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Papers 1936-1938

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Comprised of the following:
<li>PP/HBF/E.12/1: Introduction (to Tissue Culture) `Bd Ed Vac Course', Series of lectures on Tissue Culture to the British Postgraduate Medical School, March 1937, 1 August 1936</li>
<li>PP/HBF/E.12/2: Summary, 1937</li>
<li>PP/HBF/E.12/3: Lecture I: The technique of tissue culture and its value in research, 1937</li>
<li>PP/HBF/E.12/4: Lecture II: Unorganised growth, 1937</li>
<li>PP/HBF/E.12/5: Lecture III: Organised growth, 1937</li>
<li>PP/HBF/E.12/6: Observations and experiments on the development of the avian sternum': Lecture, Embryologie Institut, University College, Aug 4th 1938, 1938</li>

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Papers 1936-1938

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