Major accessions to repositories in 1998 relating to Pharmacy and Chemistry

Local

Barnsley Archive and Local Studies Department

• GH Rock (Chemists) Ltd, Barnsley: prescription books and private formulation books 20th cent (A/1976)

Cambridgeshire County Record Office, Huntingdon

• HL Monks & SR Atzema, dispensing chemists, Kimbolton: records 1921-42

Carmarthenshire Archive Service

• Chemists, 14 Vaughan Street, Llanelli: records c1891-1973 (DB/111)

Devon Record Office

• Chemist and druggist, Exeter, possibly Stone & Son: day book 1879-81 (5709)

Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies

• ICI: Imperial Chemicals Industries Ltd, Plastics Division: history and code book 1945-60 (Acc 3328)

Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Records Office

• Frederick Morris of Stratford-upon-Avon: papers rel to his employment by F Kendall & Son, brewers chemists and diaries rel to his WWII service in the Middle East 1942-70 (DR 972)

Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich Branch

• John Betts & Son, chemists and druggists, Woodbridge: prescription books 1885-1960 (HC460)

Tyne and Wear Archives Service

• Atkins Ltd, chemists, Byker: records c1880-1987

National

National Museums Liverpool, Maritime Archives and Library

• Ayrton, Saunders & Co, manufacturing chemists, Liverpool: records 1878-1968 (B/AS)

University

Dundee University Archives

• Robert Percival Cook, biochemist (addnl): papers 1944-89

Edinburgh University Library, Special Collections

• Alexander Crum Brown, chemist: lecture notes 1870-71 (E98.59)

Sheffield University Library

• Frederick Sydney Dainton, baronet, scientist and university administrator: papers c1930-97 (MS 231)