IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 1538 S71
Held at: Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
Title: STROGANOFF, W: letters to Prof James Haig Ferguson
Date(s): 1928-1929
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 1 file
Name of creator(s): Stroganoff | W | fl 1928-1930 | Russian professor [of obstetrics]
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
W Stroganoff was a Russian professor based in Leningrad, he published The Improved Prophylactic Method in the Treatment of Eclampsia (1930: New York. William Wood & Co.).
James Haig Ferguson was born 1862; educated in Edinburgh, graduating 1884; general practitioner; specialised in obstetrics and gynaecology at the Royal Infirmary and Royal Maternity Hospital, Edinburgh; opened a hostel for antenatal care in Edinburgh Royal Maternity Hospital, 1899; died, 1934.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Letters from W Stroganoff, Russia to Prof James Haig Ferguson, 1928-1929, chiefly on the translation into English and publication of Stoganoff's book The Improved Prophylactic Method in the Treatment of Eclampsia.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
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Chronological
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No additional finding aids.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
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Immediate source of acquisition:
Passed from the College Library's 'Autographed Letters Collection' to the Archives in August 2007.
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Compiled by Sarah Drewery.
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: Jul 2008