Collection GB 0120 GC/57 - Wenyon, Charles Morley (1878-1948)

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GB 0120 GC/57 1900-1916 Collection 1 box Wenyon , Charles Morley , 1878-1948 , protozoologist

Born 1878; educated at Kingswood School, Bath, then gained MB, BS and BSc at University College London; served in HM Forces in Egypt during the First World War; was awarded the CMG in 1918 and the CBE in 1919; Director of Research in the Tropics to the Wellcome Bureau of Scientific Research; was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, 1927; died 1948.

The first six volumes were acquired by the Library in the 1950s. Nos.1-5 were accessioned originally as accessions 301172-5 and stated to be presented by Mrs Wenyon; however, Dr. Neal of the Wellcome Museum of Medical Science has stated that they were left by Wenyon in his office in the Wellcome Laboratory of Tropical Medicine, from which Neal "inherited" them some years later and presented them to the Library. No.6 was accessioned as no.301176 and stated to be received from Edward Alfred Minchin, Wenyon's lecturer at University College London. These six items all entered the Library's Contemporary Medical Archives Centre (CMAC), as it then was, as acc.153. No.7 was received much later from Dr. Finlayson of the Wellcome Medical Sciences Museum and accessioned into the CMAC as acc.164, in March 1984.

Papers of Charles Wenyon, 1900-1916, comprising Zoology notebooks as a student at University College London, c 1900-1905; field notebook while with HM Forces in Egypt 1916 (work on intestinal protozoa).

As set out above in Scope and Content.

Open. 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.

English

Wellcome Library online catalogue.

Entry compiled from Wellcome Library online catalogue by Barbara Ball.

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.

September 2008 Zoology World War One (1914-1918) Wenyon , Charles Morley , 1878-1948 , protozoologist University College London Egypt World wars (events) North Africa Wars (events)

The first six volumes were acquired by the Library in the 1950s. Nos.1-5 were accessioned originally as accessions 301172-5 and stated to be presented by Mrs Wenyon; however, Dr. Neal of the Wellcome Museum of Medical Science has stated that they were left by Wenyon in his office in the Wellcome Laboratory of Tropical Medicine, from which Neal "inherited" them some years later and presented them to the Library. No.6 was accessioned as no.301176 and stated to be received from Edward Alfred Minchin, Wenyon's lecturer at University College London. These six items all entered the Library's Contemporary Medical Archives Centre (CMAC), as it then was, as acc.153. No.7 was received much later from Dr. Finlayson of the Wellcome Medical Sciences Museum and accessioned into the CMAC as acc.164, in March 1984.

Papers of Charles Wenyon, 1900-1916, comprising Zoology notebooks as a student at University College London, c 1900-1905; field notebook while with HM Forces in Egypt 1916 (work on intestinal protozoa).

As set out above in Scope and Content.

Open. 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

Wellcome Library online catalogue.

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.

• English