GB 0114 MS0017 - JONES, Frederick Wood (1879-1954)

1 box

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.
GB 0114 MS0017 1921 Collection (fonds) 1 box Jones , Frederick Wood , 1879-1954

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.

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.

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

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).

The main Wood-Jones collection was given in 1985, although latter material was added in 1989; some letters were also given by Professor Donald Simpson in 1966; 1992 and 2000.

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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.

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

None

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].

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

National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997; ISAD(G), Second Edition, 2000. Sep 1990 Arthur , Sir , George , 1784-1854 , 1st Baronet , Lieutenant General , colonial governor Australia Ethnic groups Hobart Indigenous populations Jones , Frederick Wood , 1879-1954 , anatomist Oceania Photographs Tasmania Visual materials

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

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).

The main Wood-Jones collection was given in 1985, although latter material was added in 1989; some letters were also given by Professor Donald Simpson in 1966; 1992 and 2000.

by record type

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.

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

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English

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].

None

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

• Engels