Wolf, Charles George Lewis (1872 - 1954)

Decomposition products of Protein. Holograph note-book of laboratory work at the Physiological Laboratory, King's College, London, and at Cornell University Medical College, New York. Ff. 40-45 contain a holograph draft of a letter to Dr. (H. D.) Halliburton [1860-1931] giving a resumé of the results of the author's work, with a view to the projected publication of a paper. No record of such paper has been traced.

1904

3 ll. (last bl.).+ 45 ff.+ 18 bl. ll. + I l. 4to. 23 x 18 cm. Original boards.

Presented 1941.

The author was born at Niagara Falls (Canada), and qualified M.D. at McGill University in 1894. Later he was a professor of physiological chemistry at Cornell University, and in the First World War joined the R.A.M.C. and was Director of a Base Hygiene Laboratory and bacteriologist to the Medical Research Council. From 1921 to 1937 he was biochemist to Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge.

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).

From the Halliburton Note-books.