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Wallich, George Charles (1815-1899)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0120 MSS.4962-4970

Held at: Wellcome Library

Title: Wallich, George Charles (1815-1899)

Date(s): 1860-1898

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 5 volumes and 4 bundles of unbound papers

Name of creator(s): Wallich | George Charles | 1815-1899 | physician and marine biologist

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

George Wallich was born in 1815, the son of the Danish (later naturalised British) botanist Nathaniel Wallich (1786-1854). He qualified M.D. in Edinburgh in 1834 and served in the Indian Medical Service. He also wrote on marine biology. In the latter field he was increasingly convinced that his claims to primacy in various research discoveries were being ignored, and engaged in feuds with various scientific figures of the day. He died in 1899.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

The collection centres on Wallich's work on biology, particularly marine biology, and his belief that other figures in the field were ignoring or plagiarising his discoveries. As well as his notes, it includes a collection of offprints by Wallich (MS.4969) and a collection of offprints by other scientists, with Wallich's comments (MS.4970).

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English.

System of arrangement:

MSS.4962-4968 comprise Wallich's own notes, held in so far as this can be established in chronological order of composition. MSS.4969-4970 comprise offprints of publications: by Wallich (MS.4969) and by other scientists, with Wallich's comments (MS.4970).

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:

holograph notes with printed cuttings and offprints of publications.

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.

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Purchased from Stevens', London, August 1930 (accession number 75493).

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

Existence and location of copies:

Related material:

The Wellcome Library holds MS.7805 comprising a collection of letters by Wallich and his father Nathaniel Wallich (1786-1854), primarily the latter; MS.7830/32, a letter from William Jack (1795-1822) to Nathaniel Wallich, mentioning George Wallich.

Publication note:

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: description compiled by Christopher Hilton based upon those in the Library's published finding aid by S.A.J. Moorat.

Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with 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: December 2000.


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Biological research | Biology
Biologists | Scientists | Scientific personnel | Personnel | People by occupation | People
Intellectual property | Civil law | Legal systems | Law
Marine animals | Aquatic animals | Animals | Zoology
Ocean exploration | Oceanographic research | Oceanography
Physicians | Medical personnel | Medical profession | Medical sciences
Polar regions | Climatic zones
Surgery | Medical sciences
Marine biology
Research

Personal names
Carpenter | William Benjamin | 1813-1885 | biologist and university administrator
Huxley | Thomas Henry | 1825-1895 | scientist and educationist
Sorby | Henry Clifton | 1826-1908 | geologist
Thomson | Sir | Charles Wyville | 1830-1882 | Knight | naturalist
Wallich | George Charles | 1815-1899 | physician and marine biologist

Corporate names

Places