Wolf, Charles George Lewis (1872 - 1954)

Decomposition products of Protein. Holograph note-book of laboratory work at the Physiological Laboratory, King's College, London, and at Cornell University Medical College, New York. Ff. 40-45 contain a holograph draft of a letter to Dr. (H. D.) Halliburton [1860-1931] giving a resumé of the results of the author's work, with a view to the projected publication of a paper. No record of such paper has been traced.

1904

3 ll. (last bl.).+ 45 ff.+ 18 bl. ll. + I l. 4to. 23 x 18 cm. Original boards.

Presented 1941.

The author was born at Niagara Falls (Canada), and qualified M.D. at McGill University in 1894. Later he was a professor of physiological chemistry at Cornell University, and in the First World War joined the R.A.M.C. and was Director of a Base Hygiene Laboratory and bacteriologist to the Medical Research Council. From 1921 to 1937 he was biochemist to Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge.

From the Halliburton Note-books.

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).