GB 0114 MS0131 - Murie, James (1832-1925)

2 manuscripts

GB 0114 MS0131 1864 Collection (fonds) 2 manuscripts Murie , James , 1832-1925 , naturalist

James Murie obtained his M D at Glasgow University in 1857. He became Medical Officer in the expedition to support Speke and Grant in 1862, and visited the source of the Nile at Lake Victoria, Nyanza. He was lecturer in anatomy at the Middlesex Hospital. He retired to Leigh-on-Sea, where he became interested in Fisheries.

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Papers of James Murie, 1864, comprising a manuscript titled Report by James Murie on the conditions etc of the Microscopical Collection, May 1864 relating to the microscopical collections at the Hunterian Museum. The report was presented to the Museum Committee; and a manuscript titled Final Report on the Microscopical Collection, November 1864 presented to the Chairman of the Museum Committee.

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English

Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Library of the Royal College of Surgeons of England (1928) by Victor G Plarr.

Correspondence and Drawings at the Linnean Society of London; Commonplace Book and Notes at the Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine; Working notes and papers of unpublished work on the Thames Estuary Fisheries at Essex Record Office, Southend branch; and letters to J O Westwood, 1878-1879, at Oxford University, Museum of Natural History.

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Source: Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine.

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.

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The provenance of this material is not known.

Papers of James Murie, 1864, comprising a manuscript titled Report by James Murie on the conditions etc of the Microscopical Collection, May 1864 relating to the microscopical collections at the Hunterian Museum. The report was presented to the Museum Committee; and a manuscript titled Final Report on the Microscopical Collection, November 1864 presented to the Chairman of the Museum Committee.

As outlined in Scope and Content.

By written appointment only.

No photocopying permitted.

• English

• Latin

English

Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Library of the Royal College of Surgeons of England (1928) by Victor G Plarr.

Correspondence and Drawings at the Linnean Society of London; Commonplace Book and Notes at the Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine; Working notes and papers of unpublished work on the Thames Estuary Fisheries at Essex Record Office, Southend branch; and letters to J O Westwood, 1878-1879, at Oxford University, Museum of Natural History.

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.

• English