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Clift, William: Scrappiana or Extracts Various


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0114 MS0237

Held at: Royal College of Surgeons of England

Title: Clift, William: Scrappiana or Extracts Various

Date(s): 1802-1817

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 1 volume

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, 1802-1817, comprising a volume titled Scrappiana or Extracts various, containing notes, poetry, thoughts and maxims, and extracts from publications including Erasmus Darwin's Zoonomia.

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:

Donated by Mrs Francis Hirtzell, Sir Richard Owen's great granddaughter, via Jacob William Gruber.

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Compiled by Anya Turner.

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: Sep 2008


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Notebooks | Documents | Information sources
Poetry | Literary forms and genres | Literature
Scrapbooks | Albums (documents) | Books | Publications | Communications media | Information sciences
Natural history
Philosophy

Personal names
Clift | William | 1775-1849 | museum curator and scientific illustrator
Darwin | Erasmus | 1731-1802 | physician, botanist and poet
Owen | Sir | Richard | 1804-1892 | Knight | comparative anatomist and palaeontologist

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