IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0120 SA/BMS
Held at: Wellcome Library
Title: British Microcirculation Society
Date(s): 1963-1990
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 5 boxes, 7 transfer boxes, 1 box file
Name of creator(s): British Microcirculation Society
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Plans to form a British Microcirculation Society came to fruition in 1963 when the decision was made to hold the 4th European Conference on Microcirculation in Cambridge in 1966. The European Society had emerged from the first European Conference in 1960 and Dr P.A.G. Monro of the University of Cambridge Anatomy School, who was on the Committee, was instrumental in setting up the British Society and was its Secretary until 1980.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers of the British Microcirculation Society including the files kept by the Secretary; signed minutes of Annual General Meetings and of committee meetings (1963-1990) together with accounts, correspondence files and copies of printed booklets about the Society and the scientific meetings which it organised. There are also copies of photographs and films about microcirculation, given by the former secretary.
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.
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:
These papers were given to the Wellcome Library by the Society via its Secretary, Dr Laurence Smaje, in 1989 and 1991.
ALLIED MATERIALS
Publication note:
Further details can be found in "The Early History of the British Microcirculation Society, 1963-1984" written by P.A.G. Monro for presentation to members of the 3rd World Congress on Microcirculation (see item C.7 in this collection). A catalogue of microcirculation films, edited by S.D. Carlill, was published in 1972 by The British Life Assurance Trust for Health Education.
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note: Copied from the Wellcome Library catalogue by Sarah Drewery.
Date(s) of descriptions: Jan 2009