Chomel, Pierre Jean Baptiste (1671-1740)
Identity Statement
Reference code(s) | : GB 0120 MSS.1630-1631 |
Held at | : Wellcome Library Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://wellcomelibrary.org/ › |
Full title | : Chomel, Pierre Jean Baptiste (1671-1740) |
Date(s) | : [1715-1730] |
Level of description | : Collection (fonds) |
Extent | : 2 volumes |
Name of creator(s) | : Chomel | Pierre Jean Baptiste | 1671-1740 | physician and botanist |
Detailed catalogue | : Click here to view repository detailed catalogue |
Context
Administrative/Biographical history:
Though a qualified physician, Pierre Jean Baptiste Chomel devoted himself entirely to the study of botany and was a pupil of Tournefort. He was appointed a royal physician in 1706, and elected to the Académie des Sciences in 1720, and Dean of the Faculté de Médecine in 1735. His 'Jardin Botanique' later formed part of the École de Pharmacie in Paris.
Content
Scope and content/abstract:
Notes of Pierre Jean Baptiste Chomel on plants and on medicine, [1715-1730].
Access & Use
Language/scripts of material:
French and Latin
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:
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
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Purchased 1930 and 1933.
Allied Materials
Related material:
Publication note:
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
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