A

PERSONAL PAPERS

A1

Illuminated address presented to Sir J Carruthers Beattie and Lady Beattie on his retirement as Principal of the University of Cape Town, 1937, by the University Staff Association.

A2

In memoriam of Sir J Carruthers Beattie, as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the South African National Gallery, dated 27.09.1946.

A3

Obituaries of Sir J Carruthers Beattie.

A4

Notebooks of Lady Beattie.

A5

Testimonial by Prof Ludwig Boltzman, ca 1890.

A6

Crawford, L: Sir Carruthers Beattie, D.Sc., F.R.S.E., and his scientific work.

Reprint from The Transactions of the Royal Society of SA, vol. XXXI, part V, 1948.

A7

Menu of a banquet given in honour of the members of Captain Scott’s Antarctic Expedition by the Royal Society of South Africa in August, 1910, with signatures of the members of the expedition.

A8

Kidd, A. Stanley: The University in danger, letter to the editor, from The Journal Eastern Province Weekly Edition, 25.11.1905.

B

CORRESPONDENCE

Letters to Sir J Carruthers Beattie from the following:- (In alphabetical order)

Otto Beit, from London, 11.11.1918.

Lord Buxton, Governor-General, from Government House, Cape Town, re speech given by JCB, 03.04.1918.

Archbishop William Marlborough Carter, regarding help given by students during the flu epidemic, October 1918.

H Davison, about Andrew Proctor, 05.09.1918.

Prof J Edgar, Egypt, 09.03.1918.

Henry English, India, 14.08.1918.

Arthur L Handley, (old student), Flanders, 22.08.1918.

R F A Hoernle, Cambridge, Massachusetts, re-death of Pearson, 17.01.1917.

Correspondence between Dr RFM Immelman and Sir JC and Lady Beattie, 27.11.1945-31.12.1966.

W Jackson (old student), East Africa, 19.11.1917.

Lord Kelvin, 16.08.1900 - 14.12.1905.

Rudyard Kipling, from England, December 1919.

Prof T Loveday, Sheffield, 17.11.1911.

Sir Edward Lutyens, one from London, March 1919, and one from Delhi, India, December, 1919.

P McLachlan (old student), Knysna, 11.12.1916.

John X Merriman, Mount Nelson, Cape Town, re- speech given by JCB, 03.04.1918.

Charles Murray, formerly Secretary of Public Works (from 1910 until his retirement in the 1920s) and author of Hamewith and other poems in Scots, 25.12.1919 - 17.11.1930.

Sir Maitland Park,  3 letters, n.d.

Letter from JCB to Parker, 20.10.1930. Andrew Beauchamp Proctor, England,  05.11.1919.

H R Raikes, Principal of the University of the Witwatersrand, on the occasion of the retirement of JCB, 28.01.1938.

W P Schreiner, High Commissioner for SA in London, 06.02.1918 & 19.03.1918

J C Smuts, 25.08.1914 & 16.09.1929.

J M Solomon, the University’s architect, from New York, 12.04.1917.

Mrs A M Tugwell, 12.06.1935.

Eric S Walker, 01.12.1916 & 08.02.1918.

C

SOUTH AFRICAN COLLEGE/ UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN RECORDS

C1

Reports

C1.1

Reports of the South African College Council, 1897 - 1900; 1904; 1906 - 1907; 1909 - 1911; 1913 - 1916.

C1.2

South African College High School: Principal’s report for 1910 and 1911.

C1.3

Junior School reports, n.d.

C2

Financial papers

C3

UCT Financial statements, 1918 - 1927; 1931.

C4

A book containing various official Government notices and reports, etc, relating to the University Bill.

C5

Documents relating to the establishment of various University courses.

C6

Various lists, 1919 - 1937, showing the size of student enrolment.

C7

Newspaper clippings about the University question, 1905 - 1913.

C8

Replies to circulars by the South African College, asking for information about university organisation, when considering what form of university the colleges in SA should aspire to, 1905.

C9

South African College: Report of the Committee of Senate on University education

C10

Student register and notebook, ca 1905.

C11

Correspondence re UCT’s centenary appeal.

C12

Recommendations of the Sub-committee on administration of the Bolus Herbarium, 1911.

C13

Adjusted statement of account for the Hiddingh Hall Building, 1911.

C14

Order book for laboratory equipment, 1904.

C15

Lady Beattie’s speech at opening of Beattie Building, 27.05.1964.

D

ADDRESSES AND ARTICLES BY SIR J C BEATTIE

The Universities of today

Fifty years of University education in South Africa: 1876 - 1926.

The Educational policy of South Africa first: address to the Women’s Municipal Association, 15.03.1927.

University education in South Africa, article sent for publication in The Commercial Bulletin, September 1927.

Graduation address, University of Pretoria, March,1930.

Dedication of a memorial in a Cape Town church, after World War, ca 1920.

Part of a speech, 3pp.

On the relation between the Hall effect and thermo-electricity in bismuth and various alloys, reprint from Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Part of a student’s sheet of rhymes about “Sir Jock”, ca 1920.

E 

PHOTOGRAPHS AND CARTOONS

Cartoon of JCB, from “Men who matter”, 1918

Newspaper clipping of JCB: “Character sketches, No. 132”.

Cartoon showing various members of the University of Cape Town staff, and depicting JCB as their general, during World War I.

Photograph of engineering graduates, ca 1911 or 1912.

Portrait of Lady Beattie.

F 

MAGNETIC SURVEY

F1

Correspondence re Magnetic Survey

F1.1

With Dept of Research in Terrestrial Magnetism, Carnegie Institution of Washington, 05.11.1907 - 06.04.1914.

F1.2

With the National Physical Laboratory (Kew Observatory Department), 16.11.1899 - 23.1.1911.

F1.3

Other correspondence, 20.07.1907 - 23.03.1914.

F2

Copy of: Beattie, J C: Report of a magnetic survey of South Africa, CUP for the Royeattie, 27.

F3

Loose foolscap notes from an (old student) survey.

F4

Astronomical reductions from Grootfontein, 04.01.1900 - Orange River Road,  July, 1902, in order of date.

F5

Notes, observations for magnetic survey.

F6

Notebooks

62 notebooks of observations and calculations for the magnetic survey.

7 unnumbered notebooks containing observations and calculations.

LCH

November 1997.