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The archive is comprehensive in its coverage of nearly all aspects of governance, teaching and administration at the School, and there is also considerable material concerning relations between the Royal Colleges and the University of Edinburgh. The inclusion of the annual School of Medicine Calendars (SOM 2/8) add invaluable context regarding the School’s administration, teaching and classes offered. There is a volumous correspondence sequence from the Dean’s Office (SOM 2/3), in particular that of John Orr, who was Dean from 1924-25. Financial aspects of the School are particularly well represented in ledgers and annual accounts papers (SOM 3), as are records relating to lecturers, their fees and classes held by them. There are substantial student files, which are particularly revealing of the opportunities afforded by the School to groups such as women (this included opportunities as lecturers) or candidates from overseas, including those escaping religious or political repression. Some material is included which relates to the earlier period of nineteenth century extramural teaching before the School of Medicine was initiated, including minutes of the Association of Lecturers, Register of Lecturers and large posters of the medical education marketplace of Edinburgh (SOM 4/2). There is also existing material covering the period after the closure of the School.
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Edinburgh University Library holds a small amount of material relating to extramural teaching, principally medical and surgical lecture notes (GB 237 Coll-340).
For related material see the main Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh institutional archive (RCSEd), particularly for papers relating to the Triple Qualification and other examination records. It is likely that the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh hold related material given that the School of Medicine was a joint venture between both Royal Colleges.
The Extramural School of Medicine of the Royal Colleges (1895-1948) was a body consisting of lecturers recognised by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh and the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, with its remit to assist in the provision of extra academical instruction in all branches of medicine and surgery. The School effectively consolidated and formalised the ad hoc arrangements for extramural medical education in Edinburgh; from the late eighteenth century extramural teaching activity flourished, with a considerable number of lecturers and private anatomy schools operating throughout the city by the nineteenth century.
Medical education began in Edinburgh in 1505 when the Incorporation of Barber Surgeons applied for their Charter and requested at the same time the body of a condemned man, once a year, for teaching purposes. In 1694, King William and Queen Mary granted the Incorporation of Chirurgians a Gift and Patent, enabling them to teach anatomy. As a result, the Incorporation built what is now known as Old Surgeons' Hall with a teaching theatre in 1697. When Edinburgh University founded its Faculty of Medicine in 1726, the Incorporation maintained its medical teaching independently, enabling many lecturers who did not teach at the university to rent rooms for teaching students, often at a lower cost. Clinical instruction of surgery and dentistry was undertaken at the city's Royal Infirmary.
In the historical record, few cities have surpassed Edinburgh’s influence and international reputation as one of the most desired locations for medical study. From the late eighteenth century through the nineteenth century an explosion of teaching activity took place in Edinburgh. This was a consequence of a number of factors, including the fact that students felt daunted by study in Paris, given the political instability in France, and indeed throughout Europe. Moreover, Leiden became a less favourable location to study medicine after the death of Dutch physician Herman Boerhaave, although importantly, many Edinburgh lecturers had studied under him which undoubtedly enticed new students to Scotland. In addition, increased educational opportunities for students from the less wealthy classes made extramural study Edinburgh an attractive option.
For the most part, anatomy and surgery had been the subjects taught in the extra-mural environment but a wider field was provided by physiology, microscopic anatomy, chemistry, medical jurisprudence, diseases of the eye, the history of medicine, gynaecology, midwifery, mental diseases, tropical diseases, ear, nose and throat diseases, histology, pathology, and the diseases of children. These classes were offered in a number of extramural schools and anatomy rooms, which had been established in various Edinburgh localities. Notable lecturers associated with extramural teaching in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries include John Bell, Joseph Bell, John Barclay, William Cullen, Daniel Rutherford Haldane, Peter Handyside, John Lizars, Robert Knox (Knox’s anatomy classes were regarded as the largest ever held in Britain), Noel Paton, Grainger Stewart and Patrick Heron Watson.
From the late nineteenth century, a number of extramural lecturers throughout the city came together and formed the Association of Lecturers. In 1894 a Petition for a Charter was addressed to the Queen for formal recognition of a School of Medicine (the same year the Scottish Universities agreed to recognise that a University student was permitted to attend half of his classes with extra mural lecturers). This trend towards greater unity between lecturers was finally formalised in 1895 with the opening of the School of Medicine of the Royal Colleges of Edinburgh. Thereafter, intramural and extramural medical teaching in Edinburgh continued to develop side-by-side, and while lecturers were at times considered rivals (before and after 1895) and sometimes involved in quite open dispute, this nevertheless gave rise to a healthy, albeit competitive, medical teaching marketplace. Contemporaries noted the “increase in efficiency of the teaching in both sides” as a result.
The School of Medicine’s doors were open to male and female students (who for varied reasons did not attend university) to train and qualify in medical and surgical practice. This was normally achieved by following a course of study leading to the Triple Qualification (an alternative to the academic MD), which was offered by the two Edinburgh Royal Colleges and also the Royal Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow. Students from the University of Edinburgh were also permitted to attend extramural lectures provided by the School, in order to complement and enhance their learning. This was advantageous to many students; with classes at the University noted by contemporaries -and historians since- as being less than adequate by comparison to those offered in the extramural environment.
From the School’s inception, the lecturers were made up from those whom the Royal Colleges recognised and granted licenses to teach either qualifying or non-qualifying subjects of medical study. Supervision of the School was placed in the hands of the Governing Board (representing both Edinburgh Royal Colleges), who determined the general policy of the School. The first Governing Board, chaired by Alexander Russell Simpson included, amongst others, John Duncan, Sir Henry Littlejohn, David Berry Hart, Noel Paton, and Patrick Heron Watson. The general business of the School was managed by the lecturers (Board of Management), the Business Committee and Education Committee. The School’s administrative base was at Surgeons’ Hall for the most part. Classes were offered at a number of locations, including Surgeons’ Hall, Minto House, Forrest Road, New School (Bristo Street), Nicolson Square and Surgeon Square. Clinical teaching was also provided at various institutions including the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Leith Hospital, New Town Dispensary and the Sick Children’s Hospital. Dental instruction was offered at the Incorporated Dental Hospital and School.
The School of Medicine closed its doors in 1948, principally as a result of the Goodenough Report of 1944, which effectively concluded that universities should be the main entry portal for medical students (and thus single-location study). The Report consequently set the wheels in motion that would bring extra-academical undergraduate education in medical schools to an end. As such, the three Scottish medical corporations were remodelled into being providers of higher medical and surgical education only. The Goodenough Report also recommended that the numbers of university-appointed medical teaching staff should be increased.
Compiled from the following sources:
The archival history is unknown although it is thought the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh acquired the material in the 1980s.
The collection contained multiple duplicates, particularly of printed material, many of which were not retained.
The original correspondence filing systems of arrangement were retained as far as possible.
Printed document (3 copies).
Printed document (2 copies) with annotations in pencil.
Printed document (3 copies).
Printed document with annotations.
Printed documents (3 copies of the Revised Constitution and Regulations).
Printed document (2 copies both with annotations).
Printed document.
Printed document (2 copies).
Printed (3 copies) and typescript (1 copy).
Printed (4 copies).
Memorandum concerning the Edinburgh Postgraduate Board for Medicine (of the Edinburgh Medical School), which gives brief details of its history and teaching commitments.
Printed document with annotations.
Relates to governance of the School of Medicine.
Bundle of fire insurance policies issued by Caledonian Insurance Company (1933) and Lloyd's London (1937-9).
Relates to the Triple Qualification and proposed scheme of arrangements by St. Andrews University (includes reference to the graduation of women).
"Trust Estate of Dr Charles Frederick Knight and Mrs Marion Isobel Ingram or Knight, who resided at Mount Charles, Portobello".
The papers in this section concern a bequest made by one Miss J. E. Flockhart of her heritable estate "...to the University of Edinburgh or Medical School of Edinburgh...". This provision was contested by the heirs as invalid on the grounds of uncertainty, but in a decision of the Court of Session the bequest was allowed to be divided up by the trustees of the estate between the University and the School of Medicine. The trustees offered the bequest to the University, which, declined it, and then to the School of Medicine, which also declined it. (For a related reference in Minutes of the Governing Board see SOM 2/1/1/3)
Copy excerpts, printed document.
Note of income and expenditure to "the University of Edinburgh or the Medical School of Edinburgh". Printed document with title heading "Miss J. E. Flockhart's Judicial Factory".
Copy document.
Letter of Robson, McLean and Paterson, W. S., agents for the trustees, to John Orr, Dean of the School of Medicine of the Royal Colleges intimating that the University declines the bequest and offering it to the School.
Follow up to earlier letter (SOM 1/4/4).
Copy letter from the Dean to Robson, McLean & Paterson declining acceptance of the Flockhart Bequest.
Acknowledgement of letter (SOM 1/4/6).
Letter intimating the lodging of a Minute for the trustees in respect of the declinature of the Flockhart Bequest.
Copy Minute (referred to in SOM 1/4/8) for "Andrew Hunter and Others (Jane and Edith Flockhart's Trustees) and Another Pursuers and Real Raisers in the Action of M. P. and Exoneration at their instance against Alfred John Bourlet and Others Defenders". Printed document. Acknowledgement copy letter is also enclosed.
Bundle of papers concerning the Flockhart Estate.
Hardback volume with minutes in manuscript.
Subjects of the meetings include (although are not limited to): arrangements for students and lecture times and relations with the University of Edinburgh Medical School; the teaching of anatomy and physiology at the University; application to Carnegie Trust; vacancies; reports by the Education Committee; changes in the course of study; refusal of University Court to recognise Littlejohn's lecture course Medical Jurisprudence and Public Health; Triple Qualification; recognition of lecturers and courses; long working hours of students taking Practical Anatomy; lecturers fees.
Also enclosed: a table showing the numbers of students attending the School, 1896-1918 (loose papers); print copy Statement regarding the School of Medicine of the Royal Colleges, 1901 and Memorandum from the Governing Board of the School of Medicine of the Royal Colleges to the Committee of the Carnegie Trust of Scottish Universities, 1902 (both 'signed' by Joseph Bell, Chairman).
Hardback volume with minutes in manuscript.
Subjects of the meetings include (although are not limited to): applications to the Carnegie Trust for apparatus; appointment of a Dean for the School of Medicine; changes in administration of the School; application to the Scottish Education Department; resignation of Joseph Bell from the Chairmanship of the Board of Governors; admission of women to the Membership and Fellowship of the Royal Colleges; arrival of American students in Edinburgh; payments to the School from Carnegie Trust; clinical teaching agreements with the Royal Infirmary and University students attending Clinical Medicine and Clinical Surgery in the Extra-Mural wards there; student fees; grants and funding; grants to medical student from Government (for those demobilised from the army); recognition of lecturers and courses; anatomy fee for ex servicemen; new Regulations for the Triple Qualification Board; amount of financial aid to the School from Royal College of Physicians and Royal College of Surgeons; fees for Clinical Midwifery; separate teaching arrangements for male and female students at the Royal Infirmary.
Hardback volume with minutes in typescript.
Subjects of the meetings include (although are not limited to): death of Sir James Hodsdon; theft of microscopes; agreement between the Royal Infirmary Managers and the School of Medicine; salaries for assistant physicians and assistant surgeons; recognition of lecturers; admission of students to American and Canadian medical schools; relations between the Governing Board and the Triple Qualification Committee (some related correspondence is enclosed); teaching in municipal hospitals; Miss Flockhart's Bequest (also see SOM 1/4); standard of American students applying for admission; misconduct of students; "unsatisfactory students"; accommodation for students conducting Midwifery practice; Air Raid precautions; shortage of clinical material in the Infirmary owing to evacuation of patients for possible air raid casualties and consequent effect on clinical teaching of foreign students; submission of evidence to the Goodenough Committee. A typescript report entitled 'Report of the Goodenough Committee: The Future of Non-University Medical Schools' is also enclosed.
Loose papers.
Subjects include: Triple Qualification; bequests and grants; Goodenough Report; student fees; discontinuance of the Glasgow Extra-Mural Schools; negotiations with Edinburgh University; preparation of historical record of the School of Medicine and Dr. Douglas Guthrie; appointment of law agent.
Small bundle.
Mostly relates to a special meeting held by the Governing Board concerning the Triple Qualification and German applicants.
Relates to a joint committee set up to look into the premises at Surgeons' Hall; provision of material for dissection, instruction in anatomy and the use of X-ray photographs in relation to anatomy; facilities for practical classes in chemistry and physics; classes in bacteriology, pathology, obstetrics and gynaecology and recreational facilities.
Relates to publication on the history of the School of Medicine by Dr. Guthrie.
Large bundle mostly concerning the Thom Bequest Fund and the Estate of Dr. Archibald Davidson. Includes minutes and memoranda (for related letter see SOM 6/4/5).
Large bundle of correspondence relating to lecture appointments approved by the Governing Board. Includes some letters of reference.
Appointments include:
James Miller, John William Struthers, William James Stuart, John Macmillan, Lewis Beesly, Hugh Stevenson Davidson, Robert McKenzie Johnston, Benjamin Watson, Edwin Matthew, John Orr, Alexander Dingwall Fordyce, John Comrie, Charles Cathcart, Charles MacGillivray, Joseph Cotterill, Archibald McKendrick, John Guy, Hugh Miller, James Terras, Mabel Purefoy Fitzgerald, F. Gardiner, Austin Nimmo Smith, Alexander Pirie Watson, Laura Margaret Ligertwood, Charles McNeil, Chalmers Watson, Charles George Lambie, Douglas James Acworth Kerr, Douglas Miller.
Large file containing minutes of the Governing Board (1961-1967), memoranda and correspondence of the Secretary. (For earlier minutes of the Governing Board see SOM 2/1/1/1-4).
The Board of Management was made up from lecturers at the School of Medicine (also see SOM 4/3).
Common subjects include: numbers of students; recognition of new lecturers; material for operative surgery and anatomy; accounts, funds, funding and applications for grants; lecturers; fees; postgraduate classes; elections; resignations; apparatus and equipment; relations with the University; Triple Qualification.
Includes some loose papers and a tabulation of matriculations. Common subjects include: numbers of students; recognition of new lecturers; material for operative surgery and anatomy; accounts, funds, funding and applications for grants; lecturers; fees; postgraduate classes; elections; resignations; apparatus and equipment; relations with the University; Triple Qualification; American students in British universities.
Letter from the Secretary, Anderson's College Medical School Glasgow to the Secretary of the School of Medicine of the Royal Colleges, Edinburgh. Relates to the effects of the Carnegie Trust upon the number of students attending extra mural schools.
Letter from Secretary of the School of Medicine of the Royal Colleges, Edinburgh to the Secretary, Anderson's College Medical School Glasgow. Relates to the effects of the Carnegie Trust upon the number of students attending extra mural schools and includes a list of the numbers attending (1902-1906).
Letter from Secretary of the School of Medicine (Ramsay) relating to a meeting with the representatives from Anderson's College, Glasgow.
Mostly professional correspondence with most files containing the Dean's copy letters.
Major D. G. Marshall, who also lectured on tropical diseases, became Dean after a long experience of administrative work in the Indian Medical Service.
Subjects include: administrative work of the School and allocation of Carnegie Trust fund; case of leprosy; request from Sir Hector Cameron for a portrait of Lord Lister; death of Sir Thomas Clouston; death of Dr. Gibson; admission of "a lady dental student"; Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh and extra mural teaching there.
Includes letters from Joseph Bell's family concerning his death.
Small bundle. Relates to the conversion of the Asylum at Bangour Hospital into the Edinburgh War Hospital and the impact on students seeking clinical instruction in Mental Diseases at the School of Medicine.
Small bundle. Subjects include: grant for assistance (demonstrators and lecturers) including names; Carnegie Trust renewal grant and allocation of annual grant; aiding the attendance of Ex Service Officers with names of those attending the Incorporated Edinburgh Dental Hospital and School.
Small bundle, principally relating to financial state of the School, grants towards financial assistance and holdings of London Midland and Scottish Railway stock.
Relates to whether the teaching of operative surgery should be continued in light of insufficient supplies of anatomical material for classes.
Principally relates to the position Lecturer in Midwifery and Gynaecology.
Mostly relates to the Incorporated Edinburgh Dental Hospital and School Scheme for Aiding the Attendance of Ex Service Officers and Men at Courses of Higher Education, and RCSEd medals.
Small bundle. Mostly concerns exemptions from increased fees to "ex-service men in receipt of a Government Grant" and difficulties of students paying fees for classes in Mental Diseases. Includes a letter from the Committee on Indian Students relating to gaining experience and qualification in Britain.
Relates to arrangements for teaching in Practical Anatomy and fees for ex servicemen.
Small bundle. Relates to the Incorporated Edinburgh Dental Hospital and School Scheme for Aiding the Attendance of Ex Service Officers and Men at Courses of Higher Education and fees.
Includes letters between the Dean and American Medical Association relating to a statement made in a Colorado newspaper by a Dr. Gregory attacking vaccination.
Correspondence and related papers. Principally concerns fees and payments.
Correspondence principally with the Medical Officer of Health from the Public Health Department, Public Health Chambers, Edinburgh and the position of Lecturer in Public Health at the School of Medicine.
Large bundle of correspondence principally with Horace Rew, Secretary of the Examining Board in England. Subjects include the position of the School of Medicine as a teaching body for the F. R. C. S, .candidate examination results and curriculum of the Royal Dick Veterinary College, Edinburgh. Includes a bound report The Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh Notes and Excerpts from the Minutes etc. as to the Relationship of the University and the Royal Colleges of Physicians and of Surgeons to the Institution, 1728-1900; copies of the Examining Board in England calendars (1939); Regulations of the Examining Board in England; Royal College of Surgeons of England: Regulations Relating to the Examinations for the Diploma or Fellow.
Correspondence principally concerning students and lecturers connected with the School.
Subjects include: proposal of proposed incorporation of the Edinburgh School of Medicine of the Royal Colleges to the University; admission of foreign students by the Home Office, German Jews and "Hitlerism"; requirements of South African medical schools; final year students and National Health Insurance Regulations.
Small bundle. Mostly relates to American students receiving British medical training.
Mostly concerning American students attending the School of Medicine and American students attending British medical colleges.
References and supporting papers. Small bundle.
Bundle of general correspondence (also see SOM 3/2/5/1 for papers relating to Dental Board student fees).
Mostly routine. Includes a number of letters relating to student misconduct of "indecent exposure" including a copy of the relevant minutes of the General Medical Council Executive Committee Meeting, held July 1924.
Subjects include: Dispensary and Vaccination fees; facilities for the University and extra mural students in relation to Public Health teaching; lecturers that hold dual lectureships; fees for Clinical Midwifery; curriculum for the Diploma in Public Health; office space for the Dean in Surgeons' Hall; course in Radiology and equipment in the Physics Laboratory. Includes student references and Memorandum on the Remuneration of the Clinical Medicine Staff (March 1926).
Subjects include: conduct of examinations; anti vivisectionists, The National Canine Defence League and the Dog Protection Bill; the notification of puerperal fever cases in Scotland; standards in the Pre-Registration Examination at Edinburgh and Glasgow universities.
Subjects include: clinical teaching of students in the Royal Infirmary; new accommodation for the Skin Department at the Royal Infirmary; apparatus held by the Governing Board of the Carnegie Trust; accommodation for surgeons in the Ophthalmic Department; medical appointments to West Africans. Includes a letter of application from student with black and white portrait photograph enclosed.
Subjects include: new accommodation for the Skin Department at the Royal Infirmary; revision of clinical teaching arrangements; payment of examiners fees; admission of American medical students; instruction in therapeutics and pharmacy; burglaries at Surgeons' Hall.
Correspondence mostly with the Egyptian Education Office and with the family of Mr. R. J. Coker, a student at the School of Medicine who died from "starvation and cold". File also contains papers concerning the admission of students of American universities and colleges which includes a memorandum, perhaps by the Dean of the School of Medicine, concerning his visit to Approved Medical Schools in America and Canada, with a brief description of the selection procedure of students (with particular reference to the admission of Jewish students) and the meaning of the term "honourable dismissal" in each School.
Subjects include: students from overseas with particular reference to those travelling to South Africa, Egypt, India and Ceylon; student applications; arrangements for fees of students attending Clinical Classes in the Royal Infirmary; Diploma in Public Health classes; students at Surgeons' Hall and membership of the University Union; expenses of enlarging the collection of morbid anatomy specimens belonging to the Pathology Department; issue of proposed municipal hospitals in relation to clinical teaching.
Subjects include: regulations pertaining to the recognition of lecturers; Edinburgh Medico-Sociological Club; German Jewish graduates; teaching of Obstetrics to extra mural students. Includes student application papers with references.
Mostly enquiries from potential students and letters of recommendation.
Subjects include: use of playing field at Liberton; Medical Officer of Health providing practical demonstrations to students of the University and Royal Colleges; Royal Infirmary Pageant; sporting events; South African students being granted the Scottish Conjoint Qualification. Includes a number of papers concerning student applicants.
Subjects include: TQ Committee of Management and recreation land at Hillend.
Large bundle. Subjects include: Education Committee and Education Week; the efficacy of Insulin Shock and Cardiazol (Triaxol) in Dementia Praecox; Surgeons' Hall Athletics Club and other student recreational activities; the treatment of "Mental Defectives"; land valuation at Hillend; student matters. A document entitled Report on the Teaching of Obstetrics and Gynaecology in the School of Medicine is also enclosed.
Subject include: Clinical Teaching Agreement; advertising in the Edinburgh University Student's Handbook; enquiries from potential students and letters of recommendation.
Mostly concerning routine student matters. Includes correspondence concerning the closure of the Museum during the war to ensure the safety of specimens and some documents relating to the War Damage Act, 1941 and war damage insurance.
Subjects include: student matters; availability of academic robes in wartime; difficulties of obtaining medical and surgical graduates in light of Medical War Committee placement requirements. A recommended wartime curriculum for medical students issued by the War Office is also enclosed.
Includes letters relating to physics and chemistry curriculum; chemistry in relation to medicine; student fees and Drinkwater's death and estate (Drinkwater was an Extra Mural lecturer in Chemistry).
Correspondence with Egyptian Educational Office concerning Ezzat's fees, work and conduct.
Elder was the Tuberculosis Officer for the City of Edinburgh Public Health Department and the correspondence relates mostly to his time working as Lecturer in Tuberculosis at the School of Medicine and his subsequent resignation due to wartime pressures.
Regarding a reference for Banda.
Orr's reply regarding reference (see SOM 2/3/5/31/1).
Banda's letter of application to attend the School of Medicine, includes black and white photograph attached to application.
Relates to lack of progress by Banda at the School of Medicine.
Request for Banda to meet with Orr.
Letter to Orr noting that Banda failed his examination in April 1941 but wondering on his current position, financially and academically, with Orr's reply enclosed.
Concerning a reduction of Banda's financial allowance.
Photocopies of Banda's Curriculum Schedule and Final Examination Schedule (RCSEd and LRFPSG, Scottish Triple Qualification).
Relates to medical students and war conscription.
Subjects include: duties of the Dean; present sources of income; teachers and their remuneration; suggested pooling of fees; number of students required. Supporting papers are also enclosed including document entitled School of Medicine of the Royal Colleges: Administration and Finance.
Subjects include: Dean's Office; number of students attending the School and the influx of American students; educational level of students compared to University students; methods of entry to the School and Certificate of Fitness.
Subjects include: Constitution of the Governing Board; powers and duties of the Governing Board; Board of Management; future of the School; remuneration of lecturers. Supporting papers include Draft Constitution and Regulations.
Subjects include: buildings; supply of anatomical material; numbers and quality of students; future of the School.
Subjects include: accommodation and additional facilities required; educational level of students; pre clinical teaching; contact between lecturers and students; future of the School; appointments and remuneration of lecturers. Includes submissions by Dr. Haultain and Dr. Kelman Robertson.
Includes 2 draft copies.
Annotated typescripts of memorandum and discussion notes.
3 copies, 2 drafts and some manuscript notes. File also contains draft Memorandum by the Royal Scottish Medical Corporations on the Report of the Inter-Departmental Committee on Medical Schools (printed).
"Memorandum by the Triple Qualification Committee of Management in regard to the powers vested in it under the Articles of Agreement entered into between the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and the Royal Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow".
"Memorial for The Conjoint Committee of Management of the Triple Qualification in Medicine, Surgery and Midwifery, granted by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and the Royal Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow for the Opinion of Counsel".
2 copies and a heavily annotated draft.
Relates to the Goodenough Report. Typescript with some annotations (3 copies).
Correspondence with R. N. Ramsay, Solicitor of the Royal Bank and the Registrar of the General Council of Medical Education & Registration.
Concerns a request to provide information on the quota of numbers of men and women admitted to the School of Medicine.
These printed annual handbooks list the members of the School's Governing Board, provide a brief description of the history of the School and list the regulations for graduation and the School's lecturers. They include a timetable of classes, showing their location and the appropriate fees payable and examples of past examination papers at all stages of the Triple Qualification. There is also a list of all students passing examinations each session.
Sessions 1896-1897; 1897-98; 1899-1900; 1901-02; 1905-06; 1908-09; 1909-10; 1912-13; 1916-17; 1925-26; 1926-27 (2 copies); 1928-29; 1929-30.
Sessions 1930-31; 1931-32; 1932-33; 1933-34 (2 copies); 1934-35 (2 copies); 1935-36 (2 copies); 1937-38 (2 copies); 1938-39; 1939-40.
Sessions 1940-41 (2 copies); 1941-42 (3 copies); 1942-43; 1943-44 (3 copies).
Sessions 1944-45 (2 copies); 1945-46 (3 copies); 1946-47 (2 copies); 1947-48 (2 copies).
Contains mostly routine appointments. It is likely these diaries belonged to John Orr (Dean) and were kept by his Secretary.
Signed by G. A. Gibson.
Signed by Joseph Bell (3 copies).
Relates to teaching and equipment, and disbursement of funds (3 copies).
Relates to use of the Carnegie Trust Grant for lecturing apparatus and equipment (3 copies).
Relates to special meeting called by the Governing Board to consider the applications for grants from the Carnegie Trust.
Signed by Joseph Bell (4 copies).
The meeting was called to "consider the allocation of the grant from the Carnegie Trust". Annotated (2 copies).
Annotated (2 copies).
Small bundle of letters relating to arrangements by Dr. Gibson, Dr. Bell, Dr. Johnstone and W. Hodsdon to draw up the application to the Carnegie Trust and distribution of the grant.
Mostly relates to distribution of the grant. Includes a letter from the School of Medicine for Women concerning application for a grant to provide a female demonstrator for female students.
Small bundle relating to the Trust of Deed. Includes part-draft of Rules and Regulations.
Includes General Medical Council Extracts from Report of Interdepartmental Committee on Medical Schools on Matters Concerning the Council, Memorandum of Evidence Submitted on Behalf of the General Medical Council (with associated letter from John Orr enclosed) and memoranda presented by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (with annotations).
Loose pages enclosed.
Inscribed 'Business a/c Cash Book 2'.
Inscribed 'Business a/c Ledger 3'. Some loose pages enclosed. Includes index at front of ledger.
Inscribed 'Business a/c Ledger No. 4'. Includes index at front of ledger.
Revenue statements prepared from audits (also see SOM 3/3)
Index at front. Ordered by class.
Index at front. Ordered by class.
For sessions 1931-32; 1932-33; 1933-34; 1934-35. Index at front and ordered by class.
For sessions 1935-36; 1936-37; 1937-38; 1938-39. Index at front and ordered by class.
For sessions 1939-40; 1940-41; 1941-42; 1942-43; 1943-1944; 1944-45. Index at front and ordered by class.
For sessions 1945-46; 1946-47; 1947-48. Index at front and ordered by class.
Includes index at front of ledger.
Student fees for: Clinical Medicine, Clinical Surgery, Clinical Gynaecology, S.O.P.D., Skins, Eyes, Ears, Royal Infirmary, Chemistry, Physicians, Biology, Anatomy, Physiology, Materia Medica, Pathology, Vaccination, Tuberculosis and Venereal Disease. Includes index at front of ledger.
Student fees for: Clinical Medicine, Clinical Surgery, Clinical Gynaecology, S.O.P.D., Skins, Eyes, Ears, Royal Infirmary, Chemistry, Physicians, Biology, Anatomy, Physiology, Materia Medica, Pathology, Vaccination, Tuberculosis and Venereal Disease. Includes index at front of ledger.
Index at back of volume.
Index at back of volume.
Includes index book.
Includes index book.
Includes index book.
Includes index book. Includes some loose student matriculation cards.
Includes index book. Includes some loose student matriculation cards.
Includes index book. Includes some loose student matriculation cards.
Includes index book. Includes some loose student matriculation cards.
Includes index book.
Includes index book. Includes some loose student matriculation cards.
Includes index book. Includes some loose student matriculation cards.
Includes index book. Includes some loose student matriculation cards.
Includes index book. Includes some loose student matriculation cards.
Includes index book.
Includes index book.
Includes index book.
Includes separate index.
Ledger inscription 'Student Ledger (operated with the Fee Bank Account).
Two hardback payment ledgers. Includes some physiology lectures.
Book inscribed 'Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh from Summer Session 1929' and 'Clinical Accounts Fee A/C Day Book from Winter 1929-30'.
Inscribed 'late fees'. Includes petty cash.
Small bundle of correspondence.
Royal Bank of Scotland bankbook.
Also see SOM 2/3/5/12 for Dean's correspondence with the Incorporated Edinburgh Dental Hospital and School.
Papers concerning the Incorporated Edinburgh Dental Hospital and School Dental Board student class fees.
Balance sheets for Business Account, Students' Trust Account and Fees Account (also see SOM 3/1/7)
Balance sheets for Business Account, Students' Trust Account and Fees Account (also see SOM 3/1/7)
Includes index. Contains accounts relating to grants for assistance, equipment and administrative expenses.
Bundle of statements relating to the allocation of the annual grant from the Carnegie Trust and statements showing grant expenditure. Includes printed copies of the conditions of payment of grant.
Relates to the Quinquennial Grant and disbursement difficulties.
On copy paper.
Large bundle of correspondence. Subjects include distribution of the Carnegie Grant; Carnegie apparatus in Surgeons' Hall; School of Medicine Athletic Endowment Fund. Includes document entitled Proposed Scheme for the Physical Benefit of Students of the School of Medicine of the Royal Colleges.
Mostly relates to Carnegie Vouchers and class fees; School of Medicine Athletic Endowment Fund and Trust's Quinquennial Scheme of Distribution.
Mostly relates to Carnegie Vouchers and Athletics Endowment Fund.
Provides numbers in stock, record of medals awarded, name, date and colour of medal. Also contains a list of students going on National Service (1926) with name, address and service job if known.
Provides numbers in stock, record of medals awarded, name, date and colour of medal.
A number of loose receipts and statements are enclosed.
2 small hardback cash books.
Bundle of invoices and receipts, mostly relating to social functions and sports club purchases.
Outsize hardback volume.
Mostly relating to payment for advertisements in the Journal. Includes supporting papers.
Mostly relating to payment for advertisements in the Journal. Includes supporting papers.
Mostly relating to payment for advertisements in the Journal.
Correspondence, statements and related accounting papers. Large bundle.
Two small cash books detailing income and expenditure relating to Surgeons' Hall Journal.
Three small Commercial Bank of Scotland bank books and bundle of cheques.
Cash and cheque receipt books, pay-in slips book and cheque books.
Relates to payments for advertisements in Surgeons' Hall Journal.
Also see main RCSEd Institutional Archive for papers relating to teaching and examinations.
Printed document (6 copies).
Printed document (multiple copies).
Annotated printed document relating to administrative arrangements for clinical teaching of medical students.
Printed documents. Supplementary Agreements concerning clinical training of "University Women Students".
Agreement (Mar 1929) between the Managers of the Royal Infirmary and the Governing Body of the School of Medicine concerning clinical teaching with Regulations of the Managers of the Royal Infirmary (3 copies, one of which is bound). Includes drafts (1928), related copy memoranda and a typescript paper entitled Proposals for New Agreement Regarding Clinical Teaching in the Royal Infirmary, Submitted by the Representatives of the Ordinary Physicians and Surgeons at a Conference with Representatives of the University Court (May 1926).
Printed document relating to arrangements for clinical teaching and document entitled The Royal Infirmary Edinburgh, Clinical Teaching Agreement Explanatory Memorandum.
Concerns the Regulations approved by the University Court for recognition of extra academical teachers for graduation in medicine. Some related correspondence is enclosed.
Annotated typescript. Relates to Agreement of 1929.
Concerning clinical teaching. Printed document.
Relates to Agreement Between the Managers of the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh and the University Court, and Agreement Between the Managers of the School of Medicine of the Royal Colleges with the Regulations of the Managers.
Printed document (2 copies).
Agreement Between the Managers of the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, University Court of the University of Edinburgh and the Governing Board of the School of Medicine of the Royal Colleges of Edinburgh.
Printed document (3 copies). From the Association of Lecturers of the School of Medicine.
Printed document (4 copies). Concerns the teaching of Medical Jurisprudence and Public Health in the Extra-Mural School of Medicine.
Concerns proposed legislation in connection with the University of Dublin with related letter also enclosed. Signatories are: William Craig, J. Falconer King, Alexander James, J. B. Buist, Byrom Bramwell, George A. Gibson, David Berry Hart, C. W. MacGillivary, Alexander Bruce, William Russell, Francis Caird, James Hodsdon, N. T. Brewis, R. W. Philip, J. W. Ballantyne, Dawson Turner, F. W. N. Haultin, James Haig Ferguson, Alexis Thomson, Francis Cadell, J. J. Graham Brown, David Wallace, William George Sym, J. M. Cotterill, Robert A. Fleming, W. G. A. Robertson, George Lovell Gulland, C. W. Cathcart, J. Batty Tuke, Theodore Shennan, J. Taylor Grant, Alexander Mills, G. H. Gemmell, Stuart McDonald, Marion L. Newbigin, W. Fordyce, George Robertson, James Kerr, John Dowden, T. W. Drinkwater, A. A. Scot Skirving, J. Malcolm Farqhuarson, A. H. H. Sinclair, J. Lamod Lackie, Malcolm Laurie, D. G. Marshall, Elsie Maud Inglis, Malcolm Campbell, Francis Body.
Papers relating to recognition of extra-mural lecturers.
Hardback notebook containing details of lecturers teaching extra mural classes with each entry including date of admission, full name of lecturer, subject taught, situation of classroom and date of resignation (see also SOM 5/2 for lists of lecturers at the School of Medicine).
Hardback book containing minutes of meetings "of the lecturers" (1857-64), associated press cuttings and printed material. The reverse of the book contains a number of pasted-in advertisements (poster size) for courses of extra mural lectures in medicine and surgery in Edinburgh (1861-71) with named lecturers.
Bundle of lecturers' "Class Return for the Governing Board" for summer session 1918. Each Return filled in with details on the class/course, lecture room, number of written or oral examinations, system of conducting ordinary classwork, number of meetings, number of attendances and amount of preparation.
Includes name of lecturers and lists of apparatus used for teaching paid for by the Carnegie Trust. Some loose papers containing Dr. Dawson Turner's apparatus lists is enclosed at the front of the ledger.
Hardback receipt book containing details of lecturer, class room, custodian of apparatus and oil immersion numbers.
Typescript lists containing valuation details of apparatus belonging to Professor Paton.
Hardbound notebook with the names Duncan McKenzie George Hardie inscribed at the front. The front section of the book contains details of experiments on plants with the bulk of the notebook listing students taking classes in Medical Electricity, Practical and Medical Physics, Dental and Diploma in Public Health. Each entry includes the student's name, birthplace, address, course of study/qualification (Double Qualification or Triple Qualification) and fees paid. Some loose leaves.
Printed copy minute (3 copies). Agreeing to apply for a Charter of Incorporation and to change the name of the Association to "The Queen's College, Edinburgh". Chairman Henry D. Littlejohn.
Annotated. Subjects include allocation and sharing of class expenses incurred in connection with Clinical Teaching in the Royal Infirmary; clinical medicine and surgery expenses; contribution towards teaching in the new Maternity Hospital; fees from dental students; Clinical Neurology. Includes related letter.
Subjects include expenses of Clinical Teaching in the Royal Infirmary; remuneration of assistant physicians and surgeons; fees for Midwifery and Gynaecology; arrangements for Dental students. Includes a copy statement entitled Statement of Present and Proposed Teaching Arrangements in the Departments of Midwifery and Gynaecology.
Subjects include position of non-professional staff in Clinical Surgery in respect of the provision and use of teaching equipment; expenditure on clinical teaching; remuneration of assistant staff; Midwifery and Gynaecology and amalgamation of the Maternity Hospital with the Infirmary; fees paid for instruction in Clinical Medicine at the Infirmary and Municipal Hospitals and the Clinical Medicine Account. Includes correspondence concerning the extent of teaching work done by different members of staff.
5 copies.
Relates to Fitzgerald's D.P.H. Bacteriology class.
Includes copy letter from the Chairman of the Triple Qualification Committee to the Deans of the Royal Colleges Edinburgh, St. Mungo's College Glasgow and the Anderson College of Medicine, Glasgow; copy reply by the Dean of the School of Medicine, Edinburgh with memorandum in regard to Regulations for Diploma in Public Health, and Draft Scheme for instruction and examination for Diploma in Public Health; copy reply by the Anderson College of Medicine, Glasgow with syllabus.
Relates to Lees teaching arrangements for his class on Venereal Diseases for students of the University and the School of Medicine.
Relates to teaching on the Diploma course by Corporation officials.
Relates to the scheme of teaching for the Diploma (3 copies).
2 copies.
Contains details (p.482) of arrangements for instruction of students of medicine in Public Health.
Relates to the teaching of undergraduates in Public Health and postgraduate teaching for the Diploma of Public Health.
Syllabus for Edinburgh University students.
Relates to the Diploma in Public Health curriculum (3 copies).
Concerns a special Diploma examination held during the week of the General Strike and a related meeting that took place in December 1926.
Concerns the teaching and examination of students for the Diploma (2 copies).
Typescript. Contains observations by the Education Committee of the School of Medicine on the teaching of Parisitology and Bacteriology on the Diploma course (3 copies).
Typescript (4 copies) and manuscript lists drawn up by Hugh Miller of practical work for the Diploma Course including dissection of insects, eggs and larvae.
Typescript (2 copies).
Typescript. Contains details on lecturers "not holding classes and not resigning their lectureships" on Midwifery and Gynaecology, Medical Jurisprudence Public Health and Bacteriology including Dr. H. H. Davidson, Dr. Archibald MacKendrick, Mabel Fitzgerald and Dr. Aitchison Robertson.
Typescript. Contains details on the D.P.H. Diploma Part 1 showing the duration and teachers allotted to each subject.
Draft curtailed syllabus.
Two copies. Memo headings are Triple Qualification, School of Medicine, Reasons for Retention of an Extra-Mural School and Finance. Mostly concerns teaching and examinations.
Also see Deans' correspondence files (SOM 3/2).
Requests from lecturers to obtain funds for class assistants.
Copy letters between the Governing Board of the School of Medicine of the Royal Colleges, University of Edinburgh and the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh with related statements and reports regarding the Clinical Teaching Agreements.
Principally concerning recognition of extra mural lecturers.
Includes supporting papers entitled Notes on Mr Miles' Financial Memorandum re Clinical Teaching and University of Edinburgh Clinical Teaching Departments within the Royal Infirmary.
Includes draft paper entitled Clinical Teaching Agreement Report of the Sub-Committee of the Conference of Representatives of the Royal Infirmary, the University and the School of Medicine of the Royal Colleges.
Presented by the Governing Board. Annotated typescript paper.
Typescript paper.
Manuscript notes on Clinical and Pre-Clinical classes, with headings including student's name, tickets issued and payment. Includes some notes on the Dean's expenditure.
Relates to special classes in Clinical Gynaecology, Clinical Obstetrics, Skin Diseases, Eye Diseases and Ear, Nose and Throat Diseases.
Ephemeral material relating to Drinkwater's "completion on fifty years as Lecturer in Chemistry" at the School of Medicine.
Includes some matriculation cards.
These bound lists contain the names of students, alphabetically indexed. A list of the School's lecturers is also enclosed.
Loose papers with list of students arranged alphabetically.
Loose manuscript and typescript papers with list of "German doctors who intend to take their final examination in July". Includes French doctors.
Application files for the Triple Qualification. Some of the enclosed correspondence is quite substantial, and includes information regarding any difficulties - financial and personal - that students may have found themselves in. Includes Dental students and those taking the Diploma in Public Health. While many files are substantial and relate to a candidate's full educational career with the School of Medicine, there are also single applications and it is assumed many of these students were not admitted (also see Dean's correspondence sections SOM 2/3 for student-related matters).
Where indicated, some files in this section are restricted access in accordance with the Data Protection Act.
Restricted access until 2019 in accordance with the Data Protection Act.
Restricted access until 2023 in accordance with the Data Protection Act.
Restricted access until 2026 in accordance with the Data Protection Act.
Restricted access until 2045 in accordance with the Data Protection Act.
While most students in this file were formally accepted to study at the School of Medicine, their applications were later either personally withdrawn by the prospective candidate or rejected for various reasons including the Department of Health's "ruling" often relating to "the number of women students...allowed by the Ministry of Health" being curtailed.
Restricted access until 2023 in accordance with the Data Protection Act.
Mostly correspondence.
Surnames A-Z. Ordered alphabetically.
Surnames A-Z. Ordered alphabetically.
Surnames A-Z. Ordered alphabetically.
Surnames A-Z. Ordered alphabetically.
Restricted access until 2020 in accordance with the Data Protection Act.
Surnames C-W. Ordered alphabetically.
Principally correspondence.
Restricted access until 2022 in accordance with the Data Protection Act.
Restricted access until 2024 in accordance with the Data Protection Act.
Restricted access until 2028 in accordance with the Data Protection Act.
Restricted access until 2041 in accordance with the Data Protection Act.
Also see main institutional archive (RCSEd) for complete run of student curriculum schedules.
Student curriculum and examination schedules for Joint Qualifications in Medicine, Surgery and Midwifery with associated papers.
Also see SOM 7 for student extra curricular activities.
Copy of Surgeons' Hall Student magazine edited by members of the Student Representative Council. The purpose of the magazine was to "awaken the interest of the students in the social side of the college activities" and included "articles, letters from members of the student body, jokes etc". Editor A. A. Donaldson.
Ticket for the Surgeons' Hall Student Representative Council Halloween Hop held in Masonic Hall.
Typescript paper.
Typescript paper. Details Joseph Lister's plans for gifting the Gold Casket to the University of Edinburgh when he was given the Freedom of the City of London; his involvement with the Extra Mural School of Medicine; the Edinburgh Lister Institute of Pathology and the Lister Memorial Scheme proposed medical centre.
Typescript paper (3 copies). A related letter to J. W. Struthers is also enclosed.
Typescript report prepared by Henry Wade (3 copies).
Typescript paper and related letter addressed to J. W. Struthers concerning the independent committee set up by Lord Keith.
Typescript document on copy paper.
Typescript document relating to the proposal for establishing an Institute for Clinical Research with subjects including: the present need for an institute and treatment of malignant disease, the scope of the institute, relationship to existing institutions and the College of Physicians Laboratory (3 copies).
Printed document marked Private and Confidential (3 copies).
Relates to the disposition of funds collected prior to 1914 for the establishment of a memorial to Lord Lister (3 copies).
Copy document with related correspondence.
Proposal document (3 copies).
Draft reports and other papers related to the possible use of the Lister Memorial Scheme to fund a polyclinic in Edinburgh.
3 copies.
Marked 'Very Confidential' (3 copies).
On copy paper (2 copies).
On copy paper (2 copies).
2 copies. Folder also contains related papers including a letter from Sir Edward Appleton to Professor Walter Mercer, President of the Royal College of Surgeons (23 Dec 1955) and draft reply to the University Court.
Relates to the handing over of the Archibald Davidson Fund to the Lister Memorial Trustees.
With annotations (3 copies).
Subjects include: situation of Polyclinic; doctors' choice of consultant and hospital; Hospital Assignment Bureau; separation of treatment and diagnosis in a polyclinic; position of specialists; teaching. (2 copies). Includes typescript interview notes (pages 2 and 3 with first page missing).
2 copies.
Subjects include: Forrest Road Laboratory; position of the Post-Graduate Board; possibilities for the future development of the Board (2 copies).
Subjects include: Lister Trustees; Lauriston Site; recommendation to General Purposes Committee; remit to Postgraduate Board for Medicine; Royal College of Physicians. A copy of the School of Medicine Revised Constitution (1956) is also enclosed.
Mostly concerns the negotiations for the purchase of the Candlemaker Row site for the Pfizer Foundation.
Includes correspondence with the Principal of Edinburgh University concerning the Lister Memorial Scheme and the Royal College of Physicians Laboratory.
Includes letters between Sir Edward Appleton (Principal, Old College) and John Bruce (President of RCSEd) concerning the development of the Pfizer Postgraduate Foundation on part of the College grounds and the Lister Postgraduate Institute, and the development of autonomous Departments of Anatomy, Physiology and Pathology devoted to postgraduate teaching and located in the former School of Medicine.
File includes "Copy Petition of the University Court of the University of Edinburgh for Warrant to erect offices, lecture room, library, common rooms, guests bedroom accommodation and caretakers house on the site of demolished church at Hill Square, Richmond Place and Roxburgh Place, Edinburgh" (1962); document entitled Proposed Lister Memorial Post-Graduate School; papers (including minutes and memoranda) concerning the bequest of Archibald Davidson.
File includes minutes of meetings of the School of Medicine Governing Board and the Ad Hoc Committee with the Governors of the Postgraduate Board for Medicine; Minute of Agreement between the University Court of the University of Edinburgh, Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and the Lister Memorial Trustees (1964).
Letter from the grandson of Archibald Davidson concerning the medical career of his father and family matters.
Includes a report entitled 'Sir Edward Appleton on the Reconstitution of the Edinburgh Post-Graduate Board for Medicine and a document entitled 'History of the Edinburgh Post-Graduate Board for Medicine'.
Set of 12 black and white photographic images of architectural plans showing the proposed site for the buildings of the Post-Graduate School of Medicine.
Statement of "The American Club of Edinburgh and American Medical Club of Glasgow (Representing American medical students studying at the Scottish Extra-Mural Medical Schools: The Anderson College of Medicine, Glasgow, St. Mungo's Medical College, Glasgow, School of Medicine, Royal Colleges, Edinburgh). Printed document.
Hardback Treasurer's accounts book containing student American Club fees.
Mostly concerning the Edinburgh College of Domestic Science at Murrayfield Park and a proposed pavilion at Hillend Playing Field and subsequent work carried out. Includes related staff timesheets.
Subjects include: tennis and cricket facilities; courts at Craiglockhart; East of Scotland Lawn Tennis & Sports Club; Drumsheugh Baths Club; the use of a gymnasium at the Pleasance Trust by students; Surgeons' Hall Athletics Club budgets.
Mostly concerning Hillend Playing Field Pavilion.
Matters arising concerning use of the Playing Field and Sports Ground.
Large bundle concerning a range of matters related to Surgeons' Hall Athletics Club and the Playing Field at Hillend. Includes some financial papers.
Mostly concerning the Sports Ground and Pavilion at Hillend.
Manuscript and typescript balance sheets. Expenditure for Hillend Pavilion Committee, Soccer Club, Table Tennis Club, Rugby Club, Hockey Club, SRC, Lawn Tennis Club, Golf Club, Cricket Club and Swimming Club.
Relates to Longniddry Golf Club and City & Royal Burgh of Edinburgh Braid Hills Gold Course.
Relates to Longniddry Golf Club and City & Royal Burgh of Edinburgh Braid Hills Gold Course.
Relates to Longniddry Golf Club and City & Royal Burgh of Edinburgh Braid Hills Gold Course. Includes 2 small notebooks inscribed "Rugger Club Accounts" and "Rugger Club details".
Relates to Longniddry Golf Club and City & Royal Burgh of Edinburgh Braid Hills Gold Course.
Relates to Longniddry Golf Club and City & Royal Burgh of Edinburgh Braid Hills Gold Course.
Contents of envelope inscribed 'Athletics Club for the Auditors 1941-42'.
Softbound notebook inscribed 'Detailed Running Expenses and Petty Cash'.