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King's College London College Archives

Physiological Society of Guy's Hospital


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0100 G/S6

Held at: King's College London College Archives

Title: Physiological Society of Guy's Hospital

Date(s): 1901-1963

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 19 volumes and 3 folders

Name of creator(s): Physiological Society of Guy's Hospital

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The Physiological Society of Guy's Hospital was founded by Professor Pembrey, who was head of the Physiology Department of Guy's Hospital Medical School from 1900 to 1933. The Society was founded to encourage students to learn how to collect and present scientific information and manage the affairs of a society.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of the Physiological Society of Guy's Hospital, 1901-1963, comprising minutes, 1955-1963; papers read at Physiological Society meetings, 1901-1926, 1949, 1958-1962 (approximately 10 papers per year), on human and animal physiology. Papers cover a vast range of topics, including metabolism, digestion, vision, speech, heredity, nervous system, sex determinism, sleep, blood etc.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

As outlined in the scope and content.

Conditions governing access:

Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Director of Archive and Corporate Record Services.

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

Detailed catalogues are available in the reading room of the College Archives.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Transferred from Guy's Hospital Medical School Library in 2002.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

Existence and location of copies:

Related material:

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Compiled by Julie Tancell as part of the RSLP AIM25 project.

Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: Arpil 2002; revised November 2002


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Learned societies | Associations | Organizations
Medical education | Higher science education
Medical students | Students
Physiology

Personal names

Corporate names
Guy's Hospital Medical School
Guy's Hospital Physiological Society
Guy's Hospital | London

Places
Southwark | London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe