Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1831 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent
18pp
Scope and content
Manuscript letters to the Secretary of King’s College London including W Waldron donating his father’s books on ‘chirurgical science’ to the College Library; Thomas Watson (1792-1882), Professor of Forensic Medicine, thanking College Council for his appointment and informing Council of the time of his lecture in which he would dissect the body of John Bishop, 9executed in 1831 for murdering a boy to sell to the College for dissection known as the ‘Italian Boy’); James Lowe Wheeler of the Society of Apothecaries informing College Council of their decision to allow King’s students to use their botanical gardens; Edward William donating his copy of Nineteen Sermons Concerning Prayer by Lancelot Andrewes (Cambridge, 1641) to the College Library.