IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0117 MS 733
Held at: Royal Society
Title: Darwin, Erasmus (1731-1802)
Date(s): nd
Level of description: sub-fonds
Extent: 1 volume
Name of creator(s): Darwin | Erasmus | 1731-1802 | physician, botanist and poet
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Administrative/Biographical history:
Born, 1731; Education: School at Nottinghamshire School, Chesterfield; St John's College, Cambridge; Edinburgh Medical School. MB (1755); MD (Edinburgh); Career: Practised medicine at Lichfield, Staffordshire; member of the Lunar Society; many inventions, including a vertical-axis windmill, used in Josiah Wedgwood's (FRS 1783) factory; Fellow of the Royal Society, 1761; died, 1802.
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Copies of the letters of Erasmus Darwin transcribed from original manuscripts or photocopied from published versions by Desmond George King-Hele.
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Language/scripts of material: English
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Open
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No publication without written permission. Apply to Archivist in the first instance.
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
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Archivist's note: Copied from the Royal Society catalogue by Sarah Drewery.
Date(s) of descriptions: Feb 2009.