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Moodie, Roy Lee (1880-1934)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0120 MSS.5898-5938

Held at: Wellcome Library

Title: Moodie, Roy Lee (1880-1934)

Date(s): 1907-1934

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 40 files

Name of creator(s): Moodie | Roy Lee | 1880-1934 | palaeopathologist

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Roy Lee Moodie was palaeopathologist to the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Correspondence and papers of Roy Lee Moodie including letters to Moodie from various correspondents, especially in the United States, mainly concerning palaeopathology, 1907-1932; correspondence of Moodie on particular topics, 1926-1933; 'Palaeopathology II. A record of the evidences of disease and injury from the earliest times down to recorded history. By Roy Lee Moodie, Ph.D., palaeopathologist to the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum.' Papers and photographs intended for a multi-volumed work developing upon his Palaeopathology (Urbana, 1923) and catalogue by [Ale] Hrdlicka (1869-1943) of pathological material from prehistoric cemeteries of Peru, in the San Diego Museum of Anthropology, together with a paper by Moodie on 'pathological limb bones from pre-Columbian Peru.'

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

As outlined in Scope and Content.

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.

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).

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum before 1945, probably at the time of Moodie's death.

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note: Copied from the Wellcome Library catalogue by Sarah Drewery.

Rules or conventions: In compliance with ISAD (G): General International Standard Archival Description - 2nd Edition (1999); UNESCO Thesaurus, December 2001; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: Jan 2009


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Palaeopathology | Pathology

Personal names
Moodie | Roy Lee | 1880-1934 | palaeopathologist

Corporate names
Wellcome Historical Medical Museum

Places
Peru | South America
USA | North America