THE ROYAL COMMISSION ON HISTORICAL MANUSCRIPTS
Report on the correspondence and papers of
CLAUDE GORDON DOUGLAS
(1882 - 1963)
physiologist
deposited in the
Library for the History of Neuroscience, Oxford
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Catalogue of papers and correspondence of
CLAUDE GORDON DOUGLAS FRS
(1882 - 1963)
Compiled by Peter Harper
Deposited in the Library for the History of Neuroscience in the
All rights reserved
Sherrington Room of the University Laboratory of Physiology, Oxford
1987
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The work of the National Cataloguing Unit for the Archives of
Contemporary Scientists, and the production of this catalogue, are made
possible by the following societies and organisations:
The City of Bath
The Geological Society
The Institute of Physics
Pergamon Books
The Royal Society
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The Royal Society of Chemistry
The Society of Chemical Industry
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LIST OF CONTENTS
GENERAL INTRODUCTION
SUMMARY OF CAREER OF C.G. DOUGLAS
SECTION A
RESEARCH, TEACHING, PUBLICATIONS
SECTION B
WARTIME RESEARCH
SECTION C
HALDANIANA
INDEX OF CORRESPONDENTS
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GENERAL INTRODUCTION
PROVENANCE
The material was received in August 1987 from Dr. D.J.C.
Cunningham, the author of the Royal Society memoir of Douglas.
DESCRIPTION OF THE COLLECTION
The material is presented in the order shown in the list of
contents.
It includes detailed records of Douglas's First World War work in
France on the medical and defensive aspects of gas warfare, and his
"Haldaniana', an assemblage of material relating to Douglas's great teacher
and mentor, J.S. Haldane.
The collection offers regrettably little
documentation of Douglas's scientific activity in the Physiology Laboratory,
Oxford University, or of his extensive committee work for government and
newspaper accounts.
The expedition was organised by J.S. Haldane to
Pike's Peak, Colorado, though this is almost exclusively photographs and
slight.
The most interesting material relates to the 1911 expedition to
investigate respiration at high altitude and the summit party comprised
edition’ of Douglas's and J.G. Priestley's book Human Physiology.
Haldane, Douglas, Yandell Henderson of Yale and E.C. Schneider of Colorado.
The subsection on teaching includes class notes for practical courses on
experimental physiology, and the publications subsection the
‘ns.
of original
others.
Section A (Research, teaching, publications) is disappointingly
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Section B (Wartime research) is the most substantial in the
collection.
The comprehensive records of the First World War gas warfare
work presented here appear to be the documentation used by Douglas for his
contribution on the development of gas warfare to the Official medical war
history.
There are many papers by Douglas on aspects of the effects and
treatment of gas poisoning, but there are also papers by other distinguished
scientists including J. Barcroft, T.R. Elliott and J.S. Haldane.
At the outbreak of the Second World War Douglas went to the
Experimental Station at Porton (until October 1941) where he was largely
responsible for re-writing the Medical manual of chemical warfare.
The
papers listed at B.43 - B.49 very probably relate to this work.
Douglas was
also consulted on nutrition questions during the Second World War and there
is material on diet in respect of the army, coalminers and Oxford
undergraduates.
talks at the 1961 Haldane Centenary Symposium.
A full account of Douglas's career and research can be found in the
Section C (Haldaniana) is Douglas's assemblage of material relating
records of the Royal Society Tyndall Mining Research Committee on which
Douglas succeeded Haldane as chairman.
There is also material for Douglas's
to J.S. Haldane arranged and listed in a chronological sequence.
It includes
what appears to be an unpublished paper (C.5), obituaries and tributes, and
copy of which is enclosed at A.24,
memoir by D.J.C. Cunningham written for the Royal Society and published in
1964 (Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, 10, 51-74), a
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LOCATION OF OTHER MATERIAL
It
is intended that letters from J.S. Haldane to Douglas currently
in the possession of Dr. Cunningham will be passed on to the National Library
of Scotland, Edinburgh which already holds the letters from Douglas to
Haldane.
P, Harper
Bath 1987
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SUMMARY OF THE CAREER OF C.G. DOUGLAS
b.1882
Leicester
educ. 1895
Wellington College
1898
1900
1901
1905
1907
1911
Wyggeston Grammar School, Leicester
New College, Oxford
Magdalen College, Oxford
Guy's Hospital
Fellow, St. John's College, Oxford
Member, Anglo-American expedition to Pike's Peak, Colorado
1914-1919
War service
Award of Military Cross
1916
1917
1918
1922
1927
1942
1945
1961
Physiological Adviser to the Directorate of Gas Services
at G.H.Q.
d.
1963
Temporary Lieutenant-Colonel, R.A.M.C.
Chairman of the Haldane Centenary Symposium
Election to Fellowship of the Royal Society
Professor of General Metabolism, Oxford University
Award of Osler Memorial Medal, Oxford University
Oliver-Sharpey Lecturer, Royal College of Physicians
Oxford
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SECTION A
RESEARCH, TEACHING, PUBLICATIONS
A.1 - A.46
leat
A.2
AAS
5
4
- A.24
Research
- A.33 Teaching
- A.46 Publications
RESEARCH
Pike's Peak
Expedition, 1911
A.1
List of apparatus taken from England by Douglas and J.S. Haldane.
Press-cuttings from New York and Colorado newspapers with
accounts of expedition.
4 folders.
Photographs of expedition members (individual and group
portraits), laboratory, experiments in progress.
Photographs taken by Herald-Telegraph, Colorado Springs,
A.6
with covering letter, 31 July 1911.
A.12
Unattributed.
In
Booklet of photographs
14 1911'.
A.7-A.11
the Manitou and Pike's Peak Railway, August 1911.
Mounted photographs taken by official photographer of
Summit of Pike's Peak
stamped 'Summit of Pike's Peak, Aug.
via the Cog Road.
Photograph of Colorado Springs with view of Pike's Peak.
tube.
Postcard sent to Douglas from the summit of Pike's Peak by
American scientists working there, 2 June 1913.
Ms data, graphs by Douglas and Mearns, June 1921.
Ms data headed 'Douglas Pipettes' on back of Faculty of Natural
Science, Oxford, lecture list, Trinity term,
Correspondence etc. re equipment, supplies, 1911,
invoice, price list, photograph.
"Douglas et al (1921).
of an envelope so inscribed.
O05 breathing during exercise'.
Contents
1920.
Includes
1920.
General
ALLS
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Research, teaching, publications
"Control boards and thermoregulator in use in the laboratory at
Winnington', October 1928.
12pp typescript by E.A. Cooke, Research Department, Winnington.
"Experiment on circulation rate by class', 1 June 1931.
1p ms data.
Scientific correspondence
Letter from Y. Henderson, 1938 and re Henderson, 1945; obituaries
of Henderson, (d. 1944).
Duplicated copy of paper by W.M. Boothby, 1950, with ms note from
author on title-page.
Letter from E.L. Kennaway, 1951.
2 folders.
A.21 ,A.22
Undated notes, tables, graphs, etc.
Photograph of Douglas with F.C. Courtice, c.
1946.
"Claude Gordon Douglas 1882-1963' by D.J.C. Cunningham,
(Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, 10, 1964).
25pp duplicated typescript class notes for fourth tern.
Physiology teaching material sent to Douglas from the University
of Birmingham, 71934.
A.26
practical course in experimental physiology.
27pp duplicated typescript class notes for the third term
List of classes for second term junior experimental course.
A.25
Envelope in which material was found.
TEACHING
Ae2oe =.
A. 27
A.27
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Research, teaching, publications
"Physiology.
experiments)'. n.d.
Junior experimental class.
(Muscle and nerve
Course booklet (17pp duplicated typescript) containing seven
class exercises.
A.29 - A.32 Miscellaneous duplicated typescript course notes, n.d.
A.29 'Blood'
‘abnormal urine’
(4pp);
(2pp).
'bile'
(2pp);
‘normal urine'
(3pp);
A.30
(3pp); 'carbohydrates' (6pp).
'Enzymes'
(7pp);
'proteins'
(10pp);
'the fats or lipids'
A.31
in an organic body, ammonia, amino acids etc
‘Quantitative Class'.
Notes on the estimation of nitrogen
(8pp and 9pp).
Notes on the estimation of urea in the blood and oxygen in the
blood (3pp).
A.32
fluid'
'The measurement of the hydrogen ion concentration of a
(4pp).
(4pp).
PUBLICATIONS
"Chemistry of some common foods'
(5pp).
Duplicated sheets, possibly for class work, n.d.
"Notes on the identification of unknown substances’
A.34 - A.41 Contents of a brown paper parcel inscribed: 'ms of orsgenel
edition of Douglas and Priestley "Human Physiology".'
The book was published in Oxford in 1924 by the Clarendon i.
Figures and legends
Unpaginated duplicated ms and typescript ‘corrected copy'.
ppi24-135a
38
pp152-163
A.35
pp13-37
-36
pp47a-67
A.34
-37
-39
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A.40
Letter from M.S. Pembrey to J.G. Priestley re book, 30 July
1923; also figure and experimental results.
A.41
Proof copy.
'The effects of prolonged muscular exercise on the metabolism' by
F.C. Courtice and Douglas, Proc. Roy.
1936.
Soc.
B.,
88pp typescript carbon.
‘Pulmonary function: historical.'
(chapter 1)
Texas: USAF School of Aviation Medicine, 1954.
to Handbook of Respiratory Physiology, Randolph,
Douglas's contribution
Editorial correspondence, 1952-55.
A.43
W.M. Boothby who died before publication.
include a fellow contributor, F.J.W. Roughton.
Principally with editor
Other correspondents
A.44
Ms draft paginated [1]-21;
figures
A.45
Ms draft paginated [1]-56;
A.46
Shorter ms drafts; bibliography.
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SECTION B WARTIME RESEARCH
B.1 - B.55
B.1-B.42
B.43-B.49
B.50-B.55
Gas warfare, 1915-1920
Chemical Defence Board, Porton, 1928, 1939-1942
Nutrition, 1943,1944.
GAS WARFARE, 1915-1920
Douglas kept almost all his First World War manuscripts and papers in green
folders with his own ms titles.
reference, and Douglas's titles used in the sub-headings.
folders have not been preserved.
These folders have been divided for ease of
The original
"Notes on the treatment of Gas Poisoning'
Biol:
"Gas poisoning' by Lieut. Col. D. Macauley, South African Medical
Corps (4pp), with covering letter, 14 November 1915.
"Poisoning by nitrous fumes and sulphuretted hydrogen', n.d.
(4pp).
"Notes on the treatment of poisoning by gas' by J.S. Haldane,
nied...
(2Zpp)..
"Directions for treatment of accidental cases of poisoning’, n.d.
(5pp).
"Provisional notes on treatment of cases of poisoning by gases
and vapours', n.d.
(2pp).
(4pp).
‘Notes on the treatment of poisoning by gas' by J.S. Haldane,
mod:
(Spp):
Copy letter from F. Shufflebotham to Director General, Trench
Warfare Supply Department, 21 July 1916, reporting on medical
inspection of the works where the manufacture of poisonous gases
was carried on.
(4pp).
Letter from Shufflebotham to the Trench Warfare Supply Department
Chemical Advisory Committee, 11 September 1916, on white star
poisoning. (3pp).
Copy of report on the effects of chloropicrin compiled by the
French investigators of lethal gases, sent to Douglas for
information, 10 February 1917.
‘Report on the inspection on July 20th 1916 (from a medical point
of view) of two gas factories', by F.A. Bainbridge. (2pp).
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"Polycythaemia following gas poisoning', by J. Barcroft, n.d.
(4pp).
Letter from Barcroft re experiments on rabbits, n.d.
(2pp).
Copies of letters from L. Hill to Colonel Cummins, January 1916
and lp extracts from letters headed ‘Experiments by Leonard Hill
on the effects of Phosgene’.
"Report on the treatment of P.S. poisoning', n.d.
(3pp).
‘Experiments made at Cambridge', n.d.
with ip ms attached.
1p duplicated typescript
"Report on experiments with sulphuretted hydrogen by
A.R. Cushney, n.d.
(1p).
‘Mustard gas'
B.4
"Gas shell bombardment of Ypres, 12/13 July 1917' by Douglas, Le],
July 1917 (5pp).
‘Gas warfare, July-December, 1917.
bearing on the medical aspects of gas poisoning,' n.d.
Summary of information
(5pp).
(ip).
"Effects of a gas shell bombardment' by Douglas, 24 July 1917.
(3pp).
‘The effects of a gas shell bombardment at Nieuport', by Douglas,
26 July 1917.
(2pp).
"No.25 General Hospital. Hardelot.
Points suggested for
consideration in preparing a report on gas casualties of
intermediate severity.'
1 August 1917.
"A teport on the morbid anatomy and microscopic changes found in
the organs in fatal cases of shell-gas poisoning, due to di-
chlor-ethyl-sulphide', by J.W. McNee, 14 August 1917.
(6pp).
(2pp).
"Pathological changes caused in man by di-chlor-ethyl-sulphide
poisoning’ by J.R. Marrack (4pp), with covering note dated 3 July
1918.
"Note on the casualties caused by Yperite in the British Forces’
by Douglas, 22 October 1918.
‘Vesicants'; n.d.
(11pp).
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‘Medical organisation in German army' by Douglas, 16 October
1918.
(2pp).
‘French organisation for gas casualties' by Douglas, 17 October
1918.
(2pp).
Note.
dans le traitement des intoxigués par gaz. (Printed).
Organisation et fonctionnement des formations specialisees
‘German fuzes'
B.8
"Notes on German fuzes.
Fourth report'. 27 October 1918.
(5pp).
‘German instantaneous fuze with graze action', 2 November 1918.
(2pp) .
Diagrams.
"Experimental investigations’
B.9
"Rate of hydrolysis of phosgene by water', 8 March 1916.
(1p).
Ms and typescript notes of experiments, April 1916.
"Report on visit to England, 21-28/7/16' by Douglas, 29 July
1916.
(7pp).
(2pp).
‘Report on some observations made on convalescent cases of gas
poisoning' by Douglas, 23 September 1916.
(12pp).
‘Interim report on effects produced on the lungs of mice by
exposure to low concentrations of phosgene’ by Douglas and A.
Renshaw, 18 April 1916.
(2pp and 4pp).
Copy letter from Douglas to Colonel Cummins, 11 February 1916,
re visit to R.A.M. College, Millbank, Cambridge, and Oxford for
discussion about protection against poisonous gases.
the base, obtained from Capt. Lambert, Abbeville, 12/11/16.'
"Report on boxes filled for experimental purposes with absorption
layers differing from standard specification' by Douglas, 10
December 1916.
‘Tests for deterioration on boxes filled with absorption layers
differing from standard specification and on standard boxes', by
Douglas, 1 April 1917.
"Effect of box respirator on carbon monoxide', 19 August 1916.
(1p).
(3pp).
(2pp).
‘Tests of materials taken from large box respirators returned to
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"The pathological effects caused by gases that act as acute lung
irritants' by Douglas, 20 January 1917.
appendices).
(17pp including
Letter from unidentified writer to M. Fletcher, 31 January 1917,
enclosing list of ‘investigations required'
(l1p+ip).
"Resumé of papers on acidosis in cases of gas poisoning by J.
Barcroft, F.R.S.' by Douglas, n.d.
(5pp).
Analyses of
air in mines after explosion of enemy's camouflets
Beis
"Air samples taken after two enemy blows in 13 mine, 29/7/16'
etc.
(6pp typescript +
1p ms).
‘CO poisoning. H5S poisoning.
Conditions in tanks. Asphyxia caused by
diminution of oxygen in the air'
B.14
"Report on some German casualties caused by gas'
papers (9pp), with covering note from Douglas, 23 November 1916.
and related
"Report on lethal shell gas poisoning by medical officer attached
28th A.F.A. Brigade' (1p), with covering note, 3 July 1917.
"Report 'on the casualties arising during a gas attack in which
Two Red Star was employed'
Cummins to Douglas, 13 February 1917.
(1p), with covering note from Colonel
"Report on hostile bombardment with gas T.M. bombs on the 9th
divisional front on the night of June 5th/6th 1917' by H. Hartley
(1p), with covering note, 15 June 1917.
copies, 2pp and ip).
Report of experiments ‘carried out with a view to discovering the
cause of exhaustion in crews in action' by Douglas (4pp), with a
covering note, 21 September 1918.
Carbon of letter from Douglas, 9 August 1918, re survivors of
salvage party gassed while working in the hold of S.S. Arabic.
(2pp) .
"Report on effects of petrol combustion gases during operations
September 24 1918, 13th Tank Battln.' by H.M. Crawford. (2
Ms notes of tank experiments, 13 September 1918.
(2pp).
Second copy of Douglas's report.
(5pp).
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Correspondence with L.R. Broster re
October 1918.
ventilation in tanks,
'The medical aspects of tanks' by L.R. Broster, 30 October 1918.
(17pp + contents list and temperature chart).
'The medical history of the tank corps', n.d.
(4pp ms).
‘Oxygen administration’
Bee,
Letter from Douglas to Colonel Cummins, 31 August 1916,
beginning: 'I have been trying to make some rough designs of
apparatus to give constant and known rate of oxygen flow through
a number of pipes leading to nasal tubes &c attached to a single
oxygen cylinder.'
(2pp + diagrams).
"The efficiency of different methods of oxygen administration’,
by Douglas, 24 August 1916 (2pp), with 'tests of Haldane oxygen
administration apparatus', 26 December 1916 (1p).
‘"Haldane's apparatus for the administration of oxygen,' by
Douglas, 3 January 1917.
(3pp + diagram).
With 'case of gas shell poisoning treated by
(3pp
"Haldane's apparatus for the administration of oxygen,' n.d.
+ diagram). Not identical to preceding.
(3pp
'Haldane's apparatus for the administration of oxygen', n.d.
+ diagram).
Haldane's apparatus for the administration of oxygen at no.3
Canadian stationary hospital’ by Douglas, 4 February 1917 (2pp).
See also B.19.
(1p).
‘Suggestion of a home made apparatus for supplying oxygen to
several nasal tubes from the same cylinder', n.d.
calculations etc.
Diagram of Draeger's inhalations-automat;
apparatus (4pp) and letter from Douglas, 19 January 1917, on
captured German apparatus (1p).
ms notes on the
Diagrams of Draeger oxygen administration apparatus and Siebe
Gorman "Salvus" mine rescue apparatus.
Letter from Douglas to Col. Cummins, 26 August 1916, re Draeger
oxygen apparatus (ip).
"Calibration of Haldane oxygen apparatus', n.d.
(1p).
Diagram of Haldane's oxygen administration apparatus.
(1p) with ms
‘Oxygen administration for aviators flying at 20,000 feet,' n.d.
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‘Oxygen administration at
report by Capt. Stokes'
10 C.C.S. after attack of 8/8/16 -
(2pp), with covering note, n.d.
‘Use of Haldane oxygen apparatus in case of gas shell poisoning
(Trichlormethylchloroformate), 18 January 1917.
(1p).
‘Case of shell gas poisoning treated by Haldane's apparatus for
the administration of oxygen at no.3 Canadian stationary
hospital', by Douglas, 4 February 1917.
See also B.17.
(2pp).
‘Case of shell gas poisoning treated by Haldane's apparatus for
the administration of oxygen', February 1917 (ip), with original
of letter on the case incorporated in the report (2pp).
Clinical notes by Capt. Bevan, April 1917.
(1p).
‘Examples of cases of gas poisoning treated by oxygen
administration by Haldane apparatus', 27 February 1918.
(5pp ms).
Case notes and subsequent correspondence, September 1918.
"Tests of Haldane oxygen administration apparatus of gas cases’,
m.d.
(ip).
and taken
"Tests of Haldane oxygen administration apparatus, n.d.
(1p).
for six sets of apparatus. Douglas was able to
Siebe, Gorman & Co.'s booklet on its apparatus for the
administration of oxygen incorporating Haldane's paper on the
Correspondence, 1917, 1920, re sets of apparatus for the
administration of oxygen supplied by Siebe Gorman & Co.
to France in 1917 by Douglas and Capt. Auld.
In 1920 the War Office received a claim for £112-10-0Od from Siebe
Gorman and Co.
supply the information that the financial people at the War
Office required because he had the medical files of the Gas
Services with him for the official medical history.
therapeutic administration of oxygen, is included here.
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‘Interallied conferences, Paris'
Be22
Conference on the physiology and pathology of gas poisoning,
Paris, September 17-19 1917.
(2pp).
Summary of British communications.
‘Effects of di-chlor-ethyl-sulphide on man.
specimens prepared by Capt. McNee.'
(2pp).
Microscopical
"Experiments on the effects of di-chlor-ethyl-sulphide.
J.-S. Haldane, BoR-S. (6pp) .«
By Dr.
‘Experiment performed with a view to finding some means of
preventing or reducing the skin lesions caused by di-chlor-ethyl-
sulphide'. (2pp).
‘Value of venesection.
(2pp).
Results obtained on animal at Porton.'
'Experiments to determine whether venesection has any therapeutic
value in goats "gassed" with small doses of P.S.
and C.G.'
(ip).
'The influence of oxygen on a patient suffering from the later
effects of poisoning with a pulmonary irritant gas.'
(2pp).
1918.
(7pp).
B.24
(2pp ms).
"Reports on
number of casualties caused by gas and on the case mortality'
‘International conference on gas warfare, Paris, March 1-5,
Summary of proceedings’. (11pp).
"Conference on the physiology and pathology of gassed cases,
Paris, May 28th & 29th 1917.'
(5pp).
‘Gas casualties, first army, 13/14 October 1915', by Douglas, 27
November 1918.
(2pp ms).
‘Gas casualties, first army, 25-27/9/15', by Douglas, 27 November
1918.
"Note on the casualties and deaths caused by gas shells, July
"A report on the casualties due to gas poisoning resulting from
the German cloud gas attacks, December 1915-August 1916, and on
the medical treatment adopted' by T.R. Elliott and C.G. Douglas.
(15pp).
"Note on the casualties and deaths caused by gas shells, July
1916 to July 1918' by Douglas, 14 August 1918.
Lists of gas cases, etc. May, June 1916.
(3pp).
Graphs.
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1916 to July 1918' by Douglas, 14 August 1918.
of casualties).
For another copy, see B.27.
(4pp + 5pp lists
"The casualties resulting from hostile bombardment with gas
shells containing di-chlor-ethyl-sulphide between the dates
13/7/17 and 4/8/17' by Douglas, 30 July 1917.
(15pp ms).
Ms draft beginning 'in continuation of my report on casualties
due to di-chlor-ethyl-sulphide'. (5pp).
‘Extracts from weekly reports on hostile gas bombardments',
August-November 1918.
(2pp).
"Chlor-arsin gas committee’
B.26
"Note on cases of gas poisoning presenting new features' by
Douglas, 2 February 1918.
(3pp). Cf B.29.
‘Reports of treatment of gas cases at no.41 stat. hosp.'
chart showing daily admissions, etc.
for May 1918).
(11pp +
"Blue cross gassed cases'
Elliott, 6 November 1918. Cf. B.29.
(5pp) with covering letter from T.R.
Translations of German documents, January-July 1918.
typescript + 4pp printed).
(4pp
Report on cases of gas poisoning passed through the gas centre
since report of 2 August 1918 by W. Douglas Frew,
(2pp).
12 August 1918.
"Memo on poisoning by chlorarsin compounds' by W.P. Herringham,
24 July 1918.
(4pp).
"Note on the casualties and deaths caused by gas shells, July
1916 to July 1918' by Douglas, 14 August 1918.
(4pp + 5pp lists).
(1p).
"The effects produced in the field by di-phenyl-chlor-arsine, and
by phenyl-carbylamine chloride' by Douglas, 27 February 1918.
"Abstract. Sur les syndromes cliniques nouveaux presentes par les
intoxiques rcents par gaz de combat', 30 May 1918.
‘Minute of the effects of certain compounds of arsenic', various
dates, 1918.
Incorporates letter from J. Barcroft.
"Note on cases of gas poisoning presenting new features' by
Douglas, 27 January 1918.
(4pp).
(4pp).
"Chlorarsines'
B.28
(7pp).
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‘Memo on poisoning by Chlorarsin compounds'
1918 (4pp), with 'symptoms observed with di-phenyl-chlor-arsine'
by A.W. Crossley (1p).
by Douglas, 7 August
"Note on casualties caused by blue cross shell', by Douglas, 28
August 1918 (3pp), with correspondence and notes on 'blue cross
gassed cases'.
‘Abstracts of reports received from corps chemical advisers on
the effects produced on the troops by blue cross shell', July-
September 1918.
(3pp).
"Poisoning by diphenyl-chlor-arsine' by J. Ramsay, 7 October
1918.
(1p).
‘Effects produced in the field by shell containing chlorarsines'
by Douglas, 22 October 1918.
(1p).
‘Summary of the blue cross casualties suffered by V Corps, May to
October 1918, together with personal notes as
an
offensive weapon,' by A.C. Jessup.
to blue cross as
Four letters from H. Hartley, July 1919, re a case of D.M.
poisoning.
1
Correspondence’
ae ence
B.32
Carbons of Douglas's letters to J. Barcroft, 24 August and 22
December 1918.
"A collection of the more important papers bearing on the nature
of the casualties caused by shell containing chlorarsines'. In
original folder. Includes additional copies of papers by Ramsay
and Jessup (see B.30) and papers on ‘poisoning with chlorarsine
compounds: supposed nervous symptoms.'
Douglas's correspondence with Y. Henderson attached.
Carbons of Douglas's letters to J.S. Haldane, 15 September, 6
December and 23 December 1916.
Letter from H. Hartley to Douglas, 31 March 1919, returning
letter from T.R. Elliott to Douglas of 24 March.
Letter from Lieut. Col. C.H. Reason to Douglas, 5 February 1919.
Carbon of letter from Douglas to A.B. Soltau, 3 April 1918, with
C.G. Douglas
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‘Captured German Documents’
B.34
Translations of German documents prepared for medical committee
on gas poisoning.
‘Articles in journals and newspapers’
B.35 - B.37 Published articles, press-cuttings, duplicated material, etc.
5
folders.
B.38 - B.41 Miscellaneous items found with Douglas's gas reprints (B.42).
B.38
history.
Ms drafts on gases probably for Douglas's official medical
B.39
Director of Gas Service, France.
Lists of titles of medical files in the records of the
B.41
note of explosive mixtures with air.
Ms note on Douglas's gas reprints; note on phosgene (4pp);
B.40 Ms note of duties of physiological adviser, n.d; renewal of
contract, 1917.
Official booklets on defensive measures against gas attacks; gas
warfare monthly summaries of information for August and September
1918; reprints on gases by Douglas, Haldane, Hartley and others.
1 box.
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CHEMICAL DEFENCE BOARD, PORTON, 1928, 1939-1942
B.43 - B.49 Contents of a folder incribed 'Chemical Defence Board (Porton)'.
B.43
Letter from Douglas on occupation of gas-proofed rooms, 9
May 1928 (copied to J. Barcroft); 1p ms note on ‘ventilation of
gas proof shelters', n.d.
Correspondence and papers, 1939,
B.44
on caustic burns of the skin, sent to Douglas in response to a
request for information.
1940 including memorandum
List of secret documents in the custody of Douglas, 1 July
B.45
1940 (later amended to 1941); brief correspondence re return of
secret documents, July, August 1941.
Correspondence and papers, 1942, including nomogram for
B.46
giving vapour pressures and weight concentrations for vapours and
volatility-vapour pressure conversion table.
B.47
Ms and typescript notes on the literature.
B.48
Shorter ms notes.
B.49
Background material.
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WARTIME NUTRITION, 1943, 1944
B.50
Correspondence with E.P. Cathcart re army diets, January 1943.
"Information about dietaries received from E.P. Cathcart, January
1943.'
(4pp ms).
Correspondence with E. Mellanby re 'food for special purposes
like commando operations', September, October 1943.
Correspondence with J.C. Drummond, Ministry of Food, re the
influence of diet on working efficiency, October, November 1943.
Correspondence with E. Mellanby and papers re nutrition of
coalminers, November 1943.
Correspondence with M. Pyke re Ministry of Food paper on 'the
need for research into the best composition, timing and frequency
of meals doing different types of work', February 1944.
Folder includes copy of paper.
Includes tables of results of study made on undergraduate diets
in 1943.
Correspondence and papers re nutrition in Oxford colleges, June,
July 1944.
Background material.
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SECTION C
HALDANIANA
C.1 - C.28
Cel
"A letter to Edinburgh professors by a medical student edited,
with preface, by a graduate of eminence' [J.S. Haldane], London,
1890.
Photocopy of published text.
'The supposed physical basis of life', Cambridge Magazine, 1912.
Haldane's published article only.
Haldane's evidence to chemical warfare research departmental
committee, appointed to enquire into the manufacture and use of
water gas and other gases containing a large proportion of
carbonic oxide (53pp), with covering letter dated 19 October
1925.
Correspondence on the treatment of carbon dioxide poisoning,
British Medical Journal, December 1925.
Published letters from Haldane and others.
See
'The dissociation and re-formation of oxyhaemoglobin and
bicarbonate in blood.'
Two typescript drafts (19pp + 24pp) of article by Haldane, with
ms corrections and additions, latest reference 1928.
The article does not appear in the published Bibliography of
Haldane's work (Blackwell Scientific Publications, 1963).
C.20,
Programme, Oxford University Gazette, press-cuttings.
Honorary degree, Oxford, June 1933.
‘Uses of oxygen and CO>
in medicine’.
Report of Royal Society of Medicine discussion published in
British Medical Journal, January 1932.
Both Haldane and Douglas took part in the discussion.
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Haldaniana
Obituaries and tributes
C.8
The Times, 16 March 1936.
1927 draft, 1933 revision, correspondence re revision, published
version, etc.
Folder also includes press-cuttings re Haldane, 1929, 1934.
C.9
Nature, 21 March 1936.
Published version only.
C.10
‘Memoir of the late John Scott Haldane' by J. Ivon Graham.
Excerpt from Trans. Instn. Min. Engrs., 1936.
C.11
in that field by Y. Henderson.
Notes for Journal of Industrial Hygiene on Haldane's work
Typescript draft with covering letter from Henderson to Douglas,
7 April 1936.
Folder also includes earlier letters from Henderson to Douglas
about Haldane, 27 August 1935 and 28 March 1936.
and Naomi
Invitation from Royal Society for Douglas to write
C.12
Haldane's memoir, letters written in reply to Douglas's requests
for information, May, June 1936.
Notice of death from Oxford University Gazette, press- cuttings re
funeral service, correspondence re arrangements, order of
service.
Ms draft of Douglas's letter of condolence, replies from Louisa
Kathleen Haldane (widow), J.B.S. Haldane (son)
Mitchison (daughter).
Haldane had been Director.
Letter from J.G. Priestley to Douglas, 2 April 1936 re future of
Mining Research Laboratory, University of Birmingham, _ of which
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Haldaniana
C.16-=- 0.2)
Royal Society Tyndall Mining Research Committee
Douglas kept the Tyndall Committee papers with his Haldaniana.
In his letter of 17 March 1936, A.V. Hill, then Secretary of the
Royal Society, stated that Haldane 'was really the Committee! and
invited Douglas to attend the first meeting after Haldane's death
since he 'probably knew more about Haldane's ideas and work than
anybody else available.'
the Committee.
Society had invited Haldane to deliver the Croonian Lecture, but
that first his wife's illness and then his own, prevented his
coming to discuss it with Hill (C.16).
A.V. Hill's letter also notes that the Royal
Douglas subsequently became chairman of
The material is
committee papers.
a chronological sequence of correspondence and
C.16
1936
mel]
1937
c.18
1938, 1939
C.19
1940, 1943
C.20
1945
Ce 212-1953
Ms and typescript drafts of life of Haldane.
Miscellaneous ms notes and drafts for Douglas's talks.
3 folders.
C.25°
= ©.25
Haldane Centenary Symposium, 1961.
Correspondence with editor, Dictionary of National Biography re
lives of Haldane and M.S. Pembrey, April-December 1945.
Douglas was chairman of the symposium and gave two talks on
Haidane's work, one on respiratory and circulatory regulation,
the other of a more general nature.
Portrait photograph of Haldane, n.d.
List of Haldane papers in Wolfson College, Oxford with covering
letter to D.J.C. Cunningham, 16 June 1975.
Haldane Bibliography, Blackwell Scientific Publications, 1963.
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INDEX OF CORRESPONDENTS
ADAMS, Percy Llewelyn
AULD; S.M. J.
BAINBRIDGE, F.A.
BARBER, H.W.
BARCROFT, Sir Joseph
BOOTHBY, W.M.
BOYCOTT, Arthur Edwin
BROSTER, L.R.
CATHCART, Edward Provan
CHUBB, C.S.
COOKE, E.A.
C.20
C.33
BeZ
See B.5
BS," Bs12% B. 26.
See also B.32, B.43
A.20
C.14
B.16
Bebo
C.20
See A.18
DAMANT, G.C.C.
CRAWFORD, H.M.
CROSSLEY, Arthur W.
CUMMINS, S.L.
ELLIOTT, Thomas Renton
DRUMMOND, Sir Jack Cecil
Be
B.29
c.14
BeOL
C.19
EGERTON, Sir Alfred (Charles Glyn)
B, 3; B.14, 70.48
See also B.10, B.17
C5
HALDANE, John Burdon Sanderson
FLETCHER, Sir Walter Morley
HALDANE, Louisa Kathleen
B.33
See also B.24
B.14
Cee
FRASER, D.H.
GRAHAM, J. Ivon
GRIFFITHS, Ezer
See
B.12
C.18 56.46
Cal2Z 2 CA3
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Index of correspondents
HALDANE, John Scott
DOUGLAS, Claude Gordon v1
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