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xvi, 174 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations ; 20 cm

Alpine notes & the climbing foot / by George Wherry.

These letters and autographs of scientists and doctors were given to Miss Ainsworth for her collection by Sir Charles Lovatt Evans, a friend of her father. A few of the autographs are from letters to her father, M Ainsworth, or collected by him for her. A number of them were annotated by Sir Charles, or Miss Ainsworth's father, with additional information.
Letters: 
Sir Joseph Barcroft, Cerro de Parco (Peru) 'high altitude expedition', 4 Jan 1922,
Sir Henry Dale, Mount Vernon House Hampstead NW3 'on occasion of knighthood', 3 Jan 1932,
Sir Ifor Evans, Provost, University College London, 3 Nov 1964,
Sir Howard Florey, Sir William Dunn School of Pathology Oxford, 16 Nov 1960,
John Sanderson Haldane, Oxford, [3 page letter discussing physiology] 18 Oct 1928,
W D Halliburton, Church Cottage, Marylebone Road NW1, 26 Feb 1926,
Alan Hodgkin, Cambridge, 27 Oct 1963,
Ivan Pavlov, Leningrad, [in German, mentioning Sir Edward Sharpey-Schafer], 10 Jun 1930,
Sir Charles Sherrington, Oxford, 9 Jun 1924,
Ernest H Starling, University College London [on Foulerton Professorship and insulin], 13 Dec 1922.
Autographs (in some cases more than one for each individual), mostly cut from letters, but some on loose pages from autograph album:,
Philip A Allison,
Hugh Clegg,
E C Dodds,
C G Douglas,
J C Eccles ('Nobel Prize 1963'),
 L Farrer-Brown,
Jack Gaddum,
R A Galgany,
Louis Guttman,
Fong Yen Hsu,
Maj-Gen J Huston,
Andrew Huxley; Louise and Georg Kahlson,
J C Kendrew ('Nobel Prize, recent TV lectures Molecular Biology "The Thread of Life"'),
 Prof Yas Kuno ('senior physiologist of Japan now retired'),
Sir John Lockwood ('Master of Birkbeck College London'),
Douglas H K Lee,('US Dept of Health Education and Welfare,Occupational Health Research,Cincinnati Ohio'),
Sir Douglas Logan,('Principal,Univ of London')
Sir Charles Lovatt-Evans,
A A Miles,
Frederick R Miller,
Prof G Paulet,
 B H Spilsbury,
Donald D van Slyke,
C P Snow,
John R Squire,
Ernest H Starling,
 Giulio Stella ('Prof Physiology at Padua. The Accademi dei Lincei (Academy of the Lynx) is the senior academy of Europe - early XVII cent'),
Professor Chiao Tsai ('Prof of Physiology,Pekin'),
Sir Owen Wansborough-Jones,
V B Wigglesworth,
Prof F G Young,
Prof Sir Solly Zuckerman,
 Prof A O Zupancic (Ljublana),
1 illegible and unidentified.

Letters to Sir Charles Lovatt Evans, and autographs

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Fisiologia dell'uomo sulle Alpi : studii fatti sul Monte Rosa / da Angelo Mosso ; con 42 incisioni e 49 tracciati.

Oxford medical publications

The pathology of high altitude climate : with contributions to the climatology of highland regions and to the constitution of high altitude inhabitants / by A. Loewy and E. Wittkower.

Acclimatization in the Andes : historical confirmations of "climatic aggression" in the development of Andean man / by Carlos Monge ; translated by Donald F. Brown ; with a foreword by Isaiah Bowman ; new preface for this edition by Paul T. Baker.

Clásicos de la medicina

El P. José de Acosta y la descripción del mal de las montañas / por Juan Ramon Zaragoza.

Gornai︠a︡ boleznʹ zhivotnykh / V.M. Mitrofanov [and others].

History of aviation medicine in the Second World War / by Allison Boyle.

Parkes Weber, Frederick (1863-1962)

Subject Collections (medical)

Sea Air, Voyages, Mountain climates etc

The influence of high altitudes in mountaineering / by Malcolm L. Hepburn.

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Alpine notes & the climbing foot / by George Wherry.

Letters to Sir Charles Lovatt Evans, and autographs

Fisiologia dell'uomo sulle Alpi : studii fatti sul Monte Rosa / da Angelo Mosso ; con 42 incisioni e 49 tracciati.

The pathology of high altitude climate : with contributions to the climatology of highland regions and to the constitution of high altitude inhabitants / by A. Loewy and E. Wittkower.

Acclimatization in the Andes : historical confirmations of "climatic aggression" in the development of Andean man / by Carlos Monge ; translated by Donald F. Brown ; with a foreword by Isaiah Bowman ; new preface for this edition by Paul T. Baker.

El P. José de Acosta y la descripción del mal de las montañas / por Juan Ramon Zaragoza.

Gornai︠a︡ boleznʹ zhivotnykh / V.M. Mitrofanov [and others].

History of aviation medicine in the Second World War / by Allison Boyle.

Sea Air, Voyages, Mountain climates etc

The influence of high altitudes in mountaineering / by Malcolm L. Hepburn.

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Alpine notes & the climbing foot / by George Wherry.

Letters to Sir Charles Lovatt Evans, and autographs

Fisiologia dell'uomo sulle Alpi : studii fatti sul Monte Rosa / da Angelo Mosso ; con 42 incisioni e 49 tracciati.

The pathology of high altitude climate : with contributions to the climatology of highland regions and to the constitution of high altitude inhabitants / by A. Loewy and E. Wittkower.

Acclimatization in the Andes : historical confirmations of "climatic aggression" in the development of Andean man / by Carlos Monge ; translated by Donald F. Brown ; with a foreword by Isaiah Bowman ; new preface for this edition by Paul T. Baker.

El P. José de Acosta y la descripción del mal de las montañas / por Juan Ramon Zaragoza.

Gornai︠a︡ boleznʹ zhivotnykh / V.M. Mitrofanov [and others].

History of aviation medicine in the Second World War / by Allison Boyle.

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The influence of high altitudes in mountaineering / by Malcolm L. Hepburn.

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