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Sharpey, William (1802-1880)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0117 MS 766

Held at: Royal Society

Title: Sharpey, William (1802-1880)

Date(s): [c1857-1868]

Level of description: sub-fonds

Extent: 23 items

Name of creator(s): Sharpey | William | 1802-1880 | physiologist

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born, 1802; Education: MD; Research Field: Anatomy; FRSE; Fellow of the Royal Society, 1839; Secretary of the Royal Society 1853-1872; Vice President of the Royal Society 1872-1874; died, 1880.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers of William Sharpey including copy letters, correspondence including from Neil Arnott, George Gabriel Stokes and James Newton Heale and notes by Sharpey, some on Royal Society business.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

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Conditions governing access:

Open

Conditions governing reproduction:

No publication without written permission. Apply to Archivist in the first instance.

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Detailed catalogue

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Copied from the Royal Society catalogue by Sarah Drewery.

Rules or conventions: 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: Feb 2009.


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
History of science | Science of science

Personal names
Arnott | Neil | 1788-1874 | physician and scientist
Sharpey | William | 1802-1880 | physiologist
Stokes | Sir | George Gabriel | 1819-1903 | 1st Baronet | mathematician and physicist

Corporate names
Royal Society

Places