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Papers of Colonel P.S. Lelean, bound into a volume

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1 Curriculum vitae submitted when appointed Professor of Public Health, University of Edinburgh. With list of publications and testimonials, 1925
2 Extract from the minutes of Edinburgh University Senate, recording appreciation of Lelean's services as Professor of Public Health, 1944
3 List of articles and published notes by Captain Lelean, 1903-1912
4 Notes and copy correspondence, 1915-1916, re provision for sick Indian troops in Brighton in 1915
5 Copy of letter, 1937, from the Prime Minister, Stanley Baldwin, to Professor Lelean re establishment of a National Advisory Council for Scotland on the subject of physical training and recreation for young people, 1937
6 Note re royalties earned from books and inventions, c.1930
7 Notes and photographs re Lelean's invention, the sack disinfector, 1930
8 Notes and articles re Eocene outcrop in Central Africa, 1904
9 Drawing by Engel Terzzi of the possibly parasitic fly, Auchmeromyia luteola, 1904

10-23 Reprints and texts of papers and talks by Lelean, with one by W.H.O. Beveridge 1903-1956:
10 Quinine as a malarial prophylactic: a criticism, from the Journal of the RAMC, Nov 1911, with related correspondence, 1911-1912, including letter from Ronald Ross, 1911-1912
11 Four papers re refuse destruction in India, with related correspondence and newspaper cutting, 1911-1933
12 Bacteriological examination of waters in the field from the Journal of the RAMC, Sept 1914
13 Reprint of Colonel W.W.O. Beveridge's paper "Some essential factors in the construction of field service and expeditionary rations", from the Journal of the RAMC, Oct 1914
14 Notes on Myiasis, from the British Medical Journal, 30 Jan 1904
15 Note re meteorological observations in Northern Nigeria, 1903, from the Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, April 1904
16 Two cases of Bilharzia haematobia, from the Journal of the RAMC, Oct 1904
17 Review of the Medical History of the Great War, Vol. II, c.1919
18 Text of a talk to the Royal Institution of Great Britain, re anti-typhoid inoculation, 1915
19 Text of a talk to the Sir John Cass Technical Institute, re defensive science in gas-warfare, 1920
20 Common sense re clothing, talk to the Men's Dress Reform Party, post 1925
21 The evolution of public health, from Health and Empire, Dec 1929
22 Text of presidential address to the Royal Sanitary Association of Scotland, entitled "National physical unfitness and some remedies", c.1936
23 Public education in the art of health, a pamphlet by Lelean as Professor of Public Health at Edinburgh University, c.1928
24 Obituary of Lelean, from the British Medical Journal, 1956

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