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Blanchard, Raphaël Anatole Émile (1887-1919)


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).

Detailed catalogue

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


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Coins | Currencies | Finance
Numismatics

Personal names
Blanchard | Raphaël Anatole Émile | 1887-1919 | physician

Corporate names

Places