Papers relating to the foundation and early days of the journal Biometrika, 1901-1916; papers relating to the Biometrika Trust, 1935.

Papers of Sir Gavin Rylands De Beer, the majority c1939-1972, consisting of: notes and drafts for publications and lectures on the history of science and literary topics; correspondence concerning literature and De Beer's scientific work; papers from De Beer's work during the First and Second World Wars; financial and legal papers; and some personal correspondence.

Papers of John Burdon Sanderson Haldane, comprising scientific notes and papers; correspondence with publishers; scientific correspondence; general correspondence; University College London departmental files, wartime committees, and other societies; and some personal financial and domestic papers. There are also some papers of Charlotte Haldane which consist of correspondence, including letters about Women Today magazine, and bills.

Student's notes on lectures in comparative anatomy delivered by Professor Robert Edmond Grant at University College London from 4 October to 23 December 1830. There is also a printed copy of an examination paper in comparative anatomy dated 8 January 1831.

Student notebooks giving diagrams and notes for lectures on anatomy and physiology delivered by William Sharpey and Richard Quain.

Papers and correspondence, 1913-1973, of Sir Francis Martin Rouse Walshe. Personal and biographical documents and correspondence, 1913-1965, include certificates and documentation about appointments and honours; photograph of Walshe at Queen Square, 1915; papers, 1915-1920, relating to service in Egypt; papers relating to visits to the USA, 1924-1925, 1959, 1965; caricature of Walshe, 1948; letters of congratulation on Walshe's knighthood, 1953; a manuscript biographical note by Walshe prepared for the journal Brain, 1965; letters containing recollections of Walshe sent by colleagues for a memorial volume, 1973. Drafts and manuscripts of publications, speeches and addresses, some heavily revised and with later annotations and comments by Walshe, date from 1918-1972, and, besides scientific papers, include some publishers' contracts; reviews of Walshe's published works, chiefly Critical Studies in Neurology (1948) and Thoughts upon the Equation of Mind with Brain (1953); and Walshe's earliest discussion of 'miraculism' in medicine, published in the Catholic Medical Guardian, 1938. Manuscripts and printed material relating to various controversies in which Walshe was involved as a leading member of the Roman Catholic medical community include lectures on stigmatization; a letter from Walshe on the duties of lay Catholics; printed works on religious matters, 1926-1938; a memorandum, 1965, correspondence, 1960-1966, and various press cuttings and printed matter on contraception. There is various correspondence, 1922-1927, 1940-1973, some of it scientific, including a postcard to Walshe from J S Haldane, 1921, and copies of correspondence between William B Bean and Walshe, 1950-1973.

Testimonials, obituary notices, photographs, and some miscellaneous papers including a notebook.

Notebook containing students' notes of lectures by Professor Robert Edmond Grant on comparative anatomy delivered at University College London, for the session 1833-1834.

Papers and correspondence, 1846-1974, of David Meredith Seares Watson and his family, largely comprising biographical material and family papers, scientific correspondence, and photographs, also including a few Exchequer receipts, 1568-1622.

Biographical material, 1886-1974, includes Watson's birth certificate, 1886; documentation, including certificates and correspondence, of Watson's career, honours and awards over a period of forty years, including election to the Fellowship of the Royal Society, 1922, the award of its Darwin medal, 1942, and the Wollaston Medal of the Geological Society, 1965; correspondence about the Directorship of the British Museum (Natural History), 1937; correspondence about the presentation album on his retirement from the Jodrell Chair, 1951; correspondence and papers relating to his final retirement from research, 1965; obituaries, 1973; F R Parrington and T S Westoll's memoir of Watson from Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, 1974; an account of Watson's early days and family background by his daughter Janet Vida; recollections by his research assistant Joyce Townsend; Watson's curriculum vita and bibliography.

Family papers include the birth certificate of Watson's father, David, 1846, correspondence with his wife Mary, 1888, and a letter of condolence to Mrs Watson on her husband's death, 1899; diaries of Mary Watson, 1881, 1885; birth certificate of their daughter Constance, 1888, letters from Constance to her brother David Meredith Seares Watson, 1905-1909 and undated; papers relating to Katharine Margarite Watson (née Parker), Watson's wife, including her birth certificate, 1891, marriage certificate, 1917, death certificate, 1969, and various correspondence; papers relating to Watson's daughter Katharine Mary, including letters of congratulation on her birth, 1918, and letters to her parents, 1950, 1955; material relating to Watson's mother's family, including letters of her father Samuel M Seares, 1871, 1879-1882; papers of Charles J B Hutchinson, 1879-1880, who emigrated to Australia after his engagement to Watson's mother was broken off but who remained in correspondence with her aunt, Fanny Rossiter; other Parker family papers, 1929-1972; miscellaneous other personal correspondence, 1896-1965.

Four Exchequer receipts dated 1568, 1580, 1616 and 1622 were found enclosed with a letter to Watson's wife.

Scientific correspondence of Watson, sometimes including photographs of fossil specimens, with leading palaeontologists in Africa, 1947-1953, America, 1915-1964, Australia, 1931-1962, China, 1926-1927, 1935-1964, England, 1913-1914, 1920, 1926-1960, France, 1930-1936, 1945-1956, Germany, Austria, Hungary and Czechoslovakia, 1920-1962, Russia, 1920-1962, and Scandinavia, 1922-1964, and with the palaeontologist Robert Broom, 1911-1950, and Watson's research assistant Joyce Townshend, 1929-1973, also including a few letters from Watson's wife and scientific colleagues, and an obituary of Watson, 1974; correspondence and papers on bones found at Qau, Egypt, 1930-1957, 1972; miscellaneous other palaeontological correspondence, 1912-1967. There are few copies of Watson's outgoing letters before the end of the Second World War.

Photographic material comprises photographs documenting Watson's career, [1912]-1965 and undated, some including colleagues; photographs of scientific colleagues, 1911-1951 and undated, including Watson's predecessor as Professor at University College London, J P Hill, and Robert Broom; album of photographs and signatures presented to Watson, 1951; undated family photographs, including a photograph of Watson as a boy, photographs of members of the Seares and Parker families, and photographs of Watson's wife, Katharine Margarite, and daughter, Katharine Mary; photographs of unidentified fossil specimens.

Royal Society Darwin Medal Award given to Watson, 1942.

Papers of William Cribb comprising his notes on lectures by Joseph Else on diseases of the bones, [1779].

Papers of F G Parsons comprising a catalogue of Comparative Anatomy Specimens in the Museum at St Thomas's Hospital, Oct 15th 1892, containing annotated descriptions of specimens. In the back of the volume are notes and illustrations on human anatomy; file containing Parsons' notes on the ward names and their location within the hospital, 1934.
Artefacts comprise a three legged stool and two book ends made and decoratively carved by Parsons.

Papers relating to Percivall Pott, [1770-1792], comprising notes on his surgical lectures, taken by an unidentified pupil, [1770].

Notebooks of Henry Betham Robinson, 1892-1895, on anatomy, with sketches, relating to the abdomen and pelvis, 1892; lower extremity, 1893; thorax, 1894; head and neck, 1895; brain, undated; anatomy notes, 1882;

also Robinson's certificates from the University of London for degrees of Bachelor of Surgery and Medicine, 1885 and gold medal award.

Papers of Stephen James Lake Taylor, Baron Taylor of Harlow, [1925-1935]comprising an anatomy notebook containing printed text pasted into the volume, annotated and accompanied by hand drawn illustrations (undated).

Papers of John Newton Tomkins, 1831-[1834], comprising his essay on the mechanism of the circulation and the diseases of the heart and large arteries, illustrated by cases and with references to preparations in St Thomas's Hospital's Museum, [1834] (medical prize essay); surgical case notes of 110 patients admitted to St Thomas's Hospital, 1831-1832.

Manuscript volume containing notes on Robert Whytt's clinical lectures, delivered at Edinburgh University, [1760], taken by an unidentified student. Also includes some 'Directions given by the Physician General at the Havannah to the surgeons of the Army relating to the management of the sick'.

Manuscript volume, probably late 14th century, containing a collection of medical treatises by various authors, including prescriptions and treatises on medicinal herbs. With many later notes and corrections.

Papers of John Napier including professional correspondence, 1955-1983; biographical material including curriculum vitae and obituaries; typescript drafts of publications by Napier including Natural History of Primates, Primates and Their Adaptations, New World Monkeys and Hands; reviews by Napier; research material and notes on topics including yeti, structure of hands and feet, fingerprints, hands of primates and primates and early man; reviews of publications by Napier; offprints of articles by Napier and others; notebooks; notes for lectures including 'Elephants and other land giants' and photographs of hands, primates and skulls.

Hamey's papers, 1611-c.1660, include his copy of Caspar Bartholinus' (1585-1629) Anatomicae Institutiones Corporis Humani (1611), with annotations in Hamey's hand, 1611-c.1640s; Large volume of Hamey's notes on medical subjects made whilst an apprentice, 1624; Manuscript copy of his Goulstonian Lectures, in his hand, 1647/8; Commentaries on the plays of Aristophanes (c.445-c.386 BC), with indexes on Vespas, Aves, Acharnenses, Equites, and Ranas, c.1650, with critical notes and an index on Plutus, 1650, with explanatory notes and an index on Nubes, c.1650; Commentary on the Greek poets, c.1650; Biographic sketches of 85 of his contemporaries, mostly physicians but also laymen, such as Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658), c.1660; Medical notes, suggested to be corrections to the Pharmacopoeia, 17th century; and notes on the College, 17th century.

Sir Henry Head's papers, 1891-1909, consist of his casebooks of patients with Herpes Zoster, with sketches and photographs, chiefly from Head's work at the London Hospital, 1891-1909, and his casebooks of patients with various diseases, with sketches and charts, from his work at the City of London Hospital for Diseases of the Heart and Lungs, Victoria Park, 1894.

Original watercolour drawings, 1828-1844, of specimens illustrating Lee's work on the nerves of the heart and uterus, mostly by Joseph Perry. Some illustrations were used in Lee's various publications, especially his Pathological Observations on the Diseases of the Uterus, with Coloured Engravings from Original Drawings by Joseph Perry, Representing the Most Important Organic Diseases of the Uterus (London, 2 parts 1840; 1849), others are unpublished. Many are endorsed with a label identifying the illustration and a note of publication, in Lee's hand.

Sibson's anatomical drawings, c.1840-c.1860, both pathological and clinical, watercolours and pen and ink sketches, many are labelled and annotated. Many were used to illustrate his Medical Anatomy, or, Illustrations of the Relevant Position and Movements of the Internal Organs (1869) and various medical papers.

Correspondence and papers relating to the Royal Society relations with the International Council of Scientific Unions (ICSU), current files contain:

a) British National Committee for Geodynamics (BNC Geodynamics) 8 files, 1970-1980

b) International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG) 24 files, 1963-1980

c) International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) loose papers, 1980-1982

d) International Union of Radio Science (URSI) 6 files, 1968-1976

e) International Biological Programme (IBP) 4 files, 1970-1975 (but a much larger collection of IBP papers from the Society's modern records centre has been microfilmed between 2001-2005 and the originals destroyed because of their poor physical condition). The archive holds mateial relating to the International Geophysical Year (IGY), 1957-1958, particularly the establishment, administration and scientific results from the Royal Society Base at Halley Bay, Antarctica.

Ent's papers, c.1641-1685, consist of his Apologia pro Circuitione Sanguinis..., in his hand, thought to be a revision prepared for the second edition of the work, c.1641-1685. The volume also includes the texts of some of Ent's speeches, such as his presidential addresses at the College, 1670-1674, and 1676, and contains some accounts entered by Peter Ent, 1671-1674, who was in possession of the volume for a time; Ent's anatomical lectures, delivered at the College 13-15 April 1665, in his hand, 1665.

Papers of John Thomas Quekett, [1840-1854], relating to his work as Conservator of the Hunterian Museum at the Royal College of Surgeons of England, comprising diaries, 1840-1848, which include references to prominent microscopists of the time, such as Carpenter, West, Ross, Sowerby, and Smith of Smith and Beck; notebook, containing some sketches and including notes on experiments on frogs, 1841; ?draft catalogues of the Histological Series in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, and catalogue of Pathology, [c1840-1860]; catalogue of Hewson's Preparations, [c1840-1860]; unpublished part of Quekett's catalogue of histological series; Lectures on Histology delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons 1852-1854 with annotations by Quekett; notes for lectures on histology delivered in the session 1853-1853, on the structure on the skeleton of vertebrate animals, with original drawings.

Papers of Berhard Siegfried Albinus, 1721-[c1846], comprising an undated manuscript, probably containing a student's lecture notes, titled Collegium Physiologiae, [c 1721-1770]; letters from Bernhard Siegfried Albinus to Robert Nesbitt, 1721-1728; and a manuscript copy of the text and plates of Albinus' Tabulae anatomicae musculorum hominis by Thomas Howitt, [1785-1846].

Papers of Edward Charles Hulme, Student in Human and Comparative Anatomy, 1846-1848, and George Robert Skinner, Student in Comparative Anatomy, 1849-1851, comprising a volume containing notes by Hulme relating to the dissections of various animals including Chimpanzee, Sciurus Vulgaris (Red Squirrel), Cynocephalus (Phillipine Flying Lemur), Wombat, Leopard, Ateles (Spider Monkey), Elephant, and Honduras Turkey, 1846-1848; also containing notes by Skinner relating to the dissections of various animals including Rhinoceros, Puff Adder, Ostrich, a malformed foetus, and Malayan Tapir; and notes by Skinner relating to compiling a manuscript catalogue in the Museum.

Papers of Samuel Hall Wass, 1951-1954, comprising the case notes of patients at Guy's Hospital Out-Patient Department, mostly concerning the treatment of haemorrhoids, and bowel and colon complaints.

Papers of John Williams, 1844-1846, comprising notes on dissections, cataloguing and other work done whilst a Student of Anatomy at the Royal College of Surgeons of England.

Papers of John Thomas Woolhouse, early 18th century, comprising two manuscript volumes written in French and Latin, probably containing transcripts of lectures given by Woolhouse. The title on the spine reads Traite des Malad. de l'Oeil.

Papers of James Fernandez Clarke, 1829, comprising a volume titled Notes of a Reader Volume I containing information relating to topics including drunkeness; stammering; the nervous system; travels in Turkey and Palestine; classification of the animal kingdom; painters and painting; idiosyncracies; the pursuit of knowledge; poetry; juvenile delinquency; and natural history.

Papers relating to Antonio Scarpa, late 18th century, comprising a manuscript translation titled Anatomical Disquisitions on the Organs of Hearing in Man and several Classes of Animals, translated from the Latin of 'Anatomicae Disquisitiones etc Fol. Imp. Ticin. 1789' and 'de structura Fenestra Rotunda etc 4to imp Matin 1782' By Antonio Scarpa, professor of Anatomy etc.

Papers relating to Jospeh Else, c1768-1780, comprising a manuscript volume containing notes of anatomy lectures by an unknown hand; and a manuscript volume titled Mr Else's Surgical Lectures containing notes of surgical lectures by an unknown hand.

Papers of Sir James Paterson Ross, mid 20th century, comprising a St Barthlomew's Hospital notebook [?], containg addresses; information relating to the rebuilding of the Royal College of Surgeons of England after World War Two bomb damage; a card allowing Ross to remove packages without inspection, 1941; a letter thanking Ross for his lectures on the Nervous System, 15 Jul 1942; printed notes on 'Enemy Gas Attacks'; and a reprint of The Physician's Testimony for Christ by Andrew Clark, an address originally delivered in 1890.

Papers relating to William Cumberland Cruikshank, 1785-1804, comprising 9 volumes of manuscript lecture notes by Henry Nathaniel Rumsey, titled Anatomical lectures by Mr Cruikshank. Course 1st, vol. 1st, October 1785.; Anatomical lectures by Mr Cruikshank & Mr Baillie. Course 1st, vol. 2nd, 1785.; Lectures on anatomy by Mr Cruikshank. Course 1st, vol. 3rd, 1786.; Lectures on anatomy, by W. Cruikshank and Mr Baillie, course 2nd, vol. 1st, 1786; Lectures on anatomy, by W. Cruikshank and Mr Baillie, course 2nd, vol. 2nd, 1786; Lectures on anatomy, by W. Cruikshank, course 2nd, vol. 3rd, 1786; Lectures on anatomy, by W. Cruikshank, course 2nd, vol. 4th, 1786; Lectures on anatomy, by W. Cruikshank, course 2nd, vol. 5th, 1786; and Lectures by Mr Cruikshank, containing physiology notes; a volume of manuscript notes on anatomy by William Clift, titled Mr Cruikshank and Dr Baillie 1798.; and a manuscript volume containing notes on muscles, notes on Cruickshank's lectures, remarks by J Thompson, and a report from the Board of Curators concerning the skeleton of a mammoth, 1793-1804.

Papers of George James Guthrie, 1841-1856, comprising a letter from Guthrie to William Clift, 15 Jun 1841, requesting a skeleton hung up in the theatre. Clift has noted at the end of the letter "This note came a week after the date"; and an obituary for Guthrie, from the Illustrated London News, 10 May 1856.

Papers of Lord Russell Claude Brock, 1926-1977, comprising 5 volumes of surgical notebooks, 1926-1976; an undated manuscript of a book on Astley Cooper; correspondence relating to the annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England; material for a British Medical Journal article on the importance of environmental controls in the operating room and the intensive care unit, c 1975; a file of charts and readings relating to clinical temperature observations: material for a British Medical Journal article titled 'Observations on central and peripheral temperatures etc relating to shock', c 1969; and material for a Journal of Physiology article on the thermal sensors of the heart, 1977.

Papers of Thomas Moore, early 19th century, comprising a volume of manuscript notes taken at the anatomical, physiological, and surgical lectures of, presumably, Alexander Monro secundus, at the University of Edinburgh, covering topics such as sutures, lithotomy, paracentesis and hare lip; and a volume of manuscript notes titled An account of the operations of surgery taken from the lectures of Alexander Monro, professor of anatomy in the University of Edinburgh and FRS, covering topics such as gastroraphia, lithotomy, and couching cataracts.

Papers of John Herbert Hicks, c 1949-1992, comprising an unpublished manuscript titled A Clinician's Observations on Bone Behaviour; numbered folders; material relating to the foot and mechanics of the foot; publications, writings, and reprints; personal papers and ephemera; material relating to forearm fractures; material relating to Colles fractures; miscellaneous; material relating to non-union of fractures; material relating fracture fixation; clinical photographs and slide lists; material relating to sepsis and infection; material relating to corrosion; material relating to the tibia; box files; case notes; and slides and films.

Papers of Thomas Wilson, mid to late 18th century, comprising a volume containing notes by Wilson, of lectures given by John Hunter. Including notes on astronomical and mathematical topics, c 1854.

Papers of John Abernethy, early 19th century, comprising one and a half volumes of manuscript notes by R Collett, House Surgeon at St Bartholomew's Hospital and dresser to Abernethy, taken at Abernethy's lectures on surgery, c 1806; two and a half volumes of manuscript notes by an unidentified hand, taken at Abernethy's lectures on surgery, c 1806; a volume of manuscript notes by an unidentified hand, taken at Abernethy's surgical lectures at St Bartholemew's Hospital, 1806; a volume of manuscript notes by an unidentified hand, taken at Abernethy's surgical lectures; and an envelope of manuscript fragments including a slip containing Abernethy's signature; a museum admittance for [G]iles Gardner and Captain Phillips signed by Abernethy; a slip signed by Abernethy regarding a payment; and an undated letter from Abernethy regarding an absence from the College due to the illness of his mother.

Papers relating to Edmund Belfour, 1814-1965, comprising a photocopy of a receipt signed by Belfour, for the body of Martin Hogan, for dissection by the Royal College of Surgeons, London, 24 Jan 1814.

Papers of William White Cooper, 1838-1839, comprising a volume of manuscript notes by Cooper, titled of Lectures on Comparative Anatomy by Richard Owen Esqre, FRS, Hunterian Professor etc at the Royal College of Surgeons in London delivered AD 1838. Written by Wm W. Cooper from notes taken during the delivery of the Lectures, and revised and corrected by Mr. Owen.; and a volume of manuscript notes by Cooper, titled Lectures on Comparative Anatomy delivered in the Theatre of the Royal College of Surgeons in London by Richard Owen Esqre FRS, Hunterian Professor during the months May and June, 1839. From notes taken during their delivery by Wm W. Cooper and corrected by Mr. Owen.

Corrected page proof of 'Interneurons; their origin, action, specificity, growth and plasticity' by George Adrian Horridge, published in London by Freeman.

Papers of Alfred Gibbs Bourne including research notes, drawings and water-colour sketches of earthworms.

Letters, papers and original drawings including the manuscripts of Marcello Malpighi's works published by the Royal Society.

Correspondence, mainly to Martin Folkes on a large variety of subjects, including administrative matters for the Royal Society.

Presidents' correspondence and copy papers, and final report of the RCOG working party on screening for neural tube defects, 1977-1981.

Termination of Pregnancy for Fetal Abnormality in England, Scotland and Wales: report of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists working party, Jan 1996.

Obituaries of Cole, 1994, taken from the Transactions of the Institute of British Geography, the Independent, the Times, and the Royal Holloway and Bedford New College Journal. Papers relating to a Bedford College geobotanical project [Project Gamma for Trust Mining] in Botswana, 1967-1970, including receipts and financial documents, 1967-1969, concerning expenses for the land rover used in the project; copies of Geobotanical Transect Sheets and Plant Ashing Sheets, 1968-1970; carbon book, 1970, containing a monthly report by Cole on the progress of the project during March, including work completed, summary of results, lists of plant and soil samples, maps, plans and photographs; carbon books, 1969-1970, belonging to André Boshoff and containing copies of correspondence relating to the analysis of soil and plant samples and reports on the progress of the project from Feb 1969-Feb 1970; field maps of Mwaku Pan, Botswana, [1968-1970].