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Chapter IV - Drugs and Fine Chemicals, describing history of Burroughs, Wellcome & Co.

Written for the Society of Chemical Industry, on the Society's fiftieth anniversary.

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Company Histories

Reprint from Chemist and Druggist (28 January 1888) and copy of Successful Pharmacy (1 January 1889), which describe and illustrate the interior of Burroughs Wellcome & Co's offices at Snow Hill

Wellcome Club and Institute

'Our First and Second Quarter Century'

'History of Works'

'An Account of the 37th Mobile Laboratory' by J. D. Benjafield

'Note of matters (omitted from 'The History of the Firm') appearing on Mr Pearson's memo handed to W.A.R for inspection, 10 February 1910'

History of the Wellcome Physiological Research Laboratories

Memo titled 'History of the Firm' re explosion at Wellcome Physiological Research Laboratories, Herne Hill

'Behind the Scenes' by Observer

Typescript chronology, 1878-1936

Chronology of Burroughs Wellcome & Co, 1878-1936

Copy memo from George Pearson to Dr C. M. Wenyon, Wellcome Bureau of Scientific Research, asking him to begin compilation of history of Wellcome research institutions.

Extracts from Index Biologorum (1928), Minerva (1928) and Index Generalis (1925-1926) re Wellcome research institutions.

Canine Distemper

'Tablets started with Black Lead'

Historical Notes: 'Brief history of Burroughs Wellcome & Co'

Correspondence between Burroughs Wellcome & Co with S. K. Keyes

Typescript outline for company history, divided into sections 1 - 40, covering years 1853 - 1936

Draft history of Wellcome Chemical Works

'Burroughs Wellcome and Co. A Unique International Enterprise'

Photocopy of article 'Research & Development: Medical Therapeutics'

List of Wellcome Fellows of the Royal Society

Photocopy of article: Somers Eaton, "How Mainville Burroughs and Henry Wellcome, Super Salesmen, Built a Famous House" Drug Jobbers Salesman, April 1923

List of Directors of the Wellcome Foundation, 1924-c1987 with dates of birth and of appointment and resignation

Letter written by an unknown gentleman in the library at the Veterinary Research Laboratory in Vom, Northern Nigeria, to the Director at the Laboratory, with accompanying memo from S.M. Wood, Wellcome FMD Laboratory Pirbright, to Ann Harling, Editor, Foundation News

'Wellcome Foundation Research & Development, 1947-1980'

Atracurium story

Photocopies of Dr John Reader's notes about chemical manufacturing at Dartford

Extract from 'A History of the British Chemical Industry', by Stephen Miall.

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Extract from 'A History of the British Chemical Industry', by Stephen Miall.

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