Introduction

The searchable PDFs look best displayed in 2-page spreads, 'Fit to Screen'.

Recent Lab Book Project Updates

Pharmacology Notebook 1 #

Pharmacology Notebook 2 #

Pharmacology Notebook 3 #

Pharmacology Notebook 4 #

Pharmacology Notebook 5 #

Pharmacology Notebook 5 PDF (Searchable) (2.2MB)

Covers approximately 1982-1983

Pharmacology Notebook 6 #

Pharmacology Notebook 6 PDF (Searchable) (3.6MB)

Covers approximately 1983-1984

Pharmacology Notebook 7 #

Pharmacology Notebook 7 PDF (Searchable) (3.1MB)

Covers Feb-Oct 1984

Pharmacology Notebook 8 #

Pharmacology Notebook 8 PDF (Searchable) (3.6MB)

Covers the end of 1984 through most of 1986

Pharmacology Notebook 9 #

Pharmacology Notebook 9 PDF (Searchable) (8MB)

Covers the end of 1986 through most of 1994

Pharmacology Notebook A #

Pharmacology Notebook A PDF (Searchable) (8MB)

Covers 1985-1986, dedicated to reports from others.

Pharmacology Notebook B #

Pharmacology Notebook B PDF (Searchable) (4.4MB)

Covers most of 1986, comprised of reports from others

Pharmacology Notebook C #

Pharmacology Notebook C PDF (Searchable) (2.5MB)

Covers Nov 1986 to Aug 1987, comprised of reports from others

Pharmacology Notebook D #

Pharmacology Notebook D PDF (Searchable) (2.5MB)

Covers 1987, comprised of reports by Ann and others

Pharmacology Notebook E #

Pharmacology Notebook E PDF (Searchable) (1.7MB)

Covers 1988, comprised of reports by Ann, Sasha, and others

Chemistry Lab Book 6 #

Chemistry Lab Book 6 #

Chemistry Lab Book 8 #

Older Lab Book Project Updates

Revision History # v1.0 - Sep 27, 2012 - Searchable Chemistry Lab Book 6 (PDF) added.

v1.1 - Dec, 2012 - Searchable Pharmacology Notebook 1 (PDF) added.

v1.2 - Mar 21, 2013 - Searchable Pharmacology Notebook 2 (PDF) added.

v1.3 - May 21, 2013 - Searchable Pharmacology Notebook 3 (PDF) added.

v1.4 - Feb 27, 2014 - Searchable Pharmacology Notebook 4 (PDF) added, clarified naming, minor updates, added more acknowledgement of the herculean efforts of Shawn.

v1.5 - Aug 22, 2014 - Searchable Pharmacology Notebooks 5 (PDF) added

v1.6 - Sep 24, 2015 - Searchable Pharmacology Notebook 6 (PDF) added. Minor edits to previous PDFs.

v1.7 - Apr 11, 2016 - Searchable Pharmacology Notebooks 7 & 8 (PDF) added, Apr 2016 progress note added.

v1.8 - Aug 3, 2016 - Searchable Pharmacology Notebook 9 (PDF) added, progress note added.

v1.9 - Dec 7, 2016 - Searchable Pharmacology Notebooks A (PDF) added, progress note added.

v1.10 - Feb 13, 2017 - Split older updates from last-12-months updates, added Art of Legibility.

v1.11 - Sep 7, 2017 - Searchable Pharmacology Notebooks C (PDF) added, progress note added.

v1.12 - Mar 2018 - Searchable Pharmacology Notebooks D (PDF) added, progress note added.

v1.13 - Jan 2019 - Searchable Pharmacology Notebooks E (PDF) added, progress note added.

After several years of consideration and preparation, the first of Alexander Shulgin's notebooks (produced from the 1960s through the 1980s) were scanned and made available online in 2007. The notebooks fall into two categories: Pharmacology books (mainly comprised of experience reports about a wide variety of psychoactive substances), and Chemistry lab books, (comprised of lab notes, "dirty pictures" (sketches of molecules), chemical processes, formulas, hand-drawn graphs, and spectra print-outs from analytical instruments). The goal of this project is to create public, searchable versions of these valuable historical documents.Erowid crew member Shawn has been leading the transcription project for years, and he and a few other volunteers have put in countless hours working on these notebooks. Shawn has produced manually-transcribed, hand-designed PDFs that make Sasha's notebooks readable and searchable. A truly amazing effort.The Shulgins' trusted assistants, gregM and Tania, did the labor-intensive process of redacting the names of individuals whose privacy should be protected. The scanning was facilitated by Archive.org and performed by gregM and Raj Kumar. Paul Daley and Erowid staff continue to digitize and hand-redact additional lab and notebooks.Erowid continues to seek volunteers to transcribe the texts and edit images to make them more readable. We are currently at the stage of transcription and proofreading of transcriptions. If you would like to help with this project, please Volunteer Today!