Major accessions to repositories in 2008 relating to Pharmacy and Chemistry

Local

Aberdeen City Archives

• Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, Aberdeen and North East Scottish branch: minute books, ledgers, corresp, publications, subject files c1839-1990 (DD/1156)

Brent Archive

• Frederick James Mills, pharmacist and chemist, Willesden: accounts, with notes on optics when a student (1920s) 1946-63 (2/2008)

Cornwall Record Office

• Unnamed chemist, Fowey and Bodmin: prescription books 1800-2000 (AD1933)

Flintshire Record Office

• Hawarden Pharmacy: prescription, poisons and dangerous drugs registers 1921-80 (AN4160)
• Williams & Son, pharmacist, Mold: prescription book 1885-1915 (AN4154)

Gloucestershire Archives

• WH Hampton, chemist, Gloucester: prescription books 1834-1914 (D2914)

Lambeth Archives Department

• JW Rumsey & Son, chemist, West Dulwich: prescriptions, returns and receipts books c1920-49 (2008/16)

Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester

• Duckworth & Co, manufacturing chemists, Manchester: records incl sales ledgers and product labels 1890-2006 (2006.46)

North Devon Record Office

• FE Battershill, chemist, Barnstaple and Braunton: prescription books 1924-1941 (A211)

North Yorkshire County Record Office

• GF Hird, chemist, Northallerton: pharmacy records, prescription books, corresp 1936-83 (ZFI)

Oxfordshire Record Office

• T Goodman, chemist, Banbury: prescription books 1817-43 (Acc 5793)

Peterborough Archives Service

• Boots Co Ltd, pharmaceuticals manufacturers and retailers: Peterborough branch prescription books 1894-1923 (PAS/BOOT)

Plymouth and West Devon Record Office

• Unnamed chemist, Plymouth and South East Cornwall: prescription books 1846-1890 (G186)

Powys County Archives Office

• Unnamed chemist, Radnorshire: prescription book 1881-87 (R/BI/3)
• Unnamed chemist, Montgomeryshire: prescription book 1869-98 (M/BI/6)

Sheffield Archives

• Chemist and druggist, Sheffield: prescription books (2), for chemist possibly named Harrison 1832-1839 (X171)

Sutton Local Studies & Archives Centre

• Westlake Pharmacy, Sutton: prescription books 1875-1900 (Accession 760)

West Glamorgan Archive Service

• Melincryddan Chemical Works: wages book 1841-47 (D/D Z 703)

Special

Royal Institution of Great Britain

• Peter Day, professor of Chemistry: papers incl corresp, lecture and research notes c1970-1998 (RI MS PD)

University

London University: King's College Archives

• Stephen Finney Mason, professor of chemistry: papers 1859-2007 (K/PP174)

Manchester University: John Rylands Library

• Sir Edward Frankland, chemist and Percy Faraday Frankland, chemist: corresp and papers (2008/042)
• William Henry Perkin, chemist: lecture notebook 1893 (2008/039)

Reading University: Museum of English Rural Life

• Walter Gregory & Co Ltd, animal medicine producers, Crawley: recipe books and photographs 1869-1939 (DX1797)