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Appendix to the Records of Arts Class 1870-1874, University of Aberdeen. (Manuscript) 1926-1935 PTR/1/1
Printed volume titled "Appendix to the Records of Arts Class 1870-1874, University of Aberdeen", edited by John Forbes Cruickshank, one of fifty copies printed for the surviving class members by Aberdeen Newspapers Ltd., in 1926.…
Newspaper cuttings, letters and photographs relating to the Cowan family. (Manuscript) 1892-1906 PTR/1/2
Printed volume of Testimonials in favour of Michael Waistell Cowan, Inspector General of Hospitals and Fleets, Royal Navy, 1892; four newspaper obituaries for Cowan, one for his wife Emma Louisa Cowan (nee Pritchard), and one for David Paton, a member of the firm Messrs Cowan and Paton; a photograph…
Newspapers. (Manuscript) 1897-1901 PTR/2/20
Newspapers: The Navy & Army Illustrated, 19 February 1897, 19 March 1897, 23 April 1898 and 25 November 1899; The Friend, 6 April and 13 April 1900; Black & White, 10 February and 28 July 1900; Navy & Army Illustrated, 10 November 1900 (2 copies); Army & Navy Gazette, 10 November 190…
Letters, 1854-1856, between members of the Cowan family. (Manuscript) 1854-1856 PTR/1/8
Letters between members of the Cowan family and friends, chiefly to John from Michael, his brother, and between Michael and his mother Ann, whilst Michael was on HMS AGAMEMNON and at the Naval Hospital at Malta. Some of the letters appear to have pages missing.
Letters, January to March 1900, Naval Brigade, South Africa. (Manuscript) 1900 PTR/6/2/12
Letters to and from Sir James Porter, January to March 1900, at the Royal Naval Brigade, South Africa, moving from Modder River to Bloemfontein.
Letters, June to August 1900, Naval Brigade, South Africa. (Manuscript) 1900 PTR/6/2/14
Letters to and from Sir James Porter, June to August 1900, at the Royal Naval Brigade, near Hatherley, South Africa.
Letters, September to October 1900, Naval Brigade, South Africa. (Manuscript) 1900 PTR/6/2/15
Letters to and from Sir James Porter, September to October 1900, at the Royal Naval Brigade, South Africa, moving from Barberton to Simons Town.
Letters from Sir James Porter to Lady Porter, January to March 1890. (Manuscript) 1890 PTR/2/2
Letters from Sir James Porter to Lady Porter, January to March 1890, when Staff Surgeon on HMS SCOUT, Mediterranean.
Letters from Sir James Porter to Lady Porter, April to June 1890. (Manuscript) 1890 PTR/2/3
Letters from Sir James Porter to Lady Porter, April to June 1890, when Staff Surgeon on HMS SCOUT, Mediterranean.
Letters from Sir James Porter to Lady Porter, October to December 1889. (Manuscript) 1889 PTR/2/1
Letters from Sir James Porter to Lady Porter, October to December 1889, when Staff Surgeon on HMS SCOUT, Mediterranean.
Confidential papers relative to evacuation of Egypt and Malta, July to December 1915. (Manuscript) 1915 PTR/8/2/3
Confidential papers relative to evacuation of Egypt and Malta, July to December 1915, with an index.
Logs of all hospital ships on the Mediterranean Station. (Manuscript) 1915-1916 PTR/8/1/14
Logs of all hospital ships on the Mediterranean Station, 1 sheet per vessel in alphabetical order from ABERDONIAN to VALDIVIA, noting arrival and departure from various ports from August 1915 to January 1916. They are typed until the beginning of November 1915, then handwritten until January 1916.
Doctor's Visitors Book kept by Sir James Porter at the Royal Naval Hospital, Haslar. (Manuscript) 1907-1908 PTR/7/2/4
A visitors book for Royal Naval Hospital, Haslar, 1 July 1907 to 10 April 1908 which also contains photographs of Porter and of the buildings.
Records of daily numbers of cases from HMS EUROPA requiring hospital treatment. (Manuscript) 1915-1916 PTR/8/1/16
Records made by Fleet Surgeon George Duncan of daily numbers of cases from HMS EUROPA requiring hospital treatment and to which hospital ship they were sent, for the attention of Sir James Porter. From the end of September 1915 to the beginning of January 1916.
Records relating to the Royal Naval Medical Service in the Mediterranean in 1915. (Manuscript) 1915 PTR/8/1/17
Signals, telegrams, rolls of officers and men on various ships, log sheets, and other general and miscellaneous records relating to the Royal Naval Medical Service in the Mediterranean in 1915.
Photographs and a newspaper cutting. (Manuscript) circa 1905 PTR/7/2/6
Four photographs, 3 group portraits and one of a hospital building, and a cutting from a newspaper annoucing the marriage of Charles E.L. Cowan (third son of M.W. Cowan) and Annie Dorothea York, daughter of a Royal Navy chaplain.…
Information sheets for Royal Navy hospital ships. (Manuscript) 1915 PTR/8/1/13
Information sheets for Royal Navy hospital ships, regarding their state, condition, capacity, emergency accommodation, and other factors, filled in by Masters or Lieutenants, for the attention of Surgeon General Sir James Porter, Hospital Transport Officer. September to November, 1915.
Pages from the British Medical Journal. (Manuscript) 1900 PTR/2/17
Pages from several copies of the British Medical Journal from 1900, and a couple of illustrations.
Naval Brigade, South Africa, Medical Notes. (Manuscript) 1900 PTR/6/2/7
Medical notes kept by Sir James Porter, Surgeon, Naval Brigade, South Africa, covering 13 June 1900 - 12 October 1900.
Daily Sick Book, HMS DORIS. (Manuscript) 1897-1900 PTR/6/2/8
Daily sick book for HMS DORIS, 18 November 1897 to 16 March 1900.
Service documents. (Manuscript) 1889-1900 PTR/2/13
Letters, memorandums, requests for information, reports from other surgeons, photographs, a printed history of HMS SCOUT (1891), continuous service record and certificates for James Porter.
Sick List, Dr Mourilyan. (Manuscript) 1899-1900 PTR/6/2/2
Small red book logging medical condition of a 4.7 inch gun's crew and marines (6 Officers and 94 men) from late 1899 to 1900, possibly belonging to a Dr Mourilyan at Modder River, South Africa, working under Porter.
Alphabetical sick list of Naval Brigade. (Manuscript) 1899-1900 PTR/2/16
Twelve-page list of names (and ages, rank etc) and the types of wound or disease afflicting each individual.
Notebook. (Manuscript) 1900 PTR/6/2/4
Small red book containing a few medical notes and a sketch of a map. Mostly empty. Circa 1900.