Roseby collection

Graham Roseby (1932-2007)was a pharmacist in Melbourne and a passionate collector in 1965 he loaned his collection to the Medical History Museum. This collection has drug jars, mortars and related pharmaceutical items dating from the sixteenth to nineteenth century from various European countries tracing the development of the apothecary. These is also an important collection of Japanese inrō used for carrying medicine. The collection was gifted in 2007.