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CONTEMPORARY SCIENTIFIC ARCHIVES CENTRE
Supported by the Royal Society, the British Library and the
Council of Engineering Institutions
REPORT ON THE PAPERS OF
Dr. Edward Hindle, F.R.S.
(1886-1973)
Compiled by:
Jeannine Alton
Harriot Weiskittel
Deposited in the Archives of the University of Glasgow
1978
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DESCRIPTION OF THE COLLECTION
1
The material was received from Miss Phyllis Barclay-Smith, C.B.E.
Many of the items are in poor and fragile condition.
The collection covers most aspects of Hindle's scientific career, and
includes some information not elsewhere recorded, such as the proposed expedition to
Uganda and Nyasaland in September 1914 (see B.5-B.9) and Hindle's reported
death in Africa (see A.2); the box of publications (C.55), though not complete,
contains several items not recorded either in the Bibliography of the Royal Society
Memoir (A.1) or the 'List of Publications’ (A.2), and, in conjunction with
Section C, gives a fuller picture of Hindle's scientific and general writings than
would otherwise obtain.
Hindle's friendly relations with G.H.F. Nuttall,
J. Loeb, J.E. Marchoux and other colleagues are also clear (see under Index of
correspondents), and his attempt to improve international understanding by means
of the proposed publication 'One World! can be seen in B.102-B. 106.
Section B (scientific research and activities) is the largest in the col-
lection, and includes scientific material (laboratory notebooks, professional
correspondence) and some biographical and administrative correspondence relating
to appointments, tenure and the like.
The major fields of Hindle's work are
fully covered, notably his work on kala-azar, yellow fever and other viruses,
and the incident of laboratory infection which affected him, his assistants, and
hospital staff attending them.
In addition, there is evidence of what has been
described by the author of the Royal Society Memoir, Professor P.C.C. Garnham,
F.R.S., as his 'electicism and opportunism in science, in that the nature of his
research was governed by the conditions in which he happened to be living at the
time'; an example of this might be his observations at Dax on the fauna of hot
springs (see B.81, B.90) and his interest in hamsters (see B. 37, B.93-B. 100). Much
of Hindle's surviving scientific correspondence is included in Section B; Section D
(Correspondence) is in consequence relatively brief.
Very few records survive relating to Hindle's many honorary posts in
Associations and Societies, and the interest he took in such activities, both pro-
fessional and non-professional.
A list of some of these is given in the Royal
Society Memoir, and the 'Honours and Awards! listed in A.24-A. 30 also provide
some indication of the wide range of Hindle's interests.
See also A.3]1
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SUMMARY OF THE CAREER OF EDWARD HINDLE
b. 1886
educ.
1903-07
1907-08
1908-10
1910-14
Sheffield.
mainly at home, by his mother, who wasa certificated teacher.
Royal College of Science, and King's College, London.
Research Assistant, School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool.
work at Marine Biological Station, La Jolla, California.
Ph.D., and Instructor in Zoology, University of California, Berkeley.
Kingsley Bye Fellow, Magdalene College, Cambridge, and Beit
Memorial Research Fellow, Quick Laboratory, Cambridge.
1911 (summer)
Institut Pasteur, Paris.
1914-19
1919
1919
1919-24
1924-25
1925-28
1928-33
1934
1935-44
1936
1936
1942
1944-51
1945
1946-51
1947
1951-52
1951-61
1953
War Service with Royal Engineers Signals Service; served as a
Divisional Signal Officer, in France and Palestine, except for six
months whensent back to England to organise and commandthe
Signal Service Cadet Unit.
(February-October) work at Quick Laboratory, Cambridge.
married Irene Margaret Twist (d. 1933).
Professor of Biology and Parasitology, School of Medicine, Cairo.
Milner Research Fellow, London School of Hygiene and Tropical
Medicine.
with Royal Society's Kala-azar Commission in China.
~ Beit Research Fellow in Tropical Medicine, Wellcome Bureau of
Scientific Research, London.
work at National Institute of Medical Research, London.
Regius Professor of Zoology, University of Glasgow.
married Ellen Mary Theodora Boyen (nee Schroeder) (marriage
dissolved 1951).
Founder President, Zoological Society of Glasgow.
Elected Fellow of the Royal Society.
Scientific Director, Zoological Society of London.
Freeman of the City of London.
General Secretary, British Association.
President, Section D, British Association.
Founder and First President, Institute of Biology.
Hon. Secretary, Royal Geographical Association (Hon. Vice-
President, 1962).
President, Zoology Section, International Union of Biological
Sciences.
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CONTENTS OF THE COLLECTION
Section A
Biographical and Personal
Items
A.1-A.31
Section B
Scientific research and activities
B.1-B.108
including:
Work on Pediculus Humanus B.10-B.16
Work at Cairo
B.18-B.27
Royal Society Kala-azar
Commission
B.31-B.54
Work on Yellow Fever B.19, B.30, B.55-B.71
Hamsters
B.93-B.100
Section C
Lectures, talks, broadcasts, publications
C.1-C.55
Section D
Scientific correspondence
Bi-D.1!
Index of correspondents
3
Pages
4
10
26
82
34
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SECTION A
BIOGRAPHICAL AND PERSONAL
A.1.
Obituaries and tributes.
A.2.
A.3.
A.4.
Includes Addresses at Cremation and Memorial
Service;
Memoir by P.C.C. Garnham, F.R.S. (iog.
Mem. Fellows of the Roy. Soc., 20, 1974);
and others.
Bibliographies, c.v.s and biographical notes pre-
pared at various times by Hindle, or by others
for the award of honours or degrees; includes
Hindle's birth certificate, and a press-cutiing
of a note by G.H.F. Nuttall correcting
'the erroneous statement that Dr. E. Hindle
met his death in Africa', 1915.
Signed photographsof G.H.F. Nuttall and
colleagues, one inscribed 'Taken at Alperton,
Essex, June 1909', the other n.d. but taken at
Cambridge (Hindle is standing L.).
Includes Commissions in R.E. 1914
Miscellaneous material relating to Hindle's military
activities.
and in Territorial Army 1936, miscellaneous photo-
graphs of O.T.C., University of Glasgow of which
Hindle was Commanding Officer in Second World
War.
Also includes copy of Hindle's letter to The Times
11/1/43 on National Service in Universities, and
a private reply received describing Cambridge in
wartime.
A.5.
Miscellaneous testimonials to Hindle 1912.
from
William E. Ritter (La Jolla, California)
Jacques Loeb (Rockefeller Inst. Med. Res.)
J.E. Marchoux (Institut Pasteur)
J. Mesnil (Institut Pasteur)
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A.6.-A.8.
Correspondence re Chair of Biology, School of Medicine,
Cairo, 1919-24 and 1951
A.6
A.7
A.8
A.9.
Hindle resigned this post, with indemnity and
repatriation, because political and administrative
changes were impeding his current work and his personal
and scientific prospects.
See B.18-B.27 for notebooks relating to research during
his period at Cairo and C.2-C.4 for lectures given there.
Folder of correspondence with British and Egyptian
authorities re Hindle's wish to relinquish his chair,
conditions of compensation, etc. October 1923-June 1924.
Passport, photographs, miscellaneous scientific and
social souvenirs of period in Cairo.
Brief correspondence, letters of congratulation on
appointment, and testimonial to work done in Cairo,
from
Jacques Loeb
OwenRichards
Included here is a letter regretting Hindle's decision
not to apply for the Chair of Zoology at Cairo in
1950, on his retirement from the Zoological Society of London.
Miscellaneous correspondence on appointments 1932-34,
re various applications for appointments made by
:
Hindle as his tenure of the Beit Fellowship 1928-33
drew to a close (see B.55).
Includes: testimonials to Hindle for Chair of Zoology,
Newcastle, from P. Chalmers Mitchell [Sir Peter
Chalmers Mitchell, see C.33.] and G.H.F. Nuttall
(very fragile and in poor condition) 1932;
Hindle's application for Chair in Parasitology,
Peiping 1933;
Hindle's memorandum to H.T. Tizard on Dept. Zoology,
Imperial College, London 1934,
A.10.
Correspondence re appointment as Regius Professor of
Zoology, University of Glasgow 1935.
Hindle's letter of application, testimonials from
G.H.F. Nuttall (copy) and H.H. Dale (original).
For other documents relating to Hindle's appointment
and activities at Glasgow see A.21, A.28, A.29;
for research conducted at Glasgow see B.87-B.89,
and for lectures and talks at Glasgow see C. 10-C.23.
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Akl.
A.12.-A.16.
A.12.
Letters of congratulation on election to Royal Society
(not itemised or indexed).
1942
Correspondence re appointment as Scientific Director,
Zoological Society of London
Correspondence re appointment, with Sheffield A. Neave
(Secretary of the Society), including Hindle's c.v. and
list of publications, and re his resignation of the Regius
Professorship at Glasgow, August 1943-January 1944.
Brief correspondence with Julian Huxley (Secretary of
Society 1935-42) re appointment, and enclosing off-
prints, 1943.
Correspondence re membership and other matters, 1943.
with P.A. Buxton, L. Hogben.
Letters of congratulation on appointment, with some
personal or scientific interest in the letter or in
Hindle's reply, 1943.
Letters of congratulation on appointment, many
testifying to the range of Hindle's activities in
Glasgow and expressing regret at his departure
(not indexed), 1943.
Visit to Pakistan, Apri! 1950
Hindle represented the British Association at the Second
Pakistan Science Conference, Karachi, and visited
other laboratories and scientific establishments during
visit.
Brief correspondence re journey, letters of intro-
duction from Sir Harold Hartley (then President of
the British Association), ms. of talk broadcast on
Radio Pakistan by Hindle, press-cuttings.
Visit to Switzerland 11-24 June 1961
This was the first official delegation of the Royal Society
to visit Switzerland, arranged by invitation of
Pro Helvetic Foundation.
Annotated schedule of visit, brief correspondence re
travel, etc., copy of Hindle's Report to President
of the Royal Society on visit, ms. draft of another
report.
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A.19.-A.23.
Miscellaneous items of personal and biographical
interest.
A.19.
A.20.
Envelope of press-cuttings relating to Hindle's work,
career, interests, etc.
Envelope of press-cuttings from 'Moscow News'
relating specially to work of Lysenko, Michurin and
other reported achievements in Russian biological
sciences,
A.21.
Miscellaneous social souvenirs (not itemised).
Includes signed menus, Madgalene College, Cambridge
dinners, University of Glasgow Final Year Dinners
in the Faculty of Medicine 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941,
1942, 1943, The Athenaeum, The Wrong Box Dinner
(menu and papers read) 1963.
Birthday and other greetings exchanged with Sir
Ralph Richardson at various dates, and miscellaneous
quotations and notes collected by Hindle, probably
for anniversary gatherings.
Miscellaneous shorter personal correspondence, letters
of congratulation on research, farewell letters on
retirement, etc. (not indexed).
A.22.
A.23.
A.24.-A.30.
Certificates, Honours and Awards, in chronological
order.
(academic, personal and honorific)
6 folders as follows:
A.24.
1905
Matriculation Certificate, University of London
1905-06
Associate Certificate, Royal College of Science, London
1908
1909
1910
Intermediate Certificate, University of London
Membership Sigma
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Published: 16 January, 2024 Author: admin