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Burns, Dr John James Douglas MANUSCRIPT MEMOIR describing, after a summary of his early life, his adventures as a naval surgeon, including his first tour on HMS Harrier in 1835 spent in Rio de Janeiro and elsewhere in South America, an extended tour in the Mediterranean on HMS Griffon from 1837-41, with detailed account of a sojourn in Constantinople and of action in Syria during the Egyptian-Ottoman War, and a tour on the African station on HM Sloop Sappho disrupting the slave trade, concluding with a summary of his later career to his retirement in 1885, written on a series of 55 loose sheets, chiefly bifolia, folio (chiefly 320 x 200mm., various paper stocks, some watermarked 1876), chiefly written on rectos only and paginated to p.99, but with some unpaginated additions on facing rectos, in total c.115 pages, plus blanks, dated 1893 (p.5), light creasing and nicks at edges [with:] Memorandum Book, London: J. & F. Harwood, n.d., with regular brief diary entries by Dr Burns chiefly from 1835 to 1838 but with a few later entries, 8vo, green roan