IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0113 MS-TYSOE
Held at: Royal College of Physicians
Title: TYSON, Edward (1650-1708)
Date(s): [1680]
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 1 file
Name of creator(s): Tyson | Edward | 1651-1708 | physician and anatomist
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Born, 1661; education: Magdalen Hall, Oxford, 1667-1677; moved to London and continued to pursue anatomy, 1677; MD, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, 1680; Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, 1683; anatomical curator, Royal Society, 1683; Ventera reader in anatomy at the Company of Barber-Surgeons, 1684-1699; Physician to Bethlem and Bridewell Hospitals, 1684; died, 1708.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Original drawings of natural history and comparative anatomy for Edward Tyson's works on comparative anatomy.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Conditions governing access:
Open for consultation, unless otherwise indicated.
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:
Provenance of the collection is unknown.
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