IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0120 MSS.5990 & 6110
Held at: Wellcome Library
Title: Piers, Henry (1818-1901)
Date(s): 1844-1857
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 2 volumes
Name of creator(s): Piers | Henry | 1818-1901 | naval surgeon
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Henry Piers was assistant surgeon on board HMS CLEOPATRA, May 1844-January 1847 and surgeon on board HMS SATELLITE, 1856-1857.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Journals of Henry Piers as assistant surgeon on board HMS CLEOPATRA and as surgeon on board HMS SATELLITE, based in Africa and on the Western coastlines of the Americas, 1844-1857.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Two journals: on board HMS Cleopatra and on board HMS Satellite.
Conditions governing access:
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. Readers are restricted to 100 photocopies in twelve months. Researchers who wish to publish material must seek copyright permission from the copyright owner.
Physical characteristics:
Finding aids:
Described in: Richard Palmer, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine: Western Manuscripts 5120-6244 (London: The Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine, 1999).
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
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Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Purchased from Henry Bristow, 1990.
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Copied from the Wellcome Library catalogue by Sarah Drewery.
Date(s) of descriptions: Jan 2009