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Smith, Robert William Innes (1872-1933)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0120 MSS.4640-4643

Held at: Wellcome Library

Title: Smith, Robert William Innes (1872-1933)

Date(s): c 1925

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 4 volumes

Name of creator(s): Smith | Robert William Innes | 1872-1933 | physician

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The author, who was an enthusiastic medical historian obtained his MD at Edinburgh in 1902, and practised in Sheffield. [Cf BMJ 1933, i. p. 939].

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Biographical and bibliographical notes by Robert William Innes Smith collected for 'English speaking students of Medicine at the University of Leyden.' Author's holograph MSS. Produced in Sheffield, c 1925.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

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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: S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).

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ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

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Immediate source of acquisition:

Presented 1934.

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

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
Medical education | Higher science education
Medical students | Students

Personal names
Smith | Robert William Innes | 1872-1933 | physician

Corporate names
University of Leyden

Places