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Hare, Ronald (1899-1986), bacteriologist

Historical Writings

The discovery of penicillin: Sir Alexander Fleming and others

Lady (Amalia) Fleming: correspondence

Information from various individuals: Robert Fleming, E.J. Storer, C.E. Dolman, K. Rogers, James Craigie, L. Holt, C.J. La Touche, C.G. Paine, A.M. May, A.W. Downie, W.H. Hughes, Robert Cruikshank, A.M. and R.G. Laidlaw, R. Williams, F. Bustinza

Stuart Craddock: correspondence, reprints, extracts from his notebook

D.M. Pryce: correspondence, etc.

Frederick Ridley: correspondence plus his laboratory notebook of 1928

'[A.S.] Fuller, [Prof. G.] Domagk, and chemotherapy'; correspondence with Fuller and reprints, notes, obituaries, etc.

R. Lovell: correspondence, etc.

V.D. Allison: correspondence and notes

The Birth of Penicillin and the disarming of microbes (London: George Allen and Unwin, 1970) by Hare

'(Sir Edward) Abraham, (Sir Ernst) Chain': correspondence, notes, cuttings, obituaries

Audrey Russell: correspondence

Dr R.G. MacFarlane: unposted letter to him from Hare, re his biography of Fleming

Sir H.W. Florey: articles by, reviews, obituaries, etc.

British Medical Journal: articles and correspondence, 50th Anniversary of Fleming's discovery of penicillin

'British Museum'; research on Fleming's manuscripts

'Timetable, Flem's dates': sequence of events around the discovery

'Penicillin. Temperatures' around the time of Fleming's discovery

'Early Fleming' biographical notes

'Fleming 1945-1955 Much not published. Fleming odd data not published'

Misc reprints and cuttings re individuals: G.A.H. Buttle; L. Colebrooke; I. Mann; Lord Moran; D.S. Russell; F.W. Twort

'Medical History correspondence' re Hare's paper "New Light on the History of Penicillin"

E.A. Abraham: letter, with memoir on Sir E. Chain, and review of Macfarlane's book on Fleming

N. Heatley (and others): reviews of Macfarlane's book on Fleming

Penicillin: miscellaneous late notes by Hare

Binder of miscellaneous notes and references, etc.

Sir Almroth Wright: reprints, cuttings, and correspondence about

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