Janus: Records of the Cambridge University Mountaineering Club

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Records of the Cambridge University Mountaineering Club

Title	Records of the Cambridge University Mountaineering Club
Reference	GBR/0265/SOC.XXI
Creator	Cambridge University Mountaineering Club
Covering Dates	1882–2002
Extent and Medium	0.75 metres; Paper and photograph
Repository	Cambridge University Archives

Content and context

The club was founded during the winter months of 1905-6 by William John Rawson Calvert and Hugh Stewart, both undergraduates at Trinity College. It has had three main aims: to arrange lecture series during term, facilitate climbing outings or 'meets' throughout the year and publish a journal, Cambridge Mountaineering. In 1929, it was given the library of mountaineering books and journals amassed by George Wherry (1852-1928), the noted Alpine climber, a surgeon at Addenbrookes Hospital and University Lecturer in Surgery 1884-1914. This became the core of an extensive club library: the Wherry Library.

The records cover club administration and activities, especially lectures and meets.

The records were transferred as a gift to the University Archives from the Scott Polar Research Institute, where they were being given a temporary home together with the Wherry Library, by Mark Roodhouse, then Wherry Librarian, on behalf of the Club, on 9 Oct. 2002.

Access and Use

Please cite as Cambridge University Archives, Records of the Cambridge University Mountaineering Club, SOC.XXI

Further information

For a history of the Club, see the Club website at http://www.srcf.ucam.org/cumc/index.php

Readers interested in the contents of the Wherry Library should contact the Wherry Librarian via the Club website.

This online catalogue for Janus was completed in July 2004.

Index Terms

Clubs

Cambridge University Mountaineering Club

University/SOC.XXI contains:

SOC.XXI.1

Minutes of meetings, signed.
4 volumes.

1919–1973

SOC.XXI.2

Correspondence relating to mountaineering lectures.
23 folders in box.

1963–1983

SOC.XXI.3

Subject files of correspondence, accounts and papers.
26 folders.

1942–2002

SOC.XXI.4

Meets log book. The log book contains reports of mountaineering chiefly in Snowdonia, the Lake District, and the Peak District, and to a lesser degree Cornwall, the Avon Gorges, the Cairngorms, Wester Ross, the Alps and the Pyrenees.
1 volume.

1949–1991

SOC.XXI.5

Report of the Pamirs expedition, 2 July - 22 Aug. 1998. The mountaineering expedition went to the Korzhenievskovo Valley of the Pamir mountain system, in the south of Kyrgyzstan, near the border with Tajikistan. The report gives a full account of the area, logistics and administration of the trip and a diary.
1 comb-bound booklet.

1998

SOC.XXI.6

Financial accounts of supplies, chiefly of food, for meets in Snowdonia and the Lake District. The volume is mostly blank.
1 volume.

1942–1947

SOC.XXI.7

Membership lists.
1 volume.

1983–1987

SOC.XXI.8

Assorted accounts book. Covers:- income and expenditure, petty cash and receipts accounts.
1 volume.

1949–1970

SOC.XXI.9

Journal treasurer's notebook. The club journal is Cambridge Mountaineering, published bi-annually or annually from 1929 onwards.
1 volume.

1965–1977

SOC.XXI.10

Wherry Library suggestion books.
3 volumes.

1950–1984

SOC.XXI.11

Secretary's notebook. The volume is mostly blank.
1 volume.

1985–1987

SOC.XXI.12

Album of photographs, watercolours and newspaper articles, chiefly relating to mountaineering. The photographs and watercolours are chiefly of the Alps, mountaineers, Alpine villages and flora. The newspaper articles are Wherry's accounts of Alpine mountaineering. There are also smaller quantities of pencil sketches of, among others, Caldy Island, Manorbier Castle in Pembrokeshire and Etretat on the coast of Normandy; together with photographs of the lower leg and foot of the adult male and baby [? taken for Wherry's book Alpine notes and the climbing foot (1896)] and loose cuttings and family snaps.
Creator: Wherry, George Edward.
1 volume.

1882–1918

SOC.XXI.13

Photographs of the Atlas mountains and Berber villages.
12 photographs (25.5 x 30.5 cm) mounted on card, in box.

1900