| Description Of Item | This section contains 17 blank sheets on which signatures and subscriptions of women were to be placed in support of the building of a new maternity hospital at Edinburgh. The offering was done in memory of James Young Simpson, developer of chloroform as an anaesthetic, who during his life spoke of the need of a maternity hospital. Included also is a short list of names and monetary amounts, presumably donations, and two copies of an explanation of the offering signed by an [MJ?], secretary (possibly of the Committee of the Memorial to Sir James Young Simpson). |