IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0114 MS0131
Held at: Royal College of Surgeons of England
Title: Murie, James (1832-1925)
Date(s): 1864
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 2 manuscripts
Name of creator(s): Murie | James | 1832-1925 | naturalist
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
James Murie obtained his M D at Glasgow University in 1857. He became Medical Officer in the expedition to support Speke and Grant in 1862, and visited the source of the Nile at Lake Victoria, Nyanza. He was lecturer in anatomy at the Middlesex Hospital. He retired to Leigh-on-Sea, where he became interested in Fisheries.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers of James Murie, 1864, comprising a manuscript titled Report by James Murie on the conditions etc of the Microscopical Collection, May 1864 relating to the microscopical collections at the Hunterian Museum. The report was presented to the Museum Committee; and a manuscript titled Final Report on the Microscopical Collection, November 1864 presented to the Chairman of the Museum Committee.
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.
Finding aids:
Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Library of the Royal College of Surgeons of England (1928) by Victor G Plarr.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Accruals:
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
The provenance of this material is not known.
ALLIED MATERIALS
Related material:
Correspondence and Drawings at the Linnean Society of London; Commonplace Book and Notes at the Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine; Working notes and papers of unpublished work on the Thames Estuary Fisheries at Essex Record Office, Southend branch; and letters to J O Westwood, 1878-1879, at Oxford University, Museum of Natural History.
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note: Compiled by Anya Turner.
Source: Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine.
Date(s) of descriptions: Sep 2008