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I was very pleased to get it digitised (and the other bits cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/...) - my hope is that a historian of Hawai'i as well as historians of science will come across it and find it useful!
... unfortunately one of the challenges is that the contribution of women is not well represented in historical data, so you have to really rummage to find it!
... And the Royal Society has some interesting bits too: makingscience.royalsociety.org
In 1665, the first issue of the Royal Society trailblazing scientific journal, the Philosophical Transactions appears. Publishing research across the sciences …
Manchester have a collection about women during war time: www.digitalcollections.manchester.ac.uk/collections/...
... and the Darwin Correspondence Project has a load of resources, that all relate back to primary source material, about the various women involved in Darwin's work: www.darwinproject.ac.uk/learning/uni...www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letters/corr...
Darwin’s correspondence sheds light on a community of women who participated - often routinely - in the nineteenth-century scientific community. In the correspondence women can be found making observa...
There's also some great photos of women in physics from the Cavendish Lab collection: cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/search?autho...
There's more, including that photo we looked at, about women at Cambridge from the "Rising Tide" exhibition at the Library back in 2019: cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/...
Lovely day for a bit of cyanotyping at Encountering Digital Collections today @camdiglib.bsky.social
