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Harley, George (1829-1896)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0120 MSS.2780-2781

Held at: Wellcome Library

Title: Harley, George (1829-1896)

Date(s): [1860-1885]

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 2 volumes

Name of creator(s): Harley | George | 1829-1896 | physiologist

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

George Harley was lecturer on physiology and histology at University College, London from 1855, and Professor of Medical Jurisprudence there in 1859 [see the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography].

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Notebooks of George Harley on coloured test-glasses and invalid cookery, [1860-1885].

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.

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).

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Purchased 1931.

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: Feb 2009


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Colorimetry | Titrimetry | Chemistry, analytical | Investigative techniques | Medical techniques
Food preparation | Home economics education
Cookery x Food preparation
Chemistry

Personal names
Harley | George | 1829-1896 | physiologist

Corporate names

Places