Collectanea: Anatomy & Physiology.

Eleven short works.

1. Collection of 12 pen and wash anatomical drawings. Six of the drawings have legends in English: a duplicate set is without legends: the illustrations are of bones and muscles., c. 1820, 12 ll. 4to. 26 x 21 cm..

2. Béclard, Pierre Augustin (1785-1825): Du Rachis en général, en y comprenant le sacrum et le coccyx. On the first page is a note: 'Fragment du manuscrit sur l'ostéogénie de mon père', signed Jules Béclard [1818-1887]., c. 1820, 4 ll. 4to. 221/2 x 17 cm.. Author's holograph MS. The third leaf is only a half sheet.

3. Cunningham, Daniel John (1850-1909): Dissection of female thylacinus: abdominal muscles., c. 1885, 3 ll. + 10 pp. folio. 321/2 x 201/2 cm.. Author's holograph MS., written partly in pencil.

4. Gratiolet, Louis Pierre (1815-1865): Structure des hémisphères cérébraux dans les primates: Mémoire. Produced in Paris., 1855, 8 ff. folio. 301/2 x 20 cm.. Author's holograph MS. Written on the rectos only.

5. Héguin de Guerle, Charles: Review of 'Hygiène de la Digestion, suivie d'un Nouveau Dictionnaire des Aliments par Paul (Marie Léon) Gaubert [1805-1866]'. Produced in Paris., 1845, 13 ff. folio. 261/2 x 191/2 cm.. Written on the rectos only. Reviewer's holograph MS.

6. Lieutaud, Joseph (1703-1780): Tentamina physico-anatomica in naturam humanam By comparison with a copy of the author's 'Elementa physiologiae', Amsterdam, 1749, this fragment-possibly holograph-was written for an apparently unpublished third edition of that work, first issued in Paris in 1745. It must have been written after 1750, when the author left Aix for Paris 'laribus relictis' (First leaf). Produced in Paris., , 6 ll. folio. 32 x 21 cm.. Introduction and index only.

7. Morgan, Herbert Major ( -1917): Original coloured crayon drawings of microscope slides illustrating the respiration and circulation in animals. The author's name is not found in the Register after 1917., 1859, 1860, 8 ll. 4to. 20 x 191/2 cm.. The drawings are mounted with MS. legends.

8. O'Connell, Matthew Daniel (1847-1921): Final Report of the Departmental Committee on Humidity and Ventilation in Cotton-weaving sheds. Effect of Humidity on the Temperature of the Body., 1909, 13 ll. 4to. 201/2 x 161/2 cm.. Author's holograph MS. of an article printed in the B.M.J., 1909, ii, pp. 1401-1403.

9. Reed, William Cash (1850-1928): The Circulation of the Blood. A popular lecture, no record of publication has been traced., c. 1920, 14 ff. 4to. 251/2 x 201/2 cm.. Typescript with author's holograph additions and corrections.

10. Schmidt, Wilibald Gottlob (1828-1877): Experiments on the velocity of filtration of various liquids through animal membrane, 1856 A resumé in English of an article orginally published in Poggendorf's 'Annalen' 89, 1856, written by a Dr. Reinhardt, who has not been identified., c.1750, 13 pp. + 1 bl. l. folio. 301/2 x 20 cm..

11. Toison, J.: Cours d'Histologie: Leçon inaugurale [Incomplete] Produced in Lille., 1890, VI ff. 4to. 20 x 151/2 cm.. Written on the rectos only.

c. 1755-c. 1920

1 volume v.s. Unbound.

Purchased between 1905 and 1933. Item 1 was purchased in 1933 (accession 66363); item 2 was purchased in 1929 (accession 57070F); item 3 was purchased in 1933 (accession 78856); item 4 was purchased in 1932 (accession 66365); item 5 was purchased in 1933 (accession 66363); item 6 was purchased in 1930 (accession 56536); item 7 was probably purchased in 1905 (accession 12576); item 8 was purchased in 1931 (accession 89186); item 9 was purchased in 1929 (accession 89174); item 10 was purchased in 1929 (accession 67211N); item 11 was given accession number 95293.

Database description transcribed from 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).