GB 0120 MSS.6137-6146 - Jurin, James (1684-1750), physician and Secretary of the Royal Society

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GB 0120 MSS.6137-6146

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Jurin, James (1684-1750), physician and Secretary of the Royal Society

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  • 1714-1774 (Creation)

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286 items

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GB 0120 MSS.6137-6146 1714-1774 Collection (fonds) 286 items Jurin , James , 1684-1750 , physician and Secretary of the Royal Society

Deposited by Michael Totton, 1984.

Correspondence of James Jurin, including correspondence as Secretary of the Royal Society (1721-27) including with Mordecai Cary (d. 1751); John Huxham (1692-1768); Antoni van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723); John Woodward (1665-1725) and William Nicholson (1655?-1727).

The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

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.

English, some Latin, French and Italian

Described in: Richard Palmer, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine: Western Manuscripts 5120-6244 (London: The Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine, 1999).

Most of these letters have been published, with appropriate English translations, in The correspondence of James Jurin (1684-1750), ed. Andrea A Rusnock (Amsterdam - Atlanta, GA, 1996), which also contains a calendar of all Jurin's known correspondence.

Copied from the Wellcome Library catalogue by Sarah Drewery.

In compliance with ISAD (G): General International Standard Archival Description - 2nd Edition (1999); UNESCO Thesaurus, December 2001; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Jan 2009 Huxham , John , c 1692-1768 , physician Jurin , James , 1684-1750 , physician and Secretary of the Royal Society Microscopy Medical sciences Microscopes Medical profession Physicians Medical personnel People People by occupation Personnel Leeuwenhoek , Antonie Philips , van , 1632-1723 , Dutch tradesman and scientist Woodward , John , 1665-1728 , physician and geologist Royal Society Laboratory equipment Scientific equipment Equipment

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Deposited by Michael Totton, 1984.

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Correspondence of James Jurin, including correspondence as Secretary of the Royal Society (1721-27) including with Mordecai Cary (d. 1751); John Huxham (1692-1768); Antoni van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723); John Woodward (1665-1725) and William Nicholson (1655?-1727).

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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.

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  • English

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  • Latin

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English, some Latin, French and Italian

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Described in: Richard Palmer, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine: Western Manuscripts 5120-6244 (London: The Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine, 1999).

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Wellcome Library

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In compliance with ISAD (G): General International Standard Archival Description - 2nd Edition (1999); UNESCO Thesaurus, December 2001; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

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