Records. Society for the Institute of Biological and Medical Sciences-Society of Science, Letters and Art of London (inclusive), 1895-1969.

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Records. Society for the Institute of Biological and Medical Sciences-Society of Science, Letters and Art of London (inclusive), 1895-1969.

Correspondence, advertisements, articles and clippings, and promotional and supplementary materials concerning the Society for the Institute of Biological and Medical Sciences, an organization which supported various bio-medical research projects, 1969; Society of Dispensing Physicians, an organization of physicians who sought to both prescribe and dispense drugs for obesity (rather than prescribing drugs sold by a pharmacy), 1969; Society of Sanitary and Moral Prophylaxis, an organization of uncertain purpose (possibly involving eugenics), 1930; and Society of Science, Letters and Art of London, an organization for the advancement of the arts and sciences, 1895-1949.

4 folders.

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