Major accessions to repositories in 2005 relating to Pharmacy and Chemistry

Local

Bristol Record Office

• Oliver Pragnell & Co, oil and colourmen, Bristol: business papers and personal papers of Mervyn Oliver Pragnell (42954)

Cheshire and Chester Archives and Local Studies

• Dispensing chemist's prescription book (ZCR 6872)

Cumbria Record Office and Local Studies Library, Whitehaven

• Albright & Wilson Ltd, chemical manufacturers, Whitehaven: corresp rel to sale of land at Ladysmith Pit, papers and plans rel to Marchon, shipping and the development of Whitehaven harbour, and other records (YDB 59)

Dorset History Centre

• George Henley, chemist and druggist, Lyme Regis: prescription books (D/LRM)
• Chemist, Weymouth: prescription books (D1991)

Glamorgan Record Office

• ICI Chemicals & Polymers Ltd, Dowlais: factory reports (D377)

Guildhall Library

• B Hooper and Co, chemists, London: prescription ledgers, accounts and formula book (Ms 36582-7)

Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies

• Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd, Plastics Division, Welwyn Garden City: further records (Acc 4184)

Jersey Archive

• GHF Flory, pharmacist, Jersey: cash books (JA/1014)

Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland, Record Office for

• Hawley & Johnson Ltd, dyers and finishers, Leicester: records incl sample books of yarn and papers rel to service of Lewis Dilkes as a chemist (DE6882)

Nottinghamshire Archives

• Robert I Clarke, chemist, Nottingham: records incl prescription books and poison registers (Acc 6837, 6883)
• Tom Marris, chemist, Worksop: records (Acc 6761)

Sheffield Archives

• John Dale, chemist, Sheffield: recipe book, incl medical, cosmetic and household recipes (2005/68)
• Wallace Heaton (City Sale) Ltd, photographic chemists, Sheffield: register of directors, members etc (1918-1984), share books (1918-1972), directors minutes (1964-1976) (2005/125 and Add 1)

Wandsworth Local History Service Library

• Farmer's Chemist, Putney High Street: additional records incl prescription books and poison registers (Acc05/04)

West Yorkshire Archive Service, Calderdale

• H K Woodward Ltd, chemists, Halifax: prescription books (WYC:1273)

Worcestershire Record Office, County Hall Branch

• H Talbot Cooper, dispensing and agricultural chemist and optician, Upton-on-Severn: prescription books, poisons registers and notebook (BA14176)

National

Science Museum Library

• Lyon Playfair, 1st Baron Playfair of St Andrews, chemist: out letter book as secretary, Science Division, Department of Science and Art (Z 77)

Special

Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine

• International Union of Pharmacology: additional records (SA/IUP)

University

Manchester University: John Rylands Library

• Manchester University, Department of Chemistry: records (Acc 2005/018)