Record

Authorised form of nameLee; Robert (1793 - 1877)
Dates1793 - 1877
NationalityBritish
Place of birthMelrose, Roxburghshire, Scotland
Date of birth1793
Place of deathSurbiton Hill, Surrey
Date of death06 February 1877
DatesAndPlacesBurial:
Kensal Green cemetery, London
ActivityCareer:
Physician, Brownlow Street Hospital, London
Memberships:
MRCP; Medical and Chirurgical Society of London
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election25/03/1830
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
References:
Roy M MacLeod, 'Of Medals and Men: A Reward System in Victorian Science 1826-1914' in NR 1971 vol 26 pp 81-105
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/19744837
CodeNA7572
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
MC/4/201Letter from Robert Lee, 4 Saville Row, to the Royal Society20 December 1847
MC/4/94Letter from Robert Lee, 4 Saville Row, to the Royal Society6 November 1845
MC/4/192Letter from Robert Lee, 4 Saville Row, to the Royal Society15 November 1847
MC/4/108Letter from Robert Lee, 4 Saville Row, to the Royal Society12 December 1845
MS/426/441Copy letter from C R [Charles Richard] Weld, the Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr R [Robert] Lee20 February 1851
MC/4/198Letter from Robert Lee, 4 Saville Row, to the Royal Society13 December 1847
RR/2/132Referee's report by James Paget, on a paper 'On the nerves which supply the muscular structure of the heart' by Robert Lee15 February 1854
RR/1/144Letter from Robert Lee, about the awarding of a Royal Medal [c.1840]
RR/1/148Referee's report by Richard Owen and William Lawrence, on a paper 'On the ganglia and nerves of the heart' by Robert Lee8 August 1847
RR/1/145Referees' report by John Bostock, on a paper 'On the anatomy and physiology of the decidua' by Robert Lee11 March 1842
RR/3/175Referee's report by William Clark, on a paper 'On the existence of the decidua around the ovum within the fallopian tube, in four cases of fallopian-tube conception, and on the absence of any trace of decidua in the cavity of the uterus in the same cases' by Robert Lee22 June 1857
RR/7/252Referee's report by John Whitaker Hulke, on a paper 'Observations on the functions of the ganglia which are formed in the posterior roots of the spinal nerves' by Robert Lee30 June 1873
RR/1/150Letter from Robert Lee, on the late award of the Royal Medal to the Secretary of the Royal Society2 April 1846
MC/4/126Letter from Robert Lee, 4 Saville Row, to the Royal Society18 February 1846
MS/426/137Copy letter from C R [Charles Richard] Weld, the Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to S H [Samuel Hunter] Christie Esq., Woolwich13 June 1845
MS/426/319Copy letter from C R [Charles Richard] Weld, the Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr R [Robert] Lee28 March 1848
MS/426/318Copy letter from C R [Charles Richard] Weld, the Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr R [Robert] Lee10 March 1848
MS/426/178Copy letter from S H [Samuel Hunter] Christie, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr [Robert] Lee, Woolwich30 December 1845
MS/426/348Copy letter from C R [Charles Richard] Weld, the Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr R [Robert] Lee22 November 1848
MS/426/197Copy letter from C R [Charles Richard] Weld, the Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr [Robert] Lee21 April 1846
MS/426/298Copy letter from C R [Charles Richard] Weld, the Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr [Robert] Lee12 November 1847
MS/426/448Copy letter from C R [Charles Richard] Weld, the Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr R [Robert] Lee23 May 1851
MS/426/308Copy letter from S H [Samuel Hunter] Christie, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr [Robert] Lee20 January 1848
RR/1/146Referee's report by unknown referee, on a paper 'On the ganglia and nerves of the virgin uterus' by Robert Lee[1843]
MS/426/304Copy letter from C R [Charles Richard] Weld, the Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr [Robert] Lee18 December 1847
MS/426/151Copy letter from C R [Charles Richard] Weld, the Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society' to Sir B C [Benjamin Collins] Brodie, Bart27 October 1845
MS/426/314Copy letter from C R [Charles Richard] Weld, the Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr R [Robert] Lee3 March 1848
EC/1830/17Lee, Robert: certificate of election to the Royal Society
MC/5/11Letter from Robert Lee, 4 Saville Row, Burlington Gardens, to the [Earl of Rosse], President of the Royal Society and to the Council19 March 1851
MC/4/116Letter from Robert Lee, 4 Saville Row, to the Royal Society24 December 1845
MS/426/54Copy letter from [Peter Mark] Roget, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [Robert] Lee, FRS, 14 Golden Square12 May 1842
RR/2/133Second referee's report by James Paget, on a paper 'On the nerves which supply the muscular structure of the heart' by Robert Lee30 March 1854
RR/5/135Referee's report by Jacob Augustus Lockhart Clarke, on a paper 'A description of the pneumogastric and great sympathetic nerves in an acephalous foetus' by Robert Lee6 February 1864
MC/4/118Letter from Samuel Hunter Christie, The Common, Woolwich, to Charles Richard Weld, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society30 December 1845
PT/20/1Paper, 'On the structure of the human placenta and its connexion with the uterus' by Robert Lee20 October 1831
PT/25/11Paper, 'On the nervous ganglia of the uterus' by Robert Lee[1841]
PT/20/2Letter, on demonstrating vascular communication between uterus and placenta from Richd [Richard] Owen to Robert Lee17 November 1831
PT/35/2iPaper, 'Postcript [sic] to a paper "On the ganglia and nerves of the heart" with two drawings' by Robert Lee21 December 1848
PT/26/10Paper, 'An appendix to a paper on the nervous ganglia of the uterus, with a further account of the nervous structures of that organ' by Robert Lee[1842]
PT/30/14Paper, 'Supplement to a paper "On the nervous ganglia of the uterus"' by Robert Lee[1845]
RR/1/141Referee's report by William Lawrence, on a paper 'Supplement to a paper “on the nervous ganglia of the uterus.”' by Robert Lee5 June 1846
MC/2Volume 2 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1832-1838
MC/2/69Letter from Robert Lee, Golden Square, to the Royal Society13 January 1833
MC/2/105Letter from J.F. Palmer, 38 Golden Square, to [Benjamin Collins] Brodie16 December 1833
PT/35/2Paper, 'On the ganglia and nerves of the heart' by Robert Lee[1848]
MC/3Volume 3 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1839-1843
MC/3/196Letter from Robert Lee, Somerset House, to the [Marquis of Northampton] President of the Royal Society and to the Council 6 December 1841
MC/3/247Letter from Robert Lee, Somerset House, to Dr. [Peter Mark] Roget, Secretary of the Royal Society17 November 1842
MS/426/173Copy letter from S H [Samuel Hunter] Christie, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr Robert Lee16 December 1845
MS/426/156Copy letter from C R [Charles Richard] Weld, the Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to S H [Samuel Hunter] Christie, Secretary of the Royal Society1 November 1845
MC/4/112Letter from Samuel Hunter Christie, [Secretary of the Royal Society] The Common, Woolwich, to Charles Richard Weld, [Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society]16 December 1845
MC/4/109Letter from Robert Lee, 4 Saville Row, to the Royal Society15 December 1845
MC/4/125Letter from Samuel Hunter Christie, The Common, Woolwich, to Charles Richard Weld, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society7 February 1846
MS/426/184Copy letter from C R [Charles Richard] Weld, the Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [Robert] Lee10 February 1846
MS/426/185Copy letter from C R [Charles Richard] Weld, the Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [Robert] Lee18 February 1846
MS/426/186Copy letter from C R [Charles Richard] Weld, the Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [Robert] Lee18 February 1846
MC/4/102Letter from Robert Lee, 4 Saville Row, to the [Marquis of Northampton] President of the Royal Society and to the Council1 December 1845
PT/73/15/1Painting, uterine surface of the placenta by Joseph Perry8 February 1832
MC/4/242Letter from Robert Lee, 4 Saville Row, to the Royal Society22 June 1848
MC/4/310Letter from Robert Lee, 4 Saville Row, to the [Earl of Rosse] President of the Royal Society and to the Council17 December 1849
MC/5/4Letter from Robert Lee, 4 Saville Row, Burlington Gardens, to the [Earl of Rosse] President of the Royal Society and to the Council19 February 1851
MC/5/12Letter from Robert Lee, 4 Saville Row, Burlington Gardens, to the Royal Society28 April 1851
MC/4Volume 4 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1844-1850
MC/5Volume 5 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1851-1858
RR/1/149Referee's report by Richard Owen and William Lawrence, on a paper 'On the ganglia and nerves of the heart' by Robert Lee13 October 1848
MC/7/377Letter from R [Robert] Lee, the Royal Society, Burlington House, to the Secretary of the Royal Society19 November 1866
MC/7Volume 7 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1864-1866
RR/5/136Referee's report by William Scovell Savory, on a paper 'A description of the pneumogastric and great sympathetic nerves in an acephalous foetus' by Robert LeeFebruary 1864
AP/44/7Unpublished paper, 'On the nerves of the liver, biliary ducts and gall bladder' by Robert Lee1862
AP/28/20Unpublished paper, 'On some peculiarities of foetal digestion' by George RobinsonJune 1846
AP/28/14Unpublished letter, 'Microscopic examination of the uterine nerves' from John Dalrymple to Dr [Robert] Lee10 February 1846
AP/25/19Unpublished paper, 'Paper on the anatomy and physiology of the decidua' by Robert Lee 1841
AP/30/11Unpublished paper, 'Ganglia and nerves of the virgin uterus' by Robert Lee1846
AP/29/10Unpublished paper, 'On the nervous system of the heart' by Robert LeeApril 1847
AP/28/13Unpublished paper, 'Further research on the nervous system of the uterus' by Robert LeeFebruary 1846
AP/30/9Paper, 'On the ganglia and nerves of the heart' by Robert LeeMay 1848
AP/30/10Appendix, 'Supplement to a paper on the nervous system of the heart' by Robert Lee20 April 1848
AP/19/16/1Unpublished manuscript, 'On the ova of woman and the mammiferous animals as they exist in the ovaries before impregnation, and on the discovery in them of a vesicle, analogous to that described by Professor Purkinje in the immature egg of the bird' by Thomas Wharton Jones1835
RR/3/176Referee's report by Arthur Farre, on a paper 'On the existence of the decidua around the ovum within the fallopian tube, in four cases of fallopian-tube conception, and on the absence of any trace of decidua in the cavity of the uterus in the same cases' by Robert Lee4 July 1857
RR/3/177Letter from Robert Lee, on his paper 'On the existence of the decidua around the ovum within the fallopian tube, in four cases of fallopian-tube conception, and on the absence of any trace of decidua in the cavity of the uterus in the same cases' to The Royal Society12 December 1857
RR/3/178Referee's report by Richard Owen, on a paper 'On the existence of the decidua around the ovum within the fallopian tube, in four cases of fallopian-tube conception, and on the absence of any trace of decidua in the cavity of the uterus in the same cases' by Robert Lee12 August 1857
AP/39/37Unpublished paper, 'On the existence of the decidua around the ovum within the fallopian tube, in four cases of fallopian-tube conception, and on the absence of any trace of decidua in the cavity of the uterus in the same cases' by Robert Lee1857
AP/45/7Unpublished paper, 'A description of the pneumogastric and great sympathetic nerves in an acephalous foetus' by Robert James Lee1863
AP/55/11Unpublished paper, 'Observations on the functions of the ganglia which are formed on the posterior roots of the spinal nerves' by Robert Lee18 June 1873
AP/34/13Unpublished paper, 'On the nerves which supply the muscular structure of the heart' by Robert Lee1853
AP/80/3Unpublished paper, 'On the functions of the foetal liver and intestines' by Robert James Lee1864
RR/1/140Letter from Robert Lee, on his paper 'Supplement to a paper “On the nervous ganglia of the uterus.”'2 June 1846
AP/19/16Unpublished paper, 'On the ova of woman and the mammiferous animals as they exist in the ovaries before impregnation, and on the discovery in them of a vesicle, analogous to that described by Professor Purkinje in the immature egg of the bird' by Thomas Wharton Jones1835
RR/1/139Referee's report by William Bowman, on a paper 'Supplement to a paper “On the nervous ganglia of the uterus.”' by Robert Lee3 June 1846
RR/1/142Referee's report by Richard Partridge, on a paper 'On the ganglia and nerves of the virgin uterus' by Robert Lee[1843]
RR/1/147Referee's report by Benjamin Collins Brodie and Richard Partridge, on a paper 'On the ganglia and nerves of the virgin uterus' by Robert Lee[1843]
RR/2/134Referee's report by George Busk, on a paper 'On the nerves which supply the muscular structure of the heart' by Robert Lee7 April 1854
PT/73/15/2Painting, gravid uterus, placenta, and membranes by Joseph Perry2 August 1831
Add to My Items

    Collection highlights

    Browse the records of some of our collections, which cover all branches of science and date from the 12th century onwards. These include the published works of Fellows of the Royal Society, personal papers of eminent scientists, letters and manuscripts sent to the Society or presented at meetings, and administrative records documenting the Society's activities since our foundation in 1660.

    The Royal Society

    The Royal Society is a Fellowship of many of
    the world's most eminent scientists and is the
    oldest scientific academy in continuous existence.
    Registered charity number 207043

    Website design ©CalmView



    CONTACT US

    + 44 207 451 2500
    (Lines open Mon-Fri, 9:00-17:00. Excludes bank holidays)

    6-9 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AG

    Email Us →

    SUBSCRIBE

    Subscribe to our newsletters to be updated with the
    latest news on innovation, events, articles and reports.

    Subscribe →

    © CalmView