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East African Tsetse and Trypanosomiasis Research and Reclamation Organisation


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0120 WTI/EAT

Held at: Wellcome Library

Title: East African Tsetse and Trypanosomiasis Research and Reclamation Organisation

Date(s): 1950-1976

Level of description: Collection level

Extent: 1 box

Name of creator(s): East African Tsetse and Trypanosomiasis Research and Reclamation Organisation
East African Trypanosomiasis Research Organisation

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The East African Trypanosomiasis Research Organization (formerly called the East African Tsetse and Trypanosomiasis Research and Reclamation Organization) was based in Tororo, Uganda. Its Director, from 1957 to 1963 was William Hepburn Russell Lumsden, MD, FRSE, FRCP(Ed) (b 1914).

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

The collection is a small one, comprising two main sections: photographs of EATTRRO (including buildings, individuals and procedures), 1958-1961; and Annual Reports, 1949-1974.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Divided into photographs and Annual Reports.

Conditions governing access:

Open. 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.

Finding aids:

Online catalogue available on the Wellcome library website.

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

The photographs (Sections A-J) were given to the Wellcome Tropical Institute in November 1988 by William Hepburn Russell Lumsden, former director of the East African Trypanosomiasis Research Organization. In 1989 the archives of the WTI were transferred to the Wellcome Library.

The Annual Reports comprising Section K (Acc.No.959 part) were given to the Wellcome Library in July 2001 by Pamela Lumsden, wife of W.H. R. Lumsden.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Related material:

Other papers given at the same time as section K have been catalogued separately as the papers of W.H.R. Lumsden (PP/LUM).

DESCRIPTION NOTES Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: May 2008


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Trypanosomiasis | Tropical diseases | Diseases | Pathology
Medical research

Personal names

Corporate names
East African Trypanosomiasis Research Organisation
East African Tsetse and Trypanosomiasis Research and Reclamation Organisation

Places
East Africa