Notebooks of Joseph Barnard Davis, 1817-1900, including:
MS 140
Five notebooks, containing notes on medicine, archaeology and books read, 1845-1860.
MS 141
Notebook containing notes taken from Dr Armstrong's lectures on the principles and practice of physic, 1823.
MS 142
Notebook containing extracts and memorandum from Lucas' Candid inquiry into the education, qualifications and offices of a surgeon-apothecary, (1800, York), 1817-1819.
MS 143
Notebook containing notes taken from 'Asculapius and the Asclepiadae', a treatise read before the Royal Academy of Sciences at Berlin 22 May and 19 Jun 1845, by Dr Theodore Panofka, Professor of archaeology to the Royal Frederick William's University, 1846.
MS 144
Notebook containing notes from Pearson's life of Hey, 1822.
MS 145
Notebook containing notes, observations, references chiefly relating to medicine and archaeology, Halifax, c 1821-1868.
MS 146
Notebook containing 'A verbal translation of Blumenbach's Decades craniorum diversarum gentium'.
MS 147
Notae ethnographicae, 1859-1865.
MS 148
Notebook containing description of a collection of signet rings entitled 'Dactyliotheca Aesculapiana'.
MS 149
Notebook containing notes on history of Britain.
MS 150
Notebook entitled 'Crania Britannica' including a guide to crania and subscribers' names.
MS 151
Private cash book entitled 'York affairs', 1837-1875.
MS 152
Notebook containing lists of reprints sent out, 1854-1864.
MS 436
Notebooks, letters and papers mostly dealing with Crania Britannica, 1853-1900; collection of reprints of articles by Davis; a report on Australian Aborigines, 1859 and two wooden printing blocks of decorative patterns.
Davis , Joseph Barnard , 1801-1881 , craniologist