Forwarded for the benefit of any Lis-libhistorians who are eligible!
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Peter Hoare, 21 Oundle Drive, Wollaton Park, Nottingham NG8 1BN
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SELWYN COLLEGE
CAMBRIDGE
HELEN BROCK RESEARCH AWARD
The Master and Fellows of Selwyn College, Cambridge seek to make an
award in memory of Dr Helen Brock*. The award is intended to assist
research in one of the following fields:
* The history of medicine;
* The history of libraries, museums or great collections;
* The history of natural history.
The value of the award will be not less than £1,000 and not more than
£1,250.
Applications are invited from holders of teaching, research, or
academically related posts in the University, and from holders of
Cambridge degrees, whether resident in the University or not.
Applicants registered for postgraduate degrees will be considered only
in cases of exceptional need. Applications will also be considered from
those who will not be able to take up the award until 2003. There is no
age limit.
The award is intended to assist visits to archives outside Cambridge (or
the applicant's normal place of residence), the purchase of
electronically recorded source material, the purchase of illustrations
for which fees are required, and other essential research expenses. It
is not intended to pay for secretarial expenses, typing, binding or
publication.
The successful candidate will be required to report on expenditure of
the grant and will be eligible to apply for a second grant provided that
two years or more have elapsed since the award of the first.
Applications should include:
* a curriculum vitae;
* a brief description of the applicant's proposed project;
* an estimate of expenses likely to be incurred;
* details of other sources of funding to which application has been
made;
* the names of two referees (one of whom should, if possible, be
familiar with the applicant's intended field of research).
Applications should be sent to The Master, Selwyn College, Cambridge CB3
9DQ (telephone 01223 335890, fax 01223 335888, e-mail
[log in to unmask]) to be received by no later than 31st January
2002. Applicants will be informed of the outcome of their application
not later than 31st March 2002.
* Helen Brock, who died in 2000 aged 83, was the wife of a Fellow of
Selwyn College. She was trained as a zoologist but later became an
authority on William Hunter, the noted anatomist and one of the greatest
collectors of his time, and on James Douglas, noted in medical history
and a pioneer in scientific botany. She published several papers and
edited Hunter's correspondence. Articles on Hunter, Douglas, and on
other eighteenth century doctors will appear in the New Dictionary of
National Biography.
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