Notes and articles by William Hey, presented to the Philosophical and Literary Society, Leeds, known as 'The Hey Papers'
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Notes and articles by William Hey, presented to the Philosophical and Literary Society, Leeds, known as 'The Hey Papers'
Classmark: MS 1991/1/3
Original reference: MS 183
Creator(s): Hey, William (1736-1819)
Date(s): 1783-1952
Size and medium: 5 items
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/487662
Collection group(s): Medical Collections
Description
Contains three sets of notes attributed to William Hey I on various topics, which he presented as articles to the Philosophical and Literary Society, Leeds.
These original notes were rediscovered in 1951 by Professor Richard Whiddington, physicist and Editor for the Scientific Section of the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society, who then republished them as 'The Hey Papers' in 1952. This file also contains a printed copy of Vol VI Part II of 'The Hey Papers' pamphlet, and a letter by Professor Whiddington about discovering the papers.
One of the items this is part of 'The Hey Papers' is a volume containing notes on lectures on arts and manufactures by William Farish. An additional volume - previously kept separately from these sets of notes - is William and John Hey's printed copy of William Farish's plan for the course of lectures, which has now been brought in to accompany the volume of notes in MS 1991/1/3/3.
Biography or history
The Philosophical and Literary Society, Leeds appears to have been an earlier, short-lived version of the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society, which was not formed until 1819.
Provenance
Items within MS 184 were acquired from the library of Professor Richard Whiddington. MS 183 was previously part of the Leeds School of Medicine Library, before being presented to the Library of the Yorkshire College in 1888.
Previously catalogued under the artificial collection SC MS Case Notes.
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