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Recent progress in hormone research : proceedings of the 1964 Laurentian Hormone Conference [Lake George, New York, September 7th to 12th]. Volume 21 / edited by Gregory Pincus.

Blotter advertising H. Martinet's Hormovitol tonic liqueur containing "Extraits androiques et cérébro-médullaires nucléines". Printed in black and green on a yellow background showing a muscular art deco Greek god holding up the brand name.

Drug advertising ephemera. Box 66.

Tonique puissant Hormovitol / Docteur H. Martinet.

Symposia of the Society for Expermiental Biology

Nervous and hormonal mechanisms of integration.

Hormones and atherosclerosis : proceedings of the conference held in Brighton, Utah, March 11-14, 1958 / edited by Gregory Pincus.

Third in a five-part series examining the effects of hormones on our bodies and behaviour.

Raging hormones. Pt. 3, Melatonin.

Excerpta medica.

Abstracts of papers presented : International Congress on hormonal Steroids Milan, Italy, May 14-19, 1962.

Women and the crisis in sex hormones / Barbara Seaman and Gideon Seaman.

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

Last in a five-part series examining the effects of hormones on our bodies and behaviour.

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Recent progress in hormone research : proceedings of the 1964 Laurentian Hormone Conference [Lake George, New York, September 7th to 12th]. Volume 21 / edited by Gregory Pincus.

Tonique puissant Hormovitol / Docteur H. Martinet.

Nervous and hormonal mechanisms of integration.

Hormones and atherosclerosis : proceedings of the conference held in Brighton, Utah, March 11-14, 1958 / edited by Gregory Pincus.

Raging hormones. Pt. 3, Melatonin.

Abstracts of papers presented : International Congress on hormonal Steroids Milan, Italy, May 14-19, 1962.

Women and the crisis in sex hormones / Barbara Seaman and Gideon Seaman.

Letters to Sir Charles Lovatt Evans, and autographs

Raging hormones. Pt. 5, Insulin.

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Recent progress in hormone research : proceedings of the 1964 Laurentian Hormone Conference [Lake George, New York, September 7th to 12th]. Volume 21 / edited by Gregory Pincus.

Tonique puissant Hormovitol / Docteur H. Martinet.

Nervous and hormonal mechanisms of integration.

Hormones and atherosclerosis : proceedings of the conference held in Brighton, Utah, March 11-14, 1958 / edited by Gregory Pincus.

Raging hormones. Pt. 3, Melatonin.

Abstracts of papers presented : International Congress on hormonal Steroids Milan, Italy, May 14-19, 1962.

Women and the crisis in sex hormones / Barbara Seaman and Gideon Seaman.

Letters to Sir Charles Lovatt Evans, and autographs

Raging hormones. Pt. 5, Insulin.

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