JONES, Frederick Wood (1879-1954)

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0114 MS0017
Held at	: Royal College of Surgeons of England   Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://www.rcseng.ac.uk/museums-and-archives/archives/ ›
Full title	: JONES, Frederick Wood (1879-1954)
Date(s)	: 1921
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 1 box
Name of creator(s)	: Jones | Frederick Wood | 1879-1954
Detailed catalogue	: Click here to view repository detailed catalogue

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Frederick Wood Jones FRS 1925; MRCS 1904; FRCS 1930; LRCP 1904; BSc London 1903; MB; BS 1904; D.Sc. London 1910, Adelaide 1920, Melbourne 1934 FRACS 1935; FZS. Medical Officer Cocos Keeling islands 1905-1906; Anatomy Department St Thomas' 1908-1912; Professor of Anatomy Royal Free Hospital 1912-1919; Professor of Anatomy Adelaide University 1919-26; Professor of Anthropology University of Hawaii 1926-1930; Professor of Anatomy Melbourne University 1930-1938; Professor of Anatomy University of Manchester 1938-1945; Professor of Comparative and Human Anatomy Royal College of Surgeons of England 1945-1951; Honorary Conservator 1951-1954.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Photographs by [Beattie] of Hobart, Tasmania, of the last aborigines of Tasmania including 'Trucanini' and 'King Billy'; also postcards of drawings by [Boch] of Tasmanian aborigines; mounted photographs of aborigines; and copy proclamation of martial law against aborigines by George Arthur (1828); copy garrison orders against the aborigines (1829).

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

by record type

Conditions governing access:

Access to Collection on written application to The Archivist, Royal College of Surgeons of England 35-43 Lincoln Inn Fields London WC2A 3PN. A fee to use the library may be payable to readers who are not Fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copy permission on application to The Archivist, Royal College of Surgeons of England 35-43 Lincoln Inn Fields London WC2A 3PN.

Finding aids:

None

Archival Information

Archival history:

Wood Jones was a life long friend of Sir Arthur Keith, Conservator of the Hunterian Museum, Royal College of Surgeons of England and it is thought that he sent this to Keith in 1921 from Australia where Wood Jones was Professor of Anatomy at Adelaide University. A letter in the Arthur Keith Collection [Add Mss 174 Box X Envelope A-B] from Wood Jones to Arthur Keith [Oct 9 1921] enclosed some similar photographs of Tasmanian Aborigines dated 1866. This material was discovered in the Museum office in 2000. Jessie Dobson bequeathed the majority of Wood Jones papers to Royal College of Surgeons in 1985.

Immediate source of acquisition:

Found in Hunterian Museum, Royal College of Surgeons of England April 2000.

Allied Materials

Related material:

Related material in Royal College of Surgeons library:

Manuscripts:

Add Mss 344 Wood Jones - letters to Ulrica Hubbe

Add Mss 508 Wood Jones - papers [listed in Frederick Wood Jones Bibliography and Supplement Barry Christophers. Melbourne. Gainsborough Press 1974]

Add Mss 535a Wood Jones - paintings of Geckos, lizards etc.

Add Mss 546 Wood Jones - letters to Ulrica Hubbe

Arthur Keith Collection:

Box X - photographs of last living Tasmanians

Box XAC Notes on the life of Wood Jones

Box K Keith-Wood Jones Correspondence 1905-51

Boch - drawings of Tasmanian Aborigines

Related material in Hunterian Museum, Royal College of Surgeons of England

Objects:

RCSHM/2000:1 Royal College of Surgeons of England Hunterian Museum - specimens of Tasmanian Aborigine [found with this material].

Publication note:

Frederick Wood Jones Bibliography and Supplement Barry Christophers. Melbourne. Gainsborough Press 1974.

Description Notes

Archivist's note:

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:
Sep 1990