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on hospital statistics. She and Farr did this with the help of Farr’s assistant
and right-hand-man, Willliam Hammack (whom Nightingale invariably
called Hammick), to whom this present volume is dedicated. Hammick
was amongst those invited to use Nightingale’s rooms in Old Burlington
Street and to attend breakfast parties there during the Congress. Several
of Nightigale’s letters to William Farr contain references, or ‘messages’ to
Hammick, usually thanking him for his assistance with her work.
[Provenance:] This copy if inscribed in Nightingale’s hand at the head
of the title to ‘Mr. Hammick in remembrance of much kind & eYcient assistance
rendered. Florence Nightingale London Kinan/63.’ Twenty years
later the book was presented ‘To Dr. William Hammond of Nuneaton in
remembrance of his kind attention to James T. Hammick Summer-hill
House 18 Dec. 1883’ and in 1916 Hammond presented the book to the
Library of the British Medical Association (inscription at foot of front free
end-paper signed and dated September 21st). Tipped on to the inner margin
of the Preface is an accompanying presentation letter from Hammond
to the librarian and the volume bears the stamp of the BMA on the titlepage,
preface, index, foot of p. 155 and verso of plan II.
James T. Hammick (Hammack until 1831) was Wrst elected a Fellow
of the Society of Statisticians in 1846. He served on the Society’s Council
from 1861 before becoming the Treasurer in 1868 and he held that post
until 1874 when he resigned due to ill-health.
Bishop and Goldie 101; see Garrison-Morton 1611; Norman 1599.
86 NUDOW, Heinrich. Anthropologische Reisen. [n.p.],
1793. £380
8vo, pp. xxxii, 446, Wne circular engraved vignette to title page; old
repair to foremargin of *8, touching a few letters; contemporary pale
blue boards, spine with remains of printed label, and shelf mark to foot
of spine, extremities rubbed.
First edition of this collection of ‘anthropological’ observations by the physician
and scientist Nudow (1752–1810). He dismisses traditional travel
books and presents instead his own observations on human characteristics,
studying human foibles, motivation, and psychology. The potpourri of
brief journalistic essays covers human embarrassments, social encounters,
but also suicide, murder etc.
Nudow later published a comprehensive study of the phenomenon of
human sleep.
Hayn/Gotendorf VI, 415 (‘wertvolle Beiträge zur medicin.-philosophischen Menschenkunde
aus Büchern, Lebenserfahrung, Reisen usw’); OCLC lists copies at Munich and
Göttingen.
catalogue fourteen