Ramsay, Alexander (1754-1824)

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0114 MS0107
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	: Ramsay, Alexander (1754-1824)
Date(s)	: Early 19th century
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 2 volumes
Name of creator(s)	: Ramsay | Alexander | 1754-1824 | anatomist

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Alexander Ramsay was born in 1754. He studied medicine at Edinburgh University, and obtained his medical degree from St Andrews. He was an anatomist, who founded a school of anatomy at Fryeburg, Maine, and gave lectures in America and England to support the school. He studied rattlesnake venom, and a snake bite could have been the cause of his death in 1824.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers of Alexander Ramsay, early 19th century, comprising a manuscript volume titled N125, Compendium. Grass, herbaceous and medical Plants, collected and arranged in their prominent families, the less important species being left out, thus comprising the leading features of Botany. By A Ramsay MD. And Presented By him to the Royal College of Surgeons, London - as a small testimony of his respect for its members. containing dried, pressed plants with manuscript labels, c 1801 (watermark); and a manuscript volume titled N126, Compendium of the Musci Tribes. By Alexander Ramsay MD. Presented by him to the Royal College of Surgeons, London. containing dried, pressed British mosses with manuscript labels, and plants from North America.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

As outlined in Scope and Content.

Conditions governing access:

By written appointment only.

Conditions governing reproduction:

No photocopying permitted.

Finding aids:

Library card catalogue.

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Donated to the College by Alexander Ramsay.

Allied Materials

Related material:

Transcript by William Clift of Alexander Ramsay's A short account of William Clark, with a description of his skeleton in a practernatural state of Ossification, which is preserved at Trinity College, Dublin. Held in Library at Royal College of Surgeons. H. CR. HUN:J.

Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Compiled by Anya Turner.
Source: Maine Historical Society, http://www.mainehistory.org/library_search.shtml; and Conway Public Library, http://www.conway.lib.nh.us/history/bicenbooklet/schools.htm

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