IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0120 MSS.1376-1377
Held at: Wellcome Library
Title: Brücke, Ernst Wilhelm von (1819-1892)
Date(s): c 1870
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 2 volumes
Name of creator(s): Brücke | Ernst Wilhelm | von | 1819-1892 | physiologist
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
The author was an eminent physiologist: he qualified MD at Berlin in 1842, and became Professor of Physiology at Vienna University in 1849. He was later (1879) raised to the nobility both of Austria-Hungary and of Prussia.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
'Physiologische Vorlesungen ... an der Universität Wien, geschrieben von Karl Langer', paged continuously: illustrated by small marginal pen and pencil diagrams and figures, some coloured. Produced in Vienna.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: German
System of arrangement:
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:
2 vols. 2082 pp. + 28 ll. 4to. 201/2 x 161/2 cm. Original boards.
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 1910.
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note: Copied from the Wellcome Library catalogue by Sarah Drewery.
Date(s) of descriptions: Feb 2009