Collection GB 0120 GC/62 - Dressel, Dr, and 'Bayer 205'

Identity area

Reference code

GB 0120 GC/62

Title

Dressel, Dr, and 'Bayer 205'

Date(s)

  • 1914-1923 (Creation)

Level of description

Collection

Extent and medium

1 box

Context area

Name of creator

Biographical history

It has not been possible to discover any biographical information about Dressel; one can assume on internal evidence that he was an employee of Farbenfabriken Bayer Aktiengesselschaft involved in research into new drugs.

Archival history

GB 0120 GC/62 1914-1923 Collection 1 box Dressel , Dr

Farbenfabriken Bayer Aktiengesselschaft

It has not been possible to discover any biographical information about Dressel; one can assume on internal evidence that he was an employee of Farbenfabriken Bayer Aktiengesselschaft involved in research into new drugs.

These items were originally presented to the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum by the Farbenfabriken Bayer Aktiengesselschaft via Dr J H A Wilpert, in or about June 1956, along with two specimens of 'Bayer 205' which have not been found. In 1982 during the process of transferring the contents of the Wellcome Museum to the Science Museum and elsewhere the items below were found by Richard de Peyer, the Transfer officer, in the strong room of the Wellcome Museum, and were handed to him to the Contemporary Medical Archives Centre.

Laboratory notebook, copybook of reports, patent applications relating to the development of compounds in the Bayer 205 series, [1914-1923].

As set out above in Scope and Content.

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.

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.

German

Wellcome Library online catalogue.

Entry compiled from Wellcome Library online catalogue by Barbara Ball.

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.

September 2008 Chemical industry Pharmaceutical industry Industry Drug Industry Manufacturing industry Pharmacology Laboratory notebooks Notebooks Documents Information sources

Immediate source of acquisition or transfer

These items were originally presented to the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum by the Farbenfabriken Bayer Aktiengesselschaft via Dr J H A Wilpert, in or about June 1956, along with two specimens of 'Bayer 205' which have not been found. In 1982 during the process of transferring the contents of the Wellcome Museum to the Science Museum and elsewhere the items below were found by Richard de Peyer, the Transfer officer, in the strong room of the Wellcome Museum, and were handed to him to the Contemporary Medical Archives Centre.

Content and structure area

Scope and content

Laboratory notebook, copybook of reports, patent applications relating to the development of compounds in the Bayer 205 series, [1914-1923].

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling

Accruals

System of arrangement

As set out above in Scope and Content.

Conditions of access and use area

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.

Language of material

  • English

Script of material

  • Latin

Language and script notes

German

Physical characteristics and technical requirements

Finding aids

Wellcome Library online catalogue.

Allied materials area

Existence and location of originals

Existence and location of copies

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Description identifier

Institution identifier

Wellcome Library

Rules and/or conventions used

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.

Status

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Dates of creation revision deletion

Language(s)

  • English

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