Catalogues, correspondence, drawings, notes, reports and other documents. These relate to his own research in anatomy and medicine and including a series of drawings by Jan van Rymsdyk for Hunter's major work, . Hunter's papers also contain valuable materials relating to the formation of his library and his other collections
Includes notes on medical subjects by John Clephane (1702-1758)
The material was arranged by C H Brock who published her work in
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Transferred : Hunterian Museum : 1968 : ACCN 2502
Addition deposits of individual pieces of correspondence : ACCNs 1245, 1510, 1731, 1777, 1789, 1790, 1803, 1827, 1896, 1951
Item level descriptions are available via the department's online manuscripts catalogue available at http://special.lib.gla.ac.uk/manuscripts/ searching by the call number MS Hunter H
C H Brock, Dr William Hunter's papers and drawings in the Hunterian Collection of Glasgow University Librray: a handlist (Cambridge: Wellcome Uniit for the History of Medicine, 1990)
Collection guide available at the National Registers of Archives in Edinburgh (NRA(S)) and London (NRA)
No known copies
Compiled by David Powell, Hub Project Archivist, 8 March 2002
No alterations made to date
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Reproduction subject to usual conditions: educational use & condition of documents
This material has been appraised in line with standard GB 247 procedures
Under the terms of William Hunter's will, his library and other collections remained in London for several years after his death - for the use of his nephew, Matthew Baillie (1761-1823) - and finally came to the University in 1807 . After Matthew Baillie's death in 1823 other papers were sent to Glasgow by his widow. Some papers known to have existed are now lost. The collection was initially housed in the Hunterian Museum and fully incorporated in Glasgow University Library after 1968 .
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