Identificatie
referentie code
Titel
Datum(s)
- 1949 - 1972 (Vervaardig)
Beschrijvingsniveau
Omvang en medium
Small collection; 1 box of miscellaneous papers; glass plate negatives & 3 reels of film, now converted to dvd.
Context
Naam van de archiefvormer
Biografie
Accompanied G. Sherriff and F. Ludlow on their last expedition in 1949.
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Studied medicine at Birmingham University, obtained his Fellowship in 1942
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1942-1946, served as a ship’s surgeon in the Merchant Navy
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During his time as surgical registrar and resident surgical officer at Birmingham General Hospital he worked with H. H. Sampson, B. T. Rose, R. Scott Mason and J. B. Leather, and obtained the MCh (Orth) from Liverpool in 1950.
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1951, appointed surgeon to the Birmingham Accident Hospital
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1955, married Dr Sheila C. S. Meux in 1955 and they had two sons and one daughter
MRCS 1940
FRCS 1942
MB ChB 1938
MCh (Orth) 1950
“His studies of the anatomy of the foot elucidated the function of the Plantar fascia and both simplified and clarified the movements of inversion and eversion: as a result, he lectured at anatomists meetings both in this country and in France and the United States. He also showed how inversion could cause the familiar lateral rotation injury of the ankle.”
Developed what is known as a Hicks bone plate - used in many countries for internal fixation of bone fractures
archiefbewaarplaats
Geschiedenis van het archief
Directe bron van verwerving of overbrenging
Inhoud en structuur
Bereik en inhoud
•1 box of miscellaneous papers and glass plate negatives regarding Bhutan, 1949, also 3 reels of film, now converted to DVD:
- Diary Materials 1, 1949
- Diary Materials 2, 1949
- Transcript of Diaries by David Shepherd - not for reproduction
- letters, mainly from George and Betty Sherriff, Frank Ludlow and David Humphreys
- Christmas cards, mainly from George and Betty Sherriff and Frank Ludlow, usually illustrated with photographs or Margaret Stones illustrations
- small box of 12 glass lantern transparencies, mostly plant portraits - tape around slides very brittle; annotations in danger of being lost, so handle with extreme care
- cine film x 3 - converted to dvd
- 'misc' folder; contains LSH seed lists 1949 documents and key to the cine film
- newspaper cuttings - mostly relating to Bhutan
- 'misc' publications - mostly relating to Bhutan, some by Frank Ludlow
Waardering, vernietiging en slectie
Aanvullingen
Mar. 2025 - 3 cine films showing wildflowers of England and Wales with accompanying notes by Hicks added to the collection
Ordeningstelsel
Voorwaarden voor toegang en gebruik
Voorwaarden voor raadpleging
Collection is open to researchers by appointment, see (right click, open link in new tab:) https://www.rbge.org.uk/science-and-conservation/library-and-archives/visiting-the-library/
Voorwaarden voor reproductie
Permission required from RBGE; collection still in copyright to the Hicks family
Taal van het materiaal
Engels
Schrift van het materiaal
Taal en schrift aantekeningen
Fysieke eigenschappen en technische eisen
The tape round the glass transparencies is very brittle, cracking, and being lost, some has annotations on, but very faint and illegible - extreme care required in handling these.
Toegangen
Verwante materialen
Bestaan en verblifplaats van originelen
Bestaan en verblijfplaats van kopieën
Related units of description
Herbarium specimens collected by Ludlow, Sherriff and Hicks in 1949 can be found in the RBGE Herbarium.
Aantekeningen
Aantekening
Alternative identifier(s)
Trefwoorden
Onderwerp trefwoord
Geografische trefwoorden
Naam ontsluitingsterm
- Ludlow, Frank (Onderwerp)
- Sherriff, George (Onderwerp)