IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0114 MS0197
Held at: Royal College of Surgeons of England
Title: Rumsey, Henry Nathaniel (fl 1786-1809)
Date(s): 1786-1787
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 4 volumes
Name of creator(s): Rumsey | Henry Nathaniel | fl 1786-1809 | surgeon
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Henry Nathaniel Rumsey was a surgeon practising at Chesham, Buckinghamshire. Rumsey had taken shorthand notes of John Hunter's lectures in 1786-1787, which were printed by James F Palmer in his edition of Hunter's works. They were admired for their completeness, including examples and illustrations.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers of Henry Nathaniel Rumsey, 1786-1787, comprising 4 volumes of manuscript notes by Rumsey titled A Course of Lectures on Surgery by Mr John Hunter, Surgeon to St George's Hospital, 1786, taken at lectures on surgery by John Hunter.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
The volumes are arranged in chronological and lecture order.
Conditions governing access:
By written appointment only.
Conditions governing reproduction:
No photocopying permitted.
Finding aids:
Library card catalogue.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Accruals:
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Donated by Henry Wyldbore Rumsey, son of Henry Nathaniel Rumsey, in 1867.
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note: Compiled by Anya Turner.
Source: Lives of the Fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, Volume 2, MACE-YOU, page 252
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: Sep 2008