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Autograph Letter Signed, thanking his correspondent for the offer of the engraving, and asking him to send it to Mr. Churchill, the Medical Bookseller in Soho Square. 1 page 7 x 4 inches, neatly laid down. Oxford, 24 May 1842. John Kidd (1776-1851), physician. He was appointed Radcliffe librarian in 1834. He was, too, physician to the Radcliffe infirmary from 1808 to 1826. He was selected to write one of the Bridgewater treatises, and his Adaptation of External Nature to the Physical Condition of Man, 8vo. Lond. 1833, will bear comparison with any others of the series. He was also the author of The Outlines of Mineralogy. 2 vols. 8vo. 1820.