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Cowlishaw Meeting - Victoria Australia
Dear STAMAustralians,
COWLISHAW SYMPOSIUM Saturday 26 October 1996
The Royal Australasian College of Surgeons
PRESENTS AN EXCITING NEW EVENT
IN THE COLLEGE CALENDAR
THE COWLISHAW SYMPOSIUM
To be held at the
Royal Australasian College of Surgeons
Spring Street, Melbourne
on Saturday, 26 October 1996
IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN HISTORY, ANTIQUE VOLUMES OR RARE BOOK COLLECTIONS,
THEN THIS IS THE SYMPOSIUM FOR YOU!
The collection of historical texts in the Gordon Craig Library of the Royal
Australasian College of Surgeons, and especially the volumes in the
Cowlishaw Collection, may be regarded as among the most important of the
College treasurers.
This Symposium is designed to bring the Collection to the attention of
Fellows, and of the wider historical community. Speakers, mostly Fellows of
the College, will deliver papers derived from texts in the Collections, and
the volumes themselves will be on display, along with an archival exhibition
During the Symposium, Professor J. H. Pearn will deliver the third Kenneth
F. Russell Memorial Lecture, which commemorates a former Reader to the
Gordon Craig Library and author of the scholarly Catalogue of Historical
Books in the Library of the College.
Other speakers and their titles are:
P. F. BURKE - KENNETH FITZPATRICK RUSSELL:
The first Reader to the Gordon Craig Library
PROFESSOR TESS CRAMOND - BENEFICENCE, TEMPERANCE AND MEDICAL SCIENCE
(Hints designed to promote beneficence, temperance and medical science;
Lettsom 1816)
J. S. GUEST - THE HUMANE ANATOMIST
(The anatomy of the humane body; Cheselden 1713)
D. G. MACLEISH - POTT, PEDANTRY AND PRECISION
(The chirurgical works of Percivall Pott, 1775)
S. A. MELLICK - ABERNETHY AND THE GOLDEN AGE OF SURGICAL TEACHING
(Lectures in Surgery; Abernethy 1830)
N.A. MYERS - A DEBT TO ALEXIS
(Gastric Juice and the Physiology of Digestion; Beaumont 1838)
PROFESSOR D. A. SIMPSON - PARE AS A NEUROSURGEON
(The works of that famous chirurgeon Ambroise Parey, 1649)
and the present Reader to the Gordon Craig Library,
PROFESSOR A. W. BEASLEY - HOME AWAY FROM HOME
(Lectures on comparative anatomy; Home 1828)
Registration will commence at 9.30am. The meeting will be opened at 10.00am
by the President, Mr. C. U. McRae.
Lunch, morning and afternoon tea will be included and the meeting
will end with a cocktail function from 5.45pm - 7.00pm.
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REGISTRATION FOR THE SYMPOSIUM IS $90.
I WISH TO REGISTER FOR THE
COWLISHAW SYMPOSIUM ON 26 OCTOBER 1996
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The title of Professor Pearn's lecture is:
NOM ET LUMIER
(The Anatomy of Plants; Grew 1682)
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* Gavan McCarthy - Director
* Australian Science Archives Project
* University of Melbourne
* 203 Bouverie Street
* Carlton, Vic. 3053 Australia
* gavan@asap.unimelb.edu.au
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