Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese
Identity Statement
Reference code(s) | : GB 0120 MSS.2934-2935 |
Held at | : Wellcome Library Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://wellcomelibrary.org/ › |
Full title | : Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese |
Date(s) | : 1887-1888 |
Level of description | : Collection (fonds) |
Extent | : 2 files |
Name of creator(s) | : Hong Kong | College of Medicine for Chinese |
Context
Administrative/Biographical history:
The College of Medicine for Chinese was set up in Hong Kong on the initiative of James Cantlie (1851-1926) and Patrick Manson (1844-1922) during the 1880s, and developed into the medical school of the Hong Kong University. Sun Yat Sen (1860-1925), later first President of the Chinese Republic, was one of its first pupils.
Content
Scope and content/abstract:
The collection comprises examination papers answered by Chinese students, the subjects being anatomy and osteology.
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:
Described in: S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).
Collection level description available on-line on the Wellcome Library website
Archival Information
Archival history:
These papers were kept by Sir James Cantlie.
Immediate source of acquisition:
Presented by Major Neil Cantlie, 1931 (accession number 89186).
Allied Materials
Related material:
The Wellcome Library holds Sir James Cantlie's own papers, as MSS.1456-1499 and 6931-6941. Sir Patrick Manson's papers, held as MSS.3417, 6129-6132 and 7245, include material on his time in Hong Kong, during which he was involved with the College. MS.4780 comprises a casebook by John Christopher Thomson, who lectured at the college.
National Register of Archives: Click here to view NRA record
Publication note:
This material may have been kept by Cantlie as background to his book (written in collaboration with Charles Sheridan Jones) Sun Yat Sen and the Awakening of China (London: Jarrold & Sons, 1912).
Description Notes
Archivist's note:
description compiled by Christopher Hilton based upon those in the Library's published finding aid by S.A.J. Moorat.
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:
December 2000.
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