Major accessions to repositories in 2002 relating to Pharmacy and Chemistry

Local

Derbyshire Record Office

• Pharmacy, Ilkeston: ledgers 1857-71 (D5633)

Dundee City Archives

• James Gibson, chemist and druggist, Dundee: records incl prescription books c1926-70

Gwynedd Archives, Caernarfon Record Office

• O Gwyrfai Jones, pharmacist, Y Felinheli: records (XM11355)

Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies

• Speechly & Milbank, pharmacists, Bishops Stortford: stock lists, photographs and historical account c1857-1959 (Acc 3831)

Joint Archive Service of the Corporation of London: London Metropolitan Archives

• Howard & Sons Ltd, chemists (addnl): records incl accounts for Quinidine manufacture 1907-56 (LMA/4419)

North East Lincolnshire Archives

• RC Johnson Ltd (formerly Cook), pharmaceutical chemist, Cleethorpes and Grimsby: prescription books 1848-1982 (1177)

Plymouth and West Devon Record Office

• A E Lee, pharmacist, Keyham: accounts 1960-80 (Acc 2765)

Powys County Archives Office

• Unnamed pharmacist, Builth Wells: prescription books 1900-63 (B/X/117, Acc1403)

Southampton Archives Office

• Bates' Chemist, Swaythling, Southampton: prescription and account books 1937-93

The Record Office for Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland

• Wand Manufacturing Co, Leicester: recipe books, price lists and notes 1911-2002 (DE6261)

Tyne and Wear Archives Service

• Atkins Ltd, chemists, Byker: records 1893-1997 (DT.ATK)

Special

Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine

• Thomas Roper Dodgson: apprenticeship indenture as chemist and druggist at Robert Willan's pharmacy in Ulverston, Lancashire 1884 (MS.8007/2)
• International Union of Pharmacology (addnl): papers (SA/IUP)
• Miscellaneous recipe book containing a collection of recipes, mainly medical, in formula format c1800 (MS.7942)
• Recipe book belonging to Thomas Chambre containing human and veterinary medical recipes with culinary and household recipes 1790 (MS.7942)
• Recipe book compiled by Mrs Deborah Haddock incl culinary, medical and household recipes c1720 (MS.7987)

University

Manchester University: John Rylands Library

• Manchester University, Department of Chemistry (addnl): departmental records incl notebooks of Professor Geoffrey Gee (1910-96) (Acc 2002/17, 23)

Museum of English Rural Life

• Prescription book recipes for horses and cows 1791; 1945-50 (DX1328)

Nottingham University Library, Department of Manuscripts and Special Collections

• Frederick Challenger, chemist: research papers 1908-54 (ACC 1794)

Sheffield University Library

• Emily Gertrude Turner (1888-1956), lecturer in chemistry: personal corresp and papers (MS 280)

University of Bristol Information Services: Special Collections

• Douglas Hugh Everett (b 1916) professor of physical chemistry: papers (DM 1943)