Daily Advertiser

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 1538 S22
Held at	: Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists   Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://www.rcog.org.uk/en/guidelines-research-services/library-services/archives-and-heritage/archives/ ›
Full title	: Daily Advertiser
Date(s)	: 1746
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 1 outsize folder
Name of creator(s)	: The Daily Advertiser

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

No further information at present.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Copy of The Daily Advertiser, 8 Oct 1746, including advertisements for a course of lectures on midwifery by William Smellie, lectures in physic and midwifery by Sir Richard Manningham, and lectures in anatomy by William Hunter. It comprises an original copy and photocopies.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

Conditions governing access:

Open.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Out of copyright.

Finding aids:

A general index to the files listed in the catalogue of the Archives of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists is maintained in the College Archives; refer to the College Archivist.

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Presented by Alasdair Fraser, FRCOG, Feb 1991.

Allied Materials

Related material:

Library correspondence, 1968, erlating to research notes on William Smellie, is at B6/5.A portrait photograph of William Smellie is at PH21/2.A ceryificate of competence in midwifery presented to John Harvey, signed by William Smellie, is at S52/1.

Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Compiled by Clare Cowling, Archivist, RCOG.

Rules or conventions:
National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997; ISAD(G), Second Edition, 2000.

Date(s) of descriptions:
September 2000