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Two autographed prescriptions by Robert Batty, one 'for Mrs Ray's child', 5 Jul 1807 and one 'for Miss A Ray', 28 Jul 1807.

Letters to Robert Sydenham Fancourt Barnes, 1853-1892, including from the following: Etienne-Jules Marey; Sir William MacCormac; Sir Thomas Spencer Wells; Jonathan Hutchinson; Alexander Simpson; Giuseppe Chiarleoni; the Société Impériale de Médecine, Constantinople; Francis Neugebauer; William Smoult Playfair; Charles Warner; John Hall Davis and Alfred Meadows.

Papers of Robert Barnes, c 1838-1891, including a series of 46 notebooks, c 1838-1891, two of which contain more extended sections of case material.Typically these volumes include notes and cuttings on books and articles by other authors. Also included are a few items of correspondence, illustrations and case material. Two of these notebooks are of a combined noted and cases format i.e diary entries on visits to own or colleagues' patients rather than as supporting second-hand information or for reference. Case books, c 1846-1863, comprising General Practice (Including male patients) and Obstetric (Obstetrical and Gynaecological patients). Reports as Medical Officer of Health, Shoreditch, 1857-1859 and birth, mortality and temperature Charts of sufferers of scarlatina, 1875-1884.

Private case records of Keith Vernon Bailey, bound in one volume, relating to cases treated by Bailey at Altrincham General Hospital, Cheshire, during 1933.

Records of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists' Audit Committee and predecessors, 1961-1999, comprising general correspondence, minutes and papers, 1961-1999; records relating to the Standard Maternity Information System and the National Perinatal Pathology Survey, 1980-1986, the Perinatal Definitions Working Party, 1968-1980, the Information and Computing Sub-committee, 1981-1987, and the Maternity Data-sets Sub-group, 1996-1998; records of the Audit Unit, Manchester, 1992-2007; records relating to particular projects overseen by the committee in the 1980s and 1990s including on the use of caesarean section for pre-term breech deliveries, late abortion and minimally invasive surgical techniques for the treatment of metrorrhagia; working group reports on standards in gynaecology, obstetrics and maternity care, 1995.

Papers of Vivian Bartley Green-Armytage, 1915-1967, comprising certificates as Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, 1952, Foundation Fellow of the British College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, 1930, as officier and chevalier of the Legion d'Honneur, 1958, 1967, Membre D'Honneur of the Societe Francais de Gynaecologie, undated; display labels for the display cabinet, and certificate of Green-Armytage having been mentioned in a despatch during action in World War One, 1915.

A number of manuscripts in Farsi bound into a single volume, including a calendar; a circular calendar or almanac; a reproduction of the zodiacal man showing the sites of injuries and disease and indicating the most favourable sites for application and treatment; a diagram of the seven planetary circles and a number of sonnets. There is an inscription in French on the inside cover indicating that the manuscript contains Islamic prayers for use in Mosques and a calendar of their usage.

Copy of a manuscript volume containing pharmaceutical recipes according to the teachings of Najm Aldean Ayyûb by his student [Abu Muhammed Abdullah Ahmad Dija]. The manuscript is dated 890 in the Islamic calendar (1469 in the Gregorian calendar), this is thought to be the date of the original manuscript of which this is a copy.

Papers of the RCOG Antenatal and intrapartum care working party, 1979-1982, comprising Minute book, 1979-1982; Committee meetings' papers, 1979-1982; Agenda and minutes of all meetings, 1979-1982; Committee chairman's and secretary's correspondence, 1979-1982; Pamphlets, etc, of National Childbirth Trust, Health Education Council, and Scottish Health Education Unit, and related correspondence, 1980; Health authority, hospital, and other professional bodies' documents on antenatal and perinatal care, 1979-1980; Published report, 1982; Circulation of published report, 1982; Responses to published report, 1982.

Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists reports running annually from 1930 to the present; numbers 1-3, 6-10, 17-19, 21 are missing, but one memorandum has survived from No.3. For each year, the Report lists the Honorary Fellows and Officers and reports on the following: honorary appointments and adminstration; the structure of the College; Council Membership; New Fellows and Members; the annual general meeting; awards; overseas activities; obituaries; gifts; RCOG publications; financial activites. It also includes reports of Council and from the standing committees, representative committees, reference committees and other committees of note, and a full financial report from the College Treasurer.

Records of the Annual General Meetings of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, 1929-1976, comprising attendance book, 1930-1968; minute book of the first to the tenth annual meetings, 1930-1976.

Five pen and ink cartoons made by Sir Anthony Alment concerning the controversies surrounding the establishment of the National Health Service, and the views of the medical profession, [1946-1948].

Leaflet printed in England in 1948 by the Indian office of Allen & Hanburys Ltd, advertising a head extractor for use in performing the lower segment caesarean section as devised by Bryan C Murless, FRCOG, of Durban.

Papers of the Ad hoc committee/interdisciplinary working party on the confidential enquiry into perinatal mortality, 1981-1985, comprising correspondence on setting up the meetings, copies of minutes, draft guidelines and comments.

Records of the Ad Hoc Committee to Advise on Obstetric Analgesia and Anaesthesia Including all Methods of Relief of Pain in Labour, 1970-1975, comprising Sir Norman Jeffcoate's correspondence and papers relating to committee matters.

Correspondence of Sir Norman Jeffcoate and Sir Stanley Clayton, background papers, copy minutes and the final report, 1971-1973, of the RCOG Ad hoc committee on staffing structure of departments of obstetrics and gynaecology.

Records of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists' Academic Committee, 1996-2007, comprising agenda, minutes and papers.

Records of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists relating to the Abortion Act 1967 and subsequent amendments, 1964-1982, comprising the principal files of College presidents on the Abortion Act 1967 and the College's involvement in the issue of abortion, from the presidency of Sir Hector MacLennan to the first year of that of Sir Rustan Feroze, plus papers relating to a College enquiry into the first year of the 1967 Act and the College's joint study with the Royal College of General Practitioners of attitudes to pregnancy. The files contain correspondence, reports, copies of the abortion bill, legal opinions, evidence and responses of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists to the Lane Committee of Inquiry, copies of Hansard, memoranda and pamphlets on abortion, press cuttings.

Manuscript abbreviated version of the Qanun (trans: The Canon of Medicine) of Ibn Sina (Avicenna).

Correspondence, primarily that of the Chairman, Harold Malkin, minutes and the draft report, 1962, of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists' Sub-committee to consider the government white paper A Hospital Plan for England and Wales, 1962.