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Sources Guide: Physiology

Organisations associated with physiological matters

Personal papers

Other collections

Wellcome archives

Further information about the materials mentioned below can be found on the Archives and Manuscripts Online Catalogue

In some cases the full detailed catalogues of archive collections are not yet in this online database: hard copy versions are available in the Rare Materials Room of the Library and on request to archs+mss@wellcome.ac.uk

Organisations associated with physiological matters

BEIT MEMORIAL FELLOWSHIPS FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH TRUST (f.1909) SA/BMF
Papers relating to fellowships 1909-85 Some files are closed

BRAIN RESEARCH ASSOCIATION (f. 1968) SA/BRA
Records of the Association

BRITISH MICROCIRCULATION SOCIETY (f.1963) SA/BMS
Records of the Society

THE NEONATAL SOCIETY (f.1959) SA/NNS
Records of the Society’s meetings re foetal and neonatal medicine

THE PHYSIOLOGICAL SOCIETY (f.1876) SA/PHY
Records including material re role in formulating legislation over animal experimentation, and campaigning to protect government funding of physiological research and teaching. Plus photograph collection of portrait and group photographs, 1890s to present

RESEARCH DEFENCE SOCIETY (f.1908) SA/RDS
Records of the Society from its foundation. Closely involved with Physiological Society and individual physiologists

Personal papers

Edith BÜLBRING, MD, MA, FRS (1903-1990) PP/BUL
Laboratory notebooks, conference papers, presentations, publications and some correspondence relating to her research on the physiology and pharmacology of smooth muscle (visceral or involuntary muscle), 1930s-80s

Sir Henry DALE (1875-1968) PP/HHD
Experimental notebooks, biographical items, drafts of articles, lectures, 1903-68
[See also GC/67. The bulk of Dale's papers are at the Royal Society]

Professor Ivan de Burgh DALY (1893-1974) PP/DBD
Small amount of correspondence, experimental notebooks re pulmonary circulation, 1919-74 Also biographical material on Sir Edward Sharpey-Schafer (1850-1935) and Prof William Sharpey (1802-1880)

Charles Enrique DENT (1911-1976) PP/CED
Large collection of papers of this specialist in metabolic disorders, 1940s-70s

Sir Charles Arthur Lovatt EVANS (1884-1968) PP/CLE
Biographical and personal material, 1896-1967

Sir Walter Morley FLETCHER (1873-1933) PP/WMF
Small group of papers includes material on artificial respiration (Schafer method), 1885-1933

Sir Thomas LEWIS (1881-1945) PP/LEW
Large collection of correspondence, papers, notes, reprints and family papers, 1907-45

Sir Edward (1884-1955) and Lady MELLANBY (1882-1978) PP/MEL
Large collection of personal papers, correspondence, research notes, writings, etc, including Lady Mellanby's work on dental policy, 1910s-70s

Sir William Drummond PATON (1917-1993) PP/WDP
Large collection of personal papers (correspondence, research papers, lab notebooks, etc), including on his work on deep diving and underwater physiology, including the physiological properties of gases at high pressure, and relating to his advocacy of the responsible use of animal experimentation, 1930-93

Sir Edward Albert SHARPEY-SCHAFER (1850-1935) PP/ESS
Major series of correspondence, notebooks, family and personal papers, photographs, etc covering extensive career, 1870s-1930s, also some material on William Sharpey, 1836-70

Professor Ernest Basil VERNEY (1894-1967) PP/EBV
Experimental notebooks, published papers, press cuttings, lecture notes, 1922-66

Marthe VOGT (1903-2003) PP/MRV
Large collection of papers including her work in neurophysiology, especially on neurotransmitters in the brain, 1920s-80s

Air Marshal Sir Harold WHITTINGHAM (1887-1983) PP/HEW
Research, illustrations, articles, on the physiology of flying for pilots, crew and passengers, military (RAF) and civilian, 1904-83

Other collections

Professor Nathaniel Henry ALCOCK (1871-1913) GC/151/1
Correspondence 1902-9, including letters re post as Lecturer in Physiology at St Mary's Hospital Medical School

Professor Anthony ANGEL (b. 1937) GC/124
Lecture notes, UCL 1957-60, and notes and examination papers from courses he taught at Sheffield University 1967-87

Sir William Maddock BAYLISS (1860-1924) GC/223
Small amount of personal papers and letters, 1877-1923. Also papers of E Starling (1866-1927), E A Sharpey Schafer (1850-1935) and A V Hill (1886-1977), 1892-1927 and letters of F Gowland Hopkins (1861-1947), 1924-1936

BRISTOL UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF PHYSIOLOGY GC/108
Order and account books, 1910-80

Professor W E DIXON (1870-1931) and G N MYERS (1898-1981) GC/155
Personalia and memorabilia of Dixon and Myers; files relating to their pharmacological research, 1865-1949

Professor Thomas ELLIOTT (1877-1961) GC/42
Some correspondence with eminent physiologists, 1886-1937

Sir John GADDUM (1900-1965) pharmacologist GC/213
This incompete group of personal papers reflects Gaddum’s career 1954-65 and includes correspondence with colleagues worldwide, publications and photographs

Lady GADDUM GC/110
Personal reminiscences of and notes about Sir John Gaddum (1900-1965) and Sir Thomas Lewis (1881-1945)

Professor Robert GARRY (1900-1993) GC/151/3
Reminiscences of career and the Physiological Society (5 tapes with transcript). Plus short written memoirs concerning various physiologists. Short memoirs, etc, of ADM Greenfield (b.1917), O Conheim (Kestner) (1873-1953) and A Todrick (1912-1992) also in GC/151

Professor Hamilton HARTRIDGE (1886-1976) GC/99
Lecture notes, correspondence and 'memoirs' re physiology of vision, 1909-76

Professor Archibald Vivian HILL (1886-1977) GC/74
Miscellaneous correspondence 1919-52. [Most of Hill's papers are at Churchill College Cambridge]

INSULIN CONTROVERSY 1922 GC/67
Copy documents collected by Sir Henry Dale

INTERNATIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL CONGRESSES GC/71
Papers relating to Congresses 1889-1939

Professor Cyril KEELE (1905-1987) MS.8755
A few items, c. 1934-1972, relating to his research on pain

R F D MACGREGOR (fl. 1904) MS.8402
Notes of Schafer’s physiology lectures, University of Edinburgh, 1904-5

Professor Thaddeus MANN (b.1908) GC/64
Small group of papers on animal physiology at Cambridge 1955-76

Sir Charles MARTIN (1866-1955) GC/104
Director of the Lister Institute 1903-1930. Reprints, 1891-945

Professor R A MCCANCE (1898-1993) and Dr Elsie WIDDOWSON (1908-2000) GC/97
Notebooks of research on the chemical composition of foods, 1929-44, and on salt deficiency, 1934-7; Survey of periodicity in women, 1929-30

Sir Arthur McNALTY (1880-1969) GC/119
Student notebooks at Oxford include his notes on lectures on central nervous system by Francis Gotch 1903

Professor George Ralph MINES (1886-1914) GC/151/6
Microfilms of material at McGill University relating to Mines' death

Professor Vernon Henry MOTTRAM (1882-1976) GC/151/7
Unpublished autobiography and portrait

Professor Erich MUSCHOLL MS8161
Correspondence, 1962-72, with Professor J. H. Burn, on the Burn-Rand Hypothesis

Professor Thomas PARSONS (1892-1961) GC/31
Correspondence, lecture notes, experimental notebooks, memoranda and revisions of 'Fundamentals in Bio-chemistry in Relation to Human Physiology' 1920s-50s

Professor Michael John RAND (1927-2002) MS8144
Correspondence, mainly with Professor J. H. Burn, concerning research into noradrenergic transmission, 1956-77

Professor John Michael ROBSON (1900-1982) GC/43
Small amount of papers on pharmacology, endocrinology and reproductive physiology, 1940s, 1967-75

Wellcome archives

WELLCOME ARCHIVES
The records of the Wellcome Physiological Research Laboratories, 1903-27, WA/PRL, are rather scanty, but additional material may be found among the records of the Bureau of Scientific Research, WA/BSR and the archives of the Historical Medical Museum, WA/HMM. Further relevant material may be found in the archives of the pharmaceutical company, the Wellcome Foundation, WF.