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Series of notebooks belonging to Noel Odell

File called 'Geography Lectures General Examination'.

Contains a copy of the outline schedule of Geography - General Examination Part II; Odell's thoughts on the syllabus; and his lectures on:

• the climate
• weather
• the atmosphere
• temperatures
• high pressure and anti cyclones
• clouds and rainfall
• the geography of food supply
• economic geography of the raw materials of the textile industry
• industrial crops
• communications and transport
• China, Japan, India, Sri Lanka, North America, Canada, Argentina, Brazil, Australia, South Africa and other countries in Africa.

Handwritten lectures given by Noel Odell in the Department of Geology at Harvard University for the course ‘Geology 17b’. Includes loose an exam paper for the 1929 Geology 17b exam paper in which candidates had to answer 10 from 11 questions.

Handwritten lectures given by Noel Odell in the Department of Geology at Harvard University on Glacial Geology. Some lectures have an annotation indicating they were also given in Cambridge in 1932.

A5 envelope with the following on the outside: ‘Mr N.E. Odell, Geological Museum’ (typed) ‘After five days, return to Harvard College C University Hall Cambridge Mass’ printed in the top left corner.

‘Record of Geology 17b Lectures (Petroleum Geology) 1929’ (written in pencil)

Contains pencil written notes on lectures given for 'Geology 17b'.

Folder called ‘Petrology Structures & Miscellaneous Notes (Spitzbergen, Greenland, Labrador etc)’ containing handwritten notes.

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

Includes newsletters of the Geological Society of New Zealand, correspondence from his time at Peshawar University, newspaper cuttings and articles on a variety of topics – volcanoes, glaciers, mining, oil etc.

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

Folder containing a variety of correspondence on a number of subjects including Odell’s article for The Geographical Magazine on the death of Major R.W.G. Hingston (1966) and letters from Dorothy Pilley, the Royal Geographical Society, Ashley Greenwood, and Sir Alun Pugh.