Major accessions to repositories in 2012 relating to Pharmacy and Chemistry

Local

Cambridgeshire Archives

• Colin Beale, chief chemist at Spicer Dufay-Chromax ltd, Sawston: coloured cine film of the Beale family, colour slides and prints and published papers c 1932-1950 (R112/015)

Ceredigion Archives

• J. Miall Jones, chemist, Aberystwyth: records (MUS/82)

Cheshire Archives and Local Studies

• Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain: Cheshire and District and South Cheshire branches: minutes and records 1939-2010 (D 8279)

Highland Archives: Lochaber Archive Centre

• Macfarlane & Son, chemists, Fort William: cash books, poisons register, corresp, testimonials, newscuttings c1960-1999 (L/D115)

Special

Aberdeen Medico-Chirurgical Society

• Will Chemists (Inverurie) Ltd: pharmacy registers 1921-1952 (AMCS/4/11/17)

Wellcome Library

• Stephen Irwin Abrams, American scholar of parapsychology and drug policy activist: papers covering topics such as Extra-Sensory Perception, cannabis law reform and the work of the SOMA organisation, LSD and other psychedelics and alchemy c1950-2005 (PP/SAB)