IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0103 NAPIER
Held at: University College London
Title: Napier Papers
Date(s): [1947-1997]
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 26 boxes
Name of creator(s): Napier | John Russell | 1917-1987 | primatologist and physician
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Born, 1917; educated, Canford and Medical College of St Bartholomew's Hospital, -1943; House Surgeon, Senior House Surgeon and Chief Assistant to the Orthopaedic Unit, Hill End Hospital (St Bartholomew's Hospital), 1943-1946; Registrar to the Peripheral Nerve Injury Unit, Hill End Hospital, 1946-; demonstrator , Anatomy Department of the London School of Medicine for Women (now the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine), 1946; Visiting Professor at Iowa State University; Reader, Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine; helped set up the Unit of Primatology at Royal Free Hospital; Director of the Primate Biology Program of the US National Museum, Smithsonian Institution; Director of a similar unit at Queen Elizabeth College, University of London; Visiting Professorship of Primate Biology at Birkbeck College, University of London; founder of the Primate Society of Great Britain; died, 1987.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers of John Napier including professional correspondence, 1955-1983; biographical material including curriculum vitae and obituaries; typescript drafts of publications by Napier including Natural History of Primates, Primates and Their Adaptations, New World Monkeys and Hands; reviews by Napier; research material and notes on topics including yeti, structure of hands and feet, fingerprints, hands of primates and primates and early man; reviews of publications by Napier; offprints of articles by Napier and others; notebooks; notes for lectures including 'Elephants and other land giants' and photographs of hands, primates and skulls.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Original order. This collection has not been catalogued and remain in its original order.
Conditions governing access:
Open. The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Photocopies/photographs/microfilm are supplied for private research only at the Archivist's discretion. Please note that material may be unsuitable for copying on conservation grounds, and that photographs cannot be photocopied in any circumstances. Researchers who wish to publish material must seek copyright permission from the copyright owner.
Finding aids:
Box listed.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Accruals:
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Part of the collection was received from the Primate Society of Great Britain, June 2002. Acquisition details of the remainder of the collection are unknown.
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note: Entry Compiled by Sarah Drewery.
Sources: Journal of Anatomy (1988), 159, pp. 227-229.
Date(s) of descriptions: Sep 2008; updated May 2018