IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0114 MS0235
Held at: Royal College of Surgeons of England
Title: Clift, William: Autograph letter to Philip Syng Physick
Date(s): 1835
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 1 letter
Name of creator(s): Clift | William | 1775-1849 | museum curator and scientific illustrator
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
William Clift was born in Cornwall in 1775, and was educated locally. He became an apprentice anatomical assistant to the celebrated surgeon John Hunter (1728-1793) in 1792. He was appointed conservator of the Hunterian Museum after Hunter's death. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1823, and was a member of the Society for Animal Chemistry. He died in 1849.
Philip Syng Physick was born in 1768. He was an American physician, who mainly studied in Philadelphia, but was also a pupil of John Hunter whilst in London. He became known as 'The Father of American Surgery.' He died in 1837.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers of William Clift, 1835, comprising an autograph letter by William Clift to Philip Syng Physick, 8 May 1835. Relating to cataloguing specimens in the Hunterian Museum.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
As outlined in Scope and Content.
Conditions governing access:
By written appointment only.
Conditions governing reproduction:
No photocopying permitted.
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ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
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Archival history:
Presented to Sir Arthur Porritt (PRCS) by Mrs E Hunter Fell, of Itchen Abbas House, Winchester, Hampshire, through the Surgical Sixty Club, in 1963.
Immediate source of acquisition:
Presented by Sir Arthur Porritt through Peter Ingram (FRCS), in 1963.
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Compiled by Anya Turner.
Date(s) of descriptions: Sep 2008