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1 autograph letter, signed, to the botanist William Gourlie (1815-1856).

Miscellany: English, 18th-20th centuries

Barnes, Arthur (fl.1894), dentist

Buller, William Burrows (fl.1841), unqualified practitioner

Kerr, William (fl.1821-1831), medical man, Northampton

Roberts, H., & Co., Florence (pharmacy of the British Legation there)

Robertson, Archibald, M.D. (fl.1817-1820), Northampton

Rymer, James, senior (d.1829), naval surgeon (fl.c.1749-1829), and his son James Rymer junior, Dorking, Surrey

Selwyn, William (1806-1875), English divine

Sigmond, George Gabriel, M.D. (1794-1873), botanist

Silvester, Thomas Hookham, M.D. (1799-1877), founder of the Clapham General Dispensary, London

Simmons, William (1762-1830), surgeon, Manchester

Simon, John, Sir, F.R.C.S. (1816-1904), pathologist and sanitary reformer

Simpson, William John Ritchie, Sir (1855-1931), physician, tropical medicine specialist

Sims, James, M.D. (1741-1820), president, Medical Society of London

Sims, James Marion (1813-1883), surgeon

Sims, John, F.R.S. (1749-1831), physician to Princess Charlotte

Sims, Robert Courthope, M.D. (fl.1744-1811)

Sinclair, John, Sir (1754-1835), agriculturalist

Skeat, Walter William (1835-1912), philologist, professor of Anglo-Saxon

Skey, Frederic Carpenter, F.R.S. (1798-1872), surgeon

Slaney, Robert Aglionby (1792-1862), naturalist and reformer

Smee, Alfred, F.R.C.S. F.R.S. (1818-1877), surgeon and metallurgist

Smethurst, Thomas (?1804/5-1873), hydrotherapist

Smiles, Samuel (1812-1904), writer

Smirke, Robert, Sir (1781-1867), architect

Smith, Albert Richard, M.R.C.S. (1816-1860), author, lecturer and traveller

Smith, Andrew, Sir (1797-1872), director-general Army medical department, writer on zoology

Smith, Charles Hamilton, F.R.S. (1776-1859), soldier and writer on natural history

Smith, Charles John (1803-1838), engraver

Smith, Charles Roach (1807-1890), chemist and antiquary

Smith, Edmund Cyril, M.R.C.P. (d.1943), pathologist and tropical medicine specialist

Smith, Edward F.R.C.S. (1818-1874)

Smith, Eustace (1835-1914), pediatrician

Smith, Gerard E. (1804-1881), botanist and divine

Smith, Henry, F.R.C.S. (1823-1894)

Smith, Henry John Stephen, F.R.S. (1826-1883), mathematician

Smith, Henry Spencer, F.R.C.S. (1812-1901)

Smith, Heywood, M.D. (fl.1880)

Smith, James (1782-1867), "Smith of Jordanhill", geologist and writer

Smith, Protheroe (1809-1889), gynaecologist

Smith, Robert Angus (1817-1884), chemist

Smith, Robert William, F.R.C.S.I. (1807-1873)

Smith, Thomas, Sir, F.R.C.S. (1833-1909)

Smith, Walter George, F.R.C.P.I. (1844-1932)

Smith, William (1769-1840), geologist and engineer

Smith, William Tyler (1815-1873), obstetrician

Smith, Charles Piazzi, F.R.S. (1819-1900), astronomer

Smyth, William Henry, Admiral, F.R.S. (1788-1865), hydrographer

Soden, John, F.R.C.S. (1814-1871)

Solly, Samuel, F.R.C.S. (1805-1871)

Somerville, James Craig, M.D. (1799-1847), Inspector of Anatomy for England and Wales

Sopwith, Thomas, F.R.S. (1803-1879), mining engineer

Sorbay, Henry Clifton, F.R.S. (1828-1908), geologist

Sotheby, William (1757-1833), author

South, James, Sir (1785-1867), astronomer

Southam, George (1815-1876), surgeon

Soyer, Alexis (d.1858), chef to Queen Victoria

Spence, J. (fl.1925)

Spence, William (1783-1860), entomologist

Spencer, George John, 2nd Earl Spencer (1758-1834), politician

Spencer-Churchill, George Charles, 8th Duke of Marlborough (1844-1892)

Spillan, Daniel (d.1854), medical writer

Spilsbury, Bernard, Sir (1877-1947), pathologist

Spottiswoode, William (1825-1883), mathematician and physicist

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon (1834-1892), preacher, founder of the Metropolitan Tabernacle, London

Spurgin, John, F.R.C.P. (1797-1866), medical writer, physician to the Foundling Hospital, London

Squibb, George James, F.R.C.S. (1798-1859)

Squire, Alexander John Balmanno (d.1908), dermatologist

Stanger, William (1812-1854), geologist

Stanhope, Charles, 3rd Earl of Stanhope, F.R.S. (1753-1816), politician and man of science

Stanley, Edward, F.R.C.S. (1792-1862)

Stanley, Edward Henry, 15th Earl of Derby (1826-1893)

Stanley, Mary (fl.1856), sister of Arthur Penrhyn Stanley (1815-1881), Dean of Westminster Abbey and associate of Florence Nightingale

Spruce, Richard (1817-1893), botanist and traveller

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