IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0114 MS0037
Held at: Royal College of Surgeons of England
Title: Buchan, Alexander Peter (b 1764)
Date(s): 1799-c 1824
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 2 volumes
Name of creator(s): Buchan | Alexander Peter | bap 1764, d 1824 | physician
Easton | James | fl 1799-1823 | author
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Alexander Peter Buchan was born in Sheffield, in 1764. His father was the physician, Dr William Buchan (1729-1805). Alexander was educated at the High School of Edinburgh and Edinburgh University. He then went to London and attended lectures by William and John Hunter, and Dr George Fordyce. He was admitted a Licentiate of the College of Physicians in 1802, and was physician to the Westminster Hospital from 1813-1818 and 1820-1824. He also wrote, translated and edited various medical books. He died in 1824.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers of Alexander Peter Buchan, 1799-c 1824, comprising 2 volumes. Volume 1 contains manuscript notes and insertions concerning human longevity. The insertions are from James Easton Human Longevity: recording the name, age, place of residence, and year, of the decease of 1712 persons, who attained a century and upwards from AD 66 to 1799, comprising a period of 1733 years with Anecdotes of the most remarkable (Salisbury and London, 1799). Volume 2 contains a manuscript translation of Mssrs A Seguin and Lavoisier Respiration of Animals (Academy of Sciences, 1789).
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
As outlined in Scope and Content.
Conditions governing access:
By written appointment only.
Conditions governing reproduction:
No photocopying permitted.
Physical characteristics:
Finding aids:
Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Library of the Royal College of Surgeons of England (1928) by Victor G Plarr.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Accruals:
Archival history:
The volume was catalogued in the Manuscripts Catalogue in 1944.
Immediate source of acquisition:
ALLIED MATERIALS
Existence and location of originals:
The Wellcome Library holds another copy of the James Easton book on Human Longevity.
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note: Compiled by Anya Turner.
Sources: Monk's Roll, the Roll of the Royal College of Physicians, Second Edition, Volume 3, page 5.
Date(s) of descriptions: Aug 2008