HOST: The history of science and technology, 1801-1914: a collaborative retrospective conversion and conservation programme
HOST is an RSLP project, led by King's College London, and with 9 partners. St Andrews' activity as part of this project includes retrospective conversion of records for approximately 8,500 printed items, addition to the manuscripts database of some 26,000 items from the papers of Sir D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (1860-1948), Professor William Carmichael M'Intosh (1838-1931) and Dr John Hardie Wilson (1858-1920). M'Intosh and Thompson were successively professors of natural history at St Andrews, the former being responsible for the founding of the Gatty Marine Laboratory, and Wilson was the first lecturer in botany at the university, and responsible for founding the St Andrews Botanic Garden. D'Arcy Thompson in particular left a voluminous collection of papers, relating particularly to fishery matters (he served on the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea), with correspondence, photographs, and other papers.
The retrospective conversion part of the project has now been completed, some editing of the manuscripts database will continue until the end of the project in July 2002. To access the manuscripts database click on the following telnet access, then use mssc as username and password when requested. Link to mss database.
- A.E. Gunther: William Carmichael M'Intosh, M.D., F.R.S. St Andrews University, 1977.
- Ruth D'Arcy Thompson: D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson; scholar naturalist 1860-1948. London, 1958.