Martin, Sir Charles James

  • Martin, Sir Charles James 1866-1955
Date:
1891-1945
Reference:
GC/104
  • Archives and manuscripts

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Description

Collections of reprints on topics including basal metabolism, temperature, radiation, hygiene, thermal adjustment and barometric pressure. These reprints were collected by Sir Charles Martin, although very little of the reprints were written by him. Many of the files contain manuscript notes by Martin, usually on other articles. Some of the reprints have been annotated.

Publication/Creation

1891-1945

Physical description

6 boxes Paper

Contributors

Arrangement

Arranged by title of file. Titles ascribed by creator

Acquisition note

These reprints were received by the Contemporary Medical Archives Centre (now the library at Wellcome Collection) from the Physiological Laboratroy, Cambridge, in May 1989

Biographical note

Education and employment

Privately; King's College London; St Thomas's Hospital; University of Leipzig

1887 Demonstrator in Biology and Physiology, King's College London and evening lecturer in Comparative Anatomy

1891 Demonstrator in Physiology, University of Sydney

1901 Professor of Physiology, University of Melbourne

1903-1930 Director, Lister Insititute of Preventive Medicine

Professor of Experimental Pathology, University of London

1931-1933 Chief of Division of Animal Nutrition of Australian Council for Scientific and Industrial Research

1931-1933 Professor of Bio-chemistry and General Physiology, Adelaide University

Committees and other appointments:

1915-1919 served Gallipoli, Egypt, Palestine Expeditionary Force and France

Lieutenant-Colonel, Australian Army Medical Corps and Consultant Pathologist, Australian Imperial Forces

1904-1907 Chairman of War Office Committee on anti-typhoid innoculation

1905-1913 Member of Advisory Committee for Investigation of Plague in India, appointed jointly by the India Office, Royal Society and the Lister Institute

Honours and awards

1901 Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians

1901 Fellow of the Royal Society

1919 Companion of St Michael and St George

1927 knighted

Doctor of Science (honorary) Sheffield and Dublin

Doctor of Laws (honorary) Edinburgh

Doctir of Civil Law (honorary) Durham

Master ofArts (honorary) Cambridge

Fellow of King's College London

Other information

Married Edythe Cross. They had one daughter.

Member of the Athenæum

Related material

For other similar collections held in the Archives and Manuscripts deparment see sources leaflets on Physiology Collections held elsewhere: Australian Academy of Science Correspondence and papers Medical Research Council Correspondence and papers relating to Lister Institute, 1914-1956 Cambridge University: Churchill Archives Centre Correspondence with AV Hill, 1910-37 (reference : AVHL)

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Accession number

  • 309