Accession No

5442

Brief Description

botanical wall chart, depicting limits of glacial stages in Britain, by Curtis

Origin

Maker

Curtis

Class

natural history; prints

Earliest Date

Latest Date

Inscription Date

Material

cloth; paper

Dimensions

breadth 1012mm; height 1750mm

Special Collection

Botanical teaching diagrams from Dept. of Plant Sciences

Provenance

Transferred from the Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, in 06/2008. On loan from the Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, from 01/1994.

Inscription

‘CROP DISTRIBUTION 1909.
in the
‘LIMITS OF GLACIAL STAGES IN BRITAIN’ (above map)

Description Notes

Map of Britain depiccting the limits of glacial stages. Not coloured. Map is drawn in black, labels are stencilled in black. Limits of glacial stages are portrayed by solid or broken black lines. These lines are labelled. Marked are: ‘Local glaciation of Hebrides’, ‘Loch Lomond Readvance’, ‘Aberdeen-Lammermuir Readvance’, ‘Perth Readvance’, ‘Scottish Readvance’, ‘Bride Hill Moraine’, ‘Farrington and Mitchell 1951’, ‘SUGGESTED LIMITS OF WEICHSELAN’, ‘Valentin 1955’, ‘Suggate and West 1959’, ‘Llay Readvance’, ‘Mitchell 1960’, ‘SUGGESTED LIMITS OF WEICHSELAN’, ‘Wirtz 1953’, ‘Charlesworth 1928’, ‘Wrexham-Bar Hill limit’, ‘Gipping maximum’ and ‘Lowestoft s.l. max.’.
Scale 0 to 75 miles in the bottom left corner.
Inscription at the top of the chart.

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