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THE KENNETH FITZPATRICK RUSSELL MEMORIAL LECTURE: ‘Of Books and Libraries: A reflection inspired by surgeon William Bland's copy of Manec's Treatize on the Ligature of Arteries’
Article first published online: 17 MAY 2005
DOI: 10.1111/j.1445-2197.2005.03380.x
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Mellick, S. (2005), THE KENNETH FITZPATRICK RUSSELL MEMORIAL LECTURE: ‘Of Books and Libraries: A reflection inspired by surgeon William Bland's copy of Manec's Treatize on the Ligature of Arteries’. ANZ Journal of Surgery, 75: 333–339. doi: 10.1111/j.1445-2197.2005.03380.x
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- Issue published online: 17 MAY 2005
- Article first published online: 17 MAY 2005
- Accepted for publication 21 January 2005.
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Keywords:
- bibliophile;
- book owners;
- historian;
- notable libraries;
- vascular surgeon
Kenneth Russell, bibliophile, anatomist, surgeon and historian helped to acquire Leslie Cowlishaw's historical library for the College, and subsequently cared for and catalogued the collection. One book in the collection is especially interesting as it bears the name of every owner since 1656; another belonged to William Bland of Sydney, sometime surgeon, convict, educator and legislator, whose surgical ability and inventive mind stimulated this reflection on libraries and book lovers. Bland was almost certainly Australia's first vascular surgeon.