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George A. Neville fonds [textual record]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1964-2000.

Reference:

R8265-0-4-E

Type of material:

Textual material

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Item ID number:

187008

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George A. Neville fonds
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Fonds includes:

7 lower level description(s)
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Date(s):

1964-2000.

Place of creation:

Ontario

Extent:

5.9 m of textual records.

Language of material:

English

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Fonds consists of Neville's spectrographic articles, generally co-written, 1966-1997 covering topics such as mercury compounds in the environment, bovine antibiotics, commercial heparin extracts mand the identification of amphetamine compounds, designer drugs and police exhibits. These articles were based on Neville's research in the Spectroscopy Section of the Drug Identification Division of Health and Welfare Canada, later Health Canada. The Scientific Files Series contains Bureau of Drug Research Lab Bulletins and Reports and Good Laboratory Practice Certifications written by Neville and his colleagues. Unpublished custom analysis of material such as medicinal herbal extracts (1979) and analysis of new drugs. Neville's conference presentations and reports, peer review of scientific papers and professional correspondence, 1965-1996. The Bureau of Drug Research Series contains Neville's collection of memos, instructions, reports etc. relating to the internal functioning of his section, division, branch and department, 1974-1997 detailing the operation of spectrographic instruments, Neville's classification, pay, and annual appraisals. A Personal Series contains material on Neville winning a Centennial Fellowship and his subsequent studies on mercury compounds at the University of Lund in Sweden, 1972-1973. Documentation on the Chemical Institute of Canada, 1980-85; Carleton Soil and Crop Improvement Association, 1977-1985 and Ottawa's Glaber Park Community Association 1981-1993. Neville's general correspondence 1969-1998 plus his letters to politicians and newspapers about environmental pollution and larger social concerns.

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Neville, George Arthur, 1936-

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Neville, George Arthur, 1936- : George Neville was born in Brockville, Ontario 1936. He studied organic chemistry at Queen's University in Kingston and received his bachelors, masters and Ph.D. from that institution. In 1966 he became a research scientist with the Food and Drug Directorate of the Department of National Health and Welfare in Ottawa, specializing in the use of molecular spectroscopy to identify organic substances. In the late 1960's, Neville became head of the Spectroscopy Section of the Drug Identification Division of National Health and Welfare/Health Canada. As a result of being a Centennial Fellow of the Medical Research Council, Neville spent 1972-73 at the University of Lund in Sweden studying mercury complexation with sulphur-containing amino acids in the environment.

Neville introduced new techniques such as nuclear magnetic resonance and Fournier Transform-Infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy into his section. It studied mercury compounds, ophthalmic solutions, bovine antibiotics, low molecular weight heparin and many new drugs. Much of the work of the section was devoted to developing testing procedures for identifying narcotics for police forces across Canada. There were numerous studies of different classes of amphetamines and barbiturates as well as determining the composition and structure of new designer drugs. As a result of severe government cutbacks, Health Canada decided to cut in-house drug identification and the Bureau of Drug Research was closed. Neville retired in July 1997.

Neville was active in a number of different associations. He was a long-term member of the Chemical Institute of Canada and was on its Council 1981-85. Neville was a strong supporter of the Spectroscopy Society of Canada including the presidency of the Ottawa Chapter, the Editorial Board of the "Canadian Journal of Spectroscopy" (1978-97) and was SSC President in the late 1980s. Neville was also editor of the Ontario Genealogical Society's journal "Families" 1978-83. He was secretary of the Carleton Soil and Crop Development Association and active in the local Glaber Park Community Association.

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Textual records (Electronic) The finding aid, prepared by Larry McNally in 2000, is a list of the textual files for volumes 1 to 30 MSS2258 (90: Open)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000000750.pdf

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General note:

Received in 1999 and 2000 from George A. Neville of Ottawa.

Related material:

See also the George Neville photographs collection and the George Neville collection of art work by Kathleen McClean and Robert Lindsay.

Source:

Private

Related control no.:

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1999-01425-1
2002-00120-0
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Textual records

[Consultation90 Open]

Volume [R8265] 1--30

[Consultation 90 Open]

Finding aid box [FA 2258] 511

[Consultation 10 Closed]

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