Major accessions to repositories in 2015 relating to Pharmacy and Chemistry

Local

City of Westminster Archives Centre

• Reece family, pharmacists, Piccadilly: legal case papers c1970-2000 (2849)

Cumbria Archive Centre, Carlisle

• Ridley's, chemist, Carlisle: prescription books, recipe books and financial records 1865-1973 (DB 179)
• Joseph Wilson, pharmacist, Penrith: records incl recipe book 1854-1979 (DB 180)

Explore York Libraries & Archives

• Bleasdale Ltd, manufacturing and wholesale chemists, York: staff photographs c1920-1969 (BLE)

Sheffield City Archives

• John Acton, chemist and druggist, Sheffield: daily journal 1836-1838 (2015/53)

West Sussex Record Office

• Chemist, Bognor Regis: prescription ledgers, customers incl Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1875-1976 (18025)

Wigan Archives and Local Studies

• Wallwork, pharmaceutical chemist, Tyldesley: prescriptions notebook with customer details 1878-1880 (Acc. 2015/95)

National

Jersey Archive

• Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, Jersey branch: minutes 1939-1980 (JA/2691)

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Library and Archives

• Nigel Veitch (1965-2014), plant chemist: papers and scientific research [restricted access] 1988-2006 (PrP 15-0013)

Special

Royal Society

• Norman Sheppard (1921-2015), chemist and spectroscopist: corresp and papers c1980-2010 (MS/906)

University

Bangor University, Archives and Special Collections

• Peter Lloyd (fl 1920-1989), lecturer in chemistry, Bangor University: papers incl off-prints and lectures c1940-1989 (2015/21)

Manchester University: University of Manchester Library

• Samuel Davies, chemist and druggist, Chester: records of chemical experiments and analysis of water samples 1822-1855 (Acc 2015/31)

Museum of English Rural Life

• Jared Terrett Hunt & Sons Ltd, manufacturing agricultural chemists, Stratford: minutes, with family history notes 1873-1882 (DX2135)

Sheffield University Library

• Sir Harold Walter Kroto (1939-2016), chemist and Nobel Prize winner: personal papers incl corresp, journal articles, offprints, research notes and examples of graphic designs c1950-2015 (MS 455)