IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0114 MS0268
Held at: Royal College of Surgeons of England
Title: Cruikshank, William Cumberland (1745-1800): Lecture notes
Date(s): 1785-1804
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 3 boxes
Name of creator(s): Rumsey | Henry Nathaniel | fl 1785-1787 | surgeon
Clift | William | 1775-1849 | museum curator and scientific illustrator
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
William Cumberland Cruikshank was born in Edinburgh in 1745. He attended both Edinburgh and Glasgow Universities and graduated in 1767. He was the pupil of John Moore, and became assistant to William Hunter. He moved to London in 1771, and gave anatomy demonstrations. He was later made a partner in the Windmill Street School by Hunter, and after Hunter died Cruikshank continued with Hunter's nephew, Matthew Baillie. Cruikshank attended Dr Johnson during his last illness. He received an honorary MD from Glasgow University in 1783. He became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, in 1797. He published The Anatomy of the Absorbing Vessels of the Human Body, in 1786. He died in 1800.
Henry Nathaniel Rumsey was a surgeon in Chesham, Buckinghamshire. He took shorthand notes of John Hunter's lectures in 1786-1787, which were subsequently printed by James F Palmer in his edition of Hunter's works.
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 relating to William Cumberland Cruikshank, 1785-1804, comprising 9 volumes of manuscript lecture notes by Henry Nathaniel Rumsey, titled Anatomical lectures by Mr Cruikshank. Course 1st, vol. 1st, October 1785.; Anatomical lectures by Mr Cruikshank & Mr Baillie. Course 1st, vol. 2nd, 1785.; Lectures on anatomy by Mr Cruikshank. Course 1st, vol. 3rd, 1786.; Lectures on anatomy, by W. Cruikshank and Mr Baillie, course 2nd, vol. 1st, 1786; Lectures on anatomy, by W. Cruikshank and Mr Baillie, course 2nd, vol. 2nd, 1786; Lectures on anatomy, by W. Cruikshank, course 2nd, vol. 3rd, 1786; Lectures on anatomy, by W. Cruikshank, course 2nd, vol. 4th, 1786; Lectures on anatomy, by W. Cruikshank, course 2nd, vol. 5th, 1786; and Lectures by Mr Cruikshank, containing physiology notes; a volume of manuscript notes on anatomy by William Clift, titled Mr Cruikshank and Dr Baillie 1798.; and a manuscript volume containing notes on muscles, notes on Cruickshank's lectures, remarks by J Thompson, and a report from the Board of Curators concerning the skeleton of a mammoth, 1793-1804.
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 Henry Wyldbore Rumsey (FRCS), son of Henry Nathaniel Rumsey, in 1867.
ALLIED MATERIALS
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Related material:
Oil portrait of William Cumberland Cruikshank, by Gilbert Stuart.
William Cumberland Cruikshank, Experiments on the insensible perspiration of the human body, showing its affinity to respiration, (1795) - Tracts 1211(7)
University of Glasgow: William Cumberland Cruikshank, http://special.lib.gla.ac.uk/manuscripts/search/resultsn.cfm?NID=1776&RID=
Royal College of Physicians: Henry Nathaniel Rumsey, lecture notes, 1785-1787. (MSS 138-153)
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
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Archivist's note: Compiled by Anya Turner.
Date(s) of descriptions: Sep 2008