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Royal College of Surgeons Department of Pharmacology Orderbooks

IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0120 GC/183

Held at: Wellcome Library

Title: Royal College of Surgeons Department of Pharmacology Orderbooks

Date(s): 1954-1967

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 3 large boxes

Name of creator(s): Royal College Of Surgeons of England

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

In 1745 a split in the Company of Barber-Surgeons [est. 1540] led to the formation of The Company of Surgeons. The Company of Surgeons obtained a Royal Charter in 1800 and became the Royal College of Surgeons of London. A new charter in 1843 led to the current name The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Royal College of Surgeons Department of Pharmacology Orderbooks: 77 order books of equipment and supplies for laboratory run by WD Paton, 1954-1967.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Conditions governing access:

The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

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.

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

These were found in a cupboard in the Department of Pharmacology, Royal College of Surgeons, and given to the Contemporary Medical Archives Centre by Dr Helen Cox of the Department in October 1995.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

Existence and location of copies:

Related material:

Paton's papers are also held (PP/WDP), as are order and account books of the Bristol Department of Physiology, 1925-1980 (GC/108).

Publication note:

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

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