MURRAY, Robert Milne (1855-1904): notes from his lectures in obstetrics and gynaecology

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 1538 S87
Held at	: Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists   Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://www.rcog.org.uk/en/guidelines-research-services/library-services/archives-and-heritage/archives/ ›
Full title	: MURRAY, Robert Milne (1855-1904): notes from his lectures in obstetrics and gynaecology
Date(s)	: [1875-1904]
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 2 vols
Name of creator(s)	: Unknown

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Robert Milne Murray was born, 1855; read arts in St Andrew's University; moved to Edinburgh to study medicine; staff of the Royal Infirmary and Royal Maternity Hospital; designed a modification of the forceps previously invented by Tarnier; died, 1904.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Manuscript notes by an unknown student taken from lectures in obstetrics and gynaecology delivered by Robert Milne Murray.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

By volume.

Conditions governing access:

Conditions governing reproduction:

Finding aids:

No additional finding aids.

Archival Information

Archival history:

Part of an estate of which Mr R Vaughan-Jones, an ophthalmic surgeon of Newport in Monmouthshire, was trustee. He passed the volumes to Mr J M Bowen MRCOG, who presented them to the College in July 1952 via Gilbert Strachan.

Immediate source of acquisition:

Transferred from the Library to the College Archives in September 2007.

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Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Compiled by Sarah Drewery.
Sources: On the Shoulders of Giants: eponyms and names in obstetrics and gynaecology, Thomas F Baskett.

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:
Jul 2008