Part of a gift to the Library from the Wellcome Trust, being from the original from the original collection of Henry Wellcome. The items in this collector's case include intaglio casts taken from medieval seals, examples of seal matrices and other small cast medieval objects.
Weather is nothing more or less than the atmosphere in its varying moods” claims this book’s author. How do you then capture and predict moods? From the 1830s onwards the telegraph allowed weather forecasting to transcend locality. A newly created global network of weather stations required a common language to transfer information. Following a similar development to digital symbols such as emoticons, weather symbols used typographic rather than alphabetic elements to overcome the challenge of international communication in multiple languages. As this table shows, a dot represents rain and an asterisk suggests snow.
The University of London has a long history of awarding degrees to students studying in centres around the world as ‘external students’. The University helped to establish Universities right across the Commonwealth, and set and marked examinations for many more. The University’s first official centre in Baghdad was established in 1923, some 35 years before teaching began at the University of Baghdad, and close relations between the two institutions persisted for decades. This sculpture was a gift to mark the visit of the Rector of the University of Baghdad in 1972.
An exam box from 1840 for transporting scripts to and from the examination hall. This box was for the 2nd set of exams for the Bachelor of Medicine and a pass in these would qualify you as a physician. At this time the University did not carry out any teaching and the awarding of degrees was its stock in trade. 1840 was an important year as this was the first year that that the Royal Colleges granted the same rights for University of London graduates to practice medicine as those of Oxford and Cambridge
Address to the students of College Hall on the occasion of the close of the last session in Byng Place by Mary Brodrick, PH.D., F.R.G.S., Dame of Grace of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem entitled, 'Retrospect and Prospect "Farewell and All Hail!"'.
Address by Miss MacDonald on behalf of past and present students of College Hall to Miss Grove and Miss Morison on the occasion of their resigning the posts of principal and vice-principal of the hall, with a reply from Miss Grove and Miss Morison, 15 October 1900.
A brief history of College Hall designed to encourage subscriptions to its Jubilee Building and Equipment Fund. It was written in 1932 as work was underway on the construction of the new building of College Hall in Malet Street which was to open later in the year.
Louisa MacDonald, first prinicpal of the Women's College University of Sydney, fully affiliated to the University, and in all respects on an equal footing with the Men's Colleges.
