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Papers of Gen Sir Richard McCreery, 1928-1960; including notes relating to Staff College, 1928-1929; edition of The Cologne Post and Wiesbaden Times, 3 Nov 1929, relating to the final evacuation of British Forces from the Rhine; map of Aisne battlefield, 1914; notes relating to 12 Royal Lancers training exercises, chiefly on Salisbury Plain, 1937-1938; detailed narrative of 2 Armoured Brigade operations, France, May-Jun 1940, with brief diary of events, and official photograph with original caption, 'A conference at HQ during operations on the Somme Front'; map for 5 Corps training exercise, Salisbury Plain, Dec 1940; official correspondence as Commander, 8 Armoured Div, Home Forces, Dec 1940-Oct 1941, discussing topics including unit inspections, accommodation, recruitment and appointments; report on 'The supply of mobile forces by air', c 1942, regarding supply in the Western Desert; letter from Maj Gen Gerald Templer, Cdr 56 Div, Italy, 18 Mar 1944, commenting on recent operations; messages to all ranks as Commander, 8 Army, Italy, 12 October 1944-26 April 1945; pamphlet, Royal Canadian Armoured Corps, 1945, relating to the development of the Corps, 1940-1945; notes on the Tunisian campaign and notebook containing brief notes on operations in Italy and Austria, 1944-1946, possibly compiled retrospectively as lecture notes; detailed itinerary for British Troops in Austria battlefield tour of Italy, 5-11 May 1946; letter from V Adm Louis Mountbatten, South East Asia Command HQ, 8 Aug 1946, asking for any available polo ponies to be sold to the Malta Polo Club; booklet sent as Christmas card, 1946, with illustrations of Russian Army personnel; publications British Army of the Rhine battlefield tour: first day. 8 Corps operations east of Caen, 18-21 July 1944 (Operation GOODWOOD) (BAOR, Jun 1947) and British Army of the Rhine battlefield tour: fourth day. 43 (W) Division assault crossing of the River Seine, 25-28 August 1944 (BAOR, Jun 1947); brief notes relating to British Army of the Rhine organisation and administration, [1947]; letter from Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury, 16 Dec 1947, relating a recent conversation with Emmanuel Shinwell, Minister of Defence, concerning the role of Christian teaching in Army education, particularly with regard to National Servicemen in Germany; routine official correspondence as Colonel Commandant, Royal Armoured Corps, 1947-1957; memorandum from FM Sir Bernard Law Montgomery as Chief of Imperial General Staff, 29 May 1948, relating to deployment of tanks by Royal Armoured Corps; notes on 'The Reserve Army, 1946-1949', by Brooke Claxton, Minister of National Defence, 1949; letter from Lynch Maydon, the Conservative MP for Wells, 7 Nov 1956, responding to the latter's criticism of the invasion of the Suez Canal Zone; correspondence, May-June 1957, relating to proposed mergers of army regiments; papers, chiefly training notes, relating to the Royal Armoured Corps, 1960.

Records of the Institution of Geologists and its predecessors, 1973-1991, comprising:

Minutes, papers, sample questionnaires, correspondence and reports of the Working Party on Professional Recognition, 1973-1975;

Minutes, correspondence and papers of the Committee and sub committees of the Association for the Promotion of an Institution of Professional Geologists, 1975-1978; Membership lists of the APIPG [incomplete], 1974-1977; Documents relating to the incorporation of the APIPG as the Institution of Geologists, 1976-1977; Draft rules and regulations of the proposed Institution of Geologists, 1977;

Annual reports, agendas and other papers relating to the Annual General Meetings of the Institution of Geologists, 1978-1991; Minutes and papers of the IG Council, 1977-1991; Correspondence of the IG Council [incomplete], 1977-1984; Correspondence and minutes of committees, sub committees, working groups and regional groups of the IG, 1977-1991; Minutes, correspondence and papers of the joint Co-operation Committee, 1985-1991; Annual accounts, 1977-1991; Membership lists (incomplete), 1977-1986; Rules and regulations, 1979-1986; Correspondence, citations and speeches relating to the recipients of the Aberconway Medal, 1980-1989; Obituaries, 1982-1985.

Papers relating to the life and work of Janet Vida Watson, 1923-1985, comprising:

Biographical material, including: obituaries of Watson and her own autobiographical notes for her Royal Society personal record, 1985; records of her career, honours and awards, from early childhood, 1923-1985; letters of condolence to John Sutton, many with recollections of Watson, 1985; poems and short stories by Watson (possibly including some by her sister and mother), [1940s]; family and personal correspondence, 1944-1985; photographs of Watson including some from visits to East Germany in connection with the International Geological Correlation Programme, 1923-[1980s].

Thirty-six notebooks covering Watson's research, chiefly in the Scottish Highlands and Islands, from undergraduate research in 1946, through her Ph.D. research in the Scourie area during the late 1940s and the 1950s research in Banffshire and central Rosshire, to her work on the Lewisian granite of the Outer Hebrides from the later 1960s and later work in Orkney during the early 1980s.

Drafts, annotated off-prints and other material relating to Watson's research activities and publications, the bulk of which concerns her work in Scotland during the 1970s, including drafts prepared in the course of compiling a memoir on the geology of the Outer Hebrides in collaboration with the Institute of Geological Sciences; correspondence relating to Watson's scientific research, 1968-1985.

Annotated maps, mostly of the Outer Hebrides, 1960s; maps relating to Watson's PhD research in the Scourie area and work in southern Skye, 1947-1962.

1 Lecture in Combined Training, Lt Col Haking. 2 Changes in War Establishments, Lt Col Capper. 3 General Remarks on the Course, Lt Col May. 4 Contouring Skeleton Map, Lt Col Heard . 5 Criticise McClellan's scheme, after Bull Run, Lt Col May. 6 Hints on an Appreciation of a Situation, Lt Col May. 7 Apprectn by Napoleon, Example of No 6, Lt Col May. 8 Apprectn by Napoleon. Example of No 6, Lt Col May. 9 Letter by Wellington. Example of No 6, Lt Col May. 10 As S.O. to Jackson write Despatch, &c, Lt Col May. 11 Suggest Plan of Campaign in Shenandoah, Lt Col May. 12 Operation Orders for Battle of Adowa, Lt Col Capper. 13 Exercise on War Establishments, Lt Col Capper. 14 Horseback Sketch, Lt Col Heard. 15 Appreciate on 17th Apr as S.O. to Jackson, Lt Col May. 16 Plan of camp Malakand Field Force, Lt Col Capper. 17 Camp with Sketch Map, Lt Col Capper. 18 Post for protection of convoys, Lt Col Haking. Map. 19 Correction. General shape of ground, Lt Col Heard. 20 Make an Aide Memoir for camping, etc, Lt Col Capper.

21 Sketch (1/2 Normal Contours.), Lt Col Heard. 22 Example of Appreciation by Jackson, Lt Col May. 23 As Jackson 26th May 62 write a letter, Lt Col May. 24 Scheme - Billeting, Lt Col Capper. 25 Lecture in Combined Training with Examples, Lt Col Haking. 26 Lecture in Combined Training with Examples, Lt Col Haking. 27 Horseback Sketch, Lt Col Heard. 28 Billeting scheme for small force, Lt Col Capper. 29 Sketch, Lt Col Heard. 30 On ranging, Lt Col Johnston. 31 Detailed billeting scheme, Lt Col Capper. 32 Instns about training with other Arms, Commandant. 33 Horseback sketch, Lt Col Heard. March of a Divn. 34 Outpost scheme, Lt Col Haking. 35 Paper and map of theatre of war in Belgium 1815, Lt Col May. 36 Detailed camping scheme, Lt Col Capper. 37 Sketch, Pewley Hill, St Marthas, Lt Col Heard. 38 Reconnaissance for advance, Lt Col Capper. 39 Orders for No 34 scheme, Lt Col Haking. 40 Military situation in Belgium June 1815, Lt Col May. 41 Arrangements for visit to I. of Wight, Lt Col Johnston. 42 Summary of Artillery lectures and Syllabus, Lt Col Johnston. 43 Report and scheme based on visit to I. of Wight, Lt Col Johnston. 44 Influence of Rys & telegraphs on 1815 campaign, Lt Col May. 45 Syllabus of Field Fortification, Lt Col Johnston. 46 Horseback sketch. March of flank guard, Lt Col Heard.

47 Reasons for Blucher standing at Ligny, Lt Col May. 48 Horseback sketch. March of a Divn, Lt Col Heard. 49 Covering dispositions & demolitions, Lt Col Johnston. 50 Advanced guards, Lt Col Haking. 51 Recon: and orders for attack, Lt Col May. 52 Arrangements for visit to Chatham, Lt Col Johnston. 53 Memo on Chatham lecture about maps, Lt Col Heard. 54 Orders for A.G. operations, Lt Col Capper. 55 Apprectn by Napoleon's C.S.O. before Ligny, Lt Col May. 56 Lessons from campaigns studied at Staff College, Lt Col May. 57 Recon: and report from memory on area of country, Lt Col Heard. 58 Plane table sketch, 2" to 1 mile, Lt Col Heard. 59 Draw map of theatre of war in Roumania 1877, Lt Col May. 60 Advanced guards, changing situation, Lt Col Haking. 61 Horseback sketch, Lt Col Heard. 62 Memory sketch on horseback, Lt Col Heard. 63 Defence of River or Frontier, Lt Col May. 64 Plane table sketch, Lt Col Heard. 65 Horseback sketch, Lt Col Heard. 66 Criticise Thuillier's Land Defence with reference to Combined Training, Lt Col Johnston. 67 Re-write orders of No 63 scheme, Lt Col May. 68 Problem on Transport, Lt Col Capper. 69 Attack of Positions. No 1, Lt Col Haking. 70 Topography examination schemes. 71 As C.S.O. to Russian C-in-C 1877 write memo, Lt Col May. 72 Paper on Jackson's Valley Campaign 1862, Lt Col Haking. 73 Paper on 1877-8 Campaign, Lt Col May. 74 Instructions for laying out a road, Lt Col Heard. 75 Synopsis of course in Mil. History, Lt Col May. 76 Synopsis of course in Coast Defence, Lt Col Johnston. 77 Advanced force covering railway junction, Lt Col May. 78 Appreciation after crossing Danube in 1877, Lt Col May. 79 Syllabus of work done in Staff Duties, Lt Col Capper. 80 Syllabus of work for examination in Tactics, Lt Col Haking. 81 Summary of course in Permanent Land Fortn, Lt Col Johnston. 82 Example of appreciation. Solution of No 78, Lt Col May. 83 Write Orders for 12th July 1877. Advance from Tirnova, Lt Col May. 84 Summary of Lectures on Art. In Defence, Lt Col Johnston. 85 Extract from Skobeleff's Orders, Lt Col May. 86 Short account of battle of Lovtcha, Lt Col May. 87 Military Law, Lt Col Capper. 88 To illustrate lectures on Waterloo, Ligny. Quatre Bras, Maps, Lt Col Haking.

1 Specimen of Fld Book Traverse to plot, Lt Col Heard. 2 Draw diagram of constn of W.O. Home & India, Lt Col Capper. 3 Contour skeleton map, Lt Col Gough. 4 Precis recommendations made by committee on W.O. organisation, Lt Col Capper. 5 Changes in tactics due to S.A. War, Lt Col Kiggell. 6 Sketch map showing positions of Allies & French in Spain & Portugal, Lt Col Haking. 7 Skeleton map of Virginia to fill in, Lt Col Haking. 8 Plane-table sketch, Lt Col Gough. 9 Sketch of Turf Hill & Saddleback, Lt Col Gough. 10 Series of short lectures based on "Combined training" to Regtl Officers, Lt Col Kiggell. 11 Rapid horseback sketch, Lt Col Gough. 12 Review situation prior to 11.7.61 as S.O. to McDowell, Lt Col Haking. 13 Correct Tables LVI, LVII. LIX & LXI W.E. in accordance with recent changes. 14 Horseback sketch, Lt Col Hough. 15 Tactics No 3. Prepare lecture on "Combined Training" pp. 37 - 68, Lt Col Kiggell. 16 Road sketch, Lt Col Gough. 17 Quote para in "Combined Training" which best illustrate battle of Bull Run, Lt Col Kiggell. 18 Road report, Lt Col Gough. 19 Road report - on bicycles, Lt Col Gough. 20 Precis of 2nd report of W.O. Committee, Lt Col Capper. 21 Write orders Kimball should have issued at Kernstown about 4.30 p.m., Lt Col Kiggell. 22 Fill in and complete map. Contn of No 19, Lt Col Gough. 23 Ride over area of country with view to making memory sketch later. 24 Compare French and our systems of ranging when using indirect fire, Col Johnston. 25 Make table of road spaces occupied by units in W.Est. when in normal order of march, Lt Col Capper. 26/27 Two specimens of freehand drawing, line work, Lt Col Gough. 28 March Orders of Infy Division, Lt Col Capper. 29 Orders, As C. of Staff write operation Orders as for battle of Adowa. 30 Selection of camping grounds, Lt Col Gough. 31 Discuss strategic lessons to be learnt from American Campaign between 24.3 and 17.5.62, Lt Col Haking. 32 Defence of river line, passages, etc., Col Johnston. 33 Panoramic sketches and report, Lt Col Gough. 34 Outposts, Lt Col Kiggell. 35 Details of report required while attached to other arms, Commandant. 36 "Road Spaces" of troops in march formation, Lt Col Capper. 37 River reconnaissance & report, Lt Col Gough. 38 Defence of advanced position with appreciation, Lt Col Kiggel. 39 Continuation of No. 32. Distribution of troops. Details of fortification &c., Lt Col Kiggell. 40 Summary of lectures in artillery 1904, Col Johnston. 41 Example for précis & indexing, Lt Col Gough. 42 Make tabular statement of forces in colonies, Lt Col Gough. 43 River reconnaissance. River Blackwater, Lt Col Gough. 44 Continuation of 38 & 39, Lt Col Kiggell. 45 Discuss probable effect of Napoleon's advancing by Mons in 1815, Lt Col Kiggell. 46 Programme of visit to Woolwich & Chatham, Col Johnston. 47 Continuation of No 44. Counterstroke by G. Reserve, Lt Col Kiggell. 48 Syllabus of Military Engineering, Col Johnston. 49 Theatre of War. Waterloo Campaign, Col Johnston. 50 Defence of Post. Estimate of Time. Tools. &c, Col Johnston. 51Protection of convoy through hostile country, Lt Col Kiggell. 52 Advanced guard-outposts. Sketch & report, Lt Col Gough. 53 Securing passages of River Blackwater, Col Johnston. 54 Rear Guard action, Lt Col Kiggell. 55 Visit to Isle of Wight, Col Johnston. 56 Sum up report of Isle of Wight defences &c, Col Johnston. 57 Horseback sketch, Lt Col Gough. 58 Explain course of Reservist & corps - Mobilization to Embarkn., Lt Col Gough. 59 Details of ammunition of artillery in the Field, Col Johnston. 60 5 maps Waterloo Campaign 16th June 1815, Lt Col Kiggell. 61 Map, Waterloo, morning of the battle, Lt Col Kiggell. 62 Map, Sketch map 1866 campaign, Lt Col Kiggell. 63 S.R. 26th - 29th September, Lt Col Kiggell. 64 Estimate supplies available for detached force. Nature & amount with map, Col Johnston. 65 S.R. 26th-29th September, Col Johnston. 66 S.R. 26th-29th September, Lt Col Gough. 67 Preliminary orders &c. and instructions for party, Lt Col Kiggell. 68 S.R. 26th-29th September, Lt Col Haking; I. General situation. II. Special Idea Red, Lt Col Capper. 69 Syllabus. Staff Duties & Organisation, Lt Col Gough. 70 Camping scheme with outposts, Lt Col Kiggell. 71 Supplies &c. for 2 A.C. & Cav Divn; I. Forecast of supplies. II. Reports, Col Johnston. 72 Continuation of No 70, Lt Col Kiggell. 73 Supply No. 3. Describe arrangements in any British campaign, Col Johnston. 74 Scheme for inter-communication by telegraph of Cav. Bde. Of Advance Guard, Lt Col Gough. 75 Moltke's prospects for 1866 campaign, Lt Col Kiggell. 76 Staff Ride at Reading. See no 65, Col Johnston. 77 Raid on L. of C. of main army, Lt Col Kiggell. 48 1866 Campaign. What steps might each side have taken to mislead adversary? Lt Col Kiggell. 79 Intelligence report of any country abroad known to officers, Lt Col Gough. 80 March orders. 2nd A.C. Continuation of No 70, Lt Col Kiggell. 81 As Intelligence officer draw up memo of Corps requirements for detached force in Persia. 82 March of A.C. to attacj position, Lt Col Kiggell. 83 Supply & Transport. Employment of Mechanical transport in the field, Col Johnston. 84 Comparison of organisation of German, Russian, & English W.O. systems. 85 Syllabus for examination in Military History &c, Lt Col Kiggell. 86 Syllabus for examination in Field Artillery & Supply, Col Johnston. 87 The soldier's ration in peace & war, Col Johnston. 88 Brief Austrian appreciation of evening of 26th June 1866, also orders &c, Benedek should have issued. 89 Contn of No 82. Orders for attack. Lt Col Kiggell. 90 Supply scheme No 5. Siege of Hong Kong, Col Johnston. 91 As S.O. on Wellington's Staff suggest scheme for establishing rapid communication to scattered forces. 92 Arrangements for advanced base for Supply, Col Johnston. 93 Supply No 6. Contn. Of No. 90, Col Johnston. 94 Position of armies evening of 2nd July 1866, Ly Col Kiggell. 95 Principles of martial law, Lt Col Gough. 96 Contn. Of 90. Paper of food values, Col Johnston. 97 Contn. Of No. 90. Estimate of rations available, daily scale &c.

Miscellaneous collection of manuscripts, comprising:

1. Fragment of a printed receipt, completed in manuscript, issued to Admiral Sir Clowdisley Shovell by the Exchequer for 3 months interest for a loan at 8 %, 15 Apr 1697.
2. Order by Shovell as Admiral to Philip Stanhope, Captain of HMS Milford, to receive a Lieutenant and 30 marines from [HMS] Tilbury, 29 Aug 1706.
3. Printed receipt, completed in manuscript, for payment to Shovell by the Exchequer of a 6 monthly installment of an annuity, 20 Nov 1706.
4. Map of Blakeney channel and Cley channel, Norfolk, mounted and coloured, from Greenvile Collins, Great Britain's Coasting Pilot (1693). With an engraved inscription by Collins dedicating the map to Shovell.
5. Modern reproduction of a reduced plan of Soho Square, London, inscribed 'House of Sir Clowdisley [Shovell]'. The original plan, probably made in the 18th century, was that of 'the late Duke of Portland's estate in the neighbourhood of Soho Square'.
6. Leaf from a letter-book, with copies of 5 letters initialled 'E.K.', dated 29 Aug 1797, Dublin, to Robert Eyre at Tallow (Co. Waterford); Thomas Osbourne at Fort Charles, Kinsale (Co. Cork); Edward Mapoller at 'Killeoan(?) near Roscommon'; William Hailey at 'Fore Park(?) near Athlone'; and 'Dr. Toves(?)'. The writer had just reached Dublin from London, and intended to travel to Roscommon and Galway. The letters to Eyre and Osbourne(?) mention payments to be made to John Kelly at the Treasury in the castle at Dublin; those to Eyre and Toves(?) refer to 'Davies (who is in custody in London)'. The leaf was formerly part of a binding.
7. Fragment of a list of deeds concerning the property of Richard and Mary Chiswell at Finchingfield, Essex, written in the 18th century.
8. Printed bill for an exhibition of the picture of the battle of Lodi of 1796 by Robert Ker Porter, with a sketch of the picture and explanatory notes.
9. Printed matter including Rules and Regulations of the St James's Loyal Volunteers (1797).
10. Recipes for 'Ginger Bread Nuts', various drinks, and for medicines; instructions for cleaning 'black straw hats', dating from the early 19th century.
11. Three engraved certificates completed in manuscript for William Buchanan, (1) for training in midwifery by John Haighton, dated 18 Nov 1814, (2) for attendance of courses on anatomy, signed by John Abernethy, dated May 1815, and (3) for honorary membership of the London Vaccine Institution, dated 26 Aug 1816.
12. Genealogies of families, endorsed 'Hussey, Barons of Galtrim, Feypo and Maurward, Barons of Scune', relating to the medieval period, written in the 19th century.
13. Drafts of two essays by Edwin Hadlow Wise Dunkin, headed 'Our Satellite. Sent for insertion in the City of London School Magazine...January 1865' (ff. 1-12), and 'The Lesser Light [i.e. the moon]...August 1866. Sent to Chambers Journal, 4 Sep 1866' (ff. 15-19).
14. 'A Short Tour on the Cornish Coast', with remarks on weather and monuments, historical anecdotes, and sketches in pencil and pastels, 1879.
15. 'Voyage of the Lioness', from Scalloway, Shetland, to Foula and Fair Isle. The Lioness was commanded by Captain Robertson; the passengers were described as 'the doctor and the professor'. The journal describes the inhabitants of the islands, and birds and animals seen. Written in the early 20th century.
16. Monologue in pidgin English, probably written for entertainment, in which Kassim Ali describes his activities during the bombardment of Alexandria, his going on board the Condor, his delivery of a letter to [Ahmed] Arabi, the flight from Alexandria to Cairo, and his prevention of the explosion of the magazine in the fort of Ras-el-Jin. The account probably refers to the bombardment of Alexandria by the British fleet on 11 Jul 1882; see The Times for 22 Jul 1882, p. 5. Written in the 20th century on note-paper addressed 'Kenley, Surrey'.
17. Modern brass rubbing from the tomb of Thomas Potter (d 6 Jun 1531), taken from Westerham Church, Kent.
18. Collection of miscellaneous printed ephemera dating from the early 19th to the early 20th century. Includes a receipt for a share in the 'Strand [i.e. Waterloo] Bridge', London, 1812; a card for the White Lion Hotel, Bala, Merioneth, early 19th century; a plan of the Great Exhibition of 1851; pictures of Plymouth pier, early 20th century; a birthday card of 1887; a prospectus for an auction of shares of the Ilford Gas Co., 1907; tickets for books from the Officers' Library of the Royal Marines at Woolwich and Forton, and from B.O. May's Circulating Library, Teignmouth; a book-plate (?) of H.C. Sharpin, Ripon, 19th century; and bank notes of the Republic of Argentina, late 19th or early 20th century.

Records of Imperial College, 1616-2000, comprising Constitutional and Incorporation records, 1903-1990, including Charter of Incorporation, 1907, Imperial College Act, 1988; Governing Body records, 1908-2000, notably minutes, 1908-2000, minutes of the Council, 1998-1999, minutes of the Court, 1998-1999; Board of Studies and related committee records, 1911-2000, notably minutes of the Board of Studies, 1911-1996; Financial records, 1907-1992, including College accounts, 1911-1960; Administration Department records, 1908-1991; College staff records, 1907-2000; records relating to former students, 1896-2001, including Central Technical College Old Students' Association reports and members, 1902-1973, City and Guilds College register, 1884-1934;
records of Student Unions and Associations, 1846-2000, notably Royal College of Science and Royal School of Mines Students' Union, 1889-1913, Royal School of Mines Student's Union, 1905-1973, Royal School of Mines Old Students' Association, 1912-1984, Royal College of Science Students' Union records, 1909-1981, Royal College of Science Old Students' Association records, 1907-1990, City and Guilds Union, 1895-1998, Old Centralians, 1897-1998, Twentyone Club, 1928-1983, Imperial College Students' Union, 1911-1985, clubs and societies of the College, [1921-1986]; College publications, and related papers, notably the Phoenix (Imperial College Arts Magazine), 1887-2000, Felix (Imperial College student newspaper), 1950-2000, journals of College societies and associations, 1848-1995;
records relating to the Architectural Association, 1960-1970; the Beit Fellowship, 1913-1972;
College Registry records, principally concerning students and courses, 1909-1998; records relating to the Department of Science and Art, 1853-1984, including papers concerning the establishment of Imperial College; First and Second World War records, 1915-1947, including military occupation of the college and transfer of students; papers relating to College Anniversaries and Visits, 1908-1988, including College centenary celebrations, 1945; College Expansion Scheme records, 1860-1992, namely the development of the South Kensington site; Imperial College Development Association records, 1919-1933; papers relating to lectures and associated studies organised by the College, 1923-1998; papers relating to institutions, societies and bodies with links to Imperial College, 1852-1994, principally other South Kensington institutions, funding bodies; records relating to the acquisition and maintenance of Imperial College buildings, 1883-1991; records relating to Higher Education Institutions, 1907-1989, namely British and overseas universities and technical colleges; records relating to the University of London, 1901-1989; records concerning College armorial bearings, portraits and paintings, 1908-1987; records relating to the College Libraries, 1931-1986 and Archives, 1933-1987;
academic departmental records, 1871-1996, principally concerning courses, scholarships, awards and prizes and administration; records of Interdisciplinary Centres and Courses, 1953-1999, including the Robotics and Automated Systems Centre, Centre for Composite Materials, Centre for Remote Sensing and Centre for Environmental Technology; records of Field Research Stations at Hurworth, Slough and Silwood Park and Harlington Athletics Ground, 1616-1990, including Sunninghill manorial records, 1616-1790; papers of the Aeronautics Department, Meteorology Department, and Physiological Flow Studies Unit, 1907-1987, Botany Department and Biology Life Science Division, 1894-1992, Chemistry Department, 1880-1991, Civil Engineering Department, 1884-1981, Computer Unit and Department of Computing, 1955-1988, Electrical Engineering Department, 1891-1980, Geology Department, 1876-1996, History of Science and Technology Department, 1954-1994, Management School, 1956-1986, Materials Department, 1887-1992, Mathematics Department, 1903-1981, Mechanical Engineering Department, 1904-1982, Mineral Resources Engineering Department, 1908-1992, Nuclear Power and Nuclear Technology Studies, 1956-1986, Physics Department, 1882-1985, Social and Economic Studies Department, 1965-1981, Zoology Department, 1908-1979.

Records of the Royal Postgraduate Medical School, 1921-1995, including reports of preliminary Committees, 1921; minutes of the Governing Body, 1931-1952; minutes of the Committee of Management, 1947-1974; minutes of the Council, 1974-1985; minutes of the Board of Governors, 1938, 1962-1967; minutes of the School Council, 1934-1947; minutes of the Academic Board, 1947-1983; minutes of the Finance and General Purposes Committee, 1976-1987; annual reports, 1935-1995; prospectuses, 1936-1968;
papers relating to staff appointments, including lists of staff, 1935-[1980], obituaries, transcripts of interviews with staff, monthly salaries, 1935-1940; London County Council war service salaries and wages, 1939-1943;
visitor's book, 1947-1962; press cuttings, 1954-1976; photograph albums and loose photographs, [1935-1965]; negatives, [1959-1985]; 16mm films of various operations;
Medical School reports on work at Hammersmith Hospital, [1936-1940]
copies of The Special newspaper, 1986-1995 (for Hammersmith Hospital and the Medical School); copies of Alumnus News Letter, 1986-1988.

Papers of George Fordyce, comprising notes on his lectures on chronic diseases, 1786, and notes on his lectures on acute diseases, 1786, taken by a student, Daniel Jarvis.

Typescript of paper by Marjorie Caygill 'The British Medical Association and its Overseas Branches: A Short History' on the development of medical links within the Empire and Commonwealth, and variations between the UK pattern and its overseas offshoots. The paper covers the establishment of the BMA in the UK and in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Canada, India and the Colonies; the development of the medical education and General Medical Council recognition; and the establishment of the Commonwealth Medical Conference and the Commonwealth Medical Association. It is a working paper prepared in the 1970s as part of Terry Johnson's project on the Nature and Significance of Professional Links within the Commonwealth.

Papers of Sir Ambrose Fleming, including extensive sets of laboratory notebooks which include accounts of experiments on carbon filaments carried out by Fleming when he was adviser to the Edison and Swan Electric Light Company, of tests on electrical and photometric standards carried out in the Pender Laboratory at University College London, and of experiments on valves and other aspects of wireless telegraphy; notes of lectures attended by Fleming and notes for lectures given by Fleming; patent specifications and papers on litigation over them; newspaper cuttings and other compilations by Fleming; papers on awards and distinctions; biographical notes; and correspondence. 500 of the 521 volumes are printed works associated with the collection.

Papers of John Lowndes comprising typescript papers titled `Departmental Story', An account of the history of Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, St Thomas's Hospital Medical School, John Lowdes FRIC, 1957; manuscript list of lecturers in Chemistry, Professors of Chemistry and Biochemistry.
Also contains some related letters of Thomas McLachlan, Secretary of St Thomas Hospital, concerning the accuracy of some details, 1982-1984.

Papers of Philip Henry Mitchiner comprising notebooks [1904-1910], notebook on fevers (undated); notebook on practical chemistry and physics and nervous diseases, 1904; on anatomy and diseases, with sketches, (2 vols) [1907]; notebook recording instruments for operations, preparations of ligatures, 1910; notebook on district (maternity) cases and pregnancy, [1908];
notebooks containing lecture notes on surgical pathology, 1909; surgery, 1909; diseases of stomach and intestines, 1909; medicine, lung and liver, 1910]; practical surgery and diseases of the breast, 1910;
collection of typescript papers and articles by Mitchener on subjects including the problem of the acute abdomen, gas, swellings in the groin, organisation of surgery under war conditions, injuries of blood vessel, wounds of joints, diseases of the veins, techniques of intravenous transfusion and infusion, comparison of the results of conservative and radical surgical treatment in carcinoma of the breast, 1924-1933 (co-authored), etc; also contains a list of Mitchiner's published articles, 1915-1939; and printed photograph and obituary.

Papers of Charles Murchison, 1845-1879, comprising school essays, 1845-1846; notebook containing notes and extracts on anatomy and zoology, 1846-1847, including an account of a meeting of the Edinburgh Botanical Society, 1847; notes on the New Testament, 1846; notes on Homer's Iliad, 1846 (3 vols); notes on the skin and subcutaneous cellular structure, with sketches, 1847; notes entitled 'observations on the spleen', with pencil sketches, 1849; note book entitled 'observations on temperature';

lecture notes taken by Charles Murchison as a student, comprising notes on Professor John Hutton Balfour's lectures on botany, delivered at Edinburgh University, 1847, including ink and pencil sketches; notes on Sir Robert Christison's lectures on vegetable material medica, delivered at Edinburgh University, 1847-1848, including diagrams and some notes on electricity (2 vols); notes on Professor James David Forbes' lectures on heat, delivered at Edinburgh University, 1846, with diagrams (2 vols); notes on John Goodsir's lectures on comparative anatomy, delivered at Edinburgh University, 1846-1847, including sketches (5 vols); notes on Robert Jameson's lectures on natural history, including geology and zoology, delivered at Edinburgh University, 1848, including ink diagrams (3 vols); notes on Professor Allen Thomson's lectures on the institutes of medicine, delivered at Edinburgh University, 1848;

case notes taken at Edinburgh, 1850, containing details of six cases and an autopsy; case notes taken at Edinburgh, 1850, of fifty cases, and at Westminster General Dispensary, 1854-1855, of one hundred and fifty six cases; four volumes of case notes of (mainly male) patients at St Thomas's Hospital, 1871-1879, including temperature charts and letters, written in a variety of hands (4 vols); case books, 1877-1878 containing case notes of female patients at St Thomas's Hospital (4 vols);

Letter to Murchison from [R Cokam] relating to a report of operations (undated); manuscript notes on Metals, 1847; black and white photograph of letter from Mr Snow to Murchison relating to presentation of a book by the late brother of William Snow.

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

Manuscript volumes collected by Richard Whitfield comprising lecture notes taken either by Whitfield or unidentified pupils including:
one volume of notes on a course of anatomy lectures by Henry Cline including lectures on pathology and physiology, 1793, delivered 1787, taken by Whitfield;
one volume of notes on anatomical lectures of Joseph Else delivered at St Thomas's Hospital, [1780], including notes on John Hunter's lectures on anatomy, 1781, taken by an unidentified pupil;
six volumes of notes on Fordyce's lectures on medicine, delivered [1788-1789], taken by Richard Whitfield, [1792], containing lectures on material medica, natural history of the human body, doctrine of diseases, doctrine of fevers, doctrine of inflammations, particular inflammations, inflammation of the mucous membrane, lues venereal, eruptive fevers, chronic diseases, spasmodic disease;
three volumes of notes on lectures on the practice of physic of James Gregory, delivered at Edinburgh, 1814, taken by an unidentified student;
one volume of notes on William Herbeden's lectures containing observations on the history, nature and cure of poisons, delivered at the College of Physicians, 1749, with copy notes made by Whitfield, 1792;
two volumes of notes on surgical lectures by John Hunter, 1786;
four volumes of notes on anatomical and surgical lectures by Alexander Monro, [1788];
1 volume of notes on Percivall Pott's surgical lectures, delivered [1787], taken down [1794];
and one volume titled Pharmacopoeia Chirurgica vel Institutiones Chirugicae.

Notebook of William Cuthbert Blackett, 1851-1853, medical student at St Thomas's Hospital, recording cases admitted to Jacob and Ann wards in the hospital under Dr R Bennett, Assistant Physician;
ink drawing titled 'Blackett's Specification', 5 Nov 1902;
volume titled 'Blackett's certificates 1853' containing sixteen certificates of St Thomas's Hospital Medical School confirming Blackett's attendance and proficiency in various subjects 1851-1853; examination certificate of the Society of Apothecaries, May 1853; Royal College of Surgeons certificate Apr 1853; receipt from the Council of Medical Education and Registration for £2; and printed copy of the testimonials for Blackett 1853-1878.

Notes of lectures delivered in Cambridge by Nicholas Sanderson. Subjects covered include hydrostatics, tides, sounds, optics, mechanics and astronomy.

Papers and correspondence, 1856-1968 (predominantly 1925-1966), of Sir (Gordon) Roy Cameron, comprising notebooks of lecture courses, 1925-1926, given by Cameron at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, Melbourne; matriculation certificate at University of Freiburg im Breslau, 1927; other biographical and personal material, including printed matter and photographs; 14 letters and cards from Ludwig Aschoff, 1928-1937; scientific and personal correspondence, 1959-1965, with Professor Hou Pao-Chang, Cameron's collaborator on various scientific publications; correspondence on Linacre Lectures given by Cameron, 1964; research notebooks, annotated offprints and other working papers, 1961 and undated, and related correspondence, 1951, 1957-1958, 1961, the subjects including the liver, pulmonary oedema, and the spleen; notes and drafts for invitation lectures and articles, 1962-1966; draft report of the College of Pathologists to the Royal Commission on Medical Education, 1966; obituaries of Cameron and related correspondence with his friends and colleagues, 1966, 1968; material assembled for Cameron's proposed history of pathology, which he did not live to complete, including obituaries, notes and correspondence, 1965-1966, on Ludwig Aschoff, papers and correspondence, 1954-1965, on Julius Cohnheim, papers on Rudolf Virchow, including three letters of Virchow, 1891-1894, and other letters collected by Cameron, among them a letter from W L Begley to William Jenner to accompany a specimen sent to Jenner and William Sharpey, 1856, letters from Jenner to Thomas Barlow, 1891, and from Barlow to Cameron, 1935, concerning the specimen, four letters of R A Kolliker, 1862, three letters from Walter Pagel, 1954, 1961, and a letter from Peyton Rous, 1959.

The second accession comprises further papers of and relating to Cameron, 1917-1968, including various professional and personal certificates, 1917-1966, among them copies of Cameron's birth certificate, various medical registration certificates, and the certificate of his cremation; various photographs, 1920-1962 and undated, some unlabelled, including family photographs, holiday photographs, and formal occasions; correspondence between Cameron and Professor Cyril L Oakley, 1945-1965, on scientific, professional, personal and social matters; typescripts, 1951-1952, for an unpublished book by Cameron on immunology; two official letters to Cameron concerning his knighthood, 1957; Cameron's personal diaries, 1961-1963, including a trip to Italy and a trip to Australia and around the world; proofs of Cameron's Who's Who entries; press cuttings, 1954-1966, including various obituaries of Cameron, 1966; offprints of Cameron's obituaries from the Journal of Clinical Pathology, vol xx (1967), and Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, vol xiv (1968), and typescript of obituary from The Lancet, 10 Oct 1966; photostat of typescript address at Cameron's memorial service and printed order of service, 1966; letters of condolence on Cameron's death, 1966; miscellaneous printed and typescript material, including articles on scientific subjects and on the history of medicine by Cameron, and obituaries by Cameron of other scientists; various obituaries of scientists other than Cameron, including an offprint of Oakley's obituary of Alexander Thomas Glenny for Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, vol xii (1966), related correspondence, 1966, and other papers on Glenny including photographs and a typescript bibliography.

Papers of Henry Cline, 1777-[1824], comprising three notebooks, 1777-[1824], labelled 'pathology and surgery', 'anatomy and physiology', and ' effects of the mind on diseases' containing notes on pathological conditions and contemporary surgical practice, with individual case histories, details of patients inoculated by Cline, 1778-1789, his post-mortem examination of Charles James Fox, account of influenza, 1782; notes on a course of lectures on anatomy, physiology and surgery, [1790]; notes on lectures on surgery, [1818], delivered 1805-1806.

Papers relating to Percy Croad Brett, comprising notes on lectures Professor John Ernest Frazer on embryology, 1917, including sketches, [? taken at St Mary's Hospital, Paddington].

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.

Records of educational courses, conferences, and scientific meetings of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, 1960-1998, comprising course programmes, lists of participants, abstracts, budget details and papers relating to the intellectual content of the meetings and courses. Courses have been held on such subjects as maternity services, artificial insemination, labour, colposcopy, gynaecological cancer, infertility, pain relief, caesarean section and hormone replacement therapy.

Papers of the Faculty of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, 1953-1993, comprising general correspondence, investigations, guidelines and other records relating to training for instructing doctors, 1971-1993; papers relating to the administration of Joint Committee on Contraception certificates, 1955-1989; records relating to the Joint Committee on Contraception relating to financial matters, 1976-1983; papers relating to the Joint Committee on Contraception sub-committees and working parties, 1977-1990; papers relating to Joint Committee on Contraception conferences, 1978-1992; correspondence between the Joint Committee on Contraception and other bodies, 1972-1984; minutes and papers of the Joint Committee on Contraception, 1972-1993; Joint certificates index book, 1975-1976; correspondence of the Sub-committee on Family Planning and Committee on Contraception and Family Planning, 1971-1972; correspondence of the Joint Committee on Contraception with the Family Planning Association, with related papers, 1973-1986; records of the Sub-committee on Computerisation, 1983-1992.

Report of the Hospital Visiting Working Party (May 1993).

Minutes and correspondence of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists LOGIC (Learning in Obstetrics and Gynaecology for In-Service Clinicians) working party, (formerly PROLOG working party) correspondence with drug companies and data research services and obstetrics answer books, 1984-1988. The minute book only goes up to 1985.

The series comprises the report of the working party, 1991, on Membership of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (MRCOG).

The series at present comprises only the final report of the Diploma of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (DRCOG) working party, 1993.

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).

Records of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists' Continuing Medical Education Committee, 1992-1998, comprising minutes, agendas and circulated papers.

Records of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists' Postgraduate Committee and predecessors, 1967-1992, comprising agenda, minutes and papers of the committee and correspondence of the Director of Postgraduate Studies, primarily relating to Regional College Advisers.

Memorandum by Eardley Holland, October 1927, on the desirability of a clinical examination in obstetrics and gynaecology as part of the Final Examination of the Conjoint Board of Royal College of Physicians and Royal College of Surgeons, to which is attached a report of a meeting of teachers in obstetrics and gynaecology held in June 1927 to discuss the same subject.

Papers of Morris Myer Datnow, 1929-1946, mainly comprising copies of papers produced by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) for circulation to Fellows and Members, 1935-1946, and including letter from William Blair-Bell inviting Datnow to join the British College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (BCOG), 1929; by-laws and regulations for the admission of Fellows and Members, 1929-1935; prospectus and regulations for the Diploma, 1933; BCOG memorandum regarding a standard rate of puerperal morbidity, 1937; BCOG memorandum setting forth certain principles which in the opinion of the College should be incorporated in a National Maternity Service, 1936; RCOG Inter-departmental Committee of the Ministry of Health on Medical Schools, 1943; BCOG list of donations to the endowment fund and the decorations and furnishing fund, 1934; notice of ordinary general meeting and annual report of Council for 1945, 1946;draft reply of the Liverpool Reference Committee to the College's request for information on the role of consultants in local maternity services and ante-natal clinics, 1937.

Papers relating to the British Lying-In Hospital, 1753-1780, including casebooks, possibly of Dr Christopher Kelly, 1767-1780, and notebook, 1753-1754, entitled 'Some Memoranda on Midwifery' containing notes on disorders attending pregnant women, instructions for the use of forceps and the delivery of twins, and notes on a lecture given by Dr [William] Hunter, 28 Oct 1754.

Manuscript notes taken by Robert Steavenson on 'A complete course of lectures on midwifery and on the diseases of pregnant and puerperal women and of children' from lectures delivered by Thomas Young, Edinburgh, 21 Jul 1776.

Manuscript notes by an unknown student taken from the lectures on midwifery delivered by John Haighton at Guy's Hospital, 1810.

Manuscript notes taken from six lectures given by William Hunter entitled 'A course of lectures on the gravid uterus taken down in short hand, as delivered by Dr Hunter in 1772'. This volume was created by the student, 25 Mar-16 Apr 1776, using his original shorthand notes.

Shorthand notes by an unknown student taken from lectures on midwifery delivered by Alexander Hamilton, 1798.

Printed syllabus of the lectures on midwifery delivered by John Haighton at Guy's Hospital and his theatre in St. Saviour's Church-yard, Southwark, 1808, interleaved with undated manuscript notes by James Dolman, presumably taken from Haighton's lectures. Table of contents and index.

Legal documents relating to the Reid Trust, 1860-1931, including a Declaration of Trust, 1860, between Mrs Reid, Bostock, Martineau and Smith, and deeds and correspondence relating to the appointment of new trustees, 1896-1931. Financial papers for the Reid Trust, 1859-1955, including details of the Reid Scholarship Fund, a Reid Scholarship Account Book, 1859-1906, bank books and share certificates. Papers relating to the Rachel Notcutt Travelling Scholarship, 1913-1939, including letters to Miss Lee from Bertha Tilley and D Bains describing their travels, 1931-[1936], letters of application and recommendation, 1919-1938, correspondence relating to the establishment and funding of the scholarship, 1918-1919, including correspondence from Rachel Notcutt, 1913-1918. Papers relating to the administration of the Reid Trust, 1867-1954, notably early material concerning the Trust, 1867-1939, including papers relating to the Bedford College School, 1867, the appointment of a Mistress of Studies in 1892, the removal of Reid Trust funding for higher education, 1895 and a grant for new buildings at Bedford College, 1903-1907; legal papers relating to the Scholarship Fund, 1871-1872; correspondence, 1898-1921, relating to the Bostock Medical Scholarship at the London School of Medicine for Women. Notebook for the Reid Trustees Memorial Fund, 1884-1885, to commemorate the work of Mrs Reid, including letters from Henrietta Busk to the Bedford College Council; book plate printing block for the Reid Trust, [1894]. Papers relating to the Reid Scholarships, 1871-1992, including correspondence concerning recommendations of scholars by the Staff and Council of Bedford College, [1901]-1922; official papers and correspondence, 1867-1984, including correspondence with Bedford Council announcing the decision of the Trust to end the Reid Scholarships in 1984; correspondence between the Trustees and Bedford College concerning the Reid Trustees Scholarship in Arts, 1967-1992.

Two scrapbooks, 1938-1940, relating to student life at King's College London and at Bristol University during the evacuation of the College there, containing photographs, newspaper cuttings, programmes and Christmas cards; material relating to a 1990 reunion and a special degree presentation ceremony in 1992; bound copies of The King's Engineer, 1937-1941, and the King's College Review, 1937-1941; mounted photographs showing the Engineering finalists, 1940-1941, and the Engineering students returning from a parade to the Daily Herald offices with Reggie [the lion and King's College mascot], 1938, with a medallion presented to Leete for rescuing Reggie from kidnap by Bristol students during a Union Society debate, Nov 1940. Books relating to the history of King's College, namely King's College Engineering Society, 1847-1957 (Private, London, 1957), by William Oswald Skeat, and The Centenary history of King's College London, 1828-1928, 1929, by Fossey John Cobb Hearnshaw.

Westfield College Department of Computer Science student files, [1973-1986] (Ref: KDCP/FP). These mainly contain correspondence and a few application forms.

Papers relating to Alexander Monro secundus, 1776-1784, comprising a 2 volumes of manuscript notes titled Lectures of Surgery by Alexander Monro MD, Professor of Anatomy and Surgery in the University of Edinburgh; transcribed from the copy of his lectures as taken down in short hand by Mr Thorburn in the year 1776. With additional abbreviations delivered during the years 1781-2-3 and 4 by James Curry, both containing a pen and ink portrait of Monro, and covering topics such as teeth, sutures, lithotomy, caesarean section, spinal injuries, ranula, trepanning, cupping, and inoculation.

Papers, 1906-c1964, of Dudley Orson Wood, including notes written as a student at the Royal College of Science; notes for lectures at University College London (UCL); typescript history of the Physics Department at UCL; examination questions, papers, and notes; students' notebooks and exam papers; and personalia (degree certificates etc).

'Some requirements for modern clinical teaching', 1913.

This collection comprises one notebook containing the first of a series of lectures given at the London Hospital Medical School.

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.

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

Webb's letter books compiled whilst a medical student, 1903-1909, containing letters from Webb to her friends, Mrs Annie Lancaster, Mrs Eliza Romiley, and Miss Christabel Cadbury, describing her life as one of the first women students at Birmingham Medical School, including newspaper cuttings regarding Edinburgh University's graduation ceremony, 1907. Webb prefaced each volume with an explanatory note dated 1924.

Papers of Thomas Morrison, 1782, comprising a volume titled Clinical Lectures by John Gregory MD, late Professor of the Practice of Physic in the University of Edinburgh, containing manuscript notes of lectures, and patients' case notes.