by Meg | Dec 11, 2018 | Ephemera, Ex Libris, On My Desk
One of the most interesting things in our collection is a number of boxes of photographs from “Edinburgh Anatomy” which contain hundreds of slides. In 1905, David Waterston edited “The Edinburgh Stereoscopic Atlas of Anatomy”, which...
by Meg | Mar 5, 2018 | Archives, Art, Ephemera, On My Desk
We received a very interesting email about the Lecture notebook from Earle Havens, who is the Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts at the Hopkins Sheridan Libraries and Museums. In the email, he writes:This is quite interesting indeed! An interleaved and...
by Meg | Feb 20, 2018 | Component Societies, Cultural Exchange, On My Desk
Our friends from the Harford County Historical Society came down for a tour last week and brought along some presents for us! They were de-accessioning some medical books which were not relevant to their collections and thought we’d be interested in...
by Meg | Aug 26, 2016 | Archives, Ephemera, History of Maryland Med, On My Desk
One of our generous members kindly dropped off a print for us the other week, and I’ve just had the chance to take a really good look at it. It is essentially a view from the old Church Home & Hospital, from where Johns Hopkins is situated today. You can see the...
by Meg | May 31, 2016 | On My Desk
After returning from a nice long four-day weekend, I came into my office to see a nice bright-blue bag on my desk. Looking forward to a treat, I was a wee bit taken aback to find a vintage glass syringe and a pocket scalpel! It was kindly given to us by Rosalyn...
by Meg | Apr 8, 2016 | Ephemera, Ex Libris, Library & Books, On My Desk
On Friday afternoons, I generally poke around the archives and the stacks. Today, I was searching for something specific, which I didn’t find, to my chagrin. But I did find an early copy of the Dictionary of Chemicals, published in 1771. As I leafed through the...
