IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0120 SA/TSS
Held at: Wellcome Library
Title: Travelling Surgical Society
Date(s): 1925-1995
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 2 boxes
Name of creator(s): Travelling Surgical Society
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
The Travelling Surgical Society was founded in 1924 by twelve members keen to promote links with surgeons abroad to exchange ideas. Membership was set at 20. Annual visits lasting about a week were made, mostly abroad, but also to cities in Britain. A visit to Norway was planned for September 1939, but was cancelled due to the outbreak of war. Visits were not resumed again until 1949.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers of the Travelling Surgical Society, 1924-1995, comprising minute books, 1944-1984; annual reports, 1925-1995; photographs, 1958; and records of visits to hospitals in Britain and Europe.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Arranged in sections as outlined in the 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:
Includes a photograph album.
Finding aids:
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:
Accruals:
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
These papers were given to the Wellcome Library in August 1997 by Dr Alan Green, the Travelling Surgical Society's Assistant Archivist, on behalf of the Society.
ALLIED MATERIALS
Existence and location of originals:
Existence and location of copies:
Related material:
Papers of the Medical Pilgrims (SA/PIL), a similar organisation to the Travelling Surgical Society, founded in 1928.
Other records of the Medical Pilgrims can be found in the papers of Donald Hunter (PP/HUN).
Similar material includes the travel diaries of Sir Robert Macintosh, Nuffield Professor of Anaesthetics, describing his observations of anaesthetic practice worldwide 1937-1972 (PP/RRM).
Publication note:
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Compiled by Anya Turner.
Date(s) of descriptions: June 2008