IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0103 MS ADD 377
Held at: University College London
Title: Hill (James Peter) Papers
Date(s): c1898-c1965
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 1 box
Name of creator(s): Hill | James Peter | 1873-1954 | Professor of Embryology
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
J.P.Hill was born in Fifeshire in Scotland and was educated at the University of Edinburgh and the Royal College of Science, London. In 1892 he became a Demonstrator of Biology at the University of Sydney, and Lecturer on Embryology in 1904. From 1906 to 1921 he was Jodrell Professor of Zoology at University College London, and from 1921 to 1938 he became Professor of Embryology there. From 1938 he was Professor Emeritus. He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1913. He published various papers on zoological subjects and on embryology. Hill died in May 1954.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Testimonials, obituary notices, photographs, and some miscellaneous papers including a notebook.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Conditions governing access:
Open.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Normal copyright restrictions apply.
Physical characteristics:
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Not yet catalogued.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
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Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Presented (via Dr J M Wilson) in 1990 by Mrs Doretta Cuthbert, who was given the papers by an executor of Professor Hill's daughter, Mrs Mayne Patrick.
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
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Date(s) of descriptions: 1999