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MURRAY, Robert Milne (1855-1904): notes from his lectures in obstetrics and gynaecology

IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 1538 S87

Held at: Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists

Title: MURRAY, Robert Milne (1855-1904): notes from his lectures in obstetrics and gynaecology

Date(s): [1875-1904]

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 2 vols

Name of creator(s): Unknown

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Robert Milne Murray was born, 1855; read arts in St Andrew's University; moved to Edinburgh to study medicine; staff of the Royal Infirmary and Royal Maternity Hospital; designed a modification of the forceps previously invented by Tarnier; died, 1904.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Manuscript notes by an unknown student taken from lectures in obstetrics and gynaecology delivered by Robert Milne Murray.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

By volume.

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Physical characteristics:

Bound in volumes.

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No additional finding aids.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

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Archival history:

Part of an estate of which Mr R Vaughan-Jones, an ophthalmic surgeon of Newport in Monmouthshire, was trustee. He passed the volumes to Mr J M Bowen MRCOG, who presented them to the College in July 1952 via Gilbert Strachan.

Immediate source of acquisition:

Transferred from the Library to the College Archives in September 2007.

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Compiled by Sarah Drewery.
Sources: On the Shoulders of Giants: eponyms and names in obstetrics and gynaecology, Thomas F Baskett.