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PARIS, John Ayrton (1785-1856)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0113 MS-PARIJ

Held at: Royal College of Physicians

Title: PARIS, John Ayrton (1785-1856)

Date(s): 1809-1810

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 1 item

Name of creator(s): Paris | John Ayrton | [1785]-1856 | physician and author

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Baptised, 1785; Tancred studentship at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, 1803-1808; Physician at the Westminster Hospital, 1808-1813; Physician to the Penzance Dispensary, 1813-1817; returned to London to set up in practice, 1817; began a series of lectures in materia medica at Great Windmill Street School of Medicine, [1817]; lectured in materia medica for the Royal College of Physicians, 1819-1826; President of the Royal College of Physicians, 1844-1856; died, 1856.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

John Ayrton Paris' annotated copy of 'A memoir on the physiology of the egg', read before the Linnean Society of London, 21 Mar 1809' (London 1810), with two unpublished watercolour drawings by M C Noble interleaved.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Single item

Conditions governing access:

Records are open for consultation.

Conditions governing reproduction:

All requests should be referred to the Archivist.

Finding aids:

Available at the Royal College of Physicians.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Purchased from Jeremy Norman and Co. Inc, 1981.

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note: Imported from the RCP's Adlib catalogue; edited by Sarah Drewery.
Sources: Oxford DNB.

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: Aug 2008


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Eggs | Animal products | Agricultural products
Physiology

Personal names
Paris | John Ayrton | [1785]-1856 | physician and author

Corporate names
Linnean Society

Places