Record

Reference numberNLB/66/50
Alternative reference numberNLB/66 p28
LevelItem
TitleCopy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; [to the Public Press]
Date14 February 1924
DescriptionCopy letter to the press referred to in NLB/66/33 and 42; gives a list of members chosen to be on the Scientific Advisory Committee for the British Empire Cancer Campaign; signed by the President of the Royal Society, Charles Sherrington and of the Chairman of the Medical Research Council, [George Joachim] Lord Goschen. Includes Sir John Bland-Sutton, President of the Royal College of Surgeons, Dr. [Henry Hallett] Dale FRS and member of the Medical Research Council, Sir Richard Garton, Sir William Dunn, Dr. Gowland Hopkins FRS of the University of Cambridge, Dr. Robert Knox of the Cancer Hospital, Sir William Leishman FRS, Director General of the Army Medical Service, Professor [Charles James] Martin FRS, Director of the Lister Institute of Preventative Medicine, Dr. Robert Muir FRS of the University of Glasgow and Sir Humphry Rolleston, President of the Royal College of Physicians.
Extent1p
FormatCarbon
Access statusOpen
Related records in the catalogueNLB/66/33
NLB/66/42
NLB/66/51
Fellows associated with this archive
CodeNameDates
NA8192Dale; Sir; Henry Hallett (1875 - 1968); physiologist and pharmacologist1875 - 1968
NA8073Martin; Sir; Charles James (1866 - 1955)1866 - 1955
NA6168Hopkins; Sir; Frederick Gowland (1861 - 1947); biochemist1861 - 1947
NA3828Leishman; Sir; William Boog (1865 - 1926); bacteriologist, pathologist, and British Army medical officer1865 - 1926
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