Ogston, Sir Alexander (1844-1929)

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0120 MSS.3710, 3711
Held at	: Wellcome Library   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://wellcomelibrary.org/ ›
Full title	: Ogston, Sir Alexander (1844-1929)
Date(s)	: 1916-1917
Level of description	: Collection
Extent	: 2 volumes
Name of creator(s)	: Ogston | Sir | Alexander | 1844-1929 | Knight | doctor
Detailed catalogue	: Click here to view repository detailed catalogue

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

The compiler was MD of Aberdeen University, and later Professor Emeritus of the same university. He was President of the BMA 1914, 1915 and Hon. Col. RAMC to the Highland (Territorial) Division in the First World War, serving in Serbia in 1915, and in Italy during the following two years.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Sir Alexander Ogston's papers comprising case-books, Villa Trento Hospital 13 September 1916 to 16 November 1917. Compiler's holograph MSS. Note-books of cases at an Italian Military Hospital-the patients are mostly Italians.

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:

Presented 1929.

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:
November 2008