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Collection of material on Chinese craft; 'Fair Notes Vol I', notes on construction and rigging with sketches. (Manuscript) WTS/19
Small notebook 'Fair Notes Vol I', containing notes on construction and rigging with sketches, no date.
Collection of material on Chinese craft; Tsing tao and Ta-Pu-To craft. (Manuscript) circa 1937 WTS/15
Collection of photographs, drawings and notes on Chinese craft; Tsing tao and Ta-Pu-To craft. Includes a drawing dated and signed by Waters, 1937.
Collection of material on Chinese craft; Some sampans of the N. China coast. (Manuscript) circa 1938 WTS/16
Collection of notes, drawings and photographs on Chinese craft; Some sampans of the N. China coast. One of the drawings is signed and dated circa 1938.
The Restoration of the Old Royal Observatory, Greenwich, 1675-1965. (Manuscript) circa 1965 WTS/34/5
Reprint of Waters's article about the restoration of the Old Royal Observatory, Greenwich, extracted from French publication Actes du XIe Congres International d’Histoire des Sciences.
Convoy gallery labels. (Manuscript) 1974 WTS/32/2
Folder containing several sets of manuscript, typed and photocopied notes, some numbered in sequence 1-18, relating to an exhibition on Convoy, circa 1974.
Galileo and longitude: fundamental contributions to a fundamental problem. (Manuscript) 1964 WTS/34/3
Two offprints of this article by Waters from Italian publications: Gruppo Italiano di Storia Della Scienza - Vinci (Firenze), 1964, and Physis Rivista Internazionale di Storia Della Scienza, Vol. VI, No. 3, 1964.
Addison's Arithmeticall Navigation (1625) and Drake's Pilot's Sketch Book (1595-1596). (Manuscript) WTS/42/5/3
Folder containing photographs, largely negative prints, of sections of Addison's Arithmeticall Navigation, from Marsh Library, Dublin. Also contains photographs from a few pages of Sir Francis Drake's manuscript of West Indian Isles and Scillies.
Glass photographic plates. (Manuscript) WTS/42/7/5
Box: “Nocturnal By H. Cole (c1570-90) British Museum” containing 2 glass negatives.
Collection of material on Chinese craft; The Foochow trader. (Manuscript) circa 1946 WTS/11
Collection of photographs, notes, drawings and cuttings on Chinese craft; The Foochow trader. Also contains a letter dated 1946.
Collection of material on Chinese craft; Hongkong and West River types. (Manuscript) WTS/9
Collection of notes, photographs and drawings of Chinese craft; Hongkong and West River types, no date.
Collection of material on Chinese craft; Swatow and Amoy fishing vessels. (Manuscript) 1938-1946 WTS/10
Collection of photographs, drawings and notes on Chinese craft; Swatow and Amoy fishing vessels. Also contains two pieces of correspondence dated 1938 and 1946.
Typescript sheets providing information on Chinese fisheries (from the Geographical Handbook Series). (Manuscript) 1945 WTS/6
Typescript sheets providing information on Chinese fisheries, from the Geographical Handbook Series, China Proper Volume III, Naval Intelligence Division, July 1945.
Notes on publications referring to junks and sampans, etc., plus lists of relevant plans in the Science Museum collection, circa 1947. (Manuscript) circa 1947 WTS/4
Notes on publications referring to junks and sampans, plus lists of relevant plans in the Science Museum collection, circa 1947.
Glass photographic plates. (Manuscript) WTS/42/7/9
Box: “Ilford Rapid Process Panchromatic Plates” containing 6 glass plate copies of research material.
Notes and photographs concerning Chinese junks and sampans. (Manuscript) circa 1948 WTS/2
Notes and photographs concerning Chinese junks and sampans including anchors and bows and the Antung trader, circa 1948.
Notes on origins and characteristics of Chinese craft. (Manuscript) WTS/1
Notes on origins and characteristics of Chinese craft, including a handwritten essay with illustrations tltled "The Merchant Ships of Manzi and Cathay or Chinese Junks", and typed extracts from Marsden's translation of The Travels of Marco Polo.…
Glass photographic plates. (Manuscript) WTS/42/6/9
Speedwell to Wingate. 11 plates in labelled sleeves.
Glass photographic plates. (Manuscript) WTS/42/6/4
Cortes to East India Co. 11 plates in labelled sleeves.
Glass photographic plates. (Manuscript) WTS/42/6/8
Oughtred to Searle. 13 plates in labelled sleeves.
Thomas Addison. (Manuscript) WTS/41/3/1
Folder marked "Addison, Thomas" containing 3 pages of handwritten notes about Thomas's Arithmeticall Navigation, 1625.
William Bourne. (Manuscript) WTS/41/3/4
3 sub-folders marked "Bourne, William", one containing biographical notes by R.P. Cruden (1848), another containing biographical notes by Waters and R.A. Skelton, and the third containing notes on Bourne's Inventions (1578).
Cock Lorell's Boat. (Manuscript) WTS/41/3/5
Folder marked "Cock Lorell's Boat (1510?)" containing 4 pages of handwritten notes.
John Blagrave. (Manuscript) WTS/41/3/3
2 sub-folders marked "Blagrave, John", one containing notes about The Mathematicall Jewell (1585) and the other notes about Astrolabium (1596) and Baculum (1590).