Papers of John Thomas Quekett
TitlePapers of John Thomas Quekett
ReferenceMS0027
Level of descriptionfonds
Date1840-1854
Admin./ biographical historyJohn Thomas Quekett was a Microscopist, Histologist, and a Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. He qualified in 1840 and won a three year Studentship in Human and Comparative Anatomy at the College. He was appointed Assistant Conservator of the Hunterian Museum in 1843, and then Conservator upon the retirement of Richard Owen in 1856. The College purchased his collection of 2,500 microscopical preparations in 1846. He was later Professor in Histology at the College in 1852.
For more information on Quekett's life and career, please visit his profile on the RCS England Library Blog: https://www.rcseng.ac.uk/library-and-publications/library/blog/john-thomas-quekett/.
For more information on Quekett's life and career, please visit his profile on the RCS England Library Blog: https://www.rcseng.ac.uk/library-and-publications/library/blog/john-thomas-quekett/.
Scope and ContentThis collection contains papers relating to Quekett's work as Conservator of the Hunterian Museum at the Royal College of Surgeons of England, comprising diaries, 1840-1848 [not 1843 or 1846], which include references to prominent microscopists of the time, such as Carpenter, West, Ross, Sowerby, and Smith of Smith and Beck; notebook, containing some sketches and including notes on experiments on frogs, 1841; ?draft catalogues of the Histological Series in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, and catalogue of Pathology, [c1840-1860]; catalogue of Hewson's Preparations, [c1840-1860]; unpublished part of Quekett's catalogue of histological series; Lectures on Histology delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons 1852-1854 with annotations by Quekett; notes for lectures on histology delivered in the session 1852-1853, on the structure on the skeleton of vertebrate animals, with original drawings; 2 sheafs of notes on phrenology and ethnography, sent to Quekett by G Russell and another [previous reference 275.h.4].
Extent7.5 boxes
LanguageEnglish
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