Craigie, Professor James

  • Craigie, James (1899-1978)
Date:
1937-1970s
Reference:
PP/CRA
  • Archives and manuscripts

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About this work

Description

This collection includes reports, notes, and articles on cancer, typhus, typhoid and polio, spanning the years 1937-1957; also personal papers and photographs. Unfortunately hardly any correspondence survives. Craigie made important discoveries in virology; in particular, during the 1940s in Canada, identifying different types of typhoid strains and other viruses and the bulk of the collection comprises his memoranda produced at the Connaught Laboratories in Canada.

Publication/Creation

1937-1970s

Physical description

2 boxes

Contributors

Acquisition note

This small collection of Craigie's papers was given to the library at Wellcome Collection by his daughter, Miss Frances Craigie, and her sister in September 1979.

Biographical note

Summary of Craigie's life and career:

1899 Jun 25 Born, son of James Craigie and France Stewart McHardy

Educated Perth Academy; University of St. Andrews

1923 Assistant Medical Officer, Murray Royal, Perth

1924 Lecturer in Epidemiology

1927 Assistant in Bacteriology, St Andrews. Worked with Professors WJ Tulloch and WL Burgess; produced two MRC monographs with them

1931 Research Associate, Connaught Laboratories, Toronto

1932 Lecturer in Epidemiology, School of Hygiene, University of Toronto

1935-1945 Secretary of School of Hygiene

1942-1946 Member of joint US-Canadian Commission on cattle industry and pests. Helped to write Memoranda for the National Research Council of Canada

1946 Associate Professor of Virus Infections, School of Hygiene

Elected President of the American Society of Bacteriologists and awarded US Typhus Commission Medal

1947 Returned to England to work on cancer tumours at Imperial Cancer Research Fund Laboratory, Mill Hill

Awarded FRS and USA Medal of Freedom

1949-1957 In charge of laboratory, Mill Hill

1964 Retired

Notes

The catalogue is available on microfiche via the National Inventory of Documentary Sources (NIDS).

Copyright note

Readers are requested to observe the copyright laws with respect to the correspondence: permission should be sought from Craigie's heirs.

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Accession number

  • 8