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- 1950-1964 (Creation)
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1 box
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Dr Ainsworth, a mycologist in the Department of Botany in the University of Exeter, was Secretary of the Medical Mycology committee of the Medical Research Council and a member of the Industrial Epidermophytosis Committee. The papers of the MRC Medical Mycology Committee including in this collection cover the period 1953-64 (the Committee was disbanded in 1969).
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GB 0120 GC/1 1950-1964 Collection 1 box Ainsworth , Geoffrey Clough , b 1905 , mycologist
Dr Ainsworth, a mycologist in the Department of Botany in the University of Exeter, was Secretary of the Medical Mycology committee of the Medical Research Council and a member of the Industrial Epidermophytosis Committee. The papers of the MRC Medical Mycology Committee including in this collection cover the period 1953-64 (the Committee was disbanded in 1969).
These papers were given to the Library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine in 1978 by Dr G C Ainsworth. They were transferred to the care of the Contemporary Medical Archives Centre in 1980.
Papers on medical mycology 1950-1964, including records of the informal meetings of the Medical Research Council Medical Mycology Committee and the Industrial Epidermophytosis (Miners' Foot Ringworm) Committee.
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Open. The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.
Photocopies/photographs/microfilm are supplied for private research only at the Archivist's discretion. Please note that material may be unsuitable for copying on conservation grounds, and that photographs cannot be photocopied in any circumstances. Readers are restricted to 100 photocopies in twelve months. Researchers who wish to publish material must seek copyright permission from the copyright owner.
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Dr Ainsworth's published note on the history of the Committee can be found at GC/1/3 - The Medical Research Council's Medical Mycology Committee (1943-69). A Chapter in the History of Medical Mycology in the UK. Sabouraudia (1978), 16, 1-7.
Entry compiled by Barbara Ball from the Wellcome Library online catalogue. Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997. January 2009 Medical sciences Veterinary medicine Botany Vegetation Flora Fungi Plants Mitosporic fungi Epidermophyton Microbiology Mycology Dermatology Medical Research Council Ainsworth , Geoffrey Clough , b 1905 , mycologist
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These papers were given to the Library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine in 1978 by Dr G C Ainsworth. They were transferred to the care of the Contemporary Medical Archives Centre in 1980.
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Papers on medical mycology 1950-1964, including records of the informal meetings of the Medical Research Council Medical Mycology Committee and the Industrial Epidermophytosis (Miners' Foot Ringworm) Committee.
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Open. The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.
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Photocopies/photographs/microfilm are supplied for private research only at the Archivist's discretion. Please note that material may be unsuitable for copying on conservation grounds, and that photographs cannot be photocopied in any circumstances. Readers are restricted to 100 photocopies in twelve months. Researchers who wish to publish material must seek copyright permission from the copyright owner.
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- English
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- Latin
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English
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Dr Ainsworth's published note on the history of the Committee can be found at GC/1/3 - The Medical Research Council's Medical Mycology Committee (1943-69). A Chapter in the History of Medical Mycology in the UK. Sabouraudia (1978), 16, 1-7.
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Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.
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- English