Anthropology object history files: Colbeck, William

Correspondence relating to the transfer of material relating to Captain Scott donated by Lady Kennet in 1938 and moved to the Scott Polar Research Institute in Cambridge, 1956 and subsequent transfer from that institution to the Horniman of plates relating to Captain Colbeck 'National Antarctic Expedition, 1900-1904'.

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