IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0120 MSS.1140-1142
Held at: Wellcome Library
Title: Berlin: Königliche Akademie der Wissenschaften
Date(s): 1748-1757
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 3 volumes
Name of creator(s): Königliche Akademie der Wissenschaften
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Histoire de l'Académie Royale des Sciences et Belles Lettres de Berlin, avec des Mémoires: Classe de Philosophie Expérimentale. Illustrated with folding and other pen and wash drawings. Produced in Berlin, 1748-1757.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: French
System of arrangement:
In 3 volumes
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:
3 vols. 4to. 221/2 x 17 cm. Original calf bindings. Written on rectos only by several hands.
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:
The first volume has the book-plate of Claude Nicolas Lecat [1700-1768], Docteur en Médecine, Chirurgien en Chef de l'Hôtel-Dieu de Rouen [etc.], dated 1742: all three volumes contain the ex-libris of Pierre Derocque, surgeon of Rouen.
Immediate source of acquisition:
Purchased 1934.
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note: Entry copied from Wellcome online catalogue by Sarah Drewery.
Date(s) of descriptions: Aug 2008