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Dissection Room Record Book
Series
1 bound volume.
Series consists of “Medical Faculty McGill College Dissecting Room Record”, 1883-1891, provides cadaver details such as name/date received/received from/sex/religion/cause of death/burial location/burial date/age. Notes at the back show annual receipts and expenditures from 1884-1890.
The documents are in English.
A second volume of dissection records (1896-1908) was compiled after MacDonnell’s death, and has been catalogued with a note mentioning this first volume.
R. L. MacDonnell introductory note: “This record was begun at the date of the passing of the Amended Anatomy Act which was also the date of my appointment as Demonstrator of Anatomy – April 1883, R. L. MacDonnell.”