Major accessions to repositories in 2000 relating to Pharmacy and Chemistry

Local

Canterbury Cathedral Archives

• Lloyds, chemists, Canterbury: records 1900-81 (U374)

Edinburgh City Archives

• Edinburgh Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd: records rel to predecessor companies (Acc 532)

Lincolnshire Archives

• Lawsons, chemists, Stamford: records, incl papers of George Arthur Johnson, chemist and druggist 19th-20th cent: (LAWSONS)

Northumberland Record Office

• CW Usher, chemist, Amble: records 20th cent (NRO 5612)

Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Archive Service: Staffordshire Record Office

• Stafford Chemical Society: minutes and publicity material 1942-92 (5955)

Tameside Archive Service

• Frederick Grimke Boden, pharmacist and Royal Engineer: letters, diaries and photographs c1890-1918 (Acc2896)

Wirral Archives

• John Green, chemist and druggist, Birkenhead: prescription book 1850 (Acc1425)

Special

Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine

• Silas Mainville Burroughs, pharmaceutical engineer (addnl): letter books 1881-82 (PP/SMB)
• Cornelius Fletcher, chemist, Nottingham: prescription book 1827 (MS 7791)
• Hedges & Son, chemists, Birmingham: patent medicines stock book 1881-96 (MS 7813)
• Anonymous collections rel to medicine, pharmacy and cookery 17th-19th cent (MSS 7814, 7818-19, 7821, 7834-35)