Major accessions to repositories in 2001 relating to Pharmacy and Chemistry

Local

Cumbria Record Office, Carlisle Headquarters

• John Robson, chemist, Carlisle: records 19th cent (DB 138)

Derbyshire Record Office

• Oil & Colour Chemists Association, Midlands Section, Trent Valley branch: minutes, corresp and papers 1963-90 (D5600)

Dundee City Archives

• AY Barrie, chemist, Dundee: prescription books, registers of cocaine, heroin and morphine, formula books, accounts 1905-91

Edinburgh City Archives

• Duncan, Flockhart & Co Ltd, manufacturing chemists, Edinburgh: prescription books c1920-29; formulary for preparations for T & H Smith Ltd, manufacturing chemists, Glasgow c1930 (Acc 589)

Gloucestershire Record Office

• JM Collett & Co Ltd, chemical manufacturers, Gloucester: business records incl those of associated company Malt Wheat Products Ltd c1920-73 (D8872)
• Contract Chemicals, Gloucester (addnl): records c1901-63 (D8872)
• Co-operative chemists, Cheltenham: prescription books 1947-89 (D8881)
• W T Slatter, chemist, Gloucester: accounts 1905-49 (D8842)

Hackney Archives Department

• Chemist, Dalston: prescription register c1895-1913 (M 4616)

Highland Council Archive

• Pharmacy, Nairn: prescription books 1898-1916 (HCA/D612)

Lancashire Record Office

• Alec Bushnell, Lancashire County Analyst (addnl): papers on analytical chemistry and professional qualifications 2000-01 (DDX 1479/49-50)
• Peter Doyle, dispensing chemist, Darwen: prescription registers c1880-1977 (DDX 2314)

Medway Archives and Local Studies Centre

• Robert Watts and Vernon Henry Watts, chemists: records c1842-1973 (DE755)

Norfolk Record Office

• De Carle & Son, manufacturing chemists, Norwich: liquidation papers 1936-40 (Acc 2001/174)

North Devon Record Office

• J.J. Tremeer, chemist, Barnstaple: prescription book 1881-92 (621/0)

Northumberland Record Office

• Prescription ledger of unidentified chemist, Morpeth 1947-50 (NRO 5677)

Nottinghamshire Archives

• Newball & Mason Ltd, manufacturing chemists, Nottingham: records 19th-20th cent (Acc 5948)

Surrey History Centre

• Dan Clare, pharmacist, Cranleigh: prescription books 1961-69 (6998)

Tyne and Wear Archives Service

• Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle: operation book and staff photographs c1894-95 (DX1032)

West Yorkshire Archive Service, Calderdale

• George Oldroyd, chemist, Halifax: records 1883-1967 (MISC:1039)

National

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland

• Pharmaceutical Society of Northern Ireland: minutes, corresp and photographs 1925-82 (D/4275)

Science Museum Library

• Collection of papers rel to life and work of Arthur Robertson Cushny and Bernard Beryl Brodie, pharmacists (MS 2049)

Special

Institution of Mechanical Engineers Library

• Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI) Ltd, Billington works: engineering blueprints of ammonia and fertiliser plant c1920-59 (Acc 1007)

Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine

• M Coleman (?), chemist: recipe book c1850 (MS.7895)

University

Aberdeen University, Special Libraries and Archives

• Hans Kosterlitz (1903-96), pharmacologist: papers (75 boxes) (MS 3682)