IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0114 MS0202
Held at: Royal College of Surgeons of England
Title: Finlayson, James (1840-1906)
Date(s): 1893
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 1 volume
Name of creator(s): Finlayson | James | 1840-1906 | physician
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
James Finlayson was born in Glasgow in 1840. He studied his MB at Glasgow in 1867 and also became a Licentiate of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh that year. He received his doctor of medicine in 1869, also from Glasgow, and became a Fellow of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons, Glasgow in 1771. During his career he was a physician and lecturer on clinical medicine at the West Infirmary, Glasgow; Consultant Physician at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Glasgow and for the Glasgow Hospital for Diseases of the Ear; Medical Adv[ocate] at the Scotland Amicable Life Assurance Society; President and Honorary librarian of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow; President of the Glasgow Pathological and Clinical Society; member of the Royal Philosophical Society, Glasgow; and House Surgeon to the Clinical Hospital and Dispensary for Children, Manchester. He died in 1906.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers of James Finlayson, 1893, comprising a typescript of a publication by Finlayson titled Was John Hunter a student in the University of Glasgow. This article was published in the British Medical Journal on 8 Jul 1893, and examines whether the "John Hunter" who matriculated at the University of Glasgow in 1745, was the famous "John Hunter," surgeon and anatomist.
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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Presented by James Finlayson, in 1893.
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Compiled by Anya Turner.
Source: Medical Directory 1867, 1900, and 1905.
Date(s) of descriptions: Sep 2008