Lillie, John (1806-1866)

The collection comprises lectures on scientific subjects delivered by Lillie at the Mechanics' Institutes of Launceston and Hobart, Tasmania.

1842-1855

2 files manuscript, loose papers.

Purchased at Hodgsons', London, April 1931 (acc.74196) and at Stevens' London, February 1935 (acc.68563).

John Lillie D.D. was the grandfather of the biologist Denis Gascoigne Lillie (1888-1963).

At Wellcome Collection: Papers of Lillie's grandson the biologist Denis Gascoigne Lillie (b.1888) are held as MSS.3259-3285 and 5252-5254. Among these, MS.5254, comprising correspondence and very miscellaneous papers, includes material on earlier generations of the Lillie family, among them letters to John Lillie D.D.

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).