GB 0120 WA/PRL - Wellcome Physiological Research Laboratories

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GB 0120 WA/PRL 1903-1927 Collection (fonds) 1 box Wellcome Physiological Research Laboratories

In 1894-1895 Burroughs Wellcome and Co. began to produce antitoxin in central London under supervision of T J Bokenham in a laboratory administered directly from firm's headquarters in Snow Hill.

In 1897 Bokenham's successor, Walter Dowson, was appointed Director perhaps indicating that Wellcome Physiological Research Laboratories (WPRL) were now regarded as a separate entity.

In 1902 Henry Wellcome directed that both chemical and physiological research laboratories should be considered as separate from the business.

In 1924 the establishment of The Wellcome Foundation Ltd which formally drew together for the first time, the company and the research laboratories and museums.

Wellcome Physiological Research Laboratories.

Papers of the Wellcome Physiological Research Laboratories (WPRL), 1903-1927, comprising publications including handbooks of early information and volumes of staff reprints, and a microfilm copy of a file relating to the history of the Laboratories.

The collection is divided into sections as follows: WA/PRL/PB PUBLICATIONS 1903-1927; WA/PRL/Gen General publications 1903-1927; WA/PRL/PB/Sta Staff reprints 1903-1911; WA/PRL/Sta/A Bound volumes, staff reprints 1903-1911; WA/PRL/PB/Sta/A.1 Publications of the WPRL 1-25 1903-1909; WA/PRL/PB/Sta/A.2 Publications of the WPRL 26-50 1909-1911.

The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

Photocopies/photographs/microfilm are supplied for private research only at the Archivist's discretion. Please note that material may be unsuitable for copying on conservation grounds, and that photographs cannot be photocopied in any circumstances. Readers are restricted to 100 photocopies in twelve months. Researchers who wish to publish material must seek copyright permission from the copyright owner.

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Original file relating to the history of the Laboratories is held by Glaxo Wellcome Archives.

Monthly reports 1914-1922 from the PRL to Andrew Balfour, as Director of the Wellcome Bureau of Scientific Research, are at WA/BSR/BA/Prl.

Some correspondence with the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum., 1923-1931 may be found at WA/HMM/Wel/B.4. This includes a list of PRL staff.

Compiled by Anya Turner.

Sources: (Tansey and Milligan, 1990)

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

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Wellcome Physiological Research Laboratories.

Papers of the Wellcome Physiological Research Laboratories (WPRL), 1903-1927, comprising publications including handbooks of early information and volumes of staff reprints, and a microfilm copy of a file relating to the history of the Laboratories.

The collection is divided into sections as follows: WA/PRL/PB PUBLICATIONS 1903-1927; WA/PRL/Gen General publications 1903-1927; WA/PRL/PB/Sta Staff reprints 1903-1911; WA/PRL/Sta/A Bound volumes, staff reprints 1903-1911; WA/PRL/PB/Sta/A.1 Publications of the WPRL 1-25 1903-1909; WA/PRL/PB/Sta/A.2 Publications of the WPRL 26-50 1909-1911.

The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

Photocopies/photographs/microfilm are supplied for private research only at the Archivist's discretion. Please note that material may be unsuitable for copying on conservation grounds, and that photographs cannot be photocopied in any circumstances. Readers are restricted to 100 photocopies in twelve months. Researchers who wish to publish material must seek copyright permission from the copyright owner.

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English

Monthly reports 1914-1922 from the PRL to Andrew Balfour, as Director of the Wellcome Bureau of Scientific Research, are at WA/BSR/BA/Prl.

Some correspondence with the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum., 1923-1931 may be found at WA/HMM/Wel/B.4. This includes a list of PRL staff.

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

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