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Authorised form of nameDobell; Cecil Clifford (1886 - 1949)
Other forms of nameClifford
Dates1886 - 1949
NationalityBritish
Place of birthBirkenhead, Cheshire, England
Date of birth22 February 1886
Place of deathLondon
Date of death23/12/1949
Research fieldProtozoology
ActivityEducation:
MA (Camb)
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election02/05/1918
RelationshipsSon-in-law of William Bulloch (FRS 1913)
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DSB
Obituaries:
Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society 1950-1951 vol 7 pp 35-61, plate, by Cecil A Hoare and Doris L Mackinnon
References:
A R Hall, 'The Leeuwenhoek Lecture, 1988. Antoni van Leeuwenhoek 1632-1723' in NR 1989 vol 43 pp 249-273
Brian J Ford, 'The Leeuwenhoekiana of Clifford Dobell (1886-1949)' in NR 1986-87 vol 41 pp 95-105, plate
H Gest, 'The Discovery of Microorganisms by Robert Hooke and Antoni von Leeuwenhoek, Fellows of the Royal Society' in NR 2004 vol 58 pp 187-201
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/49314660
CodeNA8204
Archives associated with this Fellow
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IM/001174Dobell, Cecil Cliffordcirca 1935
EC/1918/09Dobell, Cecil Clifford: certificate of election to the Royal Society
NLB/73/362Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Cecil Clifford] Dobell Esq., FRS2 July 1931
RR/17/28Referee's report by Edwin Ray Lankester, on a paper 'Observations on the life-history of Adelea ovata, aimé schneider, with a note on a new gregarine from the gut of Lithobius forficatus' by Cecil Clifford Dobell[December 1906]
NLB/34/231Copy letter from Archibald Geikie, to [Cecil Clifford] Dobell, [Fellow of the Royal Society][December 1906]
NLB/54/53Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [William] Bateson, FRS29 January 1917
RR/20/103Referee's report by Cecil Clifford Dobell, on a paper 'Notes on Toxoplasma gondii' by Helen L M Pixell26 May 1913
NLB/59/691Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [Cecil Clifford] Dobell, FRS4 November 1920
RR/22/45Referee's report by Edward Alfred Minchin, on a paper 'The chromosome cycle in Coccidia and Gregarines' by Cecil Clifford Dobell and A Pringle Jameson May 1915
NLB/58/871Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Cecil Clifford] Dobell, FRS28 June 1920
RR/28/20Referee's report by Cecil Clifford Dobell, on a paper 'Observations on the changes seen in living cells during growth and division' by Thomas Strangeways Pigg Strangeways22 June 1922
NLB/58/630Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Cecil Clifford] Dobell Esquire, FRS31 May 1920
NLB/57/778Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to C [Cecil Clifford] Dobell, Esq, FRS3 February 1920
NLB/57/374Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to C [Cecil Clifford] Dobell Esq, FRS 28 October 1919
NLB/67/663Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Cecil Clifford] Dobell Esq., FRS10 February 1925
RR/68/128Second letter from Cecil Clifford Dobell, regarding a paper 'A study of the nuclear apparatus of bacteria' by C F Robinow29 August 1941
NLB/63/804Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Cecil Clifford] Dobell Esq., FRS22 December 1922
RR/68/130Referee's report by Cecil Clifford Dobell, on a paper 'A study of the nuclear apparatus of bacteria' by C F Robinow29 August 1941
RR/68/129Third letter from Cecil Clifford Dobell, regarding a paper 'A study of the nuclear apparatus of bacteria' by C F Robinow29 August 1941
NLB/65/761Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Cecil Clifford] Dobell Esq., FRS19 December 1923
NLB/65/632Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Cecil] Clifford Dobell, Esq., FRS1 December 1923
RR/32/26Referee's report by Cecil Clifford Dobell, on a paper 'The oogenesis of the fowl (gallus bankiva)' by Francis William Rogers Brambell28 May 1925
NLB/69/663Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Cecil] Dobell Esq., FRS10 July 1926
NLB/65/793Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary and Librarian of the Royal Society; to [Cecil Clifford] Dobell Esq., FRS3 January 1924
NLB/68/372Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Cecil Clifford] Dobbell Esq., FRS30 June 1925
NLB/65/749Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Cecil] Clifford Dobell Esq., FRS15 December 1923
NLB/66/771Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary and Librarian of the Royal Society; to [Cecil Clifford] Dobell, FRS5 July 1924
NLB/67/734Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir William Leishman, KCMG, FRS24 February 1925
NLB/69/175Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof. [Archibald Vivian] Hill, FRS21 January 1926
NLB/68/228Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Cecil Clifford] Dobell Esq.; FRS3 June 1925
NLB/68/411Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary and Librarian of the Royal Society; to [Cecil Clifford] Dobell Esq., FRS10 July 1925
NLB/68/384Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Cecil Clifford] Dobell Esq., FRS2 July 1925
NLB/70/703Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Cecil] Dobell Esq., FRS8 July 1927
NLB/69/608Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Cecil Clifford] Dobell Esq., FRS21 June 1926
NLB/71/577Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Cecil] Dobell Esq., FRS10 July 1928
NLB/65/794Copy letter from David Prain, Treasurer of the Royal Society; to [Cecil Clifford] Dobell Esq., FRS3 January 1924
NLB/72/930Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Cecil Clifford] Dobell Esq., FRS4 July 1930
NLB/73/338Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Cecil Clifford] Dobell Esq., FRS10 June 1931
NLB/73/364Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Cecil Clifford] Dobell Esq., FRS6 July 1931
MM/18/149Letter from Clifford Dobell to William Bulloch3-4 October 1928
HD/25/21Presentation album for Henry Dale on his retirement from the National Institute for Medical Research 30 September 1942
NLB/71/591Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof. Dr. G. van Rijnberk, Redactie, Nederlandsch Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde [the Dutch Journal of Medicine], 89 Nicholas Maesstraat, Amsterdam, [The Netherlands]16 July 1928
NLB/57New Letter Book volume 57, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration27 June 1919-27 February 1920
RR/36/4Referee's report by Cecil Clifford Dobell, on a paper 'The golgi apparatus in the cells of tissue cultures' by Reginald James Ludford11 March 1927
RR/68/127Letter from Cecil Clifford Dobell, regarding a paper 'A study of the nuclear apparatus of bacteria' by C F Robinow23 July 1941
RR/34/129Referee's report by Cecil Clifford Dobell, on a paper 'The meiotic phase in certain mammals' by Charles Edward Walker15 January 1926
RR/67/337Referee's report by Cecil Clifford Dobell, on a paper 'On the bicoecidae: a family of colourless flagellates' by L E R Picken18 September 1940
RR/47/126Referee's report by Cecil Clifford Dobell, on a paper 'The geometry of the siliceous skeletons of the radiolaria' by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson25 February 1932
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