IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0120 MSS. 3654-3655
Held at: Wellcome Library
Title: Murie, James (1832-1925)
Date(s): c.1850-1920
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 1 volume and 1 file
Name of creator(s): Murie | James | 1832-1925 | Medical Officer and lecturer
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
James Murie obtained his M.D. at Glasgow University in 1857; later he was Medical Officer in the Expedition to support Speke and Grant in 1862 and visited the source of the Nile at Lake Victoria, Nyanza. He was later lecturer in anatomy at the Middlesex Hospital. He retired to Leigh-on-Sea, where he became interested in Fisheries.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Commonplace book with numerous entries by other hands, 1850-1920. Contains some medical and household receipts, but most entries are on moral and literary subjects, extracts, quotations etc. File of loose miscellaneous holograph items: The Infusoria, 1882; 2 drafts of a medical certificate for a worker at Messrs. Kynoch of Stamford-le-Hope, Essex, 1916; diary fragment, 1916; 2 letters to Murie from William Cole, Secretary of the Essex Field Club, on proposed lectures on natural history, 1907
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
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:
Manuscript volume and loose papers
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). Detailed catalogue available at http://www.a2a.pro.gov.uk.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:
Accruals:
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Presented by J. Murie, December 1926 (accession numbers 44942 and 69903). In the latter case, material was only accessioned formally in 1937, having been part of the initial presentation.
ALLIED MATERIALS
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Existence and location of copies:
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Publication note:
Biography of James Murie by S J Lambert.
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: description compiled by Helen Wakely based upon those in the Library's published finding aid by S.A.J. Moorat.
Date(s) of descriptions: December 2000