| Description | Quotes cable he received from Dr Major [29 July] concerning Dr Maxwell of May and Baker - has visited Maxwell and Dr Wenyon of the Wellcome Research Institution - in both cases, it was concluded that he would not come into the picture until agreements had been made between ICI and the Therapeutic Research Corporation or between TRC and Merck - is working on a penicillin assay method applicable to small quantities of blood - discusses visit to Dr Wiesner and strain of aspergillus clavatus with which Wiesner has been working - Burroughs Wellcome have applied for provisional patents for medium for penicillin production and possibly also for some stages in the extraction - comments on this - refers to recent papers by Abraham and Chain, and by Florey and Jennings, and to paper by Gardner and Chain on proactinomycin - has not yet assayed samples of penicillin he brought back from Rahway - comments on the ring test. |