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Transcribe Wellcome
  • Introduction
  • Terminology and language
  • RESEARCHING THE MUSEUM & LIBRARY
    • Documentation Systems
      • Museum Accession Numbers
      • Old Registration System
      • New Registration System
      • Library Accessions
      • Library Shelfmarks
      • Paintings
      • Photographs
      • Prints and Drawings
    • Classification
      • Sections
      • Cultures
      • Materials
      • Collections Abbreviations
    • People
      • Alphabetical list of staff
        • Lander, Kathleen
        • Amoruso, Arthur
        • Barber-Lomax, John Walker
        • Barnard, Cyril Cuthbert
        • Bishop, W.J.
        • Borer, Mary Cathcart
        • Boscawen, William St Chad
        • Bourne, Henry
        • Britchford, W.J.
        • Brookes, Mr
        • Burgess, Renate
        • Burstein, S. Rosa
        • Carline, George R.
        • Chadburn, Mr
        • Chatterjee, B.
        • Chiang Yee
        • Clarke, Edwin
        • Comins, Mr
        • Cooper-Reade, J.B.
        • Cox, R.M.
        • Crellin, John K.
        • Dance, Enid
        • Daukes, S.H.
        • Davis, Walter
        • Dean, A.L.
        • Duncum (Pyecraft), Barbara
        • Dykes, R.
        • Earnshaw, C.A.
        • Freeman, E.J.
        • French-Sheldon, May
        • Gardner, S.B.
        • Gaskell, E.
        • Gaster, Theodor
        • Georgievsky, Catherine
        • Gibson, Miss
        • Haggis, Alec W.J.
        • Hewitt, Charles
        • Hipkins, G.J.
        • Holz, Dorothy
        • Hooper, D.
        • Huck, T.W.
        • Johnston-Saint, Peter (Captain)
        • Jones, Miss
        • Keighley, Mr
        • Kemp, P.M.
        • Kidd, R.H.
        • Lacaille, A. Donald
        • Lane, Tom
        • Lillico, Joan
        • Malcolm, Louis William Gordon
        • Mall, Paira
        • Marmoy, Charles
        • Michieli, John
        • Moorat, Samuel Arthur Joseph
        • Port, Harry
        • Powell, H.J.
        • Poynter, F.N.L.
        • Prideaux, W.R.B.
        • Rainsford-Hannay, Margaret
        • Raymont (Braunholtz), Joan
        • Rowbottom, Margaret
        • Sambon, Louis Westenra
        • Samson, Otto William
        • Shawe, J.
        • Shirreff, Frances Gordon
        • Sinel, Joseph William
        • Sizer, C.A.
        • Smith, Miss
        • Spielmann, Marion Harry Alexander
        • Stow, Harry
        • Swinstead, A.E.H.
        • Thompson, Charles John Samuel
        • Underwood, Edwin Ashworth
        • Uribe, Julio (Major)
        • Webb, Mr
        • Welch
        • Wilkes, Mr
        • Winder, Marianne
      • Collecting Agents
        • Blackman, Winifred Susan
        • Bolinder, Gustav
        • Church Missionary Society
        • Jeffreys, Mervyn D.W.
      • Private Collectors
        • Amherst, William Tyssen-Amherst
        • Canaan, Tawfiq
        • Debes Davies, Rachel
        • Gorga, Evangelista
        • Hewlett, William
        • French-Sheldon, May
        • Iles, Isaac
        • Lovett, Edward
        • Moore-Guggisberg, Lillian Decima
    • Wellcome Places
      • Aldersgate Street
      • Beckenham
      • Bushey Hill Road
      • Crystal Palace Road
      • Dartford Works
      • Easley Mews
      • Henrietta Street
      • Marylebone High Street
      • Portman Square
      • Sans Walk
      • Stanmore
      • Stratford Mews
      • Wigmore Street
      • Willesden
    • Auction Houses
    • Wellcome Organisations
      • Burroughs Wellcome & Company (BW & Co.)
      • Epworth & Co.
      • Historical Medical Exhibition (HME)
      • Wellcome Bureau of Scientific Research (WBSR)
      • Wellcome Chemical Research Laboratories (WCRL)
      • Wellcome Foundation Ltd.
      • Wellcome Historical Medical Museum (WHMM)
      • Wellcome Institute of/for the History of Medicine (WIHM)
      • Wellcome Museum of Medical Science (WMMS)
      • Wellcome Physiological Research Laboratories (WPRL)
      • Wellcome Research Institution (WRI)
      • Wellcome Tropical Research Laboratories (WTRL)
    • Dispersals
      • The Ten Distributions (1950s)
      • Science Museum Departments
    • Bibliography
  • TRANSCRIPTION GUIDELINES
    • Wellcome Transcribers' Group
    • Getting Started
    • Library Registers
    • Museum Flimsy Slips
    • PHO Accession Registers
    • CC Accessions - Cabinet Cards
    • Science Museum Transit Registers
    • Museum Accession Registers
  • Contributing to Transcribe Wellcome
    • Transcribers
    • Recipient Museums & Libraries
  • About the Transcribe Wellcome dataset
    • Dispersals
  • Project Management
    • Batch checking - Flimsy slips (A sequence)
    • Batch checking - Library Accession Registers
    • Itemising batches for TW import and catalogue descriptions
    • Importing itemisation batches
    • Checking & importing visual batches
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  1. RESEARCHING THE MUSEUM & LIBRARY
  2. Classification

Collections Abbreviations

Transcribed from the 'List of symbols for collections of objects', undated, probably c.1928-1935 (archive reference: WA/HMM/CM/Cla/1).

Collection Symbol
Name of Collection
Character of Collection

C.Ab.

ABBOTT, Lewis

Archaeological

C.Ar.

ARMSTRONG

Ethnographical

C.An.

ARNOLD

Surgical

C.Ay.

ARMYTAGE

Ethnographical

C.B-M.

BRITISH MUSEUM ETHNOGRAPHICAL DEPT.

Ethnographical

C.Bn.

BRUNTON, Guy

Ethnographical

C.Bu.

BUTLER'S, Bristol

Pharmaceutical

C.Ch.

CHRISTOL

Ethnographical

C.Cl.

CLARKE, Major Stanley

Medicinal (native)

C.Co.

COULIN, Jules, Bale

Peruvian terra cottas

C.Dn.

DENNEBY, Assam

Native toxicology

C.Dp.

DE PONTES SPANISH PHARMACY

Pharmaceutical

C.Ed.

EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY

Pharmaceutical

C.El.

ELLIS, Bristol

Pharmaceutical

C.Ev.

EVANS, Ballinlough

Sudan & East Indian

C.En.

EVANS, Sir John

Archaeological

C.E-P.

EVANS-PRITCHARD

Ethnographical

C.G-A.

GAYER-ANDERSON

Pornographic

C.Gu.

GUNNIS, Rupert

Ethnographical etc.

C.Hm.

HAMONIC (2 collections)

Surgical etc.

C.Hn.

HENDRY (on loan)

Ethnographical

C.Hr.

HERMESSEN

Pharmaceutical

C.H-M.

HORNIMAN'S MUSEUM (through Dr. Harrison, Curator)

Ethnographical

C.H-R.

HORNIMAN'S MUSEUM (Major Ruxton's material)

Ethnographical

C.Jm.

JAMIESON

Ethnographical

C.Jf.

JEFFREYS

Ethnographical

C.Km.

KEMP

Balkan Folklore

C.Ko.

KNOWLES

Archaeological

C.Lr.

LAWRENCE

Ancient Peruvian Silver

C.Lw.

LEWIS

Oddments - bronzes, etc.

C.Mk.

MACKIE

Ethnographical

C.My.

MYCENEAN REPLICAS

C.Nw.

NEWTON

Pharmacy vases

C.Og.

OGILVIE

Native toxicology

C.Pl.

PALMER

Archaeological gold & silver

C.Pm.

PALMER, M.

Ancient Bolivian

C.Pr.

PAREYN

Ethnographical

C.Po.

POWER, Dr.

Pharmaceutical oils

C.Ro.

ROSEHILL

Archaeological

C.Sc.

SCAIF

Archaeological

C.Sh.

SCHLEICHER

Archaeological

C.Sp.

SCHUPPACK

Pharmaceutical

C.Sf.

SFORZA

Surgical, Roman

C.St.

STEAD

Indonesian

C.Su.

SUK, Dr.

Plaster casts, dental

C.Tb.

TABOR

Folklore & Ethnographical

C.Th.

THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY

Archaeological

C.Td.

TORDAY

Ethnographical

C.Tr.

TORREJOS

Pharmaceutical

C.Um.

UMLAUFF

Ethnographical

C.Wm.

WEMBLEY, B.E.E. 1924 [British Empire Exhibition]

Ethnographical

C.Wm.

WEMBLEY, B.E.E. 1925 [British Empire Exhibition]

Ethnographical

C.Wr.

WRIGHT

Folklore & ethnographical

Egyptian Collections

Collection Symbol
Name of Collection
Character of Collection

C.BnE.

Egyptian Antiquities of the Brunton Expedition

C.B-S.

British School of Archaeology in Egypt (per Prof. Petrie) 1927

C.B-S.

British School of Archaeology in Egypt (per Mr. Starkie) 1930

C.E-E.

Egypt Exploration Society Collections, 1929-1932

C.Mg.

McGREGOR

Amulets, etc.

C.Bl.

BLACKMAN

Modern folklore

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