MANUSCRIPTS ON ANATOMY

Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27148, 18 September 1953, Page 8

MANUSCRIPTS ON ANATOMY

Collection At Otago . University EDINBURGH DOCTOR’S INTEREST A collection of manuscripts, SMnt of them possibly 200 years old, in tht possession of the University'of Otago, will be examined by Dr. Douglas Guthrie, lecturer in the history of medicine at Edinburgh University, when he visits Dunedin soon duriw his tour of New Zealand.-. \ Dr. Guthrie said in Christchurch last evening that the University of Otago had a number of very interesting manuscripts written by three protih sors each named Alexander Monrgfc , father, son, and grandson. The thnt professors, among them, held the CMw of Anatomy at Edinburgh Univertft for 126 years, and the faculty of mefr cine at the university was virffy founded by the first of the three, WW had been appointed professor of aate tomy and surgery in 1720. A sen of the third Professor Mbflt! had emigrated to New Dr. Guthrie said, and he had taken wljk him some of his ancestors* manuscriMfc They had ultimately come into possession of the University of Otega They consisted of papers on anatooft the history of anatomy, letters, MN other related material. Thero wvrt a few similar manuscripts at ate. burgh University, and Dr. Guthrie a he was very interested in making • comparison between the collectiNK