Jurin, James (1684-1750), physician and Secretary of the Royal Society
Identity Statement
Reference code(s) | : GB 0120 MSS.6137-6146 |
Held at | : Wellcome Library Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://wellcomelibrary.org/ › |
Full title | : Jurin, James (1684-1750), physician and Secretary of the Royal Society |
Date(s) | : 1714-1774 |
Level of description | : Collection (fonds) |
Extent | : 286 items |
Name of creator(s) | : Jurin | James | 1684-1750 | physician and Secretary of the Royal Society |
Detailed catalogue | : Click here to view repository detailed catalogue |
Context
Administrative/Biographical history:
Content
Scope and content/abstract:
Correspondence of James Jurin, including correspondence as Secretary of the Royal Society (1721-27) including with Mordecai Cary (d. 1751); John Huxham (1692-1768); Antoni van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723); John Woodward (1665-1725) and William Nicholson (1655?-1727).
Access & Use
Language/scripts of material:
English, some Latin, French and Italian
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:
Described in: Richard Palmer, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine: Western Manuscripts 5120-6244 (London: The Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine, 1999).
Archival Information
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Deposited by Michael Totton, 1984.
Allied Materials
Related material:
Publication note:
Most of these letters have been published, with appropriate English translations, in The correspondence of James Jurin (1684-1750), ed. Andrea A Rusnock (Amsterdam - Atlanta, GA, 1996), which also contains a calendar of all Jurin's known correspondence.
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
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