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Notes from the lectures of George Fordyce at his house in Essex Street, Strand, for a period extending over 30 years on subjects including clinical lectures, acute diseases, chemistry, chronic diseases, diseases of women and children, materia medica and the natural history of the human body. Transcribed, mainly from short-hand notes, by Henry Rumsey, one of his pupils, 1785-1787.

Text of oration on the improvement of medicine given by Saunders, 27 Jan 1790.

Papers of William Savory comprising notes on Henry Cline's lectures on anatomy and surgery, 1789 (missing the lectures on surgery), and including a few notes from the clinical lectures of John Rutherford;
also notes on William Saunders' lectures on the theory and practice of physic, 1788,

Collection of short works of Thomas Scattergood, mostly on physiological subjects. Author's holograph MSS. Produced in Leeds, 1845-1876.

Holograph manuscripts of publications by Joseph von Schneller, notes, and some material by other persons collected by von Schneller, 1837-1885.

Papers of Charles Dagge Seager, c 1800, comprising a manuscript transcript by Seager, of the notes taken at lectures on surgery by John Hunter, arranged into aphorisms by Charles Brandon Trye.

Papers of William Sharpey including copy letters, correspondence including from Neil Arnott, George Gabriel Stokes and James Newton Heale and notes by Sharpey, some on Royal Society business.

John Sheldon's notes on lectures by Alexander Monro on anatomy and surgery, delivered at Edinburgh [1770].

George Edward Shuttleworth's note-books, etc. on mental diseases, especially in children. Author's holograph MSS. Produced in Lancaster and London, 1861-1923.

Manuscript lecture notes taken by an unknown student from lectures delivered by Alexander Russell Simpson on midwifery and the diseases of women during session 1879-1880.

Manuscript notes on the subject of midwifery taken by Alexander Gray McIntyre from the lectures of Sir Alexander Russell Simpson, 1891-1892.

Manuscript notes on midwifery taken by James William Miller of Dundee from the lectures of Sir James Young Simpson, at the University of Edinburgh, c 1857.

Two volumes: 'Institutiones medicae' and 'Institutiones medicae practicae'. The spines are inscribed 'Lib. I' and 'Lib II' in wrong order, as the 'Institutiones medicae practicae' labelled 'Lib I' should follow the 'Institutiones'. Notes of a course of lectures by an anonymous student: the date 1705 is found on p. 37 of the second volume. The text has been identified by comparison with MS. 4614, which contains a somewhat abbreviated version of the present first volume. Produced in Rome.

Notes from Giuseppe Sisco's lectures on surgery including 'Lezzioni di chirurgia' with Antonio Trasmondi, 1834.

Systematic Surgery lectures by Archibald Adam Scott Skirving taken by Mul Raj Soni [ -1948]. Produced in Edinburgh.

Papers of Thomas Smart comprising lecture notes of 'Mr Cline's physiological, anatomical, and chirurgical lectures', [1790], delivered 1786-1787, taken by Smart when a student.

The papers of R.W. Innes Smith chiefly relate to his research into various aspects of medical history and biography during the 1920s and early 1930s; and in particular to his interest in British medical students at European universities in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries, which led to the publication of his book English-speaking students of medicine at the University of Leyden (Oliver & Boyd: Edinburgh, London, 1932). His papers also include three notebooks dating from his time as a medical student, c1900, but apart from these all the papers appear to date from after 1920. A small number of related items, c1933-c1935, were added to the collection by Innes Smith's daughter after his death.

Minute books of the Society of Apothecaries, 1629-1675.

Archives of the Society of Radiographers (SOR) comprising:

minutes of the proceedings of Council of the Society of Radiographers 1920-1998; Reports to Council from various committees, 1960-1973; index to minutes of council and other meetings, 1920-1956; attendance book for SOR meetings, 1947-1956;

minutes of the Public Relations Committee, 1956-1975; minutes of the SOR Executive Committee/General Purposes Committee, 1991-1996; SOR Finance and General Purposes Committee minutes and agenda, 1956-1991; SOR Salaries and Services Committee minutes, Oct 1954-Apr 1981; minutes of the Radiotherapy Advisory Committee, 1968-1975; the Liaison Committee with the Faculty of Radiologists, Dec 1971, and the Liaison Committee with the Hospital Physicists Association, Sep 1971 (1 vol); minutes of the Isotopes and Nuclear Medicine Sub-committee, 1969-1974; minutes and papers of the Senior Management team minutes and papers 1999-2001; External Affairs Advisory Committee, 1998-2001; and Policy Resources Committee, 1998-2000;

minutes of the College of Radiogaphers, 1977-1997;

signed records of receipt of Diploma of Membership, 1936-1940; membership registers, 1921-1935, listing names and whether subscription paid; Printed membership lists, 1929-1930, 1933, 1934;

printed Branch Regulations, 1972, 1982; Memoranda and articles of association, 1988, amended 1990;

printed Annual Reports and accounts, 1971-2003;

Branch and Section records comprising:
South West Branch (inaugurated Jan 1937) - minutes of the Committee South West Branch of the Society of Radiographers, 1959-1985; minutes of the South West Branch, 1937-1949; minutes of the South West sub-section of the Branch , 1947-1974; South West Branch visitors book, 1960-1970;
South Wales sub-section (inaugurated Jun 1946) -minutes of the South Wales subsection of the Midland Branch of the SOR, 1946-1950, and Committee minutes, 1971-1981;
Wessex Sub-Section (inaugurated 26 Nov 1955) - minutes of the Wessex sub-section of the London and Home Counties Branch of the SOR, 1955-1973, including minutes of the Wessex Committee, 1964-1971;
North West Branch Sub-Section (inaugurated, Mar 1961) -Minutes of the North West branch sub-section, 1961-1972 ;
Devon and Cornwall Branch, (inaugurated May 1974) -minutes of the Devon and Cornwall Branch, 1974-1980 and Committee meeting, 1974-1978;

photographic collection including album containing photographs of the 29th annual conference of The Society of Radiographers, Sollihul, 4-6 Jun 1975; Album containing colour photographs of the 40th Annual conference of the College of Radiographers, Bournemouth, 4-6 Jun 1986;

SOR publications including Radiography, Journal of the Society of Radiographers, Vol 1 1935-present, with index; Synergy News, 1996-2002; Radiography News, 1979-1988;

papers of W H J Combes relating to the history of W C Röntgen, including notes for lecture and 2 slides;

miscellaneous papers relating to Röntgen, including copy of extract of printed article on Röntgen, 1901; copy of printed program for Röntgen Society Inaugural Meeting, St Martin's Town Hall, 5 Nov 1897; printed copy of 'Röntgen-Jubilaum 1970, 10 Oktober 1970, Stadttheater, Remscheid (in German); two first day covers (stamps) commemorating Röntgen, 1970; newspaper cutting concerning Archibald James Morey;

Journal of the Röntgen Society, 1919-1920;

and the Sheffield Chest Clinic Book, May 1921-Apr 1923.

Papers of John Flint South, comprising surgical case notes of patients admitted to St Thomas's Hospital, 1859-1862, with index classified by disease, 1841-1861; also notice of meeting of the British Medical Association - South Eastern Branch, 17 Sep 1863.

Records of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists' Specialty Education Advisory Committee and its predecessors, c 1970-2008, comprising: Committee agenda, minutes and papers (1972-2008); minute books (1981-1998); accreditation regulations and documentation (1980-2002); accreditation files (1970-1995); Special Skills training modules and documentation (2002-2005); agenda, minutes and papers of the Minimal Access Surgery sub-committee (1995-2003).

Papers of Herbert Ritchie Spencer including medical notebook with notes of lectures by Sydney Ringer, University College, London 1882; Scrapbook 1896-1936 and abstract of 658 ovariotomies performed by Spencer.

Papers of Margaret Stagg comprising:
King's College Hospital (KCH) certificates of Invalid Cookery, 26 Dec 1924; nursing training, 1924-1927; nursing service, Jan-Oct 1928;
Central Board of Midwives certificate, 25 May 1929; Battersea Polytechnic Certificate, Department of Hygiene and Public Health, course for Sister Tutors, Jul 1937; The College of Nursing Certificate of registration, 20 Apr 1939;
General Nursing Council (GNC) for England and Wales certificate of admission to the General Register, 20 Apr 1928; also letter from GNC relating to receipts for annual fees, Aug 1930; and receipt, Sep 1930;
Letter and receipt relating to application for certificate of registration as Sister Tutor, GNC, Sep 1947; also GNC certificate of registration as a Sister Tutor, 24 Oct 1947;
Small black and white photograph of Sister Ann, Miss Pugh and dog 'Joey' at Court House, Barnstead; greeting cards to Sister Ann; and to Miss Hobbs and Miss Stagg; KCH Nurses Home Christmas card; two greeting cards handmade by Sister Kathleen Parker, for the KCH annual reunion, 1974, 1983;
Copy of Southern harvest, written and engraved by Clare Leighton (Victor Gollancz Ltd, London, 1943), presented to Sister Ann from 'The Last Banstead Set', - with 18 signatures below, August 1943.

Papers of the Standing Joint Committee of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and British Paediatric Association, later Royal College of Paediatric and Child Health, 1949-1993, mainly from the time of the reconstitution of the committee in 1965 and dealing particularly with staffing structure of maternity units for the care of the newborn. They include Committee agenda, minutes and papers, 1980-1988; Papers and correspondence of the Joint BPA/RCOG Standing Committee on Prematurity, 1949-1954; Correspondence and some minutes largely concerned with the establishment of the National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit, Oxford, 1974-1979; Results of questionnaires circulated when compiling data for the BPA/RCOG discussion document: Midwife and nurse staffing and training for special care and intensive care of the new born, 1978-1980; RCOG/BPA reviews of Maternity Services Advisory Committee reports, 1985-1986; Correspondence and papers relating to Royal College of Physicians working party on neonatal services, 1986; records of multidisciplinary working party on resuscitation of the newborn, 1995-1997; report on fetal abnormalities - guidelines for screening, diagnosis and management, 1997.

Papers of Sir Ambrose Thomas Stanton, 1905-1909, comprising original tables, statistics, etc. relating to researches into the etiology of Beri-beri, and its connection with a rice diet. Author's holograph MSS. Vols. II and IV are indexes to Vol. I and Vol. III respectively. Vol. V contains case-papers from the Hospital at Jelebu, some with notes by Stanton. Produced in Jelebu (Negri Sembilan), FMS.

Notes of lectures on the Practice of Physic, taken down by Albert Wilson [1854-1928]. The notes are written round pasted-in cuttings from private proofs of lectures, 'for the use of Dr. Grainger Stewart's Class of Practice of Physic'. Produced in Edinburgh.

Notes by Robert Storrs, 1823-1896, recording interesting cases and medical events from his practice, together with transcripts of two papers read at the Sheffield Medical Society. With additional notes on drugs by an unidentified contributor, possibly one of Storrs's apprentices, and later notes by Storrs's grandson, Reginald Storrs, a student at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London.

Epitome Praxis medicinae by Edward Strother, possibly lecture notes for Praelectiones Pharmaco-logicarum et Medico-practicarum of which he published a syllabus in 1724.

Final report of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists working party on structured training, 1993.

Surgical lecture and other notes taken by [H.M. Stumbles as a student at Edinburgh University] With numerous coloured sketches. The author is not named, but identification was provided by the donor. The first part of MS. 7881 (ff. 1-80) contains a fair-copy transcript of 21 surgical lectures, no doubt delivered at the Edinburgh Medical School where Stumbles was a student (MB, ChB 1902); this is followed by fair-copy notes on various diseases and conditions pertaining to surgery, including diseases of bones (ff. 81-83), fractures and dislocations (84-242, and in MS. 7882, ff. 1-12), diseases of the blood vessels (13-40), the lymphatic system (41-43), tumours (44-68), the osseous and articular system (69-139), diseases of muscle (141-168), venereal diseases (168-205), injuries and diseases of the nerves (206-239), and middle ear diseases (239-243). The source of the notes is not generally given, though `Harold Stiles MB' [Harold Jalland Stiles, assistant in Surgery, University of Edinburgh, 1889-1900] evidently delivered lecture IX (on anaesthetics), MS. 7881, f. 29, and his name is found again on f. 224 of MS. 7882. The implication is that this was a departure from the norm, and the bulk of the lectures, if not the other notes, presumably derive from John Chiene (1843-1923), Professor of Surgery at Edinburgh. Two cuttings from the British Medical Journal, 26 Nov. 1898 and 9 Jan. 1899, are bound into MS. 7882, ff. 85-86 and 138.

William Sturton's certificate of attendance at lectures in surgery, St Thomas Hospital Theatre, 1830-1831.

Papers of the RCOG Sub-specialisation advisory group, including agenda, minutes, correspondence and other records of the advisory groups into fetal medicine, gynaecological oncology, and reproductive medicine, 1984; correspondence with senior British obstetricians and gynaecologists concerning further sub-specialisation within obstetrics and gynaecology, 1983; proposed curriculum and special requirements for sub-specialisation in gynaecological oncology, undated; curriculum for specialisation in fetal medicine and proposals for learning and training in maternal-fetal medicine, undated; training programme for gynaecological urology, undated; guide to learning in reproductive medicine, undated; papers of T L T Lewis, chairman, 1983-1984; correspondence of Professor Richard Beard, chairman, Scientific Advisory and Pathology Committee (SAPC), concerning the sub-specialisation advisory group, 1983-1984; draft copy of final report, with amendments, 1984; copies of the report of the working party on further specialisation within obstetrics and gynaecology; report of the manpower advisory sub-committee of the RCOG and RCOG Regulations for Accreditation of Completion of Higher Training of Members of the College, 1980-1983.

Records of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists' Subspecialty Board / Subspecialty Committee, 1984-2007, comprising: minute books (1984-2002); agenda, minutes and papers (1984-2007); survey on subspecialisation; requests for funding; correspondence regarding eligibility; sample assessment forms; Chairmans' correspondence; subspecialty guidelines (1991-2003); papers regarding community gynaecology and reproductive health. Trainee files are not retained, although reports on individual trainees can be found in the agenda papers.

Papers of John Henry Sylvester, 1852-1853, comprising a manuscript volume of notes titled Occupation during Studentship at the Royal College of Surgeons, 1852, describing the actitivies of Sylvester whilst he was a Student of Anatomy, including dissections, remounting specimens, listing and cataloguing specimens, reading in the Library, and hospital visits. Sylvester's work is countersigned by Frederic Carpenter Skey, Professor of Anatomy and Surgery from 1852.

'Trattato di chirurgia'. Lettered on spine 'Instituzioni Chirurgiche': an unnamed student's notes of lectures taken from the lectures Gaetano Termanini. Produced in Bologna, c 1815.

Lezioni di Clinica Medica, per l'anno scolastico 1807-1808, 1808-1809. On the fly-leaf of the first volume is the following inscription: 'Queste lezioni di Clinica Medica/che il Professore Testa/diceva/Le raccolse e scrisse di mano propria/un mio compagno di studio/il quale/dappoi per bisogno vendeva/chi li compri/fu il Dottor Vincenzo Minelli/chi vendette/Alessandrini/[Signature of Minelli]/Sant' Agata Bolognese, 16 Gennaio 1876/Visto autografa la soprascritta/firma del Sig. Dr. Vincenzo Minelli/Il Sindaco/[Signature of Antonio Cave, Lodi, Asst. delegato. Official Stamp of the Munioipio di Sant' Agata. Bologna]. Produced in Bologna.

University College London typescript medical biographies.

Papers and correspondence, 1860-1944 and undated, of and relating to Sir George Dancer Thane, largely concerning his career, comprising papers on lectures, 1879-1918, including drafts and newspaper reports of his introductory address at the opening of the Medical School at University College London, 1879, and various lectures on anatomy, 1899-1918; notes, 1872-[1911], 1923-1929, on various subjects including dissection, racial characteristics, and other aspects of anatomy, and a list of books to the Anatomical Library of University College London; ten scrapbooks of anatomical drawings, 1867-1913, and undated loose anatomical drawings and medical photographs; other medical papers, 1878-[1926] and undated, including scrapbooks of medical press cuttings, 1878-1914, dates and subjects of dissection classes, 1885-1900, printed papers of the Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland, 1887-1897, announcements of lectures, including some by Francis Galton, 1873-1912, papers on University reform in London, 1919, and miscellaneous others; correspondence, 1880-1930 and undated, from over 110 correspondents; personalia and ephemera, 1860-1930 and undated, including certificates, invitations and programmes, papers concerning honours including Thane's knighthood, papers relating to his death, and genealogical notes relating to the Thanes and others, and also papers concerning Lady Thane, 1884-1944; photographs, 1883-1920 and undated, including eleven photographs of Thane, 1883-1920, an undated photograph of Lady Thane, an album of photographs of their honeymoon, 1884, and a photograph of the dissecting room of University College London [1918]; box of bones and fossils.

Minutes and papers of the 1942 Club, 1942-1993.

Pseudonymous autobiography of family doctor, in his 80s in 1990s, describing his own sexual experiences and deficiencies of medical education respecting sexual questions. 'The Enigma of Sex' Introduction. Chapter One: Childhood Behaviour Chapter Two: Courtship Chapter Three: Early Married Life Chapter Four: Middle Age and Beyond Chapter Five: Reflections and conclusions Chapter Six: Positive Suggestions Chapter Seven: Some Thoughts on the Art of Rearing a Family.

Four volumes of notes made by E J Thomas from lectures to trainee nurses at the Poplar and Stepney Sick Asylum, Bromley by Bow, East London, c 1905-1910.

Lecture notes on comparative embryology, psychology and prehistory, Keble College, Oxford, early 1920s.

Papers of John Gordon Thomson, 1914-1941, comprise a personal file relating to his appointment, his position and work at the School of Tropical Medicine, and his death (1914-1941) and correspondence with various individuals relating to tropical diseases including blackwater fever (1921-1929).

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.

Lecture notes on fever, on pathology, and on general medicine from the lectures of Giacomo Antonio Domenico Tommasini.

Notes taken from the lectures of Luca Tozzi on 'Anathomica synthesis, Anthropologia selecta, Synthesis geneanthropologica and Liber practices', c 1685.

Records of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists' Trainees Committee comprising correspondence and papers, including relating to the establishment of the committee, 1991-2002; agenda, minutes and meetings papers, 1991-2008; papers relating to surveys, 1991-2003.

Papers of George Grey Turner including correspondence; biographical material; photographs; lecture notes; cuttings; reprints, 1935-1951.

Notebooks of Walter Pickett Turner, 1887-c 1910, containing lectures and observations on tuberculosis: with other notes on medical and scientific subjects, drafts of letters, etc. Author's holograph MSS.

Papers of Edgar Ashworth Underwood, 1911-1980. The surviving Underwood papers represent a far from complete record of his career. His correspondence is incomplete and his early career in public health glimpsed by a few notes and papers. The bulk of the collection is made up of the drafts, manuscripts and typescripts of his writings, some of which were never published. Underwood was a perfectionist and polished his work many times. However his immense work for a second volume of A History of the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries of London (to follow Wall and Cameron's history and cover the period 1815 onwards) was never published and sadly the drafts appear to lack one chapter (chapter 15) which has evidently strayed. Similarly a great deal of labour was spent on a history of urology in the late 1950s and early 1960s and on a life of Edward Jenner but neither of these works was ever published, Underwood's failing eyesight inhibiting his researches. However, the collection is valuable in that Underwood meticulously researched and checked evidence and normally kept full records of his work: thus anyone interested in the history of medical education or the apothecaries for example should note the numerous transcripts and copies of administrative records and documents held by the Public Record Office, Guildhall, Royal College of Physicians and elsewhere.