Whiffen & Sons Ltd, manufacturers of pharmaceuticals and fine chemicals, London
- Whiffen & Sons Ltd.
- Date:
- 1749-1971
- Reference:
- MSS.5878-5894
- Archives and manuscripts
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About this work
Description
Records of Whiffen & Sons Ltd, founded by Thomas Whiffen (1819-1904), and of predecessor wholesale and manufacturing chemists.
Publication/Creation
1749-1971
Physical description
13 volumes, 4 files
Contributors
Acquisition note
Presented by Dr Elsa Lewkowitsch 1971-74 (accessions 318901, 318902, 322580 and 323212).
Biographical note
Whiffen's chief products were of medical application, including poisons and alkaloids, with a special interest in quinine and strychnine.
Related material
At other repositories:
Further records of Whiffen & Sons Ltd are in London Metropolitan Archives (ref. B/WHF).
Finding aids
Database description taken from that in: Richard Palmer, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Wellcome Library for the History & Understanding of Medicine: Western Manuscripts 5120-6244 (London: The Wellcome Library for the History & Understanding of Medicine, 1999).
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Identifiers
Accession number
- 318901
- 318902
- 322580
- 323212