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Country Code
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GB
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Repository Code
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237
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Repository
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Edinburgh University Library: Special Collections Division
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Reference
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GB237/Coll/371
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Title
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Papers of Professor John Lizars (c1787-1860)
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Dates
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19th century
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Access Status
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Open
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Access Conditions
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Generally open for consultation to bona fide researchers, but please contact repository for details in advance.
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Description
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The material consists of notes of lectures taken down by John Lizars at Edinburgh University, 1807-1808, and a letter about the sixth edition of his treatise on tobacco believed to 'stagger Smokers of the pernicious weed', 1856.
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Level
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Fonds
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Extent
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3 manuscript volumes, 1 letter
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Finding Aids
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Important finding aids generally are: the alphabetical Index to Manuscripts held at Edinburgh University Library, Special Collections and Archives, consisting of typed slips in sheaf binders and to which additions were made until 1987; and the Index to Accessions Since 1987.
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Previous Numbers
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Dk.5.9-11; Gen.1733/49
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Format
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Undefined
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Related Material
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The local Indexes show a reference to Lizars related material in the Laing Collection (check the Indexes for more details): mention of the publication of Lizars's Anatomical plates of the human body in letters of D. Lizars and W. H. Lizars to S. Highley, a bookseller in London, at La.II.426/293-295. Lizars is also mentioned in letters of George Cook to Sir W. Jardine as a favoured candidate for the Chair of Anatomy and medicine at St. Andrews University, 1840, at Dk.6.20/52-53. In addition, at Da., there is an anatomy class-list, 1852-53.There is a reference to Daniel Lizars, publisher father of John Lizars: mention of his new newspaper in a letter, 1830, at Dk.6.20/125.For Lizars's brother William Home Lizars there are references to: sketches of the College, 1823, at E89.93; an invitation to an unnamed to attend funeral of D. Lizars, 1812, at La.II.316; letters to Sir W. Jardine about plates for illustrations, Dk.6.20/207-209; letters, 1838-1840, at Dk.6.20/45, 65, 134, 149, 197; and, mentions in letters 1829-1841, at Dk.6.20/98, 122, 125-126, 161-186.In addition, the UK National Register of Archives (NRA), updated by the Historical Manuscripts Commission, notes: lecture notes and anatomical drawings, 1820-1835, Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, Ref. Lizars NRA 16015 Coll of Physicians
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Associated Persons
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