Major accessions to repositories in 2003 relating to Pharmacy and Chemistry

Local

Cheshire and Chester Archives and Local Studies

• Herbert Levinstein, director of Murgatroyd's Salt & Chemical Co Ltd, Elworth: files and papers 1939-50 (DMU)

Derbyshire Record Office

• Derby dispensary: leech accounts 1819-24 (D6132/6)

Gwent Record Office

• Dix Chemists, Pontypool: prescription and cash books and bills 1878-1915

Lancashire Record Office

• The Foxton Dispensary, Blackpool: records incl legal papers 1878-1970 (DDX 2421 acc 9511)

Lincolnshire Archives

• Kent & Elmitt, chemists, Lincoln: prescription records 1926-27 (Misc Don 1201)

Norfolk Record Office

• Allen & Neale (Chemists) Ltd, King's Lynn: prescription books late 19th cent-1955 (ACC 2003/81)

Suffolk Record Office, Bury St Edmunds Branch

• Bush, Boake, Allen (formerly Allen, Stafford & Sons Ltd), drug millers and manufacturing chemists, Long Melford: records 1883-2002 (HC 568)

Wandsworth Local History Service Library

• Boots Co Ltd, pharmaceuticals manufacturers and retailers, Putney: prescription books and poisons registers c1908-80
• Hopkin & Williams Ltd, manufacturing chemists, Wandsworth: records rel to working costs and analytical tests c1931

West Yorkshire Archive Service, Kirklees

• Holliday Dyes and Chemicals Ltd, Huddersfield: process and employee records, corresp and plans 19th-20th cent

Special

Institution of Mechanical Engineers Library

• Sir Isaac Lowthian Bell, knight metallurgical chemist, President of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers: letters to RM Middleton 1876-91 (Acc 1018)
• Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd, Billingham (addnl): blueprints rel to process plant 1918-58 (Acc 1029)

Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine

• Michael Rand, professor pharmacologist: corresp, mainly with Prof JH Burn, concerning noradrenergic transmission 1957-77 (MS.8044)
• GlaxoSmithKline, pharmaceutical manufacturers (addnl): records, incl minutes, images and records of Coopers McDougal & Robertson, veterinary subsidiary company c1860-1992 (WF 350)
• Wellcome Foundation, Beckenham Photographic Library: negatives of people, places and projects funded by the Foundation, and photomicroscopy negatives c1945-92 (WF/M/1)

University

Glasgow University Archive Services

• McGeachy & Macfarlane, manufacturing chemists, Glasgow: business corresp 1853-95 (Accn 2422)