Thompson, R. Lowe

Lecture notes on comparative embryology, psychology and prehistory, Keble College, Oxford, early 1920s.

1920s

1 box

Titles in square brackets are those given when these volumes were part of the Western Manuscripts collection. The volumes were not labelled by Thompson, except for GC/35/1.

These volumes, described on their original accession as 'precis books of an undergraduate of Keble' were purchased by the Wellcome Institute Library in 1931 from a Leamington bookseller. In 1980 they were transferred to the Contemporary Medical Archives Centre.

It has not been possible to trace any information about R L Thompson beyond the facts which can be deduced from the internal evidence in these notebooks, i.e. that he was an undergraduate at Keble College Oxford and came from Warwick. He seems to have been at Oxford during the early 1920s, from the few loose dated items in GC/35/5. He does not seem to have become a doctor, as his name does not appear in the Medical Directory.