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RefNoHF/1/14/3/11/21
Previous numbers98HF.135.11.21
LevelItem
TitleLetter from Ernst Chain, Washington to Howard Walter Florey
Date13 October 1945
DescriptionHas made arrangements for getting copies of references - comments on this - has sent books to Florey - Oxford work on penicillin is really appreciated at the Mayo Clinic - comments on this - comments on clinical trials of streptomycin - is going to see Miller about possibility of obtaining an additional grant from the Rockefeller Foundation for apparatus - comments on laboratories he has visited - Waksman told him that several thousand strains of actinomycetes have been investigated for antibiotic activity - comments on this - comments on substances which Doisy has isolated from strains of Pseudomonas pyocyanea - comments on Northern Regional Research Laboratory, Peoria, and on strain of Penicillium notatum which produces 50% penicillin III - comments on anti-British feeling he has encountered.
Extent4pp
FormatManuscript documents
AccessStatusOpen
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