Jermyn, Emily Harriott (1793-1824)
Identity Statement
Reference code(s) | : GB 0120 MSS.3074-3077 |
Held at | : Wellcome Library Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://wellcomelibrary.org/ › |
Full title | : Jermyn, Emily Harriott (1793-1824) |
Date(s) | : 1818 |
Level of description | : Collection |
Extent | : 4 volumes |
Name of creator(s) | : Jermyn | Emily Harriott | 1793-1824 |
Detailed catalogue | : Click here to view repository detailed catalogue |
Context
Administrative/Biographical history:
The authoress was the daughter of the Suffolk Antiquary, Henry Jermyn [1767-1820]. She married her cousin James Jermyn [ -1852], the philologist.
Content
Scope and content/abstract:
Emily Jermyn papers, 1818, comprising: 'Botanic etymology, or an attempt to derive from their original language, and to explain the names and terms, generic and specific, used in the Science of Botany: and to determine from such sources their proper and correct prosody. With short biographical notices of such eminent persons whose names have been honored in their adaption to plants: and many anecdotes ... relating to their cultivations, properties and uses. Author's holograph MSS. An exhaustive work which must have involved enormous labour: it is unpublished.' Produced in Sibton (Suffolk).
Access & Use
Language/scripts of material:
English
System of arrangement:
As set out above in Scope and Content.
Conditions governing access:
Open. The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Photocopies/photographs/microfilm are supplied for private research only at the Archivist's discretion. Please note that material may be unsuitable for copying on conservation grounds, and that photographs cannot be photocopied in any circumstances. Readers are restricted to 100 photocopies in twelve months. Researchers who wish to publish material must seek copyright permission from the copyright owner.
Finding aids:
Described in: S A J Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).
Archival Information
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Purchased 1934.
Allied Materials
Related material:
Publication note:
Description Notes
Archivist's note:
Entry compiled by Barbara Ball from the Wellcome Library online catalogue.
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:
October 2008
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