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Papers of J Hugh Baron including miscellaneous personal files, covering 1933-1994, including material relating to the Cogwheel report of 1967 on hospital medical administration; the 'Brown Dog' of University College London, a memorial erected by the Anti-vivisection League; and the journal Theoretical Surgery.

Annotated typescript article by Norman Rupert Barrett titled 'The contribution of Australians to medical knowledge', [1960s]

MSS. 5958-5963 comprise journals of A B Barton, mainly written while he was a medical officer in the service of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company (P & O), 1853-1858. They cover his journeys between Bombay, Singapore and Hong Kong; to the Crimea; and to the Far East. They include descriptions of the progress of the Chinese rebellion (MS. 5959), tending to and transporting the sick and wounded from Balaclava to Scutari (MS. 5960), and his shipwreck off the coast of Ceylon, together with General Henry Havelock, on the steamer Erin (MS. 5962). Some are manuscript or typescript copies. MSS. 7589-7594 comprise journals and sketches mainly relating to the Yangtse expedition, led by Captain Thomas W Blakiston, on which Barton served as a medical officer, 1861. One journal, MS. 7591, also records the end of the expedition and Barton's journey to Ceylon via Singapore, with entries on hunting expeditions in Ceylon. The journals are all fair copies. MS. 7592 comprises a narrative of the Yangste expedition read by Barton to the Royal Geographical Society, based on his journals. MS. 7593 is a series of mainly topographical illustrations relating to the expedition, comprising sketches by Barton, plus photographs and engravings based on other sketches by Barton, some of which were used to illustrate Five Months on the Yang-Tse by Thomas W Blakiston (London: John Murray, 1862). MS. 7594 comprises later papers of Brian M Gould relating to Barton and his journals, 1967 and n.d.

Papers of Thomas Basnett comprising notes on lectures on anatomy, 1775, and surgery, 1775-1776, delivered by Joseph Else (d1780).

Batty's medical notebook, c.1846-1854

Bayly's medical casebook, 1762-64

This collection contains a single manuscript volume, the 'Naval Surgeons Casebook'. The volume begins with details of cases, symptoms and cures of Nathaniel Bedford's patients at St George's hospital during 1781. The rest of the volume contains descriptions of cases, sickness, and treatments during his travels whilst a ship's surgeon in the West Indies during 1781-1783.

Journals of Sir Charles Bell's tour of Italy in 1840. Volumes contain notes and watercolour sketches.

Papers of Sir Charles Bell, early 19th century-1842, comprising drawings by Sir Charles Bell, early 19th century; and letters and miscellaneous material, 1821-1842.

Personal correspondence of William Blair-Bell, 1920-1931, including 5 photocopies of documents relating to William Blair-Bell's private practice and to his personal dress etc, 1923-1928; page of a letter sent to Blair-Bell by a firm of monumental masons relating to the churchyard memorial to his mother and brother, 1931; copy letter of Blair-Bell to the Secretary of the Royal Automobile Club complaining of treatment he had received at a hotel recommended by the RAC; letter of thanks to Blair-Bell from Dorothy Leith. Murray, wife of Herbert Leith Murray, FRCOG, and Blair-Bell's successor as Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Liverpool University; photocopy of a letter of congratulations from J M Munro Kerr to Blair-Bell, almost certainly on the latter's appointment as Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Liverpool University; photocopies of two letters to Blair-Bell from solicitors and insurers relating to a verdict of negligence against Blair-Bell in a motor accident; letter of thanks to Blair-Bell for a donation to a fund for the medical care of an individual; two letters regarding references for chauffeurs, 1924; letter from an antiquarian bookdealer, 1921; copy letter to a travel agent, 1925; letter from Sir Ewen J Maclean thanking him for a testimonial; 1921; letter relating to rental of shooting rights, 1924; correspondence with American Hospital suppliers, 1926.

Papers of William Blair-Bell, 1909-1938, relating to a range of professional subjects, including Blair-Bell's cancer research work (particularly his use of lead) and the wider organisation of cancer research; the Liverpool Medical Research Organisation; the Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of the British Empire Publishing Company; the British Congresses of Obstetrics and Gynaecology (BCOG); and Blair-Bell's nursing home and practice in Rodney Street. It also contains papers and correspondence concerning Eardiston, Blair-Bell's country estate near Oswestry; Rossall School, Preston, which Blair-Bell attended as a pupil and on whose council he later served; his wife's memorial in the church of St Chad's Haughton, Shropshire; and other personal matters. Only a small amount of material is concerned with the founding of the BCOG. Some pieces contain confidential medical records about individual patients.

Papers of William Blair-Bell, 1913-1931, comprising personal correspondence, correspondence and papers relating to the treatment of cancer, and letters relating to individual patients; casebooks, 1900-1903, 1908-1911; notebook containing physiological tracings obtained by Blair-Bell and G H Lansdown, 1893; notebook of test results kept for Blair-Bell, 1911 with case notes inserted; Blair-Bell's lecture notebooks, c1904, on topics including chemistry, insanity, anatomy, diseases of the eye, psychology, surgical pathology, zoology, physiology, intestinal obstruction, surgery, tumours: innocent and malignant, midwifery and gynaecology, infectious diseases, diseases of the gall bladder, a sketchbook of histology and loose notes on various medical conditions; notebooks entitled 'catalogue of old books belonging to W Blair Bell', divided into 'general' and 'medical', 1907 and thesis by Helen Standring, 'An investigation of the cause and treatment of uterine inertia', 1928.

Papers of Henry Bence Jones, 1803-1873, including correspondence to and from various recipients, relating to the Royal Institution of Great Britain, in particular its lectures (CG4/1&2).

Records relating to pregnancy in a dwarf, 1963-1965, include a tape recording (subject matter unknown), glass slides, photographs, x-rays and Bender's subsequent article on the pregnancy, published in the British Medical Journal, 1965:2, p 1116.

Papers of Sir James Berry, 1888-1927, comprising medical notes titled Thyroid cases- History and Correspondence, for surnames WA-WIL and WIL-ZUP; drawings and notes relating to specimens in the museums of Charing Cross Hospital, Middlesex Hospital, St Marys Hospital, Westminster Hospital, St George's Hospital, Guy's Hospital, University Hospital, St Thomas's Hospital, King's College Hospital, Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, Bristol University and Bristol Royal Infirmary; pictures of cases of hare lip and cleft palate; medical notes titled Operations for goitres- Notes of cases 1-26; 126-1549; and manuscript notes and annotations of publications Hare-lip and cleft-palate (1912), and Diseases of the thyroid gland and their surgical treatment, (1901).

administrative records, Chaplain's records, financial records, patient records, nursing records, photographs and miscellaneous records.

Two volumes of notes, on medical and chemical books, and on diseases and their treatment, c 1800-1823.

Papers of Golding Bird (1814-1854) and Cuthbert Hilton Golding-Bird (1848-1939), 1835-1900, comprising a volume of 167 autograph letters from correspondents including Thomas Addison; Samuel Ashwell; John Birkett; Richard Bright; Thomas Bryant; Thomas Calloway (junior); Frederick Le Gros Clark; Sir Astley Cooper; Bransby Blake Cooper; Sir John Rose Cormack; M[ichael] Faraday; Stephen Jennings Goodfellow; Charles Higgens; Thomas Hodgkin; Luther Holden; John Whitaker Hulke; Henry Oldham; James Paget; Frederick William Pavy; John Percy; Sir Richard Quain; Sir Edward Albert Schafer; Alfred Smee; Thomas Stevenson; John Bland Sutton; Frederick Treves; Thomas Spencer Wells; and Sir Samuel Wilkes.

Papers of the Birth Control Campaign (BCC), 1971-1977, including papers relating to Parliamentary action on wider provision of male sterilisation (vasectomy), free provision of contraception under the NHS, and general improved NHS facilities for contraception, abortion and sterilisation. There is also a large section of press cuttings, and files relating to the internal organisation of the campaign, various attempts to promote and publicise its aims, and relations with other bodies in connected fields.

Papers of John Blackman, 1822, comprising a volume of manuscript notes written by Blackman, in a printed volume outlining the lectures of Sir Astley Cooper titled Outlines of the Lectures on Surgery delivered by Sir Astley Cooper, Bart. at St Thomas's and Guy's Hospitals. Printed for the use of students. London 1822 .

The correspondence, papers and diaries of Sir Charles Blagden. Blagden's papers are interesting on several levels, generally for his close contact with European men of learning, and his relationship with Sir Joseph Banks. Blagden's professional researches are represented by medical notes in the boxed sequence. These are grouped with papers on other subject interests, including linguistics, e.g. a draft Tahitian-English dictionary, compiled from conversations with Omai, whom Blagden inoculated after Omai's voyage to England with James Cook. Blagden's interest in antiquities and travel is documented by diary entries, as is his intercourse with fellow scientists, particularly those associated with the founding of the Royal Institution.

Correspondence of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists with the Blair Bell Research Society, primarily concerning with scientific meetings held by the Society in the College, and including some minutes, 1960-1972.

Papers of Sir John Bland-Sutton, 1799-1940, comprising 9 volumes of diaries relating to the operations of private patients, 1921-1929; 13 volumes of appointment diaries, 1921-1934; an address book containing notes and press cuttings relating to Bland-Sutton, archaeology, astronomy, and medicine, c 1928-1933; volume titled Principles of Doll Surgery with manuscript additions. Including a printed page relating to the books in the Queen's dolls house, and a letter (with a copy of his reply) from Princess Marie-Louise relating to publishing a book about the books in the Queen's dolls house library; manuscript of The Story of a Surgeon (first published 1930), with author's corrections; manuscript drafts and published copies of articles on Joan Proctor, eunuchs, Lord Lister, angler fish, robber crabs and antler cutting, c 1931; papers and press cuttings relating to Bland-Sutton's publications, 1929-1933; financial records, 1929-1932; notes from Bland-Sutton to Victor Plarr, and other librarians of the RCSEng, relating to books and periodicals in the College library, 1892-1918; a letter relating to a monkey with rickets, 10 Jan 1916; press cuttings and obituaries relating to Bland-Sutton, 1936; a drawing and biography of Bland-Sutton from the Vanity Fair series 'Men of the Day no.1214'; a visitors book from 47 Brook Street, including a poem by Rudyard Kipling, 1905-1932; visitors book from Villa Vita, a gift from the Kiplings, 1935-1940; friends and family photograph album, 1903-1938; family photograph album including Persia, Egypt and Near-East, portraits, statues and the Persian Court, c 19th century; approximately 50 unidentified photographs, c 19th century; photograph and papers relating to Miss Ada Heather Bigg (elder sister of Edith Bland-Sutton), 1874-1879; and a collection of autograph letters including Viscount Horatio Nelson, Sir George Smyth Baden-Powell, and Sir Frederick Treves, 1799-1918.

Papers of Sir William Blizard, 1785-1826, comprising a volume, possibly by Samuel Helbert Israel, titled Lectures on Anatomy, Phys[iology] and Surgery by Wm Blizard RS-SA, containing manuscript notes of 27 lectures given by Blizard; letters, including a letter to L [?] Hoect, 3 Mar 1785; manuscripts, including a manuscript describing particular cases, Oct 1816; a manuscript titled The dissection of a dislocated thigh with fractures of some parts of the bones of the pelvis and other injury, July 1826. by Blizard; a manuscript copy of correspondence with Mr F C Daniel regarding Blizard's refusal to provide a certificate proving attendance as a pupil at the London Hospital, 27 Jun 1817; and an autograph signature.

Papers of Margery Kathleen Blyde comprising King's College Hospital certificates of invalid cookery, 21 Dec 1920; and completion of training 1922; General Nursing Council for England and Wales Certificate of General Registration, 16 Feb 1923; Brighton and Hove Hospital for Women and Children, certificate of attendance and instruction in midwifery, 14 Mar 1924; Central Midwives Board certificate, 9 Apr 1924; Membership of The College of Nursing, 19 Nov 1926;
humorous sketches of Sister Blyde and some of her patients, by F R Cornish, with accompanying letter, Feb 1925;
National Registration Identity card (with photograph), Aug 1940; Official Pass and Identity Card, Oct 1939; passports issued 1938 and 1967; USA Alien Registration Card [1947]; United States [of America] Departing Alien Income Tax Return, 1947;
certificate of vaccination against smallpox, 15 Apr 1947; International certificate of vaccination or revaccination against smallpox, 1969;
letters and memoranda relating to award of OBE, 1945 including also news cutting, reporting appointment, 14 Jun 1945;
invitation and papers for Garden Party at Buckingham Palace, 24 Jul 1962;
presentation album given to Blyde by members of the King's College Hospital Nurses' League, in appreciation of here service as Sister Matron, 1937-1947, containing names of League members and watercolours illustrations of flowers; presentation album from the staff at the Royal Eye Hospital, St George's Circus and Surbiton, containing the names of hospital staff; telegram conveying greetings for a reunion, 19 Jul 1947;
OBE medal, and letter from King George VI, regretting the award not being made personally, 9 Oct 1946; Defence Medal 1939-1945, and ribbons; badge of the Association of Hospital Matrons; General Nursing Council badge, 16 Feb 1923; badge of the Student Nurses Association; enamel AVF badge;
letters to Blyde relating to her retirement, from Lord Hambleden, Apr [1947]; Stella Tufton, 25 Mar 1947; Air Marshal Sir Andrew Grant, 18 Mar 1947; A S [Whittoch], Air Ministry, 29 Mar 1947;
letters to Blyde relating to her retirement from the Salisbury Hospital Group Management Committee, 1966;
ticket to the United States Senate Chamber visitors gallery, 15 Apr 1970;
Orders of service for funeral of Blyde, at St Michael, Teffont Evias, 21 Feb 1980; and Thanksgiving Service at King's College Hospital Chapel, 27 Apr 1980;
letter from Major General D H G Rice to P G C Blyde (nephew of M K Blyde) relating to donation of OBE medal to KCH, 31 Mar 1980;
black and white photographs including depicting members of the Nursing Advisory Board meeting, Sep 1941; Blyde with Evelyn Opie and M I Otway [1960s]; Blyde [attending the Festival of Britain, 1951]; Blyde with HRH Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent; portraits of Blyde; pet dog; [Garden Houses, King's College Hospital Denmark Hill]; Blyde with visitors to the Hospital;
Blyde's copy of Common disorders and diseases of childhood, G F Still, 3rd edition, Oxford Medical Publications, London, 1920

Notes on anatomy and physiology illustrated with many carefully executed anatomical drawings in coloured inks. At the end of Vol. II, are a few notes on surgery, dated 1873.

Papers of Charles John Bond, 1883-1939, comprising correspondence with various people, including Lord Joseph Lister, Victor Horsely, Sir Wilfred Grenfell, Stephen Paget, Frank Penrose, Dr Theodore Woods (Bishop of Peterborough), Sir Arthur Keith, Lord Moynihan, Dr William Mayo, Sir Thomas Barlow, Wilfred Trotter, Sir Oliver Lodge, Dr F Gowland Hopkins, Professor G Grey-Turner, Walter Fletcher, Sir Robert Jones, and Dr Whittingham (Bishop of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich), 1883-1939; papers on medical subjects and scientific experiments; notes on topics including immortality, youth and age, and the mind; biographical information; poetry; and a grace.

'Notes médicales prises dans les hôpitaux de Paris aux Cours de MM. Velpeau, Claude Bernard, Wurtz, Orfila, etc.' Produced in Paris.

(1) Bouillaud (J. B.) médecine clinique. n.d. (40 ll. + 4 bl. ll.).

(2) Velpeau (A. A. L. M.) Clinique chirurgicale. 1852 (46 ll.).

(3) - Observations de chirurgie. 1852 (32 ll.).

(4) Andral (G.) Observations de chirurgie. 1852 (46 ll.).

(5) Velpeau (A. A. L. M.) Pathologie externe. 1854 (26 ll. + 12 bl. ll.).

(6) Bernard (C.) Cours de physiologie. 1849-50 (46 ll.).

(7) Wurtz (C. A.) Chimie organique. 1849 (92 pp.).

(8) - Chimie organique. 1849 (48 ll.).

(9) - Chimie inorganique. [Incomplete] (27 ll.).

(10) Orfila (M. J. B.) Chimie inorganique (26 ll.).

(11) Velpeau (A. A. L. M.) Notes de pathologie chirurgicale. (14 ll. + 10 bl. ll.).

(12) Notes de médecine légale. (30 ll.).

(13) Notes de médecine légale. [Incomplete] (18 ll.).

(14) Notes de l'hygiène. (34 ll.).

Collection of 9 'cahiers' containing a student's notes of lectures on medicine and allied subjects: Volume 1: (1) Médecine clinique de la Charité de Paris du 7 Prairial inclus le 22 Messidor l'an 3me; [1795] (76 ll.). (2) Clinique externe de l'Hospice de l'Humanité [Hôtel-Dieu] le Paris. Maladies des os. L'an 3me de la République, [1795] (54 ll.). (3) Clinique externe de l'Hôtel-Dieu de Paris. an. xi [1803] (6 ll.). (4) Dartre [etc.]. an. xi [1804] (8 ll.). (5) Candolle (A. P. de) Physiologie végétale. an. xi [1803] (33 ll.). Volume II: (1) Vauquelin (L. N.) Chimie. Analyse des eaux minérales et chimie végétale. an. xi [1803] (54 ll.). (2) [Cuvier (G. L. C. F. D. de)] Anatomie comparée. an. xi et xii [1803, 1804] (48 ll.). (3) Dumas (C. L.) Extrait des Principes de physiologie. n.d. (30 ll.). (4) Mémoires lus à l'Académie des Sciences. n.d. (68 ll.). On Meteorology. The writer's name appears on the 5th and 6th leaves of the 'Physiologie végétale' (No. 5), in the form of a copy of a Certificate of Attendance given to Hyacinthe Bonnet by [Joseph Claude Anthelme] Récamier [1774-1752], 'Chirurgien en chef de l'Hospice de l'Humanité à Paris [Hôtel-Dieu], et professeur de l'École de Médecine à Paris, etc.' Produced in Paris.

Papers of William Francis Victor Bonney, 1898-1953, comprising the typescript and accompanying illustrations of Bonney's memoirs; 3 volumes of reprints of papers and articles written by Bonney, 1898-1938; 2 copies of a dinner speech attributed to Bonney, 1952, with accompanying correspondence; and letters to the librarian, 1924-1942.

Copies of papers relating to the Bourne Abortion Case and articles by Aleck Bourne's daughter and grandson, 1938-1993.

Committee and sub-committee minutes, annual reports and Secretary's files.

Medical log of the slave-ship LORD STANLEY, kept by Christopher Bowes the ship's surgeon between 23 March-26 July 1792. The ship traded between the African coast and the Isle of Grenada, West Indies. Of the 389 slaves on board, 16 died. The log gives the daily sick rate and there are brief notes of the cases and treatment.

At the end of the manuscript, Christopher Bowes states it is a "just and true journal" which he then presents to Custom House, at St George, Grenada in 1792. This is witnessed and signed by George Ferguson [Possibly George Ferguson, Governor of Tobago c1781]. The next page of the volume contains a statement signed by George Ferguson, saying that this is a "true copy of the original journal", and is dated September 5th 1792. Therefore it is likely that this manuscript is a copy of the original journal, which was perhaps retained in Grenada.

At the front of the volume is a letter to Arthur Bowes Elliot (grandson of Christopher Bowes) dated 5th October 1911, from Sir Ronald Ross (FRCS) 1857-1932, regarding the contents of the volume, and the diseases the slaves were suffering from.

Report to the Director General of Medical Services, Surgeon Gen Sir Arthur Sloggett, on the introduction of steel helmets, 1916.

Records of the Brain Research Association (BRA), 1968-1992, comprising committee and Annual General Meeting minutes and papers, and Honorary Secretary's correspondence. There are, however, no committee minutes after 1987 or correspondence before 1977.

Original watercolour anatomical drawings, c.300, used for plates published in Bright's Reports on Medical Cases, Selected with a View to Illustrate the Symptoms and Cure of Diseases by Reference to Morbid Anatomy (1827), also includes some unpublished pathological drawings, [1822]-[1839]. Many of the drawings are by Frederick Richard Say and C.L. Canton, those unsigned probably by Bright; Case notes, in Bright's handwriting, 1827-32

Records of the British Institute of Radiology (BIR) and its predecessors comprising:

minutes of the British Institute of Radiology meetings 1922-1943; Council, 1943-1952; Council and General meetings, 1951-1993; Special General meetings 1934-1960; Medical Committee 1928-1983 ; Museums and Library Committee 1928-1930; Library Committee 1954-1970; Organisation Committee, 1962-1963 ; Physics Committee, 1966-1974; Stanley Melville Memorial Award Committee, 1934-1935; Editorial Committee, 1924-1959; House, Finance and Staff Committee, 1938; Finance Committee, 1939-1944, 1981-1983; Finance and General Purposes Committee 1952-1962; Officers committee, 1977-1994; General Programme Committee, 1959-1992; Developments Committee, 1966; Nuclear Medicine Committee, 1968-1982; Industry Committee, 1928-1981; Radiation Physics Committee 1968-1983; Radiation Protection Committee, 1921-1985; Scientific Committee, 1968-1982; Radiation Hazard Committee papers 1961-1962;

BIR election register, with death dates annotated, 1929-1939; BIR list of members, 1926; Lists of members, 1954-1989; printed copies of BIR Yearbook and list of members, 1930-1950; printed copies of Handbook of the BIR, 1953-1966; proof copy of Handbook of the BIR, 1978 (1 file); BIR Handbook and list of members, 1991;

visitors books, 1958-1998;

papers relating to the Institute's relocation to premises at 36 Portland Place, London, including, papers relating to the appeal for funds, Lord Penny's broadcast, donors and covenants, tender documents, removal plans, architect plans, opening by the Queen, 1977-1984; letters relating to the purchase of the lease for the Welbeck St premises 1922-1924; papers relating to the Special General Meeting, 1953-1954;

BIR memorandum of objects, officers and council, 1925; articles of association, of the BIR incorporated with the Röntgen Society, 1929; royal charter, 1958; BIR Byelaws, 1959; memorandum and articles of the Society of Radiographers, 1920;

papers relating to arrangements and programme BIR Annual Congress 1954-2001; files relating to the International Congress, London 1950, Copenhagen, 1953, Munich, 1969; correspondence relating to the Royal Charter, 1959; papers relating to centenary of X-ray, 1990-1996; papers relating to amalgamation with other radiological and medical associations, 1950-1951;

papers relating to the Royal College of Radiologists' George Simon lecture, 1970s;papers relating to Sugden and Poole's experiments on oxygen tension (undated); offprints and articles by various authors, 1917-1970s;

photocopies of indexes to volumes of Patent Specifications particular to Radiology (original volumes are no longer held by the BIR), 1925-[1975]; files relating to Symposia and meetings papers; Symposium Ossium cash books, 1967-1968;

collection of BIR advertisements from the British Journal of Radiology, 1920-1994;

financial records of the BIR including Register of Seals, 1929-1978; Charities Act 1960 income tax exemptions; List of securities 1926; Detailed balance sheets, 1922-1960 (incomplete); papers relating to BIR voluntary liquidation, 1960; and Stocks and shares - award funds, [1920s];

radiology related material held by the BIR including miscellaneous financial ledger, 1904-1915; Trade catalogues for radiology equipment from various companies, [1930s-1960s]; Vinyl disc recordings (78 RPM) of a lecture given by Lord Rutherford at Goettingen on 14 Dec 1931 (8 discs); Index to transparencies illustration normal subject technique 'Radiology - a routine normal subject technique';

minutes and papers of the Radiology History Committee (now the Radiology History and Heritage Charitable Trust), 1990-1995; minutes, correspondence, and papers of the British Radiation Protection Association, 1984-1991; minutes of the International Congress of Radiology Provisional Committee, Organising Committee, and Grand Committee, 1924-1925; attendance book, 1925;

papers of F G Spear relating to British Radiation Martyrs -presented 1961; copies of letters to and from William Roentgen, 1896-1905; telegram from Lord Kelvin, 1896; news cuttings relating to radium, 1903-1904; volumes of radiographs including W A Coldwell's collection of albums of radiographs 1901-[1918] ; Albums of radiographs, Vol 1, [1896-1898] and Vol 2 [1915]; and album of x-ray plates, (undated).

photograph albums including BIR 22nd Annual Congress, 1961; BIR album compiled by Dr F Gordon Spear, President 1961-1962 [1940s-1960s]; BIR technical exhibition 1967, and 1964; Farewell to No 32 [Welbeck St, 1981]; BIR Portland Place, 1980s; Official opening [of Portland Place premises, 1982]; album of photographs of x-ray tubes, presented by the Physics Department, The City University, 1976; and other photographs 1990-1993;

glass plate negatives collection including images of Röntgen tubes [1879-1911]; X-ray tubes (37 slides) part of collection of slides listed in the 1966 BIR Handbook; large glass plate negatives of Lord Salisbury's hand, 1896; Crooke's hand; fish-lemon sole; A J Balfour's hand 1896; and Lord Kelvin's hand 1896;

x-ray plates, including Lord Salisbury's hand, 1896; and early x-ray glass slides (undated);

hospital records including Guy's Hospital, London, Radiographic Day Book, Edward W H Shenton, 1900; Hospital for Consumption, Brompton, X-ray register, 1914-1915; Middlesex Hospital radium requisition book (carbon copies), Apr 1963;

printed copy of Silvanus Phillips Thompson, his life and letters, J S and H G Thompson, T Fisher Unwin, London 1920 (containing some photos and loose papers relating to Thompson); copy of thesis 'Adult Bronchiectases', Dr Barclay, 1930.

Papers of the British Journal of Surgery, 1913-1943, comprising minutes, accounts and photographs of the Editorial Committee and Sub-Committee, 1913-1922; and minutes, accounts and correspondence of the Editorial Committee and Sub Committee, 1922-1943.

Papers of the British Medical Association compring files [1915-1960], from the following subject series: Medico-Political, Science, Groups, Ethics, Public Health, Hospitals, Organisation. Also incomplete set of copy minutes of Council, Committees and of the Annual Representatives' Meetings and Special Representatives' Meetings, [1907-1982].

Manuscripts from the collection of the British Medical Association, formerly held in the BMA Library, Tavistock Square, London. The manuscripts were numbered and catalogued at the BMA, with two exceptions among these papers - however the numbering of surviving documents is not consecutive, so that the original collection must have contained at least 26 catalogued items and an unknown number of unrecorded acquisitions. Former BMA MSS.1-6 (transferred at the same time as the manuscripts described here) are now GC/140; one fugitive BMA manuscript was purchased separately and is now MS. 6881. The location of the remainder is not known. The contents mainly comprise transcripts of medical lectures and case notes.

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 or relating to Sir Benjamin Brodie comprising case notes taken by Brodie as House Surgeon at St George's Hospital, 1805-1851, and include details of experiments on guinea pigs, 1817-1826 and notes of lectures on madness delivered by Dr Sutherland at St Luke's Hospital, 1851; surgical cases and commentaries by Brodie, 1805-1807 (2 volumes); hospital notes, 1813-1816; case books, 1821-1834, including letter from Mrs Marion Warren Harries, St Thomas' Rectory, Haverfordwest, requesting new prescription for her throat, 29 Dec 1840; case notes, 1824-1827; note book containing extracts from Wallace Dublin on venereal disease, 1833, and case notes 1827-1828; case notes, 1849; case notes, 1839-1854 (3 volumes); case notes, 1829-1830, 1838-1839, 1854 (4 volumes); case notes of Hugh Rowen, 73 Henry Street, 1815; case book, 1820-1860. Lectures and related notes, comprising 'An essay on the principles of science', read to the Academical Society, 1802; 'Analysis of the principal memoirs of the French Academy of Surgery', 1808; 'An introduction to comparative anatomy and physiology', introductory lectures delivered at the Royal College of Surgeon, 1816; introductory lecture of anatomy and physiology, 1820; notes of lectures on anatomy, 1820; notes of lectures delivered by Brodie, taken by Gregory Smith, 1827 (4 volumes); notes of lectures delivered by Brodie, taken by Henry Johnson, 1830; notebook containing: 42 lectures, undated, lecturers name not given, including clinical lectures by Brodie, 1839-1840; introductory discourse to the students of St George's, 1843, including testimonial given by Brodie to Dr Morson, 12 Dec 1834; 'Psychologia', 1851; physiological experiments and observations, 1810-1817; selections from notes of Brodie's physiological experiments and observations, 1812-1826; notes of lectures on the practice of medicine, 1816; notes of symptoms, 18th-19th centuries; commonplace book, undated. Other material, comprising notes of anatomical lectures delivered by Thomas Tatum and Henry James Johnson, taken by John Morgan, School of Anatomy, Kinnerton Street, 1837-1839; notes of lectures on structural anatomy and physiology delivered at the Hunterian School of Medicine by William Vesalius Pettigrew, 1840-1846; copy of an address presented by the students of St George's to G G Babington on his retirement as Surgeon to St George's, with his reply, 1843; testimonial presented to George D Pollock, on his retirement as Consulting Surgeon to St George's, 1882; notes taken by Dr Charles Slater while attending a course in bacteriology at the Pasteur Institute, 1893; case notes of Dr Marriott Fawckner Nicholls, 1933-1934.

Note: this collection is currently on loan to the Royal College of Surgeons.

Papers of Isobel Christine Stewart Brown comprising University of London Diploma of Sister-Tutor, 10 Oct 1957; King's College Hospital (KCH) certificate of training, 1947-1949; KCH Nursing School certificate of first place in the Final Examinations, and Monk Memorial Prize, 26 Oct 1949; KCH Nursing School certificate awarding the Monk Memorial Prize, Sep 1949;
file containing copy of Brown's application for appointment as and District Nursing Officer, King's Teaching District of the Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham Area Health Authority (Teaching) ; copy of contract of employment as Chief Nursing Officer, Jan 1974; Brown's correspondence; papers relating to the staff structure Senior Nursing staff 1970; papers relating to the Professional Services Committee, International Council of Nurses; papers relating to elections to the Council of the Royal College of Nursing, 1973; carbon copy of Brown's curriculum vitae; papers re nomination to Regional Hospital Boards, 1971; minutes of meeting with Divisional Nursing Officers and Director of Nurse Education to discuss alterations in the Management Structures, 5 Nov 1976;
certificate of the United States Army School, Europe, Executive and Career Development Department for completion of Personnel Management for Executives Programme, 11-20 Mar 1970; brochure for the Army Regional Training Centre, US Army School, Europe, Oberammergau, on Personnel Management for Executives [1970s];
typescript paper `Communication within and among nursing organisations' presented to the International Council of Nurses Congress, Frankfurt, Jun 1965, by Christine Brown, representing the Royal College of Nursing and National Council of Nurses of the United Kingdom;
invitation to Miss Isobel Brown, KCH, to attend the Queen's Garden Party, Buckingham Palace, Jun 1979;
letter from the Prime Minister's Principal Private Secretary relating to the recommendation of Brown for appointment as an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE), 1 May 1981, with related correspondence, 1981-1982; OBE medal and ribbon and British Empire Brooch; certificate of The International Council of Nurses in recognition of services during term of office as a member of the Professional Services Committee, 1973-1981;
two cards signed by many staff on the occasion of Brown's retirement; menu for dinner of the Sisters of KCH to mark the retirement of Brown, 22 Apr 1982;
black and white photograph [Brown and HM Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother];
typescript biography of Brown.

Papers of Richard Wilson Brown, 1821-1823, comprising a volume of manuscript notes taken by Brown at the lectures of Sir Astley Cooper (1821-1822), Joseph Henry Green, and John Abernethy (1822); including notes from Sir Charles Bell's Operative Surgery, 1823.

The correspondence, papers and scientific notebooks of Sir George Lindor Brown. The majority of notebooks relate to the investigations of Brown and his co-workers (notably Feldberg, Harvey and Maycock) at the National Institute for Medical Research, Hampstead, into neuromuscular transmission. The correspondence and remaining papers cover Brown's administrative work in the decades from the 1950's. His relationships with the Royal Society and the Medical Research Council are well represented. The papers include personal files, correspondence with institutions and individuals, working scientific notes and sets of slides.

Papers of John Browne, 1675-1679, comprising a manuscript copy of John Browne's treatise on the muscles of the human body, dedicated to Charles II, and titled Myotomia, or the Anatomicall discourse of all the muscles of Humane body as they appeare in dissection collected, written and drawne by John Browne sworne Chirurgeon to the King, 1675. Containing letters and inscriptions from supporters of the publication of the volume, including Edmund Dickinson, Physician to the King's person and family, 24 Mar 1678-1679; Walter Needham, Charterhouse, 14 Apr 1679; Thomas Allen MD, Physician in Ordinary; Edward Warner, Physician in Ordinary; Edmund King, Physician in Ordinary to his Majesty; Gulielm Sanders MD; Hugh Chamberlen, Physician in Ordinary to his Majesty; A P Frasier; Charles Scarburgh; and Censors (of the Royal College of Physicians): Joannes Micklethwaite, Thomas Witherley, Samuel Collins, Thomas Millington, and Edvardus Browne. Including 36 tables of drawings.

The archive spans Browne's career from school onwards, but the core series of records focus on his work as a medical missionary at the BMS hospital in Yakusu, Belgian Congo (now the Democratic Republic of Congo). Section B comprises records for the period 1938-1958, including registers of leprosy sufferers, case records and photograph albums documenting various symptoms. Section K contains further photographs (mainly clinical) for the period 1938-1977, the most important series of which dates from Browne's time at the Baptist Mission Hospital and comprises over 900 negatives and prints together with supporting documentation, 1954-1958.

Section C contains a small number of files compiled by Browne during his research into leprosy, yaws, onchocerciasis and ainhum, 1946-1983. Particularly notable are the files on the anti-leprosy drug B663 (now known as clofazimine), into the use of which Browne conducted pioneering studies whilst director of the Leprosy Research Unit, Uzuakoli, Eastern Nigeria, 1959-1966.The remaining records comprise personal and biographical material, 1923-1985 (section A); general subject files containing correspondence, reprints etc. on a wide variety of topics, 1948-1986 (section D); writings by Browne, 1935-1985 (section E); records of Browne's involvement with the International Leprosy Association, 1909-1985 (section F) and various other organisations, 1959-1986 (section G); records on foreign visits, 1965-1985 (section H); and a few files on religious matters, 1959-1984 (section J).

The papers relate exclusively to Bryce's service for the Society of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeons. The material is principally correspondence but includes minutes, agendas and circulars and a sequence of printed membership booklets, 1934-1958. There are papers relating to the foundation of the Society in 1933, including the replies to the original invitations to join the Society (sent out by Bryce), to relations between the Society and the American Association of Thoracic Surgeons, and to overseas visits of the Society to Switzerland in 1934 and to Berlin and Bruges in 1937. Later material reflects the adjustments necessitated by the Second World War and the establishment of the National Health Service.

Papers, 1942-1976 (some undated), written and collected by Dr Roger Bryce-Smith, comprising typescript dissertation on Extradural Anaesthesia for the degree of Doctor of Medicine, University of Oxford [1955]; unpublished typescript lecture on the history of anaesthesia by Bryce-Smith, undated; copies, offprints and cuttings of articles from the British Medical Journal, Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine, and other publications, 1892, 1946-1976, including some articles by Bryce-Smith; printed and typescript papers on the history of anaesthesia in the USA and UK in the 19th and 20th centuries, largely undated [1950s]; printed and typescript papers on local analgesia, 1942-1974, including notes on earlier publications and copy of an article of 1890; printed papers on anaesthesia from the Postgraduate Medical Journal, xxiv, no 276 (Oct 1948); printed booklets and leaflets on various drugs, one dated 1949.

The majority of the collection is made up of journals kept by Buckle during the years 1866-1870, during which he travelled to South America, South Africa and Australia (there are also periods during which he was stationed at Portsmouth). There are some lacunae in the sequence of diaries. There is also one autograph album kept by Buckle relating partly to his own affairs (his application to become House Surgeon at the West Norfolk and Lynn Hospital, 1863-1864) but also including older material predating his birth.