glauconites
• chamosite
• kaolinite
• talc
• orthorhombic pyroxones
• monoclinic pyroxenes
• monoclinic amphiboles
• orthorhombic amphiboles
• olivines
• serpentine
• silicates of alumina
• topaz
• staurolite
• cordierite
• the humite group
• sphenein amphibolite
• axinite
• monazite
• baryte
• brookite
• tetragonal feldspathoids
• tourmaline

Notebook containing handwritten lecture notes:

• Geophysics (Harold Jeffreys), 28 Jan 1932

• Pratt: uniform compensation (variable density), 27 Feb 1932

• Shape of the Earth, 10 Mar 1932

• Recent work in Alpine tectonics (Nicholas), 28 Apr 1932

• Pennine Nappes, 12 May 1932

• The Universal stage, 1 Feb 1934

• Metamorphism in New Zealand, (Prof. Benson), 1 Mar 1934

• The cause of earth movement as deduced from structural patterns and Mal? Transgressions (Prof J.S. Lee), 18 Jan 1935

• Tectonic types as illustrated by the structure of China (Prof Lee), 19 Jan 1935

• Volcanic and mountain building in the East Indies tension regions (L. Hawkes), 1 Mar 1935

• The universal stage, 1st lecture, 1 July 1952

• The universal stage, 2nd lecture, 8 July 1952

Green hardback notebook with nothing written on the front cover.
On the title page is written ‘N.E. Odell’ in the top right hand corner and ‘Lectures on Inorganic Chemistry by Prof. H.B. Baker, Oct 1913’ in the centre.

Black hardback notebook containing handwritten lecture notes in pencil on Petrology (Part II) given by C.E. Tilley. Written on the title page in pencil – ‘N.E. Odell Cambridge Oct 1931’. Includes hand drawn diagrams.

Book of handwritten lecture notes taken by Noel Odell of lectures given during the war. Subjects include special tunnelling, military drilling, adaptation to military uses of diamond drill, care & lubrication of drills & pipes, surveying & laying out of anti-tank obstacles, carburettors, demolitions, and explosives.