Janus: Accounts of the Cambridge University Medical Society

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Accounts of the Cambridge University Medical Society

Title	Accounts of the Cambridge University Medical Society
Reference	GBR/0265/SOC.70
Creator	Cambridge University Medical Society
Covering Dates	1922–1973
Extent and Medium	2 volumes and 3 files; paper
Repository	Cambridge University Archives

Content and context

The society is known to have existed from at least 1890 and was an intellectual and social society largely drawing its membership from medical students. It organised a speaker programme and social events. Further information about the club's activities is on its website at http://www.srcf.ucam.org/medsoc/.

The records were transferred to the University Archives from the Manuscripts Department on 18 October 2007. Item SOC.70.2 had been presented by Sir George Pickering, FRS, to the Manuscripts Department on 2 December 1977 and had been given the classmark Ms.Add.8165. Items SOC.70.1.1-2 had been deposited on permanent loan by Cambridge University Medical Society with the Manuscripts Department on 30 June 1978 and had been given the classmark Ms.Add.8174

Access and Use

Please cite as Cambridge University Archives, Accounts of the Cambridge University Medical Society, SOC.70

Further information

Further printed records are in the Rare Books Department, Cambridge University Library (classmark: Cambridge Papers J 5660).

See also Ms.Add.8165 which is a diary of a tour of medical schools in Canada and north-eastern United States of America. The volume is George Pickering's personal description of tour undertaken as member of the Medical Society. It gives an account of travel arrangements, details social events, and includes some notes on research and medical treatments being trialled at various schools visited. The schools included Montreal, Yale, and Harvard Universities, and the Rockefeller Institute. The tour by eighty students was organised and led by the President, James Simpson of Trinity College. 13 August 1926-10 September 1926.

The online catalogue entry for Janus was completed and emended in November 2007.

Index Terms

Medical Sciences

Clubs

Cambridge University Medical Society

University/SOC.70 contains:

SOC.70.1

Receipts and expenditure arranged as academic year balance sheets.
1 volume; paper.

2 May 1922–7 Nov. 1973

SOC.70.2

Receipts and expenditure arranged under various headings. Headings used, for example, are: lecturer's expenses; dinners; secretary; treasurer; film shows; magazine; ball; war stock interest; postage, printing and stationery; games; British Medical Students' Association; subscriptions; annual play etc.
1 volume; paper.

1922–1973

SOC.70.3

Statements of accounts. These are mostly general society accounts although a few are specific to a particular activity such as the ball account, 30 June 1951.
Creator: Peters, Elsworthy and Moore, Cambridge.
1 box-file now in 3 folders; paper.

1932–1970