Berlin: Königliche Akademie der Wissenschaften

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0120 MSS.1140-1142
Held at	: Wellcome Library   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://wellcomelibrary.org/ ›
Full title	: Berlin: Königliche Akademie der Wissenschaften
Date(s)	: 1748-1757
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 3 volumes
Name of creator(s)	: Königliche Akademie der Wissenschaften
Detailed catalogue	: Click here to view repository detailed catalogue

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Histoire de l'Académie Royale des Sciences et Belles Lettres de Berlin, avec des Mémoires: Classe de Philosophie Expérimentale. Illustrated with folding and other pen and wash drawings. Produced in Berlin, 1748-1757.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
French

System of arrangement:

In 3 volumes

Conditions governing access:

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:

The first volume has the book-plate of Claude Nicolas Lecat [1700-1768], Docteur en Médecine, Chirurgien en Chef de l'Hôtel-Dieu de Rouen [etc.], dated 1742: all three volumes contain the ex-libris of Pierre Derocque, surgeon of Rouen.

Immediate source of acquisition:

Purchased 1934.

Allied Materials

Related material:

Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Entry copied from Wellcome online catalogue by Sarah Drewery.

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:
Aug 2008