| Description Of Item | From the collection of Richard Poole. Davidson was President of the College from 1829-1831 and 1833-1834. The letters are annotated by Poole as to content and with frank comments on Davidson. The letters concern the following: an address Davidson intended to make; the College's resolution on the Gairdner affair; privacy needed in the printing of Poole's reports on the reform of medical education; on the election of the Presidency with a pencil note by Dr Gairdner; Davidson's thoughts on the Presidency; accompanying letter to queries, possibly those at POR/3/22/11; on Mr Warburton's plan for enquiring into the state of medicine; meeting with the President of the Royal College of Surgeons; Davidson's opinion on the university doctorate carrying a licence to practice with a draft of Poole's reply; meeting with the faculty and a 'triple alliance'; the Pharmacopoeia with a copy of Dr Adams' letter on the subject; further queries on medical education; on Poole acting as a witness required by the Parliamentary Committee; letter from the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland; requesting an abstract to be made of the letters from Dr Thomson; report by the Pharmacopoeia Committee; election for President and Council December 1834; committee on the adulteration of drugs; and requesting minutes of the College relating to the plague in Moscow spreading to Edinburgh. |