Administration File: Specimens offered as donations or for purchase.
TitleAdministration File: Specimens offered as donations or for purchase.
ReferenceRCS-MUS/11/1/14
Level of descriptionfile
Date1816-1856
Scope and ContentFile contains the following:
1. Letter from Sir C Pegge. 5 September 1816. Requesting permission for Dr Kidd to visit the Museum.
2. Letter from Dr Robert Lee. 10 July 1856. Suggesting that his preparations of the heart and uterus be exhibited by the Museum and the Council’s response. 3 items.
3. Letter from Dr Beck. 14 October 1856. Regarding the permission granted to Dr Lee to place his dissections in the Museum.
4. Letter to Dr Lee. 18 December 1856. Informing him that the Council has now changed its mind with regard to exhibiting his dissections.
5. Letter from Dr Lee. 20 December 1856. Acknowledging receipt of the above mentioned letter.
6. Letter from Mr Quain. 13 May 1847. Declining the invitation to act on the committee responsible for erecting a monument to John Hunter.
7. Estimate for replacing hinges on the cases in the Museum. 29 June 1846.
8. Letter from George Evans. 19 February 1840. Offering 2 skeletons for sale.
9. Letter from Mr Cox. 5 February 1856. Offering 200 calculi removed by lateral operation.
10. Letter from Dr Muter, Philadelphia. 23 February 1845. Thanking the College for the specimens of calculi presented to him.
11. Letter from St Bartholomew’s Hospital. 3 January 1845. Thanking the College for specimens of calculi presented to the Museum.
12. Letters acknowledging receipt of specimens of calculi. March-April 1846. 7 items.
13. Letters from:
Guys Hospital
Westminster Hospital
St Georges Hospital
School of Anatomy and Medicine
Royal Veterinary College
King’s College London
University College London
14. Letter from Mr Moore. 20 June 1845. Presenting calculus to the Museum.
15. Letter from Mr Green. 16 April 1834. Offering the college first refusal on the sale of the late Professor Meekel’s Museum.
16. Notice of sale by auction. 23 June 1835. An anatomical model of a female human figure.
17. Letter from Mr Macartney. Undated. Offering the skeleton of the cervus megaceros.
18. Letter from Colonel Wilson, Lima. 19 January 1835. Forwarding a box of specimens.
19. Letter from Mr Davy (?), Dublin. 24 June 1835. Offering an elk skeleton in exchange for a diploma and the College’s response to his ‘outrageous’ proposition. 2 items.
20. Receipt for the 2nd volume of the catalogue in the Museum’s physiological series. 17 January 1835.
21. Letter from Mr (?). 2 November 1835. Offering his ear dissections to the Museum and listing other preparations for sale.
22. Letter from Mr Goodger. November 1835. Offering for sale the late Dr Hooper’s pathological collection of preparations and the College’s response. 2 items.
23. Letter from Mr Forster. Undated. Offering some sample bones for sale and a note recommending their purchase. 2 items.
24. Letter from Mr. Williams (?). 28 December 1841. Regarding part of a head from a sarvrian (?).
25. Letter from Mr Harvey. 29 June 1838. Offering for sale his fossil table.
26. Letter from Mr Owen. 24 April 1839. Requesting permission to buy the tooth of a sperm whale.
27. Resolution of the Council. 18 March 1851. To thank Sir H(?) for donating his anatomical collection and morbid specimens to the Museum.
28. Letter from Mr Evans. 26 July 1843. Requesting payment for preparations purchased in December 1840.
29. Letter from Mr Hamilton. 2 October 1843. Informing the College that Captain Miller’s collection has been shipped and requesting payment.
30. Letter from Dr Stegerer, Baden. 27 October 1841. Regarding obstetric instruments and enclosing a document in German.
The following 24 items were amongst the loose documents in the box and have been placed in this file:
31. Correspondence with Mr Warwick. October-November 1842. Regarding his specimen of an African woman. 3 items.
32. Letter from Mr Hindson. 22 June 1842. Offering 2 fish for sale.
33. Letter from Mr Butterworth. 17 December 1841. Offering fossil wood for sale.
34. Letter from Mr Penny and the College’s response. 24 September 1841. Regarding the sale of a horse’s head. 2 items.
35. Letter. 2 October 1841. Negotiating the price of a specimen.
36. Letter from Mr Green. 22 December 1842. Offering a collection of fossils for sale.
37. Letter from Mr Gould and Mr Owen’s report. September-November 1840. Regarding an osteological collection of Australian animals and birds. 2 items.
38. Correspondence with Mr Hodgson. April 1856. Regarding the skeleton of a horse offered for sale.
39. Letter from Mr Hunt. 12 April 1856. Regarding the species of a monkey.
40. Correspondence with Mr Harrison. 25 April 1843. Regarding 20 preparations from the collection of the late Mr Walker.
41. Letter from Dr Ayres. 24 June 1853. Offering to prepare and present to the College a series of animals and plants.
42. Letter from Mr Richardson. 18 December 1839. Regarding the price of two orang-outang skulls.
43. Letter from Mr Lee. 7 September 1840. Offering an icthyosaurus fossil.
44. Correspondence with Mr Verraux. November 1838 and March 1843. Regarding specimens. (Mr Verraux’s letters are in French). 4 items.
45.Letter from Mr de Angelis. March 1841. (In Spanish).
46. Letter from Mr Croizet. 4 December 1842. Offering a collection of fossils for sale. (In French).
47. Correspondence regarding ‘Sampson slaying the Philistines’. April-May 1846. 3 items.
48. List of bones forming the fossil of the Irish Elk. 27 July 1843.
49 .Letter from Mr Denny. April 1854. Regarding the late Mr Robinson’s collection of morbid preparations left to the College.
50. Correspondence with Mr Chapman and the British Museum. April 1851. Regarding 6 lambs.
51. Correspondence with Mrs Atkins. December 1840-January 1841. Regarding specimens from Dr Todd’s collection. 3 items.
52. Letter from Mr Ogilby. 29 April 1841. Offering the Zoological Society’s osteological collection to the College.
53. Letter from Mr Ford. 12 March 1841. Asking whether the College would be interested in the late Mr Howship’s collection of preparations in morbid anatomy.
54. Correspondence concerning the purchase of engravings done by the late Mr Bauer. May-June 1841. 6 items.
1. Letter from Sir C Pegge. 5 September 1816. Requesting permission for Dr Kidd to visit the Museum.
2. Letter from Dr Robert Lee. 10 July 1856. Suggesting that his preparations of the heart and uterus be exhibited by the Museum and the Council’s response. 3 items.
3. Letter from Dr Beck. 14 October 1856. Regarding the permission granted to Dr Lee to place his dissections in the Museum.
4. Letter to Dr Lee. 18 December 1856. Informing him that the Council has now changed its mind with regard to exhibiting his dissections.
5. Letter from Dr Lee. 20 December 1856. Acknowledging receipt of the above mentioned letter.
6. Letter from Mr Quain. 13 May 1847. Declining the invitation to act on the committee responsible for erecting a monument to John Hunter.
7. Estimate for replacing hinges on the cases in the Museum. 29 June 1846.
8. Letter from George Evans. 19 February 1840. Offering 2 skeletons for sale.
9. Letter from Mr Cox. 5 February 1856. Offering 200 calculi removed by lateral operation.
10. Letter from Dr Muter, Philadelphia. 23 February 1845. Thanking the College for the specimens of calculi presented to him.
11. Letter from St Bartholomew’s Hospital. 3 January 1845. Thanking the College for specimens of calculi presented to the Museum.
12. Letters acknowledging receipt of specimens of calculi. March-April 1846. 7 items.
13. Letters from:
Guys Hospital
Westminster Hospital
St Georges Hospital
School of Anatomy and Medicine
Royal Veterinary College
King’s College London
University College London
14. Letter from Mr Moore. 20 June 1845. Presenting calculus to the Museum.
15. Letter from Mr Green. 16 April 1834. Offering the college first refusal on the sale of the late Professor Meekel’s Museum.
16. Notice of sale by auction. 23 June 1835. An anatomical model of a female human figure.
17. Letter from Mr Macartney. Undated. Offering the skeleton of the cervus megaceros.
18. Letter from Colonel Wilson, Lima. 19 January 1835. Forwarding a box of specimens.
19. Letter from Mr Davy (?), Dublin. 24 June 1835. Offering an elk skeleton in exchange for a diploma and the College’s response to his ‘outrageous’ proposition. 2 items.
20. Receipt for the 2nd volume of the catalogue in the Museum’s physiological series. 17 January 1835.
21. Letter from Mr (?). 2 November 1835. Offering his ear dissections to the Museum and listing other preparations for sale.
22. Letter from Mr Goodger. November 1835. Offering for sale the late Dr Hooper’s pathological collection of preparations and the College’s response. 2 items.
23. Letter from Mr Forster. Undated. Offering some sample bones for sale and a note recommending their purchase. 2 items.
24. Letter from Mr. Williams (?). 28 December 1841. Regarding part of a head from a sarvrian (?).
25. Letter from Mr Harvey. 29 June 1838. Offering for sale his fossil table.
26. Letter from Mr Owen. 24 April 1839. Requesting permission to buy the tooth of a sperm whale.
27. Resolution of the Council. 18 March 1851. To thank Sir H(?) for donating his anatomical collection and morbid specimens to the Museum.
28. Letter from Mr Evans. 26 July 1843. Requesting payment for preparations purchased in December 1840.
29. Letter from Mr Hamilton. 2 October 1843. Informing the College that Captain Miller’s collection has been shipped and requesting payment.
30. Letter from Dr Stegerer, Baden. 27 October 1841. Regarding obstetric instruments and enclosing a document in German.
The following 24 items were amongst the loose documents in the box and have been placed in this file:
31. Correspondence with Mr Warwick. October-November 1842. Regarding his specimen of an African woman. 3 items.
32. Letter from Mr Hindson. 22 June 1842. Offering 2 fish for sale.
33. Letter from Mr Butterworth. 17 December 1841. Offering fossil wood for sale.
34. Letter from Mr Penny and the College’s response. 24 September 1841. Regarding the sale of a horse’s head. 2 items.
35. Letter. 2 October 1841. Negotiating the price of a specimen.
36. Letter from Mr Green. 22 December 1842. Offering a collection of fossils for sale.
37. Letter from Mr Gould and Mr Owen’s report. September-November 1840. Regarding an osteological collection of Australian animals and birds. 2 items.
38. Correspondence with Mr Hodgson. April 1856. Regarding the skeleton of a horse offered for sale.
39. Letter from Mr Hunt. 12 April 1856. Regarding the species of a monkey.
40. Correspondence with Mr Harrison. 25 April 1843. Regarding 20 preparations from the collection of the late Mr Walker.
41. Letter from Dr Ayres. 24 June 1853. Offering to prepare and present to the College a series of animals and plants.
42. Letter from Mr Richardson. 18 December 1839. Regarding the price of two orang-outang skulls.
43. Letter from Mr Lee. 7 September 1840. Offering an icthyosaurus fossil.
44. Correspondence with Mr Verraux. November 1838 and March 1843. Regarding specimens. (Mr Verraux’s letters are in French). 4 items.
45.Letter from Mr de Angelis. March 1841. (In Spanish).
46. Letter from Mr Croizet. 4 December 1842. Offering a collection of fossils for sale. (In French).
47. Correspondence regarding ‘Sampson slaying the Philistines’. April-May 1846. 3 items.
48. List of bones forming the fossil of the Irish Elk. 27 July 1843.
49 .Letter from Mr Denny. April 1854. Regarding the late Mr Robinson’s collection of morbid preparations left to the College.
50. Correspondence with Mr Chapman and the British Museum. April 1851. Regarding 6 lambs.
51. Correspondence with Mrs Atkins. December 1840-January 1841. Regarding specimens from Dr Todd’s collection. 3 items.
52. Letter from Mr Ogilby. 29 April 1841. Offering the Zoological Society’s osteological collection to the College.
53. Letter from Mr Ford. 12 March 1841. Asking whether the College would be interested in the late Mr Howship’s collection of preparations in morbid anatomy.
54. Correspondence concerning the purchase of engravings done by the late Mr Bauer. May-June 1841. 6 items.
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LanguageEnglish
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