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Harkness, Professor Robert Douglas (b 1917)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0120 GC/82

Held at: Wellcome Library

Title: Harkness, Professor Robert Douglas (b 1917)

Date(s): 1938-1942

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 1 box

Name of creator(s): Harkness | Robert Douglas | b 1917 | Professor in Physiology

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Harkness was a medical student at Cardiff, and later at University College Hospital, mostly during the latter's evacuation to Leavesdon Hospital, Watford. He studied under many distinguished medical men including Lord Rosenheim, Sir Francis Walshe, Sir Harold Himsworth, Sir George Pickering, E K Martin, and Sir Thomas Lewis.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Notebooks of R.D. Harkness compiled as a medical student at Cardiff and at University College Hospital, London, 1940s.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Conditions governing access:

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.

Finding aids:

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

These notebooks were received from R.D. Harkness, Professor in Physiology, University of London, in December 1985 and February 1986. An additional accession was received in April 1989.

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note: Copied from the Wellcome Library catalogue by Sarah Drewery.

Rules or conventions: 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.

Date(s) of descriptions: Jan 2009


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Hospitals | Health services
Medical education | Higher science education
Medical students | Students
Medical institutions

Personal names
Harkness | Robert Douglas | b 1917 | Professor in physiology

Corporate names
University College Hospital

Places