IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0114 MS0062
Held at: Royal College of Surgeons of England
Title: On the Incubation of an Egg
Date(s): c 1769
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 1 volume
Name of creator(s): Unknown
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Unknown
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Manuscript volume titled 'On the Incubation of an Egg', c 1769, comprising notes and observations on the incubation of a hen's egg. Including references to the work of Marcello Malpighi (1628-1694), Albrecht von Haller (1708-1777), and John Hunter (1728-1793).
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English and French
System of arrangement:
As outlined in Scope and Content.
Conditions governing access:
By written appointment only.
Conditions governing reproduction:
No photocopying permitted.
Finding aids:
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Accruals:
Archival history:
The volume was located with the Petrus Camper translations (MS0061) although there is no indication that it is a translation of Camper. It is possible that it was found among the papers of Sir Richard Owen, along with the translation on the Orangutan.
Immediate source of acquisition:
The provenance of this item is not known.
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
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: Aug 2008