Daly, Professor Ivan de Burgh

The collection consists primarily of Professor Daly's meticulous records of experiments, his experimental notebooks spanning 1919-1965. Also included is correspondence with several eminent physiologists, spanning 1932-1974. There is biographical material on Sir Edward Sharpey-Schafer and five autograph letters of Professor William Sharpey; 1944 draft of monograph on experimental study of intrinsic lung mechanisms. All items are manuscript unless otherwise indicated; titles in inverted commas are those which appear on the manuscripts.

1919-1974

9 boxes

The collection is divided as follows: A.1-14 Biographical and correspondence B.1-29 Scientific notebooks and working papers C.1-2. Chapters for monograph on intrinsic lung mechanisms

The majority of these papers were placed in the library at Wellcome Collection in 1976 by the Contemporary Scientific Archives Centre; the CSAC had received them from Professor Michael de Burgh Daly, the elder son of Ivan de Burgh Daly. This list supercedes the Contemporary Scientific Archives Centre's 1976 list. A letter previously listed among the papers of Professor E B Verney which had been given to the Library in 1984 via Prof essor M. de Burgh Daly has now been placed at A.15. In November 1991, Professor Michael de Burgh Daly gave to the Library the original draft of an unpublished monograph entitled 'An introduction to the experimental study of intrinsic lung mechanisms', with related manuscripts, notes and correspondence; and a bundle of graphs and illustrations of capillary surface area; which have been added to the collection as C.1-2 and B.30 respectively.

Summary of Career:

1893 Born 14 Apr

Educated Rossall School

1914 1st Class Natural Science Tripos Part I, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge

1918 M.B., St. Bartholomew's Hospital

1922 M.D.

1919-23 Assistant in Department of Physiology, University College London

1923-27 Lecturer in Experimental Physiology, University of Wales, Cardiff

1927-33 Professor of Physiology, University of Birmingham

1933-47 Professor of Physiology, University of Edinburgh

1934 Fellow of the Royal Society, Edinburgh

1943 Fellow of the Royal Society

1948-58 Director, Institute of Animal Physiology, Babraham, Cambridge

1958-62 Wellcome Trust Research Fellow, Oxford

1974 died 8 February

A full list of the honours and awards received by Professor Daly may be found in the obituary notices in item A.14.

The family retains some biographical material.

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

Professor Daly used the following abbreviations in his work:

BP Blood Pressure

CSPR Carotid Sinus Pulmonary Resistance

ENB Experimental Note-book

H-L Heart-Lung

IIPL Innervated Isolated Perfused Lungs (also designated by IILP - Innervated Isolated Lung Perfusion)

iOp Intrathoracic Pressure

IPL Isolated Perfused Lung

LLP Left Lung Perfusion

NPV Negative Pressure Ventilation

PAp Pulmonary Arterial Pressure

PLA Perfused Living Animal

PWA Perfused Whole Animal

VCPLA Vasosensory Controlled Perfused Living Animal

Professor Michael de Burgh Daly, the elder son of Ivan de Burgh Daly, deposited the majority of these papers with the Contemporary Scientific Archives Centre.