GB 0114 MS0107 - Ramsay, Alexander (1754-1824)

2 volumes

GB 0114 MS0107 Early 19th century Collection (fonds) 2 volumes Ramsay , Alexander , 1754-1824 , anatomist

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.

Donated to the College by Alexander Ramsay.

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.

As outlined in Scope and Content.

By written appointment only.

No photocopying permitted.

English

Library card catalogue.

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.

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

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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Donated to the College by Alexander Ramsay.

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.

As outlined in Scope and Content.

By written appointment only.

No photocopying permitted.

• English

• Latin

English

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.

Library card catalogue.

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