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Royal College of Surgeons of England

British Journal of Surgery

IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0114 MS0077

Held at: Royal College of Surgeons of England

Title: British Journal of Surgery

Date(s): 1913-1943

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 2 volumes

Name of creator(s): British Journal of Surgery

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The British Journal of Surgery was established in 1913. The first meeting of the Editorial Committee and Sub-Committee was held at the Royal College of Surgeons of England on 13 Feb 1913. It was attended by the following: Sir William Bennett, Edred Moss Corner, Sir Thomas Crisp English, Charles Herbert Fagge, William Sampson Handley, Robert Jones, Sir Berkeley Moynihan, Ernest William Hey Groves, and Sir Berkeley Moynihan as chairman. The British Journal of Surgery was to be a periodical devoted entirely to surgery, and was published by John Wright & Sons Ltd.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers of the British Journal of Surgery, 1913-1943, comprising minutes, accounts and photographs of the Editorial Committee and Sub-Committee, 1913-1922; and minutes, accounts and correspondence of the Editorial Committee and Sub Committee, 1922-1943.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

As outlined in Scope and Content.

Conditions governing access:

By written appointment only.

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Finding aids:

Additional manuscripts catalogue.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

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Immediate source of acquisition:

Unknown

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Compiled by Anya Turner.