IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0120 MSS.4319-4321
Held at: Wellcome Library
Title: Ruston, Ernest Thomas ( -1970)
Date(s): 1935-1956
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 3 volumes
Name of creator(s): Ruston | Ernest Thomas | d 1970 | pathologist
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
The author qualified at Leeds University in 1924, and was pathologist at the Royal Surrey County Hospital, Guildford. His signature is found inside the upper cover of the 1935 volume.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Diaries of Ernest Thomas Ruston for 1935, 1953, 1956. Written in volumes of W. R. Warner's 'Calendars of Medical History' Extra-illustrated with coloured and other pictures, cuttings, etc of flowers, portraits, motor-cars, etc. Produced in Guildford.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
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:
3 vols. 8vo. 20 × 121/2 cm. Original cloth bindings, not uniform.
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).
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
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Immediate source of acquisition:
Presented 1970.
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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: Feb 2009