Papers of and relating to Dr Richard Caton, his family and Richard Caton Woodville (1870 - [circa 1979])

Reference	D308
Physical Description	1 box

Scope and Content

Papers, comprising: correspondence of Dr Caton, 1899, 1922, not dated; transcripts from the travel diaries of Dr Caton and related photographs etc. (1887), 1897-1898, 1961; Photographs of Dr Caton, not dated; Article about Dr Caton, Memorial Service Sheet and Address, 1908, 1926; Publications of Dr Caton, 1870-1929; Family Tree of the Caton family, not dated [circa 1960]; Articles etc. re Richard Caton Woodville, American Artist, a collateral relative of Dr Caton, 1963-[circa 1979]

Acquisition Information

Prof Mary A B Brazier May 1984

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Correspondence, etc. of Dr. Caton, (1899, 1922, not dated)

Reference	D308/1/1-3
Physical Description	3 items

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Picture postcard (cartoon of Mount Vesuvius "smoking") sent by Richard Caton, Hotel Tramontano, Sorrento, Italy to Miss Nancy Caton, Lea Hall, Gateacre, Liverpool (9 April 1899)

Reference	D308/1/1
Physical Description	1 item

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Letter from Richard Caton, Hotel du Nord et des Anglais, Gare Centrale, Milan, Italy to his daughter, Nancy [Caton] [in London] (9 May [1922])

Reference	D308/1/2
Physical Description	1 item

Scope and Content

Regarding the illness [pneumonia] of an elderly woman [? relative] at Bremen, the possibility of Miss Caton having to go to Bremen, asking her to arrange the sending on to him of letters to him, and commenting on the travels of himself and [Mrs. Caton]

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Signature of R Caton [taken from a letter], pasted on a piece of card (Not dated)

Reference	D308/1/3
Physical Description	1 item

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Transcripts from the travel diaries of Dr. Caton and related photographs, etc. ((1887), 1897-8, 1961)

Reference	D308/2/1-5
Physical Description	5 items

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Diary of Russian Visit, 1897 by Richard Caton (1897)

Reference	D308/2/1
Physical Description	87 pp., typescript (carbon copy)

Scope and Content

Probably a transcript taken from the manuscript travel diary, illustrated by photographs (to which reference is made), which is now in the possession of Dr. Caton's daughter, Mrs. H.A. Ormerod

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Letter from Miss Anne Caton, Flat C, Easton Court, Smith Street, London, S.W.3 to Dr. Brazier, Medical Center, University of California (31 Aug. 1961)

Reference	D308/2/2
Physical Description	1 item

Scope and Content

Referring to the transcript (incomplete) of her father's diary of his Russian tour and the passages she has omitted from the transcript and mentioning that her mother never kept diaries

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Photocopy of Richard Caton: Russia and the Twelfth International Medical Congress: The Inaugural Address given at the opening of the Session 1897-98 of the Liverpool Medical Institution (7th October 1897)

Reference	D308/2/3
Physical Description	1 item

Scope and Content

Published in [The Liverpool Medico-Chirurgical Journal, including the Proceedings of the Liverpool Medical Institution] Vol.XVIII [Liverpool, 1898] pp.[119]-130.

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Photographs taken by Dr. Caton whilst in Russia (Autumn 1897)

Reference	D308/2/4
Physical Description	4 items, each about 8"x8 4/5", Copied from prints of the original photographs, which are probably pasted into Dr. Caton's travel diary

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A large, incomplete, bell outside a building (Autumn 1897)

Reference	D308/2/4/1
Physical Description	1 item

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A (?) cathedral (Autumn 1897)

Reference	D308/2/4/2
Physical Description	1 item

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Two peasant women in the foreground, a church (with spire) in the background (Autumn 1897)

Reference	D308/2/4/3
Physical Description	1 item

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This is a view of the Church in the Catacombs of Gethsemane (Autumn 1897)

Reference	D308/2/4/4
Physical Description	1 item

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Typescript (carbon copy) transcripts of excerpts from the diaries of Dr. Richard Caton provided for Dr. Brazier by Miss Anne Caton ([?]1887 - 1897, (1959))

Reference	D308/2/5
Physical Description	13 sheets

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On the period up to 1897, with comments and summaries by Miss Caton ([?]1887 - 1897)

Reference	D308/2/5(i)
Physical Description	1 item

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Excerpts from diary: Visit to Canada and U.S., August and September 1887, with covering letter of Miss Anne Caton to Dr. Brazier (22 May 1959)

Reference	D308/2/5(ii)
Physical Description	1 item

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Extracts from diary, Boston-Washington, U.S.A. (4-7 September 1887)

Reference	D308/2/5(iii)
Physical Description	1 item

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Notes of visit to Johns Hopkins University and Hospital (copied by [Mrs. H.A. Ormerod] from Dr. Caton's diary) (1887)

Reference	D308/2/5(iv)
Physical Description	1 item

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Extracts from Dr. Caton's American diary, commencing at landing at Baldwin [August 1887] and ending with an expedition to the North Peak (30 Aug. [1887])

Reference	D308/2/5(v)
Physical Description	1 item

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Photographs of Dr. Caton (Not dated)

Reference	D308/3/1-3
Physical Description	3 items

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Mounted studio photograph (4"x2 2/5") of head and shoulders of [Dr. Richard Caton] (Not dated [? circa 1870])

Reference	D308/3/1
Physical Description	1 item

Scope and Content

Taken, when Dr. Caton was a young man, by James Jameson, 50 North Pitt Street, Edinburgh

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Mounted studio photograph (4"x2 2/5") of head and shoulders of [Dr. Richard Caton] (Not dated, [? circa 1880])

Reference	D308/3/2
Physical Description	1 item

Scope and Content

Taken, when Dr. Caton was probably slightly older than in the above photograph, by Robinson and Thompson, Artist Photographers, 57 Church Street, Liverpool, (32 Hamilton Square, Birkenhead, and at Beltws-y-Coed, North Wales)

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Colour print of an impression of Dr. Caton's head and shoulders (within a circle) (Not dated, [? 1910s])

Reference	D308/3/3
Physical Description	1 item

Scope and Content

Sketched by Schwarting [? Friedrich Schwarting, 1883-1918, a painter of the German School]

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Article about Dr. Caton; Memorial Service Sheet and Address (1908, 1926)

Reference	D308/4/1-3
Physical Description	3 items

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Pen Portrait No.46. Dr. Richard Caton, Lord Mayor of Liverpool (Jan. 1908)

Reference	D308/4/1
Physical Description	2 sheets

Scope and Content

From Yorkshire Notes and Queries Vol. IV No. 10, pp. [217-part of 219]; illustrated by photograph of Dr. Caton wearing chain of office as Lord Mayor

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Copy of Order of Service for [the Memorial] Service for Dr. Richard Caton, Anglican Cathedral, Liverpool (14 Jan. 1926)

Reference	D308/4/2
Physical Description	1 item

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Typescript (carbon copy) transcript of Canon Howson's address at the Memorial Service for Dr. Richard Caton, [Anglican Cathedral, Liverpool] (14 Jan. 1926)

Reference	D308/4/3
Physical Description	1 item

Scope and Content

Supplied by Miss Anne Caton

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Publications of Dr. Caton (1870-1929)

Reference	D308/5/1-6
Physical Description	6 items

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Richard Caton: On the best methods of studying transparent vascular tissues in living animals ([1870])

Reference	D308/5/1
Physical Description	1 item

Scope and Content

Reprinted from The Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science, New Series Vol.X, pp.236-241

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Richard Caton: Notes on Acromegaly (July 1893)

Reference	D308/5/2
Physical Description	1 item

Scope and Content

Reprinted from The Liverpool Medico-Chirurgical Journal, pp. 369-374

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Richard Caton, Two Lectures on The Temples and Ritual of Asklepios at Epidaurus and Athens (1899)

Reference	D308/5/3
Physical Description	1 item

Scope and Content

Delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain, reprinted from Otia Merseiana [Vol.1]. At the front is the author's manuscript inscription to Herr Dr. Zalin, to whom he gave this copy, not dated.

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Richard Caton, The Prevention of Valvular Disease of the Heart: a proposal to check Rheumatic Endocarditis in its early stage and thus prevent the development of permanent organic disease of the valves (1900)

Reference	D308/5/4
Physical Description	1 item

Scope and Content

C.J. Clay and Sons, Cambridge University Press Warehouse, London(at the front is manuscript note: Dr. Brazier from A.R. Caton, not dated)

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Richard Caton: Cardiac Dilatation and Hypertrophy (Jan. 1902)

Reference	D308/5/5
Physical Description	1 item

Scope and Content

Reprinted from The Practitioner, pp. 1-8

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Sir Henry Lunn (ed.), Aegean Civilisations (1929)

Reference	D308/5/6
Physical Description	1 item

Scope and Content

The Epworth Press, London, 4th ed. Includes abstracts of lectures given by Dr. Caton on the R.M.S. Dunottar Castle (on 18, 21, and 22 April 1911) on Delphi, Delos, and Cos. Copy given to Dr. Brazier by Miss Anne R. Caton, 1958

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Family Tree of the Caton Family, (Not dated, [circa 1960])

Reference	D308/6
Physical Description	1 item, manuscript

Scope and Content

Family tree of the descendants of William Caton (1618-68), including the great-grandchildren of Dr. Richard Caton and the American descendants of William Canton (from whom Richard Caton Woodville, the painter, was descended). Drawn up by [Miss Anne Caton]

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Articles, etc. regarding Richard Caton Woodville, a collateral relative of Dr. Caton (1963-[circa 1979])

Reference	D308/7/1-5
Physical Description	5 items

Note

The name Richard Caton Woodville were the names for both father and son.

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Copy of Corcoran Bulletin, Vol.13 No.3 (Oct. 1963)

Reference	D308/7/1
Physical Description	1 item

Scope and Content

Published by The Corcoran Gallery of Art, [Washington, U.S.A.], which (on pp.10-14) includes a catalogue entry for Richard Caton Woodville's painting Waiting for the Stage, acquired by the Gallery, and a black and white reproduction of the painting.

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Copy of letter from Dr. Mary A.B. Brazier to Miss Anne Caton, 40 Neville Court, Abbey Road, London, N.W.8 (8 Jan. 1964)

Reference	D308/7/2
Physical Description	1 item

Scope and Content

Regarding the above Bulletin and the Woodville family

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Cuttings from Time reproducing (in colour) Richard Caton Woodville's painting War News from Mexico and commenting upon it (1 Sept. 1967)

Reference	D308/7/3
Physical Description	1 item

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Cutting from The Illustrated London News, 26 Oct. 1968, p.28, reproducing (in black and white) R. Caton Woodville's painting of the defence of the main gate of Hougoumont (also reproduced in the I.L.N., 30 June 1906) as an illustration for a review of a book on the Battle of Waterloo. (1968)

Reference	D308/7/4
Physical Description	1 item

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Cuttings from [The Illustrated London News], not dated [circa 1979], pp.77-79, comprising an account of The march to Kabul and after by John F. Crossland, illustrated by black and white reproductions of Richard Caton Woodville's sketches. ([circa 1979])

Reference	D308/7/5
Physical Description	1 item

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Papers of Dr Richard Caton (1836 - 1934)

Reference	D85
Physical Description	1 box

Scope and Content

Papers of Dr Richard Caton comprising Microfilm of correspondence, addresses etc 1836, 1867-1934; Papers written by Dr Caton 1887-1914; Extracts made from Dr Caton's Travel Journals regarding visits to American and Canadian medical hospitals and schools [1887]; Photographs of Dr Caton not dated [ca.1880s-1910s]; Papers and articles on Dr Caton's life and career 1957-1959; Publications of other than Dr Caton: Narrative of Voyage to Iceland and Protest against University College, Liverpool 1881, 1886; Papers written by Professor Ormerod [circa 1913]-1953.

Included in this collection are one or two papers by the late Emeritus Professor H.A. Ormerod, including his unpublished account of Dr. Caton's life and career up to circa 1882

This deposit represents those records accessioned and copied after a survey carried out at Mrs Ormerod's home by Adrian Allan on 24 July 1974. The original survey is available and filed under A.5/4 D85

Acquisition Information

Deposited and loaned for microfilming respectively by Mrs. M. R. Ormerod 24th July 1974 and 6th January 1975.

Related Material

Another of the microfilm at D85/1 is held by the Liverpool Record Office

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Microfilm of correspondence, addresses, etc. (1836, 1867-1934.)

Reference	D85/1
Physical Description	2 reels

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Secondary sources (1873, circa 1912)

Reference	D85/1(i)
Physical Description	1 reel

Scope and Content

R. Caton, Physiology, in relation to the Health of the Community and the Advance of Medicine (an introductory address at the Liverpool Royal Infirmary School of Medicine, 1873), 1873.

R. Caton, Municipalities and Infant Life, in Administrative Section of unnamed journal, not dated [circa 1912].

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Primary sources: Accounts of American, Canadian and Russian medical schools, etc. (1887, 1897)

Reference	D85/1(ii)
Physical Description	1 reel

Scope and Content

Passages in volumes entitled Brief Notes of Summer Rambles in.. being Dr. Caton's Travel Journals:

Vol. III passages on visits to McGill University (3 sides), Toronto University and Technical College (4 sides), Harvard Medical School (10 sides), Physiology Dept. at Washington and 9th International Medical Congress at Washington (24 sides), and John Hopkins University and Hospital (12 sides); Aug. and Sept. 1887.

Vol. IX passage on visit to Medical School, Moscow, 20th Aug. 1897 during International Medical Congress.

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Volume of press cuttings, correspondence, etc. of Dr. Caton as physiologist, politician, etc. (1836, 1867-1924)

Reference	D85/1/2
Physical Description	1 volume

Scope and Content

Printed list of M.D. theses, Edinburgh University 1836 (including that of Richard Caton, father of Dr. Caton), newspaper cuttings relating to the Edinburgh Medical School not dated & 1867-70 and relating to the Liverpool School of Medicine and Dr. Caton 1873-1891. Together with a letter of Lord Derby to Dr. Caton regarding a gift [to the Physiology department] 1881, and copy of published Description of the Model of the Central Part of Ancient Rome as it existed.. about A.D. 335 by Dr. Caton, published for the Walker Art Gallery 1896.

This volume is almost entirely devoted to press cuttings.

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Volume entitled Miscellaneous Extracts 1894-1914 2 (1902; 1896-1914)

Reference	D85/1/3
Physical Description	1 volume

Scope and Content

Comprises press cuttings, menu cards, offprints, some correspondence, Christmas cards, etc. and including his poll card as a Conservative candidate in Liverpool Corporation election

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Volume of press cuttings, correspondence received, lists of engagements, menus, etc. mainly in capacity as Lord Mayor of Liverpool (Sept. 1907-March 1908)

Reference	D85/1/4
Physical Description	1 volume

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Volume entitled Extracts Mayoral Year 4, comprising press cuttings, correspondence received, lists of engagements, menus, etc. mainly in capacity as Lord Mayor (April - Oct. 1908)

Reference	D85/1/5
Physical Description	1 volume

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Volume numbered 5 comprising press cuttings, correspondence, offprints, a few photographs, etc. regarding his University and City Council work (Oct. 1908 - Oct. 1920)

Reference	D85/1/6
Physical Description	1 volume

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Volume entitled Miscellaneous Extracts 1920-6 (1921 - 1924)

Reference	D85/1/7
Physical Description	1 volume

Scope and Content

Comprising correspondence, menu cards, programmes, memorial service sheets, etc. regarding his University and City work, Jan. 1921 - 1924.

At the back of the volume are a number of loose items including a photograph of Dr. and Mrs. Caton at home 1920, and the Programme of the Soiree for the British Association meeting at the University in 1923.

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Dr. Caton's speech at the Lister Banquet on the occasion of Lord Lister opening the Thompson Yates Laboratories (8 Oct. 1898)

Reference	D85/1/8
Physical Description	6 sheets, typescript

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Dr. Caton's Address as President [? of the Liverpool Zoological Society] on acquired difference in structure and function between the right and left sides of the body in animals having originally bilateral symmetry (13 Jan. 1903.)

Reference	D85/1/9
Physical Description	11 sheets, manuscript

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Typescript of Dr. Caton's paper on The Preventive Treatment of Valvular Disease, read at Chester (June 1903)

Reference	D85/1/10
Physical Description	3 sheets, typescript

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Typescript of Archdeacon Howson's address at the Memorial Service, Liverpool Cathedral and Typescript of note/minutes of the Annual Meeting of the Board of Biblical Studies on the death of Dr. Caton, their Honorary Treasurer. (14 Jan. 1926)

Reference	D85/1/11
Physical Description	2 sheets, typescript

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Correspondence (1928-29, 1934)

Reference	D85/1/12
Physical Description	1 bundle

Scope and Content

Correspondence of Miss A.R. Caton with John M. Hunt, John A. Tinne, 3 Cook Street, and the Secretary of the School regarding her donation to found the Memorial Fellowship, 1928-29, and letter of the Chairman of the School Council (Lord Leverhulme) indicating that it was proposed to add her name to the list of honorary recipients of the Mary Kingsley Medal in recognition of Dr. Caton's services to the School and of the Institution of the Fellowship, 1934.

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Papers written by Dr. Caton (1887-1914)

Reference	D85/2
Physical Description	11 items

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Photocopy of paper on Researches on Electrical Phenomena of Cerebral Grey Matter read by Professor Caton to the 9th International Medical Congress [held in Washington, U.S.A.] and published in its proceedings (1887)

Reference	D85/2/1
Physical Description	1 item

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R. Caton, Notes on Acromegaly, reprinted from the Liverpool Medico-Chirurgical Journal (July 1893)

Reference	D85/2/2
Physical Description	1 item

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R. Caton, The Arrest of Rheumatic Endocarditis, reprinted from the British Medical Journal (25 Jan. 1896)

Reference	D85/2/3
Physical Description	1 item

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Dr. Caton's Inaugural Address, as President, on the subject of Russia and the Twelfth International Medical Congress, at the opening of the 1897-98 Session at the Liverpool Medical Institution, 7 Oct. 1897 (Jan. 1898)

Reference	D85/2/4
Physical Description	1 item, typescript

Scope and Content

Published in the Liverpool Medico-Chirurgical Journal

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R. Caton, The Prevention of Valvular Disease of the Heart (1900)

Reference	D85/2/5
Physical Description	1 item

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R. Caton, Cardiac Dilation and Hypertrophy, reprinted from The Practitioner (Jan. 1902)

Reference	D85/2/6
Physical Description	1 item

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R. Caton, The Harveian Oration delivered before the Royal College of Physicians on June 21, 1904: I, I- Em - Hotel and Ancient Egyptian Medicine, II. Prevention of Valvular Disease (1904)

Reference	D85/2/7
Physical Description	1 item

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R. Caton and others, The Making of the University, reprinted from The Sphinx (1907)

Reference	D85/2/8
Physical Description	1 item

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R. Caton, How to Live: A Short Account, in Simple Words, of the Laws of Health, with brief reference to habits and conduct, 12th ed. (1910)

Reference	D85/2/9
Physical Description	1 item

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R. Caton, Notes on a Group of Medical and Surgical Instruments found near Kolophon, reprinted from the Journal of Hellenic Studies, Vol. 34 (1914)

Reference	D85/2/10
Physical Description	1 item

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R. Caton, Health Temples in Ancient Greece and the Work carried on in them, reprinted from the Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine (1914, Vol. 7)

Reference	D85/2/11
Physical Description	1 item

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Extracts made from Dr. Caton's Travel Journals re visits to American and Canadian medical hospitals and schools etc. ((1887))

Reference	D85/3
Physical Description	4 items

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Comments on the Medical Congress, Washington (1887)

Reference	D85/3/1
Physical Description	1 item

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Excerpts from journal of visit to Canada and U.S.A. (Aug. and Sept. 1887)

Reference	D85/3/2
Physical Description	1 item

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Excerpts from journal of visit to Boston and Washington (Sept. 1887)

Reference	D85/3/3
Physical Description	1 item

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Excerpts from journal of visit to John Hopkins University and Hospital (1887)

Reference	D85/3/4
Physical Description	1 item

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Photographs of Dr. Caton (Not dated [circa 1880s-1910s])

Reference	D85/4
Physical Description	1 folder

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Folder of four photographs of Dr. Caton taken by Liverpool and Manchester photographers (Not dated, [circa 1880s - 1910s])

Reference

D85/4/1-4

Alternative Form Available

C.P.S. copy negative of two of these photographs, of Dr. Caton as a young man and in later life: 82/2860 and 82/2861

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Papers and articles on Dr. Caton's life and career (1957-1959)

Reference	D85/5/1-4
Physical Description	4 items

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Mary A.B. Brazier, Rise of Neurophysiology in the 19th Century, photocopy of pp. (212-226) in the Journal of Neurophysiology, Vol. 20 (1957)

Reference	D85/5/1
Physical Description	1 item

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Spike and Wave, Vol. 7 No. 4, containing article by Dr. Brazier on Richard Caton - The Discoverer of the Electrical Activity of the Brain, (& typescript copy of same) (Dec. 1958)

Reference	D85/5/2
Physical Description	1 item

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Lord Cohen of Birkenhead, Richard Caton (1842-1926), Pioneer Electrophysiologist, reprint from Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine, Vol. 52, No. 8 (Aug. 1959)

Reference	D85/5/3
Physical Description	1 item

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Typescript (40 pp.) account by Professor Ormerod of Dr. Caton's life and career up to circa 1882 (Not dated)

Reference	D85/5/4
Physical Description	1 item

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Publications of other than Dr. Caton: Narrative of Voyage to Iceland, and Protest against University College, Liverpool (1881, 1886)

Reference	D85/6
Physical Description	3 items

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A Narrative of the Voyage of the Argonauts in 1880; compiled by the bard [apparently Dr. W. (later Sir William) Mitchell Banks, Professor of Anatomy, University College, Liverpool 1882-94] from the most authentic records, illustrated by the photographer [Dr. Richard Caton], and intended for the amusement, edification, and everlasting glorification of the Argonauts themselves, privately printed for the Argonauts, Edinburgh (1881)

Reference	D85/6/1
Physical Description	134 pp.

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A narrative of a voyage from Liverpool to Iceland and the Faroe Islands (1886)

Reference	D85/6/2
Physical Description	1 item

Scope and Content

Illustrated by 16 original photographs, which was made 19 June - 22 July 1880 on the Argo by Messrs. Alfred and Robert Holt, Mr. and Mrs. George and Miss Emma Holt, Mr. and Mrs. Paget, Mr. William Bateson and Miss Bateson, Miss Long, Miss Florence Melly, Mr. Thomas Greg, Mr. Oswald Rathbone, and Drs. Caton and Banks.

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Godless Education (15 April 1886)

Reference	D85/6/3
Physical Description	1 item

Scope and Content

A letter of protest against University College, Liverpool, addressed to the Mayor by Revd. J. Kelly, of St. George's Church, Liverpool, and reprinted from the English Churchman

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Papers written by Professor Ormerod ([circa 1913]-1953)

Reference	D85/7
Physical Description	6 items

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H.A. Ormerod, Greek Inscriptions in the Museum of the Liverpool Royal Institution, an offprint from the Annals of Archaeology and Anthropology [issued by the University Press, Liverpool], Vol. 6, No. 3 (Not dated, [circa 1913])

Reference	D85/7/1
Physical Description	1 item

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H.A. Ormerod, Ancient Piracy in the Eastern Mediterranean, an offprint from the Annals of Archaeology and Anthropology, Vol. 8, Nos. 3-4 (Not dated, [circa 1921])

Reference	D85/7/2
Physical Description	1 item

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Liverpool Free School (1951 (1837))

Reference	D85/7/3
Physical Description	1 item

Scope and Content

H.A. Ormerod, The Liverpool Free School (1515-1803), 1951; loose inside typescript extracts regarding the school taken from the Liverpool Mercury 6 Oct. and 3 Nov. 1837, and manuscript note regarding a new school 1793-1822

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H.A. Ormerod, Extracts from the Private Ledger of Arthur Heywood of Liverpool, merchant and banker, reprinted from Transactions of Historic Society of Lancs, and Cheshire Vol. 103 (1951)

Reference	D85/7/4
Physical Description	1 item

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