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- 1749-1971 (Creation)
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13 volumes, 4 files
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Biographical history
Whiffen and Sons Ltd, founded by Thomas Whiffen (1819-1904). Whiffen's chief products were of medical application, including poisons and alkaloids, with a special interest in quinine and strychnine.
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GB 0120 MSS.5878-5894 1749-1971 Collection (fonds) 13 volumes, 4 files Whiffen and Sons Ltd
Whiffen and Sons Ltd, founded by Thomas Whiffen (1819-1904). Whiffen's chief products were of medical application, including poisons and alkaloids, with a special interest in quinine and strychnine.
Presented by Dr Elsa Lewkowitsch 1971-74 (accessions 318901, 318902, 322580 and 323212).
Records of Whiffen and Sons Ltd, founded by Thomas Whiffen (1819-1904), and of predecessor wholesale and manufacturing chemists, 1749-1971.
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
Described in: Richard Palmer, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine: Western Manuscripts 5120-6244 (London: The Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine, 1999).
At other repositories:
Further records of Whiffen and Sons Ltd are in London Metropolitan Archives (ref. B/WHF).
Copied from the Wellcome Library catalogue by Sarah Drewery.
Described in: Richard Palmer, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine: Western Manuscripts 5120-6244 (London: The Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine, 1999).
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Presented by Dr Elsa Lewkowitsch 1971-74 (accessions 318901, 318902, 322580 and 323212).
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Records of Whiffen and Sons Ltd, founded by Thomas Whiffen (1819-1904), and of predecessor wholesale and manufacturing chemists, 1749-1971.
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The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.
Conditions governing reproduction
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
Script of material
- Latin
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English
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Described in: Richard Palmer, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine: Western Manuscripts 5120-6244 (London: The Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine, 1999).
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At other repositories:
Further records of Whiffen and Sons Ltd are in London Metropolitan Archives (ref. B/WHF).
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- Pathology » Diseases » Tropical diseases
- Scientific personnel
- Scientific personnel » Scientists
- Pathology » Diseases
- Pathology
- Chemistry
- Industry » Manufacturing industry » Chemical industry » Pharmaceutical industry
- Industry » Manufacturing industry » Chemical industry
- Industry » Manufacturing industry
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- Personnel
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Described in: Richard Palmer, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine: Western Manuscripts 5120-6244 (London: The Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine, 1999).
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- English