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Major Accessions to Repositories in 1995 relating to Science
- N F Fletcher (1898-1992), metallurgist: personal and professional papers (MS 1867)
- Joseph Priestley, theologian and man of science: letter to a lady 1788
- Giovanni Rizzetti, scientist: draft letter to Christino [sic] Martinelli, in Italian, challenging Newtons optical experiments c1720 (Add 9282)
- Roger Cotes, Plumian Professor of astronomy and natural history: fair copy of lectures on hydrostatics and pneumatics c1730 (Add 9302)
- Anthony Askew, physician: MS notes in Latin on optics, hydrostatics and astronomy c1740 (Add 9316)
- John Keill, Scottish mathematician and astronomer: lectures on catoptics, dioptics, hydrostatica, noted by John Ivory, Oxford c1710 (Add 9317)
- Jeremiah Horrocks, astronomer: autograph MS of Venus in sole visa and other works 1639-41 (Add 9320)
- Naval Radar Trust: papers rel to development of naval radar 1935-94 (NVRT)
- Henry Ussher, astronomer: letter to M Taylor 1787 (9308/550)
- Petr Skrabanek, lecturer in epidemiology: files rel to literature on disease and its treatment (10847)
- George Thomson (1904-1979), lecturer in chemistry: papers, incl Lanark research papers, paper-making research papers, music papers (DC95)
- Charles Thomas Rees Wilson (1869-1959), physicist: publications, photographs (DC448)
- Edmondson Spencer, scientist: corresp, photographs and press cuttings 1920-32 (DDX 1863 acc 7857)
- James Johnstone, oceanographer: scrapbook 1898-1909 (D661)
- E R Drake Seager, Atomic Weapons Establishment: report on Operation Buffalo atomic tests at Maralinga, Australia 1956 with revisions 1994
- C F Goodeve, lecturer in chemistry: lecture notes (MS ADD 394)
- Sir William Jenner (1815-1898), Professor of Materia Medica: letters (5) to Charles John Fare, physician (MS MISC 3J)
- Bottomley and Barlow families, scientists and engineers, Belfast and Glasgow: records, incl letters of their kinsman, William Thomson, Baron Kelvin 1843-1924 (Acc 11263)
- William Ross, scientist, Royal Radar Establishment: corresp and scientific papers 1925-78 (Acc 11236)
- Dr Richard Price, political philosopher and mathematician: letters to William Petty, 1st Marquess of Lansdowne 1771-90 (MSS 23291-2E)
- Laurence Chalk (1896-1979): papers on wood anatomy and growth (QX 95-0017)
- Charles Russell Metcalf, Keeper of the Jodrell Laboratory, Kew: papers, incl papers rel to his book The anatomy of Dicotyledons 1950 (QX 95-0018; QX 0019)
- J D Hamilton Dickson and Sir James Dewar: letters (c90) to them, mainly rel to experiments with vacuum flasks (MS 566)
- National Physical Laboratory, Teddington: printed material rel to history 1924-57 (MS 2088)
- World Federation of Scientific Workers: updating files (MSS 270)
- British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy: minutes, council papers and committee records 1971-91 (SA/SAC)
- William Valentine Mayneord (1902-1988), radiologist/radiation physicist: corresp and notebooks (PP/WVM)
- Dr John Bates, neurophysiologist: notebooks of scientific research on EEG and Parkinsons Disease 1943-1971 with papers rel to the history of the Ratio Club, incl some of its records (GCI/79)
- Dr Hideo Noguchi, bacteriologist and immunologist: photocopies of letters to Dr Thorvald Madsen of the Danish National Serum Laboratory 1905-27 GCI/80
- Henry Edward Shortt (1887-1987), parasitologist: addnl corresp, records of experiments and writings (WTI/HES)
- Sir Graham Selby Wilson (1895-1987), bacteriologist: drafts of his unfinished book Biographical History of Medical Bacteriology (PP/GSW)
- Alan Woodruff (1916-1992), Wellcome Professor of Clinical Tropical Medicine
: corresp and papers (PP/AWW)
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