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Macfarlane, Robert Gwyn


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0120 PP/RGM

Held at: Wellcome Library

Title: Macfarlane, Robert Gwyn

Date(s): [1930-1986]

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 12 boxes

Name of creator(s): Macfarlane | Robert Gwyn | 1907-1986 | haematologist and biographer

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born, 1907; CBE,MD,FRCP, FRS; Haematologist and biographer; died, 1986.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers of Robert Macfarlane relating to his research, mainly on blood coagulation; notes and drafts for his biographies of Sir Alexander Fleming and Lord Florey, [1930-1986].

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Conditions governing access:

The majority of the papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking. PP/RGM/B.3 is closed until 1 Jan 2010.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Photocopies/photographs/microfilm are supplied for private research only at the Archivist's discretion. Please note that material may be unsuitable for copying on conservation grounds, and that photographs cannot be photocopied in any circumstances. Readers are restricted to 100 photocopies in twelve months. Researchers who wish to publish material must seek copyright permission from the copyright owner.

Finding aids:

The catalogue to this collection has not yet been fully converted to electronic form: for detail, and to order material, see hard-copy list available in the Wellcome Library. Copies of the catalogue are available on request.

Collection level description available on-line on the Wellcome Library website

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

ALLIED MATERIALS

Related material:

See A and M sources leaflet: War, Medicine and Health after 1918.

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note: Copied from the Wellcome Library catalogue by Sarah Drewery.

Rules or conventions: In compliance with ISAD (G): General International Standard Archival Description - 2nd Edition (1999); UNESCO Thesaurus, December 2001; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: Jan 2009


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Anti-bacterial agents | Anti-infective agents | Therapeutic uses | Pharmacologic actions | Chemical actions and uses
Haematology | Internal medicine | Medical sciences
History of medicine | History
Specialties, medical

Personal names
Fleming | Sir | Alexander | 1881-1955 | Knight | bacteriologist
Florey | Howard Walter | 1898-1968 | Baron Florey | pathologist
Macfarlane | Robert Gwyn | 1907-1986 | haematologist and biographer

Corporate names

Places