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Manuscript volume containing notes on Robert Whytt's clinical lectures, delivered at Edinburgh University, [1760], taken by an unidentified student. Also includes some 'Directions given by the Physician General at the Havannah to the surgeons of the Army relating to the management of the sick'. (1 volume)

Guy's Hospital entry of physicians and surgeons, pupils and dressers, 1827-1837': manuscript volume containing list of medical pupils at Guy's Hospital, Sep 1827-Jun 1837, including date entered, name, pupil number, length of course, date for completing course, where previously educated, and amount paid; list of surgical pupils at Guy's Hospital, Sep 1827-Jun 1837, including date entered, name, pupil number, length of course, date for completing course, name of surgeon to whom apprenticed, and amount paid; list of dressers at Guy's Hospital, Oct 1827-Apr 1837, includes date of entry, name, initials of surgeon, length of course, date of course completion, and amount paid; list of apprentices, 1762, 1784, 1791-1837, including date of entry, name, age, length of apprenticeship, date of completion, name of surgeon to whom apprenticed, and amount paid.

Pedigree tracing descent of the kings of England from mythical origins at Troy down to the reign of George III. Latin and English. Last entry dated 1762. 1 roll. FRAGILE

Manuscript notes containing commonplaces from, among others, the writings of Charles I and Charles II, copies of receipts and accounts, passage entitled 'From a young gentleman to a lady of superior fortune'; comments on the importance of an education in virtue, signed by John Carter. 1 file

Guy's Hospital entry of Physician and Surgeon's pupils and dressers, 1814-1827': manuscript volume containing index of significant pupils mentioned, such as Thomas Addison, Astley Paston Cooper; list of physicians pupils at Guy's Hospital entered in the stewardship of Mr Keall, Sep 1813-Sep 1827; list of surgeons pupils at Mr Guy's Hospital, entered in the stewardship of Mr Keall, Jul 1813-Jul 1827, giving date when entered, name of pupil, pupil number, length of course, date when certificate granted, where apprenticed or educated, and amount paid; quarterly summary of amount received by the steward; list of dressers to the surgeons at Guy's Hospital, entered during the stewardship of Mr Keall, Sep 1813-Apr 1827, including date of entry, name, to whom apprenticed, length of course, date of expiration certificates granted, name and place of previous pupilage; list of apprentices to surgeons of Guy's Hospital, 1762, 1784, 1791-May 1829, including date entered, name, age, length of apprenticeship, date apprenticeship expires, name of surgeon to whom apprentice and fee paid; list of Honorary Pupils, May 1827-Jun 1828; loose manuscript list of dressers to Mr Aston Key, Mr John Morgan, Mr [Bransby] Cooper, 1825-1829.

Manuscript volumes of John Turner comprising notes on lectures on midwifery by John Harvie probably delivered by him, 1763, including lectures 18 to 20 and part of lectures 17 and 21, and also notes on forty-nine lectures by Joseph Warner on anatomy and surgery, probably delivered by him, 1763. (1 volume)

Copy of manuscript of the reign of Edward IV, 'Charter Eliam: Tabula de Beth Kil-hart', lent to Leathes by Edward Jones, bard, 1814; copy of manuscript of the reign of Henry VII entitled 'Charta Nordwalliae', transcribed from papers belonging to the Reverend Ewan Evans, 1763. 1 file

Bill for repairs to church fabric. 1 item

Manuscript notebook entitled 'Observations on the Transit of Venus', made at the Royal Observatory, Kew, Surrey, comprising astronomical observations with tables of viewing data, describing transit witnessed by King George III and others, 3 June 1769, with notes signed by Stephen Demainbray, astronomer. Also observations on the same transit of Venus by Abraham Gotthelf Kaestner, Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, University of Göttingen, Germany, at Göttingen Observatory, compiled 22 June 1769, and of a lunar eclipse observed by Kaestner at Göttingen, 23 December 1768. 1 volume

Manuscript volume of observations on a solar eclipse, 4 June 1769, describing phases of occultation, with notes on the eclipse compiled by Nevil Maskelyne, Astronomer Royal, and tables of longitude of principal celestial observation points around the world from the base line of Richmond, Surrey. 1 volume

Manuscript volume with title page entitled 'Directions for setting the new solar apparatus', comprising brief set of operating instructions for equipment to record solar eclipse at the Royal Observatory, Kew, Surrey. 1 volume

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Manuscript volume of observations on the transit of the sun taken at the Royal Observatory, Kew, Surrey, employing a variety of regulator clocks including John Shelton's astronomical regulator, signed by Stephen Demainbray, astronomer, (James) Stephen Rigaud, Assistant Observer, and George Wollaston, 4 June-15 July 1769, with instructions on the operation of an eight day clock, 1769. 1 volume

Pamphlet by Nevil Maskelyne, Astronomer Royal, entitled Observations of the transit of Venus over the Sun and the eclipse of the Sun on June 3, 1769 made at the Royal Observatory (London, 1769). 1 pamphlet

Residency certificate issued by poor law overseers in Blaxly, Northamptonshire. 1 item

Manuscript volume containing notes on George Fordyce's lectures on Physiology taken by an unidentified student [1770]. (1 volumes)

John Sheldon's notes on lectures by Alexander Monro on anatomy and surgery, delivered at Edinburgh [1770]. (4 volumes)

Large mounted printed map titled 'A plan of streets roads between Black Fryers Bridge, London Bridge, Westminster Bridge, Lambeth, Newington Butts and St Margaret's Hill as they now are…' and includes picture of the new Black Fryers Bridge (designed by Mr Mylne) [1760-1770].