IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0120 MSS.3899-3901
Held at: Wellcome Library
Title: Pickering, Percival Spencer Umfreville (1858-1920)
Date(s): [1875-1880]
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 3 volumes
Name of creator(s): Pickering | Percival Spencer Umfreville | 1858-1920 | chemist
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
The compiler was lecturer on chemistry at Bedford College from 1881 to 1888, and was elected FRS in 1890: he was later Director of the Woburn Experimental Fruit Farm.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Notes on physiology, diseases and their treatment, and chemistry and material medica, [1875-1880].
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
As set out above in Scope and Content.
Conditions governing access:
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.
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.
Physical characteristics:
Finding aids:
Described in: S A J Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
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Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Purchased 1933.
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Entry compiled by Barbara Ball from the Wellcome Library online catalogue.
Date(s) of descriptions: November 2008