Archive summary

The predecessor specialist societies

Catalogues to the archives of the Royal Society of Medicine and its predecessors are now online at www.a2a.org.uk.

200 years of RSM history has been made more accessible through the Flesh and Blood Access to Archives (A2A) project. Records from 1805-1907 can be found by searching under the names of our predecessor societies (listed below). Records dating from 1907-1975 are listed under 'Royal Society of Medicine'. The full catalogues can be downloaded from the site.

Most of these amalgamated with the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society in 1907 to become Sections of the Royal Society of Medicine.

The archives include records from the following societies:

	Years
Society of Anaesthetists	1893-1908
British Balneological and Climatology Society	1895-1909
Clinical Society of London	1868-1907
Dermatological Society of London	1882-1907
Dermatological Society of Great Britain and Ireland	1894-1907
Society for the Study of Diseases in Children	1900-1908
British Electrotherapeutic Society	1901-1907
Epidemiological Society of London	1850-1907
British Gynaecological Society	1884-1907
British Laryngological, Rhinological and Otological Association	1888-1907
Laryngological Society of London	1893-1907
Neurological Society	1886-1907
Obstetrical Society of London	1858-1907
Odontological Society of Great Britain	1856-1907
Pathological Society of London	1846-1907
Therapeutical Society	1902-1907

The Royal Society of Medicine (Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society until 1805)

	Years
Council minutes and attendance books	from 1805
General Scientific Meetings minutes and papers	from 1834
Charters, by-laws and related papers	from 1834
Financial records	from 1874
Deeds & Building records	from 1796
General correspondence	from 1890

Sub-committees:

War

	Years
Emergency Surgical Aid Executive Committee	1914-1926
Surgical Advisory Committee	1917-1919
War-time committees on Physical Protection of Members of the Fighting Forces, Interned Medical Aliens, and Inter-Allied Conferences on War Medicine	1940-1945

Health

	Years
Ministry of Health and Advisory Committee on Public Health and Welfare of the Medical Profession	1918-1922
Welfare of the Medical Profession	1918-1922
Venereal Diseases Committee	1913-1914
Physical Health Committee	1920
Prevention of Cancer Committee	1923

Science

	Years
Committee on Schaeffer Method of Resuscitation	1908
Scientific Committee	1861-1893

General

	Years
Medical Parliamentary Committee	1918
Ministry of Health Committee	1918-1922
Amalgamation correspondence	1903-1907
Conference programmes	from 1980
Lectureships, prizes and medal papers	from 1873

Section Records

Includes council and meeting minutes, attendance books, programmes, some correspondence and related papers.
Full list of Sections past and present.

Fora Records

Includes Fora programmes and minutes.
Full list of past fora.