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Title: UCSF Anatomy Department records
Dates: 1905-1983
Collection Number: AR 98-25
Creator/Collector:
University of California, San Francisco. School of Medicine
Extent: 17.75 linear ft. (11 cartons, 4 oversize boxes)
Repository:
UC San Francisco. University Archives
San Francisco, California 94143-0840
Abstract: Collection documents the UCSF Department of Anatomy and Dr. Herbert McLean Evans, who served as department chair from 1915-1934.
Language of Material: English
Collection is unprocessed, but open for research.
UCSF Anatomy Department records. UC San Francisco. University Archives
Transferred by department chair Henry Ralston in 1998.
Biography/Administrative History
The Department of Anatomy was part of the original Toland Medical College. At the beginning of the 20th century, the department
reorganized the teaching program and established courses in histology, microscopic organology, neurology, regional anatomy,
and organogenesis, as well as special courses and research for physicians and advanced students.
Scope and Content of Collection
Collection contains student projects, photographs and slides, audiotapes of an interview with Dr. Herbert McLean Evans and
the first nine Evans Memorial Lectures, university plans, publications, historical files, a card file of department faculty,
and Dr. Evans' mortarboard, gowns and hoods.
Anatomy
University of California, San Francisco