Papers of William Home Clift
TitlePapers of William Home Clift
ReferenceMS0239
Level of descriptionfonds
Date1825-1832
Creator William Home Clift, 1803-1832, museum curator, Sir Richard Owen, 1804-1892, Knight, naturalist
Admin./ biographical historyWilliam Home Clift was a Museum Curator and Scientific Illustrator. He was the son of William Clift, who was Conservator of the Hunterian Museum. The Royal College of Surgeons of England's records show that Home Clift was already working in the Hunterian Museum in 1818. By January 1823 he was appointed as Assistant Conservator. Home Clift prepared catalogues of the osteological section of the Museum in 1830, and the Catalogue of Monsters and Malformed Parts in 1831. Biographers of John Hunter, and Richard Owen (who was appointed as the Second Assistant in the Museum in 1827) have attributed the preparation of these catalogues to Owen, not acknowledging William Home Clift’s work.
Sir Richard Owen was a Naturalist, Conservator of the Hunterian Museum, and Superintendant of the Natural History collections of the British Museum. (See MS0025 for biographical information.)
Sir Richard Owen was a Naturalist, Conservator of the Hunterian Museum, and Superintendant of the Natural History collections of the British Museum. (See MS0025 for biographical information.)
Extent8 files
LanguageEnglish
System of arrangementThe lecture notes are arranged in chronological order, followed by the reports and the drawings.
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Related objectsMS0007/1/6/1/3
Persons keyword Sir Charles Bell, 1744-1842, Knight, surgeon, William Clift, 1775-1849, naturalist, Joseph Henry Green, 1791-1863, anatomist, George James Guthrie, 1785-1856, surgeon, Hunterian Museum Royal College of Surgeons of England
SubjectCatalogues, Surgery, Anatomy, Fish, Bones, Drawings, Lectures (teaching method)
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