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Halliburton, William Dobinson (1860-1931)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0120 MSS.2672-2719

Held at: Wellcome Library

Title: Halliburton, William Dobinson (1860-1931)

Date(s): 1874-1902

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 48 volumes

Name of creator(s): Halliburton | William Dobinson | 1860-1931 | physiologist and biochemist

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Halliburton was a distinguished physiologist and biochemist. He was Professor of Physiology at King's College, London from 1890 to 1923, and was elected FRS in 1891. For further information see the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Note-books of William Dobinson Halliburton chiefly of lecture notes taken while a student at University College, London. Author's holograph MSS. Produced in London, 1874-1902.

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:

48 vols. v.s. Original boards and covers, some damaged.

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:

Presented 1941

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
Clinical medicine | Medical sciences
Commonplace books | Manuscripts | Documents | Information sources
English (language) | Germanic languages | Indo-european languages
Geometry | Mathematics
Histology | Biology
Hygiene | Health
Hypothyroidism | Thyroid diseases | Diseases | Pathology
Infectious diseases | Diseases | Pathology
Lectures (teaching method) | Teaching methods
Life insurance | Insurance | Finance
Logic | Philosophy
Medical education | Higher science education
Medical students | Students
Mucins | Mucoproteins | Glycoproteins | Proteins | Biochemicals | Biochemistry
Pancreas | Anatomy | Biology
Endocrine system diseases
Legal theory
Pharmacology
Physics
Physiology
Psychology

Personal names
Halliburton | William Dobinson | 1860-1931 | physiologist and biochemist

Corporate names
University College London

Places