IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0103 NAPIER
Held at: University College London
Title: Napier Papers
Date(s): [1947-1997]
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 26 boxes
Name of creator(s): Napier | John Russell | 1917-1987 | primatologist and physician
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Born, 1917; educated, Canford and Medical College of St Bartholomew's Hospital, -1943; House Surgeon, Senior House Surgeon and Chief Assistant to the Orthopaedic Unit, Hill End Hospital (St Bartholomew's Hospital), 1943-1946; Registrar to the Peripheral Nerve Injury Unit, Hill End Hospital, 1946-; demonstrator , Anatomy Department of the London School of Medicine for Women (now the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine), 1946; Visiting Professor at Iowa State University; Reader, Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine; helped set up the Unit of Primatology at Royal Free Hospital; Director of the Primate Biology Program of the US National Museum, Smithsonian Institution; Director of a similar unit at Queen Elizabeth College, University of London; Visiting Professorship of Primate Biology at Birkbeck College, University of London; founder of the Primate Society of Great Britain; died, 1987.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers of John Napier including professional correspondence, 1955-1983; biographical material including curriculum vitae and obituaries; typescript drafts of publications by Napier including Natural History of Primates, Primates and Their Adaptations, New World Monkeys and Hands; reviews by Napier; research material and notes on topics including yeti, structure of hands and feet, fingerprints, hands of primates and primates and early man; reviews of publications by Napier; offprints of articles by Napier and others; notebooks; notes for lectures including 'Elephants and other land giants' and photographs of hands, primates and skulls.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Original order.
Conditions governing access:
Open.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Finding aids:
Listed.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Accruals:
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Received from the Primate Society of Great Britain, Jun 2002.
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note: Entry Compiled by Sarah Drewery.
Sources: Journal of Anatomy (1988), 159, pp. 227-229.
Date(s) of descriptions: Sep 2008