THE ROYAL COMMISSION ON HISTORICAL MANUSCRIPTS
Report on correspondence and papers of
SIR RUDOLPH ALBERT PETERS
(1889 - 1982)
biochemist
deposited in the Bodleian Library, Oxford
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CONTEMPORARY SCIENTIFIC. ARCHIVES CENTRE
British National Committee for the History of Science, Medicine and Technology
under the guidance of the Royal Society’s
Catalogue of the correspondence and papers of
SIR RUDOLPH ALBERT PETERS, FRS
(1889 - 1982)
Deposited in the Bodleian Library, Oxford
Compiled by:
Jeannine Alton
Julia Latham- Jackson
All rights reserved
1982
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The work of the Contemporary Scientific Archives Centre, and the
production of this catalogue, are made possible by the support of the following
societies and institutions:
The Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland
The Biochemical Society
The British Pharmacological Society
The Charles Babbage Foundation for the History of Information
Processing
The Institute of Physics
The Institution of Electrical Engineers
The Nuffield Foundation
The Physiological Society
The Royal Society of London
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NOT ALL THE MATERIAL IN THE COLLECTION
IS YET AVAILABLE FOR CONSULTATION.
ENQUIRIES SHOULD BE ADDRESSED IN THE FIRST
INSTANCE TO:
BODLEIAN LIBRARY,
THE KEEPER OF WESTERN MANUSCRIPTS,
OXFORD.
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LIST OF CONTENTS
GENERAL INTRODUCTION
SECTION A
BIOGRAPHICAL AND PERSONAL
A.1 -A.21,
A.42
Miscellaneous items of biographical
interest
A.22-A.41
Membership of committees, societies,
organisations
SECTION B
OXFORD UNIVERSITY, DEPARTMENT OF
BIOCHEMISTRY
SECTION CC
VITAMINS AND NUTRITION
C.1 -C.45
Work on vitamin B, 1925-39
C.46-C.77
Wartime and Post-War work on
nutrition
SECTION D
BRITISH ANTI-LEWISITE
D.1 -D.19
Research reports, drafts, lectures,
c.1939-50
D.20-D.27
E.1 -E.41
F.1 -F.32
F.52-F.55
E.42-E.84
Correspondence, 1948-77
SECTION E
=F COMPOUNDS AND OTHER LATER RESEARCH
D.28, D.29
Reports and papers on mustard gas
SECTION F —_ LECTURES, DRAFTS, PUBLICATIONS
Laboratory records, drafts, data,
1952-74
Correspondence on BAL and related
research, 1940-67
INDEX OF CORRESPONDENTS
Shorter unindexed correspondence
re lectures and publications
Lectures, drafts, publications,
1945-70
SECTION G
GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE
F.33-F.51
Undated material
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GENERAL INTRODUCTION
PROVENANCE
Through the good offices of Lady Chain the majority of the collection was
passed to the Contemporary Scientific Archives Centre for cataloguing by Sir Rudolph
himself after his final retirement from scientific work in July 1980 at the age of 91.
A small number of letters and papers, chiefly relating to the Oxford University
Department of Biochemistry, were added to the main collection by Lady Peters after
Sir Rudolph's death in January 1982.
Item B.24 is included in the collection by kind permission of Dr. L.A. Stocken.
SUMMARY OF THE CAREER AND WORK OF SIR RUDOLPH PETERS
Peters who practised in Petersfield.
Rudolph Albert Peters was born in Hampshire in 1889, the son of Dr. A.E.
He was educated at Wellington College and
Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, and became a research Fellow of Caius
in 1911.
In 1913 he went to St. Bartholomew's Hospital to complete his medical train-
ing, and after graduating in 1915 he joined the Royal Army Medical Corps.
His
service in the field gained him the Military Cross and bar (see A.3) but in 1917 he
was recalled to start work on chemical defence under J. (later Sir Joseph) Barcroft
at Porton Down.
After the war he
into a Fellowship at his old college and joined the Department of Biochemistry as
Senior Demonstrator.
In 1923 he was appointed to the recently founded Whitley
Chair of Biochemistry at Oxford University, where he built up a flourishing depart-
ment and began investigations into the structure and mode of action of Vitamin By.
One of the results of this work was the firm establishment of the concept of
‘biochemical lesion’ in relation to deficiency disease.
defence against chemical weapons.
Department at Oxford working mainly on mustard gas and the arsenicals and his
main success was the discovery of British Anti-Lewisite (BAL).
He directed a small research team in his
After the First World War, Peters returned to Cambridge where he was elected
During the Second World War, Peters returned once again to problems of
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continued to work on toxicological problems with particular reference to the bio-
chemical mechanism involved in poisoning by fluoroacetate.
In 1954 he retired
from the Chair at Oxford and moved to the Agricultural Research Council Animal
Physiology Unit at Babraham where he remained for 5 years before joining the
Cambridge University Biochemistry Department as Senior Visiting Fellow in 1959.
Here he continued his research on F compounds and other related problems until
his final retirement in July 1980.
He was knighted in 1952.
DESCRIPTION OF THE COLLECTION
The collection documents some aspects of Peters's life quite fully while in
There is,
other respects there are large gaps.
for example, nothing about his early
life and indeed very little 'biographical' material at all, and almost nothing in the
way of conferences and lecture tours, etc., although it
is clear from odd references
in the correspondence that he did travel, particularly after the Second World War.
On the other hand, Section B has some interesting material relating to the building
and funding of the new Department of Biochemistry at Oxford in the 1920s, while
Sections C and E contain extensive laboratory notes and correspondence documenting
his scientific research before and after the Second World War.
There are also quite
letters remain with the relevant notes and data in Sections C -
E, but there are
nevertheless a few interesting exchanges.
The correspondence in Section G is less substantial, since most of the scientific
substantial sequences of correspondence and papers on the formation of the Inter-
national Union of Biochemistry (see A. 24- A.37) and on Peters's service on various
Sub-Committees of the Medical Research Council Accessory Food Factors Com-
mittee (see C.46ff.).
for the library of the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, Oxford.
Committee papers relating to Peters's service on the M.R.C. Accessory Food
Some offprints and printed items of historical interest have been accepted
Factors Committee have been returned to the Council.
LOCATIONS OF OTHER MATERIAL
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An aerial photograph, taken in December 1917, of a section of the Western
Front between Albert and Peronne, was passed to the Department of Photographs
of the Imperial War Museum, London.
Two notebooks and a tape-recording of early and wartime reminiscences
remain in family hands.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
We are grateful to:
Dr. L.A. Stocken and Mr. B. Taylor of the Department of Biochemistry, Oxford
University, for advice and information and for making available item B.24.
Professor R.H.S. Thompson for comments on the draft catalogue and for making
available item A.42.
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SECTION A
BIO GRAPHICAL AND PERSONAL A.1 - A.42
The collection contains little in the way of biographical
material.
In particular there are only a few surviving papers
to document the many honours and awards received by Peters
in the course of his long scientific career.
The material is presented in two sequences: A.1-A.2]1
consists of miscellaneous items of biographical interest, presented
in chronological order from 1913-19380. A.22-A.41 is a second,
roughly chronological, sequence documenting Peters's member-
ship of various committees, societies and organisations, including
extensive correspondence on the foundation of the International
Union of Biochemistry in which Peters played an active part.
Correspondence and papers relating to the Department of
Biochemistry, Oxford University, where Peters was Whitley
Professor of Biochemistry, 1923-54, is to be found in Section B.
Attention is drawn to item A.42 which was added to the
It consists of a rough transcript of an
containing reminiscences of his career and scientific work.
collection by Professor R.H.S. Thompson when the catalogue
was already in typescript.
interview of Peters conducted by Thompson on behalf of the
Biochemical Society and the Open University in March 198]
See also F.6.
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Biographical and personal
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS OF BIOGRAPHICAL INTEREST
Obituaries and tributes.
Photocopies of obituaries published in the Times, Lancet
and British Medical Journal.
2 pp. typescript written for the Royal Society of
Chemistry by L.A. Stocken.
Also included here is
prepared by Peters for the Contemporary Scientific Archives
Centre in July 1980.
3 pp. ms. summary of his career
Programme of 'IX Congrés International des Physiologistes',
Groningen, 2-6 September 1913.
A note attached to the programme reads 'My First
Congress in Physiology ...
| was wrongly listed
as Teters.
R.A.P.'
Photocopy of press-cutting and ms. note re award of a bar
to the Military Cross to Capt. Rudolph A. Peters for services
during battles on the Ancre, April 1917.
The original is held by Lady Peters.
Letter announcing the award of the Medal of Freedom with
Silver Palm 'for meritorious service in the field of scientific
research and development', 10 June 1947.
Letter and press-cutting announcing the award of the Royal
Medal, November 1949, with one letter of congratulation
from the Cosmopolitan Club, Madras.
American Academy of Arts and Sciences, July 1950.
Letter re election as a Foreign Honorary Member of the
Letters announcing the award of the Cameron Prize of Edin-
burgh University, February 1950, and correspondence re
the Cameron Lecture delivered by Peters in November.
Letters of congratulation on the award of the Cameron Prize.
In alphabetical order.
Correspondence re election as a Foreign Member of the Royal
Dutch Academy of Sciences, May-June 1950.
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Biographical and personal
Correspondence re award of Honorary Doctorate by the
University of Ligge, May 1950, and arrangements for the
conferment of the degree on 30 September.
See also A.10.
Ms. and typescript drafts in English and French for speech
delivered by Peters as representative of recipients of
honorary degrees at Liége.
Letters from I. de Burgh Daly and others, 1952-53, re
Peters's proposed move to Cambridge after retirement from
the Department of Biochemistry, Oxford, in 1954.
Letters from H.A. Freeth, April-May 1954, re his portrait
drawing of Peters for the Department of Biochemistry, Oxford.
A later letter from Freeth is also included here.
4 pp. ms. review of the highlights of his scientific work,
written by Peters at the request of J. Yudkin, 1959.
Correspondence with Yudkin and some background
material are also included in the folder.
(Peters was knighted in 1952.)
Correspondence re arrangements for visit to U.S.A., 1968.
Draft letter of thanks from Peters to the Registrar, Australian
National University, accepting award of honorary doctorate,
November 1960.
2 letters from the Editor of The Armorial, 1968, requesting
information on Peters's Coat of Arms and enclosing a
description of the blazon.
Letters from the Department of Biochemistry, Cambridge and
the Biochemical Society, 1969, re arrangements for celebrating
Peters's eightieth birthday.
Miscellaneous photographs, some identified on verso.
Letters of congratulation on the award of the British Nutrition
Foundation prize, 1972.
Correspondence re lunch in honour of Peters held at Trinity
College, Oxford, 21 April 1979.
Includes a
to attend.
list of guests and regrets from those unable
Letter from the Science Museum, London, 8 August 1980, re
presentation by Peters of 2 resistances boxes.
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Biographical and personal
A.22-A.4]1
MEMBERSHIP OF COMMITTEES, SOCIETIES, ORGANISATIONS
A.22
Membership lists for the Medical Research Council Accessory
Food Factors Committee and its various Sub-Committees,
n.d., c.1945-46.
Peters is listed as Chairman of the main committee,
the Vitamin B Sub-Committee, Vitamin C Sub-
Committee, Vitamin Claims Sub-Committee, and
Sub-Committee for Post-War Opportunities for Research
in Occupied Europe, and member of the Sub-Committee
on Tables of Food Composition.
See Section C for correspondence and papers re the
Vitamin B and Vitamin C Sub-Committees.
Letters of thanks at the conclusion of Peters's period of
service on the Medical Research Council, September-
October 1950.
A.24-A. 37
Correspondence and papers, 1951-54, te the formation
of the International Union of Biochemistry.
The material documents the progress of negotiations
with 1.C,.S.U., I1.U.P.A.C. and others in which
Peters played an active part.
Correspondence, June-July 1952.
Correspondence, December 1951-June 1952.
Mainly copies of letters sent to Peters for information.
Mainly replies to a circular letter from Peters, 28 June
1952, to members of the Biochemical Society Committee
re delegates to the International Committee for Bio-
chemistry and the Section of Biological Chemistry of
EU ,P4.G,
21 August 1952.
Draft minutes of meetings of the International Committee
on 23 and 26 July, and minutes of a meeting of the Section
of Biological Chemistry of 1.U.P.A.C. on 23 July, sent to
Peters by J.N. Davidson with accompanying correspondence,
Correspondence and papers, July 1952.
Mainly re arrangements for a meeting of the Inter-
national Committee for Biochemistry with the Section
of Biological Chemistry of |.U.P.A.C., Paris, 23 July
1952;
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Biographical and personal
Correspondence with J.N. Davidson, L. Young and others,
August-September 1952.
meeting of the International Committee with the Executive
Board of 1.C.S.U. (see A.29 below).
Includes arrangements for a
'Notes on representations made to the Executive Board of
the International Council of Scientific Unions (1.C.S.U.)
by delegates from the International Committee of Biochemistry
in Amsterdam on 30th September, 1952'.
4 pp. duplicated typescript by J.N. Davidson.
Correspondence commenting on the Amsterdam meeting
is also included here.
Correspondence and papers, October 1952.
Includes a letter from L.J. Harris re the International
Union of Nutrition Sciences.
Correspondence with M. Florkin and J.N. Davidson, November-
December 1952, with a letter from Peters to A.V. Hill,
4 December.
Chairman's Agenda for meeting of the Biochemical Society
Committee, 18 December 1952.
Correspondence, December 1952-February 1953.
Correspondence, March-May 1 953.
Correspondence, June 1953-January 1954.
Correspondence with Florkin includes an account
of an informal meeting between Peters, A.V. Hill,
R. Frazer and G.L. Brown to discuss proposals for
an International Union of Biochemistry.
Committee (on fisheries sesnareh) to the Development Commission.
re arrangements for the establishment of the Inter-
national Union of Biochemistry, and the British
National Committee for Biochemistry.
Correspondence and papers, February-July 1954.
Includes draft answers to a questionnaire by M. Florkin
re the activities of the International Union of Biochemistry.
Miscellaneous circulars and printed matter.
Brief correspondence, 1959, re membership of the Advisory
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Biographical and personal
Natural Environment Research Council.
Research Committee.
Fisheries Biochemical
Correspondence re expenses for attendance at a
meeting of the Committee, 1968.
2 pp. ms. draft written by Peters in 1972 to describe his
part in the origins of the International Biological Programme.
Folder also includes correspondence from E.B.
Worthington (Scientific Director, 1.B.P.) enclosing
8 pp. typescript note by C.H. Waddington on 'The
Origin of I.B.P.'
Brief correspondence, etc. arising from membership of other
committees, societies and organisations, 1926-80.
Not indexed.
ADDITIONAL BIOGRAPHICAL MATERIAL
‘Sir Rudolph Peters interviewed for the Biochemical Society
on 6th March 1981'
19 pp. typescript of interview containing reminiscences
of Peters's career and scientific work at Cambridge and
Oxford and during both World Wars.
The interview
was conducted by R.H.S. Thompson on behalf of the
Biochemical Society and the Open University and this
roughly edited transcript was kindly made available by
him in June 1982 for incorporation into Peters's manu-
script collection.
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SECTION B
OXFORD UNIVERSITY, DEPARTMENT OF BIOCHEMISTRY
B.1 = 8.24
Peters was elected to the Whitley Chair of Biochemistry
in 1923 in succession to B. Moore.
At that time the Biochemistry
Department was accommodated in 3 rooms in the Department of
Physiology, but Peters was asked to submit estimates for a new
building with extended staff and facilities.
This was duly
completed in 1927 with the aid of a generous grant from the
Rockefeller Foundation.
The following papers include Peters's first draft estimate
and miscellaneous other correspondence re the new Biochemistry
building and the further expansion of the Department in the
1930s, including various applications for grants towards the
costs of staff and equipment.
Also included here is a set of notebooks (B.13-B.15)
belonging to R.W. Wakelin who was Peters's technician
during most of his time at Oxford.
The final item in this Section (B.24) is a speech delivered
by Peters in 1966 containing historical reminiscences of the
Oxford Department of Biochemistry.
Ms. and typescript drafts of estimated cost of proposed new
Department of Biochemistry, sent to Sir Archibald Garrod
in February 1923.
the Rockefeller Foundation.
Letter from Sir Charles Sherrington, 12 February 1923,
commenting on the estimates submitted to Garrod, witha
letter from Peters to Sherrington, 19 March 1923, enclosing
a further revised estimate and an outline of the proposed
development of the Department of Biochemistry.
3 letters from Garrod, March-September 1923, mainly re
progress of negotiations with R.M. Pearce for a grant from
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Oxford University, Department of
Biochemistry
Ms. and typescript notes on the financial position of the
Department of Biochemistry (one dated 7 October 1923), and
brief correspondence with staff.
3 letters from the Architect of the Biochemistry Department
(H. Redfern), July and October 1924.
Application from Peters to the Oxford University Chest for
a grant of £75 to purchase a Super-Centrifuge, 24 November
1924.
3 pp. typescript report on research in the Department of
Biochemistry, n.d., ¢.1924-25.
Undated ms. of letter addressed to 'All who have been engaged
in the building of the new Rockefeller Laboratory’, with a
later annotation by Peters 'Letter which | had to write when a
strike was threatened’.
Letters from the Rockefeller Foundation, 1925-28.
requests for an article by Peters describing his new Department
and arrangements for a visit to Oxford by R.M. Pearce.
Includes
Notebooks of R.W. Wakelin, 1931-51.
Correspondence with the Medical Research Council re arrange-
ments for various research grants, 1926-30.
Table plan for Vice-Chancellor's Dinner on the occasion of
the Opening of the School of Biochemistry, Oxford, 21 October
1927,
Pages from a printed pamphlet describing the Biochemistry
Department, with ms. and typescript corrections and additions,
perhaps prepared for the Rockefeller Foundation (see B.9).
6 June 1945-September 195]
Wakelin was Peters's technician at Oxford and published
several collaborative papers with him, 1938-56.
notebooks include some entries in Peters's hand.
The
For Peters's own notebooks for this period see C.2, C.3.
c. Spring 1931-4 October 1940
(in poor condition)
8 October 1940-25 May 1945
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Oxford University, Department of
Biochemistry
2 pp. ms. on ‘Proposed constitution of new Biochemical
departments (Nuffield)', n.d.
Brief correspondence, 1935-36, re proposed extension to the
Department of Biochemistry.
Correspondence, 1937.
grant to S. Ochoa, and miscellaneous re funding, staff,
equipment, etc.
Includes letters of application for a
Correspondence with the Rockefeller Foundation, 1937-39,
te various grants for research on brain metabolism at the
Department of Biochemistry.
Brief correspondence with A.D. Lindsay, 1938-39, re staff
salary arrangements.
Folder also includes 3 pp. undated ms. notes re the
Department of Biochemistry.
2 pp. typescript, n.d.
"Some historical remarks on the occasion of a dinner in Oxford
in February 1966'.
Miscellaneous correspondence and notices re wartime
administrative arrangements.
in reply to suggestion by Peters that the roof of the Bio-
chemistry Laboratory should be used for the mounting of an
Anti-Aircraft gun.
Includes letter,
15 May 1940,
"Application for Grant for teaching post in Biochemistry of
Microorganisms and Fermentations'.
Brief correspondence, 1945, te establishment of Research
Fellowship for the study of problems of brain metabolism
in relation to nervous and mental disease.
of Biochemistry, Oxford.
Photocopy of 11 pp. typescript with 5 pp. addenda
containing detailed reminiscences of the expansion
of the Oxford Department of Biochemistry and the
early work on vitamin B.
This item is inctuded in the collection by kind permission
of Dr. L.A. Stocken.
in the Department
The original is
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SECTION C
VITAMINS AND NUTRITION | C.1 - C.77
The material is presented as follows:
Cota 45
Work on vitamin B, 1925-39
C.46- C.77
Wartime and Post-War work on nutrition
Peters became interested in vitamin B
in the early 1920s and much of his
early work in the Department of Biochemistry at Oxford was concerned with large-
scale attempts to prepare vitamin B (thiamine) from yeast, and with studies of its
nature and mode of action.
This led him to the demonstration of a 'biochemical
lesion' in the pyruvate oxidase system of pigeons suffering from vitamin By deficiency.
Although by no means all the records of Peters's work during this period have
survived, there are two notebooks (C.2, C.3) containing detailed accounts of
experiments by Peters 1926 - 33 and further documentation is to be found in the
notebooks of R.W. Wakelin in Section B.
During and after the Second World War, Peters served as Chairman of various
Sub-Committees of the Medical Research Council Accessory Food Factors Committee,
including the vitamin B and C Sub-Committees.
The material in C.46 - C.77
Ree Ce) «Ceo
Later (i.e. post-1953) correspondence on vitamin B
consists mainly of correspondence and papers connected with this work (see also
is in Section G.
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WORK ON VITAMIN B, 1925-39
‘Animal Quinoidine'
21 pp. typescript draft with ms. corrections of paper
published in Biochem. J., 19, 404 (1925).
Blue hard-cover notebook containing records of experiments
c.April-November 1926, with an index by Peters at the
back of the book.
1
p. loose ms. notes is tucked inside the rear cover.
Blue hard-cover notebook, labelled on spine 'Notes 1. R.A.P.'
The notebook opens with
The pages, which are numbered 1-174, were originally
loose-leaf notes on experiments which Peters evidently
had bound at some later date.
some unpaginated notes on 'Problems' (March 1928) and
'Revision of Problems' (August 1930) containing lists of
experiments to be undertaken under headings such as
'B] isolation', 'Birds' tests', ‘Fermentation tests', ‘Other
sources of vitamin B'.
March 1927-October 1932 and October-December 1933
and include evidence of Peters's early interest in Bence-
Jones protein (p.40).
notes for 1934.
The book ends with some brief
Records of experiments run
Undated ms. note describing work by Kinnersley and Peters
on the anti-neuritic properties of Vitamin B.
Some of the entries open with brief diary notes, often
partly in shorthand, combining personal observations
such as 'l May. Very sunny day tho! rather cold'
"12 April ... Camb. won boat race by 4 lengths’ (p. 129)
with accounts of scientific work planned or
in progress,
attendance at meetings and conferences, visits to other
laboratories, letters and publications read, etc.
¢.1934.
"Avian Polyneuritis, a Study of the Relation between Vitamin
B} and the Metabolism of the Brain in the Pigeon.
A thesis
by A.P. Meiklejohn, Magdalen College, July 1933'.
“typescript.
2 pp. typescript reviewing work on Vitamin B arising from a
paper by Jansen and Donath in 1926.
"Prof. Robinson', n.d.
Offprint of a paper by Peters, Meiklejohn and others,
1932, is also included in the folder.
(p.132)
25 pp.
The typescript is headed
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Notebook containing records of patient treated with
vitamin B tablets, 1936.
Correspondence with hospital staff, general practitioners,
and consultants re treatment of Pink Disease with vitamin
B, 1934-39.
This correspondence was set aside by Peters from the
rest of the vitamin B correspondence so it has been
retained as a separate sequence.
cerned with arrangements for clinical trials with
some case histories and comments on results. Many
of the letters bear Peters's annotation 'PD' in the top
right-hand corner.
is mainly con-
It
The correspondence is arranged in alphabetical order.
Aubrey I.
:
Bell, A.
D.
Brathwaite, J.°.V,.:
C;
Cruchet, R.
1939
1937-38
1935
1935, 1939
Hutchison, R.
Leys, D.
C.
1935
1938
1935-36
1935
Moncrieff, A.
1938
1934-36
Garrett, E.°.
6.
O'Reilly, J.
oN.
Paragns Us ~
26>.
Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street
1935
Royal Waterloo Hospital, London
St. Thomas's Hospital, London
Radcliffe Informary, Oxford
Radford,
M.
1939
1936
1937-39
1935-37
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Spence, J.
C.
Wright, J.
n.d.
Folder also includes 1
matter re Pink Disease.
p. ms. notes and printed
C.16-C.45
General correspondence on Vitamin B, 1926-39
In alphabetical order.
Many of the letters bear Peters's annotation 'S
in the top right-hand corner.
Aykroyd, W.
R.
Enclosing report on League of Nations Second
International Conference on Vitamin
Standardisation.
Bacharach, A.
L.
Includes exchange re quality of rats supplied
by Glaxo Laboratories.
1935
1934-35
1927, 1935-36
1936
Bertrand,
Banga, I.
Barger, G.
Barnett, H.
M.
re formaldehyde-azo test for vitamin B.
te details of experimental methods and results.
Peters's carbon only, re arrangements for
publication of collaborative papers.
Peters's ms. draft and carbon only. y.
re analysis of vitamin By crystals.
Bemax Vitamins Limited
Peters's carbon only.
Bernal; J.
=D.
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Boyland, E.
Includes comments on draft paper by Boyland.
British Drug Houses Limited
re supply of yeast extract.
Buchman, E.R.
re vitamin B] analogs.
mains. Wo.
Wi
8.
Carmichael, E.
A.
Mainly re clinical trials with vitamin B.
' Chick, H.
' 1925, 1930
1938
1935-36
1926-37
It includes exchanges of information
The correspondence consists mainly of incoming
letters to which Peters probably replied in
manuscript.
and samples, comments on experimental results
and material relating to meetings of the Medical
Research Council Accessory Food Factors Com=
mittee of which Harriette Chick was Secretary.
1926-30
1931-37
Coward, K.
H.
Cramer, W.
Davies, W.
re meeting of Accessory Food Factors Committee.
Includes material te nomenclature of vitamin B
constituents.
1935-36
Enclosing 4 pp. typescript on 'Flavine from
Yeast.
Frankonite’.
Arrangements for clinical trial of vitamin B.
Large Scale operation with
1933
1930
1935
Denny-Brown, D.
1937
Dey, A.
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Dhéré, C.
Drummond, J.
C.
Dudley, H.
W.
iron 3,
4;
Fairley, N.
H.
re tropical sprue.
Gavrilescu, N.
1931-32, 1937
re experimental results and preparation of
papers for publication.
Gibson, A.
C.
Enclosing data on pigeons’ hearts.
Graham, G.
re Clinical trial of vitamin B.
Granit, R.
Gy&rgy, P.
Halliday, M.
Harden, A.
1933, 1934
1933
1930
1930
re lactoflavine.
Hardy, W.
;
preci, to
3
F.
Peters's ms. draft only.
Martfatt,; S.J.
Herbert, F.
K.
reard, Ke.
.D,
1934
1933
1934, 2 4997
Heyroth, F.
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Hobson, F:.
°° G,
Arrangement for clinical trial of vitamin B.
Hobson; Ric.
®t,
AAs
re samples and methods for vitamin B experiments.
Hoffman-La Roche & Company
1936
te supply of lactoflavine.
Hogan, A.
G.
re vitamin By.
Holiday, E.
Moret A,
oe.
re various clinical trials with vitamin B.
nes, Cs.
oe
GUNSON,. hia
Nees
aes
Kjerrman, B.
Knight,
Comparison of experimental results.
a letter from J.L. Drummond re possible
visit to Jansen in Amsterdam.
Includes
Johnson, RR.
E.
Peters's carbon only.
re vitamin B. concentrate.
for vitamin By.
Peters's carbon only, re International Unit
1935-36
1937
Kogl, F.
Kony o.:
Ke
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Kuhn, R.
re thiochrome.
Lohmann, K.
1937
Comparison of experimental methods and results.
McMullan, G.
re Clinical trial of vitamin B.
Macrae, T.
F.
1936-37
1938
(Secretary, Vitamin B} Sub-Gmmittee of the
Accessory Food Factors Committee)
Includes copy of memorandum on ‘Proposed
Adoption of Pure Synthetic Vitamin B] (Aneurin)
Hydrochloride as International Vitamin By
Standard’.
Mortin, oar:
J,
1926
Comparison of experimental methods and results.
Mellanby, E.
Merck, E.
Moncrieff, A.
1935
1938
1936
Moore, D.
F.
te vitamin Bo.
Moore, G5
4);
re Clinical trial of vitamin B.
Middlesex Hospital, London
pellagra.
re use of B vitamins in the treatment of
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h IN
Ye!
os
Needham, J.
Norris, T.-C.
O'Brien, J.
R.
P.
Reports on work in progress during Peters's
absence from the Department of Biochemistry.
Ogston, A.
G.
1935, n.d.
re work on thiochrome.
Passmore, R.
Paters, AE.
(Peters's father)
1936
1935,
1939
re Clinical trials of vitamin B.
correspondence, family news, etc.
Includes personal
Fiat: By:
3S
1936, 1938
Prener, S.
1935
Reader, V.
Rosedale, J.
L.
n.d.
1935-36
te chemical test for vitamin B.
te methods for extraction of pure By concentrate.
Includes arrangements to work in Peters's laboratory.
I.
Peters's ms. drafts only.
1936
1935
1933
Selfridge, G.
Smith, M.
St. Johnstone, H.
Schopfer, W.-H.
Rydin, H.
1934-36
Seidell,
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Sure, B.
Surrey County Council
te Clinical trial of vitamin By.
Thomas, G.
Todd, A.
R.
re experiments with synthetic vitamin B
preparations.
Ungley, C.:.
2G.
1935-38
te Clinical trials of vitamin B] and estimation
of blood pyruvates in cases of polyneuritis.
Includes typescript of paper presented to the
Association of Physicians (1936) on 'Polyneuritis
in a case of Pernicious Anaemia: treatment
with vitamin B] parenterally’.
Van Veen, H.
Verzar, F.
acd.
1933, 1937
1934
1937
1933
1937
1937
Warburg, O.
Von Euler, H.
Vorhaus, M.
G.
Wagner-Jauregg, T.
Request for samples for experiments.
re experimental methods and results, exchange
of samples.
Requests for samples for experiments, Comments
on methods and results.
by Peters to Amsterdam.
Account of work undertaken following a visit
Westenbrink, H.
G.
K.
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Williams, R.
R.
1930-38
Comments on experimental results and
publications.
Correspondence 1930 is re nomenclature of
vitamin B.
Correspondence 1934 is mainly re vitamin Ba.
Wits, 40:
ae
Arrangement for clinical trial of vitamin B.
Wood, I.
Arrangement for clinical trials of vitamin B.
Voile, 1.2.F.
Request for information re commercial
vitamin B preparations.
legible signatures.
notes are also included in the folder.
Miscellaneous ms. and typescript
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WARTIME AND POST-WAR WORK ON NUTRITION
Much of this work was done under the auspices of the
Medical Research Council Accessory Food Factors
Committee and its various sub-committees.
The following papers consist of correspondence,
committee papers and reports on nutrition, 1940-53.
C.46-C. 50
Correspondence, 1940-42
In alphabetical order.
Chicks, bf,
1941, n.d.
re arrangements for experiments to determine
the vitamin B content of National Flour.
Dixon, M.
Drummond, J.
= C.
1940
1940
re organisation of wartime nutrition research.
Morris, te:
od
1940-42
KOM, Sih.
Mactaue, T...°F.
Magee, H.
E.
1940
1941
Includes correspondence re methods of determining
vitamin B content in flour and bread.
re organisation of wartime nutrition research.
re arrangements for tests to determine the
nutritional effects of yeast.
(Secretary, Accessory Food Factors Committee,
Vitamin B Sub-Committee)
Peters's carbon only.
te arrangements for tests to determine the
nutritional effects of yeast.
Moore; D;
° Fi
Moran, T.
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-
Vigor, H.
D.
1941-42
(Chairman, Flour (Vitaminisation) Advisory
Committee)
Filva, aS
re effect of cooking methods on vitamin C
loss in potatoes.
"Interim Report on Heythrop College Nutritional Trial!
2 pp. typescript by F.L. King, R.A. Peters and
Him eSingigin: i... 2.1 eeae,
2 letters referring to this report, August and
September 1951, are also included in the folder.
'The Vitamin By Content of National Flour and Bread -
the Results of Comparative Tests by Various Methods' .
Report of the Vitamin B] Sub-Committee, published
in Biochem. J., 37, 3 (1943).
Offprint.
Miscellaneous notes and data associated with the
preparation of the report are also included in the
folder.
"Memorandum on the British National Standard for
Vitamin By'
Duplicated typescript, September 1943.
Correspondence arising from the Memorandum with
the Secretary, British Pharmacopoeia Commission,
1944-45, is also included in the folder.
Agenda, minutes, etc. for meetings of the Vitamin B Sub-
Committee on 14 December 1943 and 10 January 1944.
included in the folder.
Correspondence with S.K. Kon re arrangements for a meeting
of the Vitamin B Sub-Committee with other participants
in collaborative assays of riboflavin in samples of food-
stuffs, ‘| June 1944,
Correspondence with S.K. Kon (Acting Secretary in the
absence of T.S. Macrae), March-May 1944.
Includes
arrangements for a meeting of the Vitamin B Sub-Committee,
16 May 1944,
A letter from the Secretary (T.F. Macrae), 26
February 1944, is also included here.
Minutes and reports arising from the meeting are also
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"Human Nutrition in War-Time'
1 p. typescript outline of memorandum 'to outline
contribution of science of nutrition to success of
war-time food policy', with annotation 'copy handed
to Prof. Peters, 22 Mar. '44',
'Case History Relating to Suggested Vitamin B Deficiency.
(Cambridge Hospital, Aldershot}!
Folder containing correspondence re 2 case
histories, 1944-45
Correspondence with S.S. Zilva, 1944-45.
Mainly re vitamin C requirements.
An undated note from E. Holiday re aneurin is also
included here.
Correspondence with T.F. Macrae, June 1944-March 1945.
Includes draft minutes of a meeting of the Vitamin B
Sub-Committee, 18 January 1945.
] p. typescript by Peters on 'Proposed Nutritional Trial’,
26 April 1945.
Correspondence with $.K. Kon, April 1945, re supply
of casein for vitamin B tests.
Minutes, correspondence ‘and other related papers for
meetings of the Vitamin B Sub-Committee, July 1945-
May 1946.
Ms. and typescript drafts outlining the wartime activities
of the Vitamin B Sub-Committee, n.d.
included in the folder.
30 pp. duplicated typescript containing a summary
of results of collaborative experiments organised by
the Vitamin B Sub-Committee.
headed 'Draft No.1', n.d.
"Estimation of B Vitamins in Dried Yeast, Dried Beef,
Skimmed Milk Powder and 85% Extraction Flour'
The title page is
A letter from S.K. Kon, 12 September 1951, is also
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Vitamins and nutrition
Correspondence and drafts exchanged with members of the
Vitamin C Sub-Committee and others, 1948-53, re
preparation of report on 'Vitamin C Requirements of Human
Adults’.
‘Vitamin C Requirements of Human Adults.
Study of Vitamin C Deprivation in Man.
Report"
An Experimental
Preliminary
20 pp. duplicated typescript with several ms.
annotations and corrections, 1948.
Correspondence, January-May 1948.
Includes minutes of meetings on 12 February and 11 March.
Correspondence, June-September 1948.
Includes draft lay-out for the final report with
schedule of chapter headings, authors, etc.
Correspondence, March-November 1949.
Correspondence, July-December 1950.
Correspondence, January-November 1951.
Correspondence, January-February 1952.
Correspondence, April-May 1952.
Correspondence and papers, June 1952.
Includes minutes of meeting on 10 June, and reports,
etc. re the Vitamin C intake of children under 5.
Accessory Food Factors Committee.
Includes 2 typescript drafts, 8 pp. and 2 pp. headed
"Introduction.
Previous Trials' and 'Vitamin C Trial’.
Ms. letter from H. Chick, 15 May 1956, re the future of the
Correspondence and papers, July-December 1952.
Correspondence, January-May 1953.
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SECTION D
BRITISH ANTI-LEWISITE
D.1 - D.29
The material is presented as follows:
D.1 -D.19
Research reports, drafts,
lectures, c. 1939-50
D.20-D.27
Correspondence on BAL and related research, 1940-67
D.20, D2?
Reports and papers on mustard gas.
With the outbreak of the Second World War, Peters was invited by the
Ministry of Supply to engage in research on the medical aspects of defence against
chemical weapons.
He therefore organised a small group of workers whose
investigations led to considerable information about the action of mustard gas
and to the discovery of British Anti-Lewisite (BAL).
The initial members of this
team were H.M. Sinclair and R.H.S. Thompson (working on arsenicals) and
E. Holiday, A.G. Ogston, J.St.L. Philpot, L.A. Stocken and R.W. Wakelin (on
mustard gas). | Wakelin's notebooks for this period are to be found in Section B.
In the
later years of the war, work was also done on burns, but most of
the surviving material from this period relates to BAL.
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RESEARCH REPORTS, DRAFTS, LECTURES, c.1939-50
‘Arsenic compounds and -SH groups'
4 pp. typescript with ms. note by Peters 'Copy of
document prepared for Sir RDobert.] Robinson early
in the war'.
and contains a review of previous work on arsenic
compounds with a brief discussion of future research
plans.
The typescript is dated 6 October 1939
An earlier draft of the typescript with related ms.
notes is also included in the folder.
pp- 24-36 of a lecture or paper on BAL.
ms. corrections, n.d.
Typescript with
Folder also contains a few unnumbered pages which
were found with the above.
2 research reports on BAL by members of the Department of
Biochemistry, Oxford, as follows:
‘The Antidotal Activity of BAL against Therapeutic
Compounds of Antimony, Gold and Mercury', by
V.P. Whittaker.
September 1945.
7 pp. duplicated typescript,
4 pp. duplicated typescript,
"Sul fhydryl compounds as antidotes to the toxicity of
mercury Compounds’.
Ms.
draft written for publication in The Lancet, 1946.
Brief correspondence from the Assistant Editor is also
included in the folder.
‘The use of BAL in the treatment of mercury poisoning’,
by L.A. Stocken.
October 1945.
of the year.
‘The Treatment of Arsenical Dermatitis with Dimercaptopropanol
(BAL).
A.B. Carlton, R.A. Peters and R.H.S. Thompson.
'B.A.L.
R.H.S. Thompson (delivered by Professor Peters)'
Prof. R.A. Peters, Dr. L.A. Stocken and Dr.
8 pp. typescript +figures.
The title page of the
lecture bears the date 'Mar. 19' but no indication
Areport to the Medical Research Council’, by
37 pp. duplicated typescript, n.d.
¢.1947.
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'The development of British anti Lewisite and its scientific
interest for biochemistry’
16 pp. typescript with ms. corrections and additions,
n.d., but with a note on the title page 'Italy and
Norway in March'.
"Lecture Il.
The Arsenical lesion and its antidote’
24 pp. typescript, n.d.
"La lesione biochimica nell' intossicazione arsenicale
ela B.A.L.'
15 pp. typescript for lecture in Italian, n.d.
D.10
Miscellaneous ms. notes and data on BAL, mostly undated.
D.11-D.18
Copies of research reports from other laboratories sent to
Peters for information, 1946-50 and n.d.
See also D.21, D.23
'The Toxicity of DTH', by E.C. Webb and Ruth van
Heyningen.
8 pp. typescript, n.d.
"Unofficial copy, minus figs.'.
¢.1941, with a ms. note
12 pp. duplicated typescript, n.d.
¢.1944.
15 pp. duplicated typescript, January 1946.
‘lodine Titration and Toxicity of Balintrav Solutions’,
by M. Weatherall.
5 pp. duplicated typescript, 1946.
‘Prevention of Mapharside Poisoning by Balintrav in Mice’,
by M. Weatherall.
'Bal-Intrav: a new non-toxic thiol for intravenous injection
in arsenical poisoning', by J.F. Danielli, Mary Danielli,
P.D. Mitchell, L.N. Owen and G. Shaw.
1946.
‘The comparative Efficacy of BAL, Na2$203 and NaI
against Thallium Acetate Poisoning in Rabbits', by
B.P. McNamara and F.H. Hopkins.
'A new Method for the Determination of 1,2 Dithiols',
by W.N. Aldridge.
20 pp. duplicated typescript + 2 pp. figures, 24 June
5 pp. printed report, 3 May 1946.
R.A. Peters
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"BAL in Antimony Intoxications', by D.A.W. Rittey.
8 pp. duplicated typescript, January 1950.
‘Communiqué du Ministére du Travail et de la Prévoyance
Sociale aux Membres du Corps Médical Belge concernant
L'Intoxication Professionnelle par L'Hydrogéne Arsénié'.
19 pp. duplicated typescript with ms. note '1950'.
Miscellaneous offprints and press~cuttings re various aspects
of BAL, 1946-51.
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CORRESPONDENCE ON BAL AND RELATED RESEARCH,
1940-67
Albert, A.
1955
Includes note from N.V. Sidgwick.
Arvy,
L.
Boca, 7:4. .¢ Ms
Mel B
re
Melarsen Oxide and BAL).
(a product of the interaction of
Also included here is a typescript by Bacq and
others on 'Action du B.A.L. sur les accidents
ophthalmiques de la thérapeutique 4
la tryparsamide',
headed 'To be read at the Royal Belgian Academy of
Medicine, September 1948'.
Berner, E.
Cohn hs
aS,
re nomenclature.
1950
1952
1945-46
1948
1949
1950, 1951
Findlay, H.
;
Prieanéim, B
-Ac > 4.
Cameron, G.
R.
Gibsons: Ges:
Part of letter only.
Includes copies of reports by Friedheim and
others on compounds introduced by Friedheim
including Mel B (see also D.21, D.27).
re use of BAL against Mapharside poisoning.
re reference to BAL in the Official Medical
History of the War.
Grea, Jo
7;
Harrison, K.
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Keilin, D.
(Peters's carbon only)
Mellanby, E.
Miller, H.
re use of BAL in treatment of muscular
sclerosis.
Moureau, P.
Stocken, La
“A.
Tahourdin, P.
A.
re wider therapeutic use of BAL.
Thompson,
2
He
<5.
Uffelman, F.
B.
te publication of work on BAL.
1950, 1952
1955, 1961
1953
Waugh, G.
Dz
1961-62, 1964
(Signature illegible)
re treatment of copper tainted oysters with
BAL.
re Mel B.
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D.28, D.29
* REPORTS AND PAPERS ON MUSTARD GAS
British anti-Lewisite
D.28
"Skin Proteinase and Mustard Gas', by A. Beloff, R.A. Peters
and R.W. Wakelin.
Duplicated typescript report, July 1945.
2 pp. typescript by A. Beloff, 27 February 1945, entitled
‘Report on the Protease Activity of Sheep Skin' is also
included in the folder.
'The Chemical Reactions of Mustard Gas in aqueous
solution’.
12 pp. typescript by A.G. Ogston, n.d.
¢.1946.
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SECTION E
F COMPOUNDS AND OTHER LATER RESEARCH E.1 - E.84
The material is presented as follows:
E<¥ “E41
Laboratory records, drafts, data, 1952-74
E.42-E.84
Correspondence, 1948-77
The work on F compounds (in particular the biochemical mechanism involved
in fluoroacetate poisoning) began after the Second World War as an extension of
Peters's continued interest in toxicological problems.
It was continued in Cambridge
after his move to the Agricultural Research Council Animal Physiology Unit at
Babraham in1954, and remained his chief research interest until the end of his
working life.
During the 1960s he also collaborated with J.M. Walshe in a study
of the mechanisms of copper toxicity for the brain enzymes.
Peters's experimental work for this period is well documented with an extensive
series of laboratory notes and records.
There are also some substantial sequences
of correspondence as,
for example, E.42-E.46 (R. Allcroft), E.51-E£.56 (P. Buffa),
LABORATORY RECORDS, DRAFTS, DATA, 1952-74
Bundle of loose-leaf records of experiments, mainly 1952-54.
This represents Peters's last work at the Department of
Biochemistry, Oxford, before his retirement in 1954.
E.72, E.73 (L.R. Murray).
Entries date from 1955-62.
Dark green loose-leaf binder containing laboratory notes.
The index at the front of the binder lists 5 series of experi-
ments, but only no.3 'Guinea pig Kidney Experiments’ and
no.4 'In Vivo Experiments on Rats' now remain in the
binder (but see E.3 below).
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Bundle of laboratory notes, some of which were originally
contained in thebinder at E.2 above.
divided and labelled as follows:
The notes are
5,
‘he
“2s
Pigeon Brain Experiments! (1955-57, 1959, 1961)
Sheep Heart Experiments’ (1955)
Rat and Guinea Pig Heart Experiments' (1955)
"Pyruvate Experiments' (1958)
"Miscellaneous Animal Experiments / Miscellaneous
Experiments and Methods' (1955-58)
p
Bundle of laboratory notes from a loose-leaf binder, 1955-59,
1962
Bundle of laboratory notes from a loose-leaf binder, 1956-58
Envelope containing loose laboratory notes labelled
'Rat results (antidote) to end of 1959'.
date from February 1957.
Records of experiments
Bundle of laboratory notes from a loose-leaf binder, 1957.
"Report for 1961/62"
Similar notebook labelled 'Citric Dets.', containing
experimental data,
18 September 1958-16 November 1959.
Small notebook labelled 'Citric Acid Determinations'
containing experimental data,
16 September 1957-30 May 1958.
Similar notebook labelled 'Citrates' containing experimental
data 16 October 1957-12 September 1958.
Similar notebook labelled 'Aconitase Experiments I' containing
experimental data 15 September 1958-13 February 1959.
etc., dated 11 October 1962.
Envelope containing bundles of laboratory notes in Peters's
hand, 1959-66.
1 p. typescript account of research, lectures, publications,
'Aconitase Experiments II',
16 February 1959-28 May 1959.
‘Aconitase III',
15 June 1959-24 November 1959.
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Bundle of laboratory notes, 1962-64.
Includes a long series of experiments with Acacia
georginae (Gidyea).
Laboratory notes and drafts te work on Acacia georginae,
c.1964-66.
These were originally contained ina single
envelope, but they have now been split up into 3 units
for ease of reference.
annotations is now at E.19.
The original envelope bearing Peters's
Records of chromatography, with some related ms. notes
and drafts and a letter from D.J. Silvester re supply of
18F 4 December 1964.
Bundles of laboratory notes, 1965-66 by M. Shorthouse, some
with annotations by Peters.
‘Experimental attempts to delineate the path for the synthesis
of the C-F bond in Acacia georginae'
7 pp. ms. draft, n.d.
original envelope, accompanied by a few more
fragmentary drafts.
This has been left in Peters's
Miscellaneous notes by Peters and others, some dated 1966.
Laboratory notes, 1966
labelled ‘Microsomal membranes’.
and n.d., contained in an envelope
Bundle of laboratory notes, January-November 1965,
contained in an envelope labelled 'Pyruvate kinate etc.
experiments’.
Miscellaneous loose laboratory notes, c.1965-68, including
some in Peters's hand; contained in an envelope labelled
"Important sheets. Older work’.
Miscellaneous data, mainly 1968.
2 small bundles of laboratory notes, 1968 and n.d., contained
in an envelope labelled 'Peterborough grass’.
Small bundle of laboratory notes, 1967, labelled 'Ghosts
with Dr. CJ.M.J Walshe’.
Bundle of laboratory notes, December 1967-March 1968,
te experiments with brain microsomes.
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Bundles of laboratory notes, mainly in Peters's hand,
1968-69, contained in an envelope labelled 'DK Analysis’.
some new observations with especial
'Aconitate hydratase;
relation to its use as a test system for fluorocitrate,
together with studies on the electrophoretic separation of
components of the crude enzyme’, by R.A. Peters and
M. Shorthouse.
Photocopy of typescript draft for paper published
in Biochim. Biophys. Acta, 220 (1970).
Background material for E.29 above.
Includes drafts for correspondence with publishers
re corrections, ms. notes, data, lists of references, etc.
Envelope labelled 'New experimental details! containing
laboratory notes, 1970-71 (some in Peters's hand) and
lp. ms. draft headed 'The reactions of some thiols with
CF compounds and their significance’.
Envelope labelled 'Rats, expts. for Cvivisection] returns’
containing laboratory notes in Peters's hand, 1970-71, 1975.
Envelope labelled 'F cit in bone.
laboratory notes, 1972, and 1
citrate and bone’.
Heroin results' containing
p. ms. draft headed 'Fluoro-
Small notebook labelled 26/1/71 Weighing Book’.
F cit in tea' containing laboratory notes,
Envelope labelled 'Some later results! containing laboratory
notes and graphs, 1972-73.
Envelope labelled ‘Important oddments connected with
F cit. Analysis.
1970, 1971.
Envelope containing further laboratory notes, June-July 1973.
Envelope labelled '-SH results' containing laboratory notes,
June-July 1973.
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F compounds and other later research
Miscellaneous loose ms. notes, drafts and data, 1950-74
and n.d.
1950-69
1971-74
n.d.
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CORRESPONDENCE, 1948-77
In alphabetical order.
E.42-£.46
Allcroft, R.
1963-68
Correspondence, notes, drafts and laboratory
records re investigation of a case of fluoro-
acetamide poisoning at a farm in Smarden, Kent.
See also E.50, E.62
Bundle of ms. notes on laboratory tests conducted
by Peters, September-October 1963, some headed
'Mrs Allcroft'.
p. typescript with ms. note by Peters ‘Results
1
from Mrs Allcroft ?1963'.
Ms. and typescript drafts for ‘Report upon material
supplied by Mrs R. Allcroft O.B.E.', n.d. (19631.
Correspondence, December 1963-September 1964, including
copy of report on investigation into the poisoning
incorporating Peters's results, and 2 letters from
E.W. Bentley.
Armstrong, W.
Dz
Correspondence, 1965-67.
by Allcroft on 'Effect of fluoroacetamide on testicular
germinal epithelium’.
Includes 1
p. typescript note
re use of FI8 i, experiments.
Correspondence, June-September 1968.
Includes drafts
for 2 papers on fluoroacetamide poisoning for publication
in the Veterinary Record.
Balazs, R.
Several letters re various aspects of work on
F compounds and other related research.
Backholer, J.
R.
Bacq, Z.
M.
1967
1977
1948-52
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Bartley, W.
Beaconsfield, P.
te work on drug addiction.
Belly be.
Ms
Binns; hy &
oR;
re genus Dichapetalum.
Rites’.
4%
Boyland, E.
Includes copy of typescript re toxicity of a
pesticide produced by the Nippon Soda Co.
Ltd., October 1968.
Brady, R.
O.
Bremer, J.
Brentnall, E.
W.
1953
1967-68
1955, 4907
1966
1964
Brown, R.
E.GI*E 256
Buffa, P.
1955, 1965
1949-69
See also E.42-E.46, E.62.
te methods for detection of fluoroacetamide
poisoning.
Buffa worked for a time in the Department of
Biochemistry, Oxford, and continued to maintain
close contact with Peters after his return to Italy
in July 1950.
They published several collaborative
papers on fluoroacetate poisoning from 1949 onwards.
for ease of reference.
The correspondence is extensive, much of it containing
detailed descriptions of experiments and interpretation
of results.
Incoming letters predominate, as Peters's
replies would often have been in manuscript, but there
are a few letters from Peters in the sequence.
The material has been divided into several folders
R.A. Peters
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F compounds and other later research
1949-50
Buffa's letters only, apart from 1 ms. draft by Peters,
July 1950, almost all written from the Department
of Biochemistry, Oxford, during Peters's absence on
holiday or lecture tours, and describing work in
progress.
note to Nature by Buffa and Peters;
1950 follows Buffa's return to Italy.
Letter of 18 March 1949 encloses draft for
letter of 28 July
1951-53
1960-62
1964-65
1966-67
Includes arrangements for Peters to lecture in Modena,
March 1967.
1968-69
Burgstahler, A.
W.
list of
Carmichael, E.
A.
re Dichapetalum toxicarium.
te American Society for Fluoride Research
(later the International Society for Fluoride
Research) including invitation to Peters to join
the Board of Directors.
Also includes 1
p. typescript describing Peters's
work with M. Shorthouse and others on fluoride
metabolism in Acacia georginae with a
publications to August 1966.
re Dichapeta lum cymosum.
re Dichapetalum cymosum,
(Peters's carbon only)
Cheesman, E.
E.
Corkey, B.
E.
Chenoweth, M.
’
Coviny,
t.
. Ge
1955
1977
1969
Crawford, M.
Coman, B.
J.
1952-53, 1967
R.A. Peters
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F compounds and other later research
Dagley, S.
Davies, D.
OD.
Ds Olivelia MM.
M:
re supply of seeds of Palicourea marcgravii.
Dyer, R.A.
re supply of Dichapetalum cymosum.
1955
1954
1967-68
1959, 1961
Emeleus, H.
J.
(Peters's carbon only)
Ennor, A.
—H.
Fell, Hy
2:
Enclosing 3 pp. typescript 'Résumé of
Experiments on the Toxic Effects of Methy!|
Fluoroacetate, 1943-44',
Folkes, B.
Fowden, L.
Friedmann, H.
=
C.
Games, W.
Garattini, S.
(Peters's carbon only)
(Peters's carbon only)
re collaborative research.
East Africa.
Includes drafts of article on 'Pesticides and
the Smarden Affair’.
re distribution of the genus Dichopetalum in
See also E.42-E.46, E.50.
og; t, et.
Greenway, P.
J.
1953
1964
Soale ta.
&,
Goldman, P.
Grant, Fo
T,
1965, 1969
R.A. Peters
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F compounds and other later research
Mat Re
1964, 1967-73
Correspondence, 1964-73, mainly re methods of
fluoride analysis.
Includes detailed comments by
Peters on a draft paper by Hall, now at E.64.
2 typescript drafts and final version of paper by Hall
on determination of fluorine compounds in biological
materials.
Haves, C.
Hebb, C.
re use of toxic stabilisers in plastics manu-
facture.
Hele, P.
Hoare, DO,
2S,
Rent Ps
= OW
Koenig, H.
1954
1962
VW, \ tee, 0974
1965, 1968-69
Kun, E.
Lewis, G.
Long,
1969
1968-69
1948-50
Littie; Mor
°
&,
Kuzemko, J.
A.
Liebecq, C.
1963,
1965, 1978
Mainly comments on experimental results and
publications.
See also E.78 (Saunders)
re supply of samples for experiments.
re Palicourea marcgravii.
Neca, 1.25,
R:
McFarlane, A.
S.
1948-49
R.A. Peters
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F compounds and other later research
Mcllwain, H.
1965-66
re experiments to examine the action of copper
on brain tissue.
on 'A Study of the Toxic Action of Copper on
Brain Tissue in vivo and in vitro’.
Includes typescript draft by Peters
Maizels, M.
Meyer, H.
(Peters's carbon only)
Miles, A.
(Peters's carbon only)
Miller, G.
Mills-C.2
W.
E,
1967
1972, 1977
1969
re Symposium on Trace Element Metabolism in
Animals, Aberdeen, July 1969.
Mitchell, P.
1960, 1962-63
Muir, A.
Murray, L.
R.
1962, 1965-67
1959, 1968
1952
Morrison, J.
F.
Includes arrangements for Peters to open British
Biophysical Society Meeting, Edinburgh,
April 1962.
Correspondence 1962 re arrangements for Murray to spend
a year at the Department of Biochemistry, Cambridge.
Includes domestic arrangements and discussion of scientific
work to be undertaken (on Gidyea - Acacia georginae).
Noguchi, T.
Correspondence, 1965-67, including accounts of experi
mental work in progress and comments on results.
re effects of fluoroacetate and fluorocitrate
on fish.
re fluoridation of public water supplies.
National Pure Water Association
Nettet, Ke
Nimmo, |.
a.
A.
1967
1967
1974
R.A. Peters
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F compounds and other later research
Ochoa, S.
(Peters's carbon only)
te fluoroacetyl CoA.
Oelrichs, P.
B.
1972
re Acacia georginae seeds.
Also included are 3 reports on research conducted
by Oelrichs in Cambridge, 1966-67, 1968 and
n.d., and brief correspondence with D. Williams
and others re research and publication arrange-
ments, 1967.
Parr, W.
H.
re Gastrolobium grandiflorum.
Pasternak, C.
A.
1968
1962
Enclosing 3 pp. typescript by J. Dearnaley on
'Effect of Fluoracetate on 7!Y Uptake in Rabbits’.
Pattison, F.
Lb.
M.
1959-60, 1966
Porter, K.
ee
1962
Ratcliffe, F.
N.
(Peters's carbon only)
Correspondence 1959 includes drafts for foreword
by Peters to book by Pattison on F compounds.
Correspondence 1966 is re joint contribution by
Peters and Pattison to a book on the pharmacology
of fluorides,
and includes a letter from Springer-
Verlag.
Continued
re Dichapetalum cymosum and D. toxicaria.
(Peters's carbon only)
salibory, &. >. J.
Rivett, D.
E.
A.
Rimington, C.
1952, 1953
195]
1968
1949,
1951
Ruffo,
;
R.A. Peters
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F compounds and other later research
E.77 (Cont'd.)
Sapiro, M. — L.
re Dichapetalum stuhlmanni.
Saunders, B.C,
te preparation of carbon-labelled sodium
fluoroacetate.
See also E.68 (McFarlane)
1964, 1968
"1949-53
Shorthouse, M.
1955-69
Various letters written from the Department
of Biochemistry, Cambridge, during Peters's
absence abroad, containing reports on experi-
mental work in progress.
Siesjd, B.
K.
Simonsen, J.
L.
Simpson, A.C.
te fluoroacetamide poisoning.
1964
1952-53
1964, n.d.
Smith, Fis
4G,
Smith, Msi
J.
Stoner, H.
B.
Suttie; do:
« W:;
faves, 0. © Be
(Peters's carbon only)
te evidence for honey bee deaths from
fluoroacetate.
work on Acacia georginae.
Correspondence 1953 includes draft for letter
to Nature, by Peters, Thomas and others.
Correspondence 1968-69 is re collaborative
1953, 1968-69
Thomas
a,
1968
R.A. Peters
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F compounds and other later research
Treble, De.
Ha
Van Heyningen, R.
Verney, E.
B.
Wakelin, R.
W.
1968
1952
1952
1950, 1954
1954 letter is re Peters's move to Cambridge.
Ward, Poe
Fs
ay;
Includes 4 pp. typescript draft on metabolism
of fluoroacetate by plants.
Weinstein, L.
H.
197]
Copy of letter to M.-H. Yu re Acacia georginae.
Wellcome Trust
Whittem,
J.-H.
re Acacia georginae.
Moms,
ashe,
1961, 1966
Williamson, J.
Worthy, T.
Young, Ps
oS.
Woolley, D.
W.
Copy of letter to E. Bursell.
Unidentified correspondents.
exchange of reprints, etc., 1951-75.
Shorter, unindexed correspondence: exchange of
specimens and cultures, brief requests for information,
1967, n.d.
R.A. Peters
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SECTION F
LECTURES, DRAFTS, PUBLICATIONS F.1 - F.55
The material is presented in
2 sequences.
F.1]
- F.32 contains drafts, etc.
which are dated, or to which a date can be assigned with reasonable certainty;
F.33 - F.55 consists of undated material, followed by a few folders of shorter
correspondence with publishers, invitations to lecture, requests for reprints, etc.
See also Section D for material on British Anti-Lewisite.
LECTURES, DRAFTS, PUBLICATIONS, 1945-70
Opening remarks at joint meeting of Nutrition and
Biochemical Societies, 28 April 1945.
2 typescript drafts, one with extensive ms. corrections.
Brief correspondence with S.K. Kon is also included
in the folder.
Bundle of ms. notes, labelled by Peters 'Various lecture
notes, mainly aimed at understanding cell surfaces’.
Some pages bear dates between 1947 and 1952, the rest
are undated.
Lecture delivered in Norway, 3 April 1950.
pondence only.
Corres~
"Some recent work upon the biochemistry of fluoroacetate
poisoning'
'Fluoroacetate poisoning and 'jamming' of the tricarboxylic
acid cycle; mode of action of an 'active' fluorocompound
synthesised via this cycle', by P. Buffa, W.D. Lotspeich,
R.A. Peters and R.W. Wakelin.
probably early 1950s.
Typescript summary of paper presented at a meeting
of the Biochemical Society, 19 May 1950.
‘Bristol.
to pharmacology’.
June 1950.
Modern biochemical approaches
5 pp. ms., brief correspondence.
Draft for autobiographical article.
25 pp. typescript with ms. corrections, n.d.,
R.A. Peters
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Lectures, drafts, publications
Ms. notes for lecture on Fluoroacetate delivered in
Boston; n.d,, o. 1952.
'Fluoroacetate poisoning: comparison of synthetic
fluorocitric acid with the enzymically synthesized
fluorotricarboxylic acid',
D.E.A. Rivett and L.C. Thomas.
by R.A. Peters, R.W. Wakelin,
5S pp. typescript, March 1953.
Ms. notes for 2 lectures on fluoro~compounds headed
as follows:
"3rd lecture.
11 May 53'
'U.S. May '53.
Lecture 4'
‘Hormones and the cytoskeleton'
2 typescript drafts with ms. corrections.
second of these is dated 9 December 1955.
The
"Biochemical lesions, keto acids and the citric acid
cycle’
10 pp. typescript of lecture, possibly delivered
at a meeting of the Association of Clinical Biochemists,
n.d., 1956.
Newsletter is included in the folder.
A letter from the Editor of the Association's
Correspondence with the organiser of the Symposium
(E. M. Crook) is also included in the folder.
Ms. and typescript drafts for introductory remarks at
Biochemical Society Symposium on 'The Structure and
Function of Sub-Cellular Components', 23 February 1957.
Notes and drafts for report to the Agricultural Research
Council on visits to various laboratories and institutions in
U.S.A. and Canada, July-September 1957.
15 pp. typescript for lecture, n.d., ¢.1957.
"Vitamin B Group of Disorders'
R.A. Peters
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Lectures, drafts, publications
"Some reminiscences upon Sir Charles Sherrington'
Article published in The Caian, Michaelmas Term 1957.
2 typescript drafts, one with corrections by Peters, the
other annotated by the editors of The Caian.
Folder also contains 2 letters from Sir James Chadwick,
1952, asking Peters to write an obituary of Sherrington
for The Caian and brief correspondence re permission
to quote, etc., 1957
ae
Letters from family and colleagues, 1955-57, in reply
to requests for reminiscences of Sherrington.
Various printed obituaries and tributes to Sherrington,
including a volume of 'Memories' by C.E.R. Sherrington
(son) printed for private circulation.
A photograph of Sherrington is also included here.
Ms. drafts for speech at dinner celebrating the centenary
of Sir Charles Sherrington, 23 November 1957.
Folder also includes a letter from R.E. Threlfall,
30 October 1957, containing anecdotes about
Sherrington, and the menu and seating plan for
the dinner.
Correspondence, 1956-58
F.19-F.21
Memoir of J.B. Leathes, published in Biographical Memoirs
of Fellows of the Royal Society, 4, 1958.
ry
Two typescript drafts of the Memoir, one with ms. corrections.
Includes request from the Royal Society for Peters to
write the Memoir in collaboration with G.A. Clark
and replies from family and colleagues to requests
for information and reminiscences.
by others.
Miscellaneous background material: ms. and typescript
notes and drafts;
copies of printed obituaries of Leathes
A letter from Sir Robert Platt about Leathes's ancestry,
June 1964, is also included here.
R.A. Peters
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Lectures, drafts, publications
’ 2pp. typescript beginning 'The object of this communica-
tion is to draw attention to one point, viz. that it
possible to get a soluble preparation of aconitase which
behaves very sensitively to inhibition by fluorocitric acid’.
is
The first page is annotated ‘Biochem. Soc. Oxford,
Mar. 1959',
p. typescript résumé of 'Talk to Enzyme Unit - 14th
1
November 1959".
Script of talk on thiamine broadcast on Australian radio,
14 May 1961.
"Speech as President of Clinical Chemistry Congress in
Edinburgh’
10 pp. typescript, n.d.
c¢.1962.
Correspondence re arrangements for Peters to give a lecture
at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, 1962.
Speech at the opening of Fisheries Biochemistry Laboratory,
Aberdeen, ¢.1966.
12 pp. ms.
6, tps.
'The metabolism of fluoroethanol by A.georginae in the
presence of fluoroacetate'
2 pp. ms. draft with later annotation by Peters
'1967.
A fragment not written up’.
"Structure and Function in cells'
Ms. and typescript drafts, n.d.
¢.1966.
Correspondence arising from a letter to the Times by Peters,
18 August 1966.
One of the pages is headed 'Chicago '70'.
Ms. and typescript drafts, possibly for letter to Nature,
Wide:
Bundle of ms. notes taken at a conference, including outline
of address by Peters and notes on papers delivered by others.
'An organically combined fluorine compound in bone',
by R.A. Peters, M. Shorthouse and P.F.V. Ward.
R.A. Peters
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Lectures, drafts, publications
PF. door. Ot
UNDATED MATERIAL
F.33
‘Vitamin By] and scientific endeavour'
2 drafts for review of book by ER.R.2] Williams,
n.d.
2 pp. ms. notes headed 'Fluoroacetates.
Lecture 3', n.d.
2 pp. ms. notes for brief lecture on 'Metals and living systems',
ned:
5 pp. typescript draft with ms. corrections for foreword
to a volume of essays on the chemistry and biochemistry
of the nervous system, n.d.
Ms. and typescript drafts for paper given at International
Symposium on 'Enzimi in Medicina’, n.d.
Folder also includes an Italian translation of the paper
under the title 'Significance for Medicine of
Biochemical Lesions in Pyruvate Oxydase System
including Tricarbossilic Acid cycle’.
"Further study of the toxic principle in the seeds of
Dichapetalum toxicarium'
"Modern views on the Nature of Toxicity!
4 pp. typescript with 1
carbon-fluorine compounds, n.d.
p. ms. notes for lecture on
p. ms., perhaps draft for letter to Nature.
1
is a pencil note at the head of the page '? not sent’.
There
Ms. and typescript drafts for lecture headed 'Vancouver,
June', n.d.
4 pp. typescript for talk on Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins,
n.d.
fluoroacetate, n.d. One draft is headed 'First Babraham’.
Contains outline for a lecture on cell structure,
apparently at a symposium or conference, as there
are also some notes on papers given by others, n.d.
Contains reminiscences of the Cambridge physiological
laboratory before the First World War.
Bundle of ms. notes headed 'Edinburgh, Points to make’.
Typescript drafts for lecture on fluorocitric acid and
R.A. Peters
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Lectures, drafts, publications
-
"Lethal Synthesis’
4 pp. typescript for talk (incomplete), n.d.
Ms. and typescript of contribution to an unidentified
discussion on cell structure, n.d.
'The biochemical mechanism of fluoroacetate poisoning’
cD ote, a.
'Attempt tosolve toxicity of arsenicals and MLustard] Glas
(antidotes) and to unravel [?] By deficiency’.
lp. ms., n.d.
5 pp. ms. draft for undated lecture on biochemistry.
Ms. and typescript draft of undated memorandum re plans
for an experiment.
form of a letter to P. Buffa.
The ms. was originally cast in the
Miscellaneous fragmentary drafts for lectures and publications.
PiUn-F sce
SHORTER UNINDEXED CORRESPONDENCE RE LECTURES
AND PUBLICATIONS
Notebook containing undated ms. draft of letter to the press
re the importance of fundamental research.
The remaining
contents of the notebook are bibliographical references and
brief notes.
Correspondence with publishers, editors, etc. re publication
arrangements, permission to quote or reproduce, 1935-73.
Requests to write books, articles, serve on editorial boards
of journals, etc., 1928-69.
Biochemistry of the Cell and Tissues’.
Invitations to lecture/thanks for lectures delivered, 1943-62.
Includes miscellaneous printed matter.
Ryo
foe
F.54
Miscellaneous requests for reprints, 1925-35, 1968.
Mainly re the Harben Lectures, 1929, on 'Coordinative
R.A. Peters
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SECTION G
GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE G.1 - G.34
The following sequence consists of material that does not fit conveniently
into Sections C -
F.
Many of the letters fall more readily into the category of
personal correspondence, but these are interspersed with some more scientific
exchanges.
Most of the sequences are rather short, but there are a few correspondents
who are fairly well represented, including Sir Robert Robinson (G.24) and Sir
Charles Sherrington (G.26).
The correspondence is presented in alphabetical order with terminal dates
and a brief indication of content where appropriate.
Adam, N.
K.
Correspondence arising from Adam's book on
the physics and chemistry of surfaces.
Adrian, E.
Dz
1950
pores, J.
OM
Batt, R.
Anderson, H.
K.
Alexander, S.A.
Mainly personal correspondence.
Reply to letter of congratulation on Presidency
of the Royal Society.
G. Barger.
Proposal to invite C. Harington to Oxford.
Includes letters from C.S. Sherrington and
Boycott, A.
E.
R.A. Peters
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General correspondence
Pp
Burm, Js
Contes, Go
A:
Cavanagh, J.
B.
re method for producing acute thiamine
deficiency in pigeons.
Chadwick, J.
Chidin, BB;
1956
1956-58, 1969
Mainly re his work at the Istituto Superiore
di Sanita, Rome.
Channon, H.
J.
(Peters's carbon only)
re coordination of wartime scientific research.
Chibnall, A.
C.
Clarke, L.-%-B.
1959
1962
1953,
1961
Cot cy
Dale, H.
Fe,
H.
196]
1968
1950
Cone, 723
ms
Cooper ites.
Ks
Folder also includes a signed photograph of
Dale.
1961 correspondence contains recollections of
early days of Biochemistry at Cambridge.
B.
Offer of research facilities at the Stazione
Zoologica, Naples.
re surface structures.
Danielli, J.
Woe, bios
ee,
Douglas, C..
G.
1950, 1962
F.
Dohrn, R.
Dowdle, E.
R.A. Peters
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General correspondence
Dreyfus, P.
M.
Drummond, J.
C.
Wartime correspondence is re feeding of
undergraduates.
OrOPy A.
ia
The undated letter is te arrangements for
collaboration in research on Vitamin B.
Evens, 11.
he.
Ewert, A.
Fabre, M.
Farber, E.
re biochemical lesions.
Farrer, A.
M.
rostier, Fc
Ny
1968
1929, 1935, 1942
1926, 19358
1965-66
1953
1966
Fletcher, W.
Gardner; J...
-G.
Gardner, A.
OD.
Florey, H.
W.
Enclosing 5 pp. typescript on 'Effects of
Guanidine, Synthalin and other Amidine
Derivatives on Carbohydrate Metabolism’.
re electron microscopy of gelatin gels.
Includes correspondence from the Board of
Trade.
re photographs of Sir Archibald Garrod.
Gelatine and Glue Research Association
Garrod, Dios AE;
awtS
1961
1968
digi,
Ey
Gavrilescu, N.
R.A. Peters
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General correspondence
Gordon, A.
1947, 1949
Mainly personal correspondence.
Gordon, G.
Green, D.
re organisation of enzyme processes.
Kmpier,
Peters, Rudolf Albert
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