Essays of Allen Thomson

Essays of Allen Thomson, anatomist and embryologist comprising two bound manuscripts, signed by the author

Allen Thomson (1809-1884), FRCS, anatomist and embryologist. Thomson studied medicine at Edinburgh University, 1824-1830, during which time he was President of the Royal Medical Society and wrote 'De cordis evolutione in animalibus vertebratis' as his graduation thesis. He went on to gain a reputation as a great and innovative teacher and talented artist. Nine years after graduating he was appointed Professor of Anatomy at the University of Aberdeen and later elected to Chairs in physiology at Edinburgh University, 1842-1848, succeeding William Pulteney Alison (1790-1859), and anatomy at Glasgow University, 1848-1877.

Source: Oxford DNB Online. Accessed 18 June 2008

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Transferred from the Barnes Library to the Special Collections Department in 1999

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Former location: Barnes MSS 10.

A note in the Library Committee Minutes, volume 2, dated 28 Feb 1923, records two manuscripts works by Professor Allen Thomson being offered to the Library by Professor Brash [Dean of Medicine], 'on behalf of Mrs Peter Thompson [sic],' possibly referring to the acquisition of this archive.