IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 1538 S74
Held at: Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
Title: HUNTER, William (1718-1783): notes from his lectures on anatomy
Date(s): [1746-1783]
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 3 volumes
Name of creator(s): Unknown
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
William Hunter was born, 1718; attended the local Latin school; Glasgow University, 1731-1736; medical apprenticeship in Hamilton; went to London to learn midwifery from William Smellie, 1740; John Douglas's anatomy assistant and tutor to Douglas's son William George, 1741; surgical pupil of David Wilkie at St George's Hospital; studied anatomy and surgery, Paris, 1743- 1744; began building a surgical and midwifery practice, London; set up an anatomy course, 1746; member of the Company of Surgeons, 1747; temporary man-midwife at the Middlesex Hospital, 1748; man-midwife to the new British Lying-in Hospital, 1749-1759; member of the Society of London Physicians, 1754; licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians, 1756; consultant physician, British Lying-in Hospital, 1759; Physician-Extraordinary to the Queen, 1762; steward, then treasurer, and finally President of the Society of Collegiate Physicians; fellow of the Royal Society, 1767; Professor of Anatomy, Royal Academy of Art, 1768; died, 1783.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Manuscript notes by an unknown student taken from lectures on anatomy given by William Hunter, undated.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
By volume
Conditions governing access:
Conditions governing reproduction:
Physical characteristics:
Bound in a volume.
Finding aids:
No additional finding aids.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:
Accruals:
Archival history:
Presented to the College Library by Lord Cohen of Birkenhead in January 1965.
Immediate source of acquisition:
Transferred from the Library to the College Archives in August 2007.
ALLIED MATERIALS
Existence and location of originals:
Existence and location of copies:
Related material:
Other lectures by William Hunter (ref: S86).
Publication note:
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Compiled by Sarah Drewery.
Sources: Oxford DNB.
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