Book Borrowing Surgeons: An Autumn Update
Kit Baston tells us how her transcribing work is taking shape The transcription of Edinburgh University Library’s Receipt Book for the Book Borrowing Surgeons project is well underway with seventy-eight of the 183 pages containing borrowing records completed. At time of writing, I have added 1,516 new records to the Books and Borrowing 1750-1830 database […]
Alexander Monteith: Beginnings of Anatomy in Edinburgh, 1694
Alexander Monteith: his petition for a ‘gift of bodies’ On 24 October 1694 Alexander Monteith petitioned Edinburgh Town Council for ‘a gift of the bodies of those who die in the Correction House, and foundlings who die upon the breast, and to be allowed a convenient place for such, and the use of the College kirkyard […]