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Pearson, Alexander (fl 1800)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0117 MS/94

Held at: Royal Society

Title: Pearson, Alexander (fl 1800)

Date(s): 1800

Level of description: sub-fonds

Extent: 1 item

Name of creator(s): Pearson | Alexander | fl 1800 | surgeon

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Alexander Pearson was surgeon of the East India Company at Canton.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

'The extraordinary history of a new method of inoculating discovered in the kingdom of England', by Alexander Pearson.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Conditions governing access:

Open

Conditions governing reproduction:

No publication without written permission. Apply to Archivist in the first instance.

Physical characteristics:

Paper, unbound, size 12 x 7.5 inches.

Finding aids:

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

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ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

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Related material:

Colour tiff of cover and title page, IM/007001 and IM/007002.

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Copied from the Royal Society catalogue by Sarah Drewery.

Rules or conventions: 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.

Date(s) of descriptions: Feb 2009.


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Subjects
Vaccination | Preventive medicine | Systems of medicine

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