IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0120 SA/BSG
Held at: Wellcome Library
Title: British Society of Gastroenterology
Date(s): 1937-1987
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 1 box, 3 transfer boxes, 1 packet
Name of creator(s): British Society of Gastroenterology
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
The British Society of Gastroenterology was founded in 1937.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers of the British Society of Gastroenterology including the minutes of General and Council Meetings, 1937-1966, and a Jubilee History, 1987.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Conditions governing access:
The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking. SA/BSG/1 (Minute book) is too fragile to be consulted in the original: readers are requested to consult the microfilm, reference AMS/MF/142.
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.
Finding aids:
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Accruals:
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
The minute book of this Society was deposited by them in the Wellcome Library, where it originally formed part of the collection of Western Manuscripts, and was transferred to the Contemporary Medical Archives Centre (both departments later formed part of the department of Archives and Manuscripts) in October 1980. The Jubilee History was donated by the Society in 1987. Subsidiary material was deposited in 1996; this has yet to be added to the catalogue.
ALLIED MATERIALS
Existence and location of copies:
SA/BSG/1 (Minute book) is available on microfilm (AMS/MF/142)
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note: Copied from the Wellcome Library catalogue by Sarah Drewery.
Date(s) of descriptions: Jan 2009