Warner Collection: material relating to the physiologist William Prout (1785-1850)

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0120 MSS.8193-8201
Held at	: Wellcome Library   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://wellcomelibrary.org/ ›
Full title	: Warner Collection: material relating to the physiologist William Prout (1785-1850)
Date(s)	: 1843
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 1 item
Name of creator(s)	: Bell | Sir | Charles | 1774-1842 | Knight | surgeon Buckland | William | 1784-1856 | Dean of Westminster and geologist Chalmers | Thomas | 1780-1847 | theologian Kidd | John | 1775-1851 | physician Kirby | William | 1759-1850 | Rector of Barham | entomologist Prout | William | 1785-1850 | physician and chemist Roget | Peter Mark | 1779-1869 | physician and philologist Whewell | William | 1794-1866 | Master of Trinity College Cambridge
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Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

William Prout obtained his MD at Edinburgh University in 1811, and then began practice in London. He was a pioneer in physiological and organic chemistry, and lectured at his residence to a small but distinguished audience including Sir Astley Paston Cooper. (See MS.4016.) He was elected FRS in 1819, and FRCP in 1829.

The Bridgewater Treatises represented in this collection were the result of a bequest of £8,000 to the Royal Society by the Earl of Bridgewater, to finance the publication of a work or works "on the power, wisdom, and goodness, of God, as manifested in the creation". Eight were completed.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

The collection comprises published works by William Prout or relating to him; it also includes a set of the Bridgewater Treatises, 1843.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

Conditions governing access:

The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Photocopies/photographs/microfilm are supplied for private research only at the Archivist's discretion. Please note that material may be unsuitable for copying on conservation grounds, and that photographs cannot be photocopied in any circumstances. Readers are restricted to 100 photocopies in twelve months. Researchers who wish to publish material must seek copyright permission from the copyright owner.

Finding aids:

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Deposited by Sir Edward and Colonel P.E.H. Warner, 1968 and 1974.

Allied Materials

Related material:

n the Wellcome Library: Manuscripts by Prout are held as MSS.4011-4019. Papers of Peter Mark Roget are held as MS.7543 and isolated letters by him also occur as MS.7108/11, MS.7402/5 and MS.7847/31. Various editions of the Bridgewater treatises are held in the Library's collection of printed books.

Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Copied from the Wellcome Library catalogue by Sarah Drewery.

Rules or conventions:
In compliance with ISAD (G): General International Standard Archival Description - 2nd Edition (1999); UNESCO Thesaurus, December 2001; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions:
Jan 2009