IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0114 MS0234
Held at: Royal College of Surgeons of England
Title: Clift, William: Autograph letters to Dr Usher Parsons of Boston
Date(s): 1824-1831
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 1 file
Name of creator(s): Clift | William | 1775-1849 | museum curator and scientific illustrator
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
William Clift was born in Cornwall in 1775, and was educated locally. He became an apprentice anatomical assistant to the celebrated surgeon John Hunter (1728-1793) in 1792. He was appointed conservator of the Hunterian Museum after Hunter's death. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1823, and was a member of the Society for Animal Chemistry. He died in 1849.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers of William Clift, 1824-1831, comprising a file containing an autograph letter from William Clift to Dr Usher Parsons, Boston, Massachusetts, 8 Jun 1824; an autograph letter from William Clift to Dr Usher Parsons, Boston, Massachusetts, 30 Jul 1831; and an autograph presention inscription to the Linnaean Society of New England, [1824].
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
As outlined in Scope and Content.
Conditions governing access:
By written appointment only.
Conditions governing reproduction:
No photocopying permitted.
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ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
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Immediate source of acquisition:
Presented by Professor Jane Oppenheimer of Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania, in 1958.
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Compiled by Anya Turner.
Date(s) of descriptions: Sep 2008