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| right): The first book of Moses called Genesis. Translated by John Eliot. Cambridge, HOW TO GET HERE Massachusetts, 1655 The nearest London Underground stations are Chancery Lane, Hortus sanitatis. Mainz, 1491 Holborn and Temple. Several bus routes pass either end of Illustrations of the botany and Chancery Lane, running along Fleet Street or High Holborn. other branches of the natural history of the Himalayan Mountains. John Forbes Royle. All information contained in this leaflet was correct at time of London, 1839 going to press.

Manchester Evening Chronicle www.susenvural.com Design Vural Susen household medical adviser. | H Muller. Manchester, [1900?] DESIGN www.kcl.ac.uk/specialcollections About Special Collections medicine, obstetrics and gynaecology, dentistry, neurology, ADMISSION psychiatry, popular medicine The Foyle Special Collections Library is open to staff and • Botany students of King’s College London and to any member of the • Nineteenth-century scientific and technical developments: public wishing to consult our collections. All readers are asked to telegraphy, acoustics, photography. provide a valid photographic form of identification upon arrIval.

Among the collections to be found in the Foyle Special Collections REQUESTING AND USING MATERIAL Library are: Readers are asked to complete a request slip for each item that • The historical library collection of the Foreign and they wish to see. Items can usually be fetched from the storage Commonwealth Office (FCO), which was transferred to King’s areas within 15 minutes of request. Readers are asked to take great in 2007. Comprising over 80,000 items, this magnificent care in handling Special Collections material, which may be in a collection spans 500 years of world history fragile condition. The use of pens is not permitted in the Reading • The former library of William Marsden (1754-1836), a linguistic Room; pencils are available and laptop computers may also be scholar and collector who worked for the East India Company used. Instructions in the handling of Special Collections material he foyle special collections library at King’s in Sumatra before joining the staff of the Admiralty. He built up are displayed on each table and readers are asked to study these advised to consult the Special Collections web pages, where College London holds over 180,000 items – printed an important collection of books on travel and languages, which carefully. The use of hand-held scanners is not permitted. they will find a wealth of information about the collections and Tbooks, pamphlets and periodicals, as well as maps, slides, also contains a number of extremely rare Bibles their contents, as well as online exhibitions, features on items of manuscripts, typescripts and photographs – ranging in date from • The former working library of HG Adler (1910-88), poet, OBTAINING COPIES particular interest and news of events and new acquisitions. the 15th century to the present day. Many items are extremely novelist and survivor and historian of the Holocaust, which Readers are welcome to order copies of material for private rare; some are unique. All offer a wealth of opportunities for contains much rare material on the fate of the Jews in Nazi- study, either in person or remotely. All copying is carried SEMINARS AND EXHIBITIONS teaching and research, and together they form part of our local, occupied Europe out at the discretion of Special Collections staff. The Foyle Special Collections Library works closely with national and international documentary heritage. • Significant historical medical collections, including those Requests for copying may be refused where there is a King’s teaching staff to provide seminars on aspects of the Special Collections items require special treatment to help of the medical schools of St Thomas’s, Guy’s and King’s risk of damage, and some items may have to be copied Special Collections for undergraduate and postgraduate ensure their preservation for future generations. In the Foyle College Hospitals, the library of the Guy’s Hospital using specialised equipment. It is usually possible for students. We warmly welcome the opportunity to incorporate Special Collections Library they are housed in secure storage Physical Society (active 1771-1852) and the historical readers to use their own digital camera or mobile phone the use of Special Collections materials in teaching programmes areas and are consulted in a designated reading room, under collection of the Institute of Psychiatry to take pictures of items in our collections, subject to and are keen to hear from any members of King’s or other the supervision of Special Collections staff. The Foyle Special • The former library of Sir Charles Wheatstone considerations of preservation and copyright. We can University of London teaching staff who are interested in Collections Library forms part of the historic Maughan Library (1802-75), scientific polymath, co-inventor of the also provide high-resolution digital images for discussing potential seminar themes. building in Chancery Lane, originally constructed between electric telegraph and professor of experimental use in publications. We run a programme of free public exhibitions, which explore 1851 and 1896 as the nation’s Public Record Office. philosophy at King’s. different aspects of the collections in depth. These exhibitions The Special Collections are broad in subject scope, spanning CATALOGUES AND GUIDES TO THE COLLECTIONS are held in the Weston Room (the former Rolls Chapel) in the humanities, sciences and social sciences, but areas of Archive collections are held separately in the The Foyle Special Collections Library the Maughan Library; full details of past, present and future particular strength include: King’s College London Archives, located operates an active cataloguing exhibitions can be found on the Special Collections web pages. • Theology: Biblical texts, Christian doctrinal theology, history at the nearby Strand Building. Further programme, and the majority We also have an extensive and growing website of online of Christianity, Judaism details are available on the Archives of Special Collections items exhibitions: kingscollections.org/exhibitions/specialcollections • Languages and literatures: philology and lexicography, web pages at kcl.ac.uk/archives are recorded on the Library German literature, English and American literature, Modern catalogue at library.kcl.ac.uk. OPENING TIMES Greek literature At present, however, not all The Foyle Special Collections • History: travel and voyages of exploration and discovery, Special Collections items can Library is open from Top left: Travels into Chile, over the military history and strategy, British and European diplomatic Andes, in the years 1820 and 1821. be found there, and Special Monday to Friday history, international relations, the history of the British Empire Peter Schmidtmeyer. London, 1824 Collections staff are happy to assist throughout the year, from Right: Margarita philosophica. Gregor and Commonwealth, the Atlantic slave trade and its abolition, Reisch. Freiburg, 1503 readers in identifying uncatalogued 09.30 to 17.00. It is closed Ottoman studies, Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Far right (top): La Geographia. items of potential interest and on all public holidays and studies, 20th century Germany Ptolemy. Venice, 1548 to advise them on the use of the also on King’s closure days Far right (bottom): Medicinal plants. • Music: 18th century music, choral music Robert Bentley and Henry Trimen. various manual catalogues and during the Christmas and • Medicine: anatomy, surgery, public health, military and naval London, 1880 guides available. Readers are also Easter periods.