Box CLX-A-344
Container
Contains 3 Results:
Papers of Sir Robert Christison (1797-1882), 1822-1887
Sub-Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-1817/2
Scope and Contents
This sub-fonds consists of the papers of Sir Robert Christison (1797-1882), toxicologist and physician, President of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (1838/40 and 1846/48) and President of the British Medical Association (1875).
Manuscript notebooks for autobiography (4 notebooks)
Notes of highland expeditions and holidays, etc. 1854-1881 (Skye with Dr Sharpey, 1854; Braemar...
Dates:
1822-1887
Papers of John Christison (1789-1862), 1809-1862
Sub-Fonds — Box: CLX-A-344
Identifier: Coll-1817/3
Scope and Contents
This subfonds contains:
Correspondence, including a letter from David Hume, 1820-1859
Petition admitting John Christison member of Faculty of Advocates, 1809
Receipt for cost of lair in Calton Burying Ground, 1831
Poster: Proclamation against Orange procession, Ayr, 1859
Newspaper obituary from the Edinburgh Evening Courant, 1862
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Dates:
1809-1862
Papers of John Christison (1862-1894), 1871-1890
Sub-Fonds — Box: CLX-A-344
Identifier: Coll-1817/4
Scope and Contents
This subfonds contains:
- Diary/journal, 1871-1874. (Holidays at Lochwood, Tarbet and St Fillans, etc. Mentions Prof. John Hughes Bennett at Tarbet.)
- Matriculation of arms of John Christison, dated 3 November 1890. On vellum, with seal attached.
Dates:
1871-1890