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RefNoHF/1/3/12/1/2
Previous numbers98Hf.46.1.2
LevelItem
TitleLetter from N G Heatley to Howard Walter Florey
Date3 August 1941
DescriptionDiscusses work he is doing on penicillin - Dr Cassidy from Yale visited laboratory - Cassidy thought, from properties of penicillin, that charcoal would be more suitable adsorbent than alumina - Parke, Davis and Co are experimenting with penicillin - comments on this - discusses visit by three people from Lederle Laboratories Inc and work Lederle are doing on penicillin - thought dry standard had lost some activity - comments on this - is sending some corn steep liquor to Oxford - has not yet tried out the precursor idea - has some flasks with replacement media containing kojic acid but no penicillin has formed in these or in the controls.
Extent2pp
FormatCarbon copy
AccessStatusOpen
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