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Silk, John Frederick William (1858-1943)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0120 MSS.5977-5978

Held at: Wellcome Library

Title: Silk, John Frederick William (1858-1943)

Date(s): 1889-1895

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 2 volumes

Name of creator(s): Silk | John Frederick William | 1858-1943 | anaesthetist

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

John Frederick William Silk (1858-1943) was an anaesthetist.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers of John Silk including minute book of the anaesthetists of Guy's Hospital Dental School, of which Silk was Secretary, Sep 1889-May 1895 and correspondence of J F W Silk with Frederic William Hewitt [afterwards Sir Frederic], anaesthetist, and related papers, concerning an allegation of plagiarism.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

As outlined in Scope and Content.

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.

Physical characteristics:

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).

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Presented by Dr E Clarke, 1974.

ALLIED MATERIALS

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Related material:

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

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


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Anaesthetists | Medical personnel | Medical profession
Dentistry | Medical sciences
Plagiarism | Publishing | Publishing industry
Personnel

Personal names
Hewitt | Sir | Frederic William | 1857-1916 | Knight | anaesthetist
Silk | John Frederick William | 1858-1943 | anaesthetist

Corporate names
Guy's Hospital Dental School

Places