Anatomical Eponyms. Being a Biographical Dictionary of Those Anatomists Whose Names Have Become Incorporated Into Anatomical Nomenclature, With Definitions of the Structures to Which Their Names HAve Been Attached and References to the Works in Which They are Described by Dobson, Jessie - 1962

Edinburgh and London: E. & S. Livingstone Ltd., 1962. Second edition.

UNIQUE DICTIONARY OF ANATOMICAL EPONYMS BY CURATOR OF THE HUNTERIAN MUSEUM IN LONDON--COPY OF AN ACADEMIC SURGEON WITH TLS FROM THE AUTHOR WITH POCKET CONTAINING IMAGES OF KIDNEY CASTS FROM THE MUSEUM.

9 inches tall hardcover, brown cloth boards, spine gilt, bookplate of NSR Maluf front paste-down; signed and dated November 4th, 1964 by author on title page; frontis portrait of Vesalius, 235 pp; very good in jacket lightly soiled, otherwise very good in mylar sleeve. Laid in TLS from author to NSR Maluf, dated 31st March, 1969, "Dear Dr. Maluf, I have great pleasure in enclosing the negatives of the photographs of specimens from the Hunterian Museum that you wish to have. I hope you will find them suited to your purpose. I have just received the magnificent work of Galen translated by Mrs. May. I am most grateful to you for this fine addition to my library. It is a book that I would possibly not have contemplated buying but I would have had to make use of a library, so that I am all the more pleased to have it. With good wishes, Yours sincerely, Jessie Dobson, Curator, Hunterian Museum." Also laid in, pocket attached to rear end-paper, containing envelope addressed to NSR Maluf from the Royal College of Surgeons of England, containing "Preparations by D.H. Tomsett, Prosector to the Royal College of Surgeons of England" with 6 color negatives of kidney casts (sheep [Ovis aries], wild boar [Sus scrofa], Homo sapiens.

Second--final and best--Edition. Garrison-Morton 460 (citing this 2d ed.)."

JESSIE DOBSON (1906-1984), Hunterian Museum's first female curator, has a unique place in the history of the Hunterian Museum. She graduated with a BA from Manchester in 1927, and after being awarded a Diploma in Education in 1928, she went on to teach at a school in Eastbourne for several years. She then qualified as an Associate of the Institute of Secretaries, and became secretary to Professor J.S.B. Stopford, FRS, in the anatomy department of the Manchester University Medical School, and then to his successor, Frederic Wood Jones, FRS. The Hunterian Museum was severely damaged by bombing during the Second World War and Wood Jones was employed to restore the museum. Dobson assisted him in this work. In 1944, she took the MSc by thesis, writing about the background to her work in the museum. After Wood Jones' death in 1954, Dobson was appointed curator of the museum. She completed the work he had begun of remodelling the Museum as John Hunter had intended it. This included refurbishing the remnants of Hunter's collection and filling any gaps with replicas based on his descriptions. Dobson became an expert in methods of museum display, and an authority on Hunter and his contemporaries. --Geraldine O'Driscoll, Royal College of Surgeons of England, 2017. The Hunterian Museum is a museum of anatomical specimens in London, located in the building of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. In 1799 the government purchased the collection of the Scottish surgeon John Hunter which they presented to the College. This formed the basis of the Hunterian Collection, which has since been supplemented by others including an Odontological Collection (curated by A E W Miles until the early 1990s) and the natural history collections of Richard Owen. In May 1941 the College building was badly damaged by bombs, with Rooms IV and V of the museum being completely destroyed along with their contents. After a slow process of entirely new construction in which some of the original design features were maintained, the Hunterian Museum reopened in a reduced form in 1963.

PROVENANCE: NOBLE SUYDAM RUSTUM MALUF (1913-2011) was an American surgeon; M.S. and Ph.D., Cornell University, 1936; M.D., Harvard University, 1946. Sterling fellow Yale University, 1936-1937, Honorary fellow 1937-1939, Johnston Scholar, Johns Hopkins University, 1939-1940.