IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0120 MSS.1253-1266
Held at: Wellcome Library
Title: Blanchard, Raphaël Anatole Émile (1887-1919)
Date(s): c 1910
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 14 volumes
Name of creator(s): Blanchard | Raphaël Anatole Émile | 1887-1919 | physician
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Professor Raphaël Blanchard obtained his MD in Paris in 1880, and was elected Member of the Académie de Médecine in 1894. He was the pioneer in the study of Parasitology in France, and 1885-1889 published his Traité de Zoologie médicale which became a standard work. He was the founder of the Société zoologique de France (1876) and of the Société d'Histoire de la Médecine in 1902.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers of Raphaël Anatole Émile Blanchard, c 1910, comprising catalogue of the collection of coins, medals, plaques, jétons, and tokens relating to medicine. With holograph descriptions and notes, additions by other hands, extracts and cuttings from printed catalogues, etc. Produced in Paris.
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.
Physical characteristics:
14 vols. 4to. 22 x 17 cm. Unbound in uniform spring-back folders.
Finding aids:
Described in: S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Accruals:
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Purchased 1919.
ALLIED MATERIALS
Related material:
The collection described in the Catalogue was in the Wellcome collection of museum objects transferred to the Science Museum.
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: Feb 2009