IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0120 MSS.4951-4953
Held at: Wellcome Library
Title: Vogt, Carl (1817-1895)
Date(s): c 1850-1852
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 3 volumes
Name of creator(s): Vogt | Carl | 1817-1895 | naturalist
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
The author who was an eminent naturalist, studied at Giessen and worked with Agassiz. He had a medical degree, and in 1847 was lecturer at his old University. His activities in the events of 1848 in Germany forced him to flee to Switzerland, and in 1852 he was professor of zoology and geology at Geneva, where later he became a Swiss national.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers of Carl Vogt, c 1850-1852, comprising material on the German eduction system, comparative anatomy, and the life of the geologist Eduard Desor.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: German
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.
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).
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Accruals:
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Purchased 1932.
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note: Copied from the Wellcome Library catalogue by Sarah Drewery.
Date(s) of descriptions: Jan 2009