Notebook 3

Date:
26 October 1949 - 23 February 1950
Reference:
PP/GRW/A/2
Part of:
Wyatt, Gerard R. (1925-)
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Description

Dr. Wyatt's first notebook to be titled Nucleic Acids, written during his time at the Molteno Institue, Cambridge, England. The book contains details of nucleic acid preparations from Locusta migratoria, herring sperm, the bacteria E. coli, beef spleen, calf thymus, the bacteriophage T2, the moth Dedrolimus pini, Ld virus, and both human and bovine tubercle bacilli. This notebook also contains Dr. Wyatt's first mention of an "extra spot" which appeared in his chromatograms, which separated bases from hydrolysed nucleic acids purified from herring sperm. The notebook later contains details of Wyatt's attempts to prepare a sample of the 'extra spot' for later identification as 5-methylcytosine. At the back of the book are written methods for several procedures including the "extraction and estimation of desoxypentose nucleic acid and of pentose nucleic acid"

Publication/Creation

26 October 1949 - 23 February 1950

Physical description

1 notebook 1 bound notebook containing a loose reference card and 2 recent page markers inserted at points of interest.

Arrangement

Experiments are recorded in chronological order from front to back with additional notes and procedures in the back pages.

Related material

Within this collection: PP/GRW/A/3; PP/GRW/B/1 - Dr. G.R.Wyatt's papers labeled 273-277; PP/GRW/B/7 - Dr. G.R. Wyatt's chromatogram prints showing the extra spot of 5-methyl-cytosine

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A digitised copy is held by Wellcome Collection as part of Codebreakers: Makers of Modern Genetics.

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