Level of Description: Fonds

Extent and Medium of the unit of description: 0.29 linear metres

Name of creator(s): Glasgow Pathological and Clinical Society

Administrative/Biographical History
Founded as a Pathological Society in 1873 by William Tennant Gairdner, the Society’s aim was to have a limited number of working members meeting monthly for the exhibition and study of patients, drawings, preparations and instruments. At its second meeting, a more clinical aspect was introduced and the Society assumed the name of “The Glasgow Pathological and Clinical Society.” Almost from its inception, the Society met in the Hall of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons, and it arranged for the publication of reports of its proceedings to be carried in the Glasgow Medical Journal and in the British Medical Journal. The Society published several volumes of its Transactions. It merged with the Medico-Chirurgical Society of Glasgow in 1907.

Scope and content
Minute Books, 1873-1909; lists of members present at meetings, 1885-1907; Transactions of the Glasgow Pathological and Clinical Society, 1873-1883; cash book, 1876-1909.

Conditions governing access
Access to some items may be restricted. Please contact the Archivist at the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow.

Conditions governing reproduction
Identification of copyright holders of unpublished material is often difficult. Permission to make any published use of any material from the collection must be sought in advance from the Archivist. We will try to assist in identifying copyright owners but the responsibility for copyright clearance before publication ultimately rests with the reader.

Language/scripts of material
English

Finding aids
Descriptive list available at the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow. See also NRA(S) Survey 1909.

Related units of description
RCPSG 3 records of the Royal Medico-Chirurgical Society of Glasgow 1844-1987

Publication Note
Jacqueline Jenkinson, Scottish Medical Societies, 1731-1939, Edinburgh University Press, 1993

Archivist's Note
Compiled by Rachael Third, Scottish Archive Network Project, based on work undertaken by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow

Rules or Conventions
ISAD(G): General International Standard Archival Description, International Council on Archives (2nd edition, 2000).

Date(s) of Descriptions
March 2000