GB 0120 PP/PCG - Garnham, Professor Percy Cyril Claude

24 boxes

GB 0120 PP/PCG 1918-1984 Collection (fonds) 24 boxes Garnham , Percy Cyril Claude , 1901-1994 , Professor of Parasitology

Born London, 1901; Member Royal College of Surgeons, 1923; Licentiate Royal College of Physicians; Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (St Bartholomew's), Married Esther Long Price, 1924. Diploma in Public Health 1925-1947; Colonial Medical Services: Colony and Protectorate of Kenya; Doctor of Medicine (London) with Gold Medal, 1928; Dipl. de Med. Malariol., Paris, 1931; 1947-1968 Department of Parasitology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 1947-1968; Became Head of Department of Parasitology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 1952; Companion Order of St Michael and St George, 1964; Fellow Royal Society; Published Malaria Parasites, 1966; Heath Clark Lecturer, University of London Senior Research Fellow, Imperial College Field Station, Ashurst Lodge, Ascot, Berkshire, 1968; Published Progress in Parasitology, 1970; died 1994. Garnham's scientific achievements include the discovery of the liver stages of the malaria parasite and the elucidation of the full life cycle, as well as the fine structure, of many species of malaria parasites. He was involved in the eradication of onchocerciasis from Kenya, and did research into many parasitic infections, including piroplasmosis, also relapsing fever, mosquitoes, and virus diseases.

The papers were presented to the Wellcome Library by Professor Garnham in February 1980, June 1984 and March 1987.

Papers relating to Professor Garnham's career, with a little material of personal and biographical interest in Section A, and includes notebooks, correspondence, photographs etc. relating to his career in the Colonial Medical Services in Kenya, 1925-1947, and at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 1947-1968.

The papers fall into 3 groups: notebooks (Section B), subject files (Section C), and correspondence with individuals and organisations (Section D). This distinction is not altogether clearcut, for example there are letters inserted into some of the notebooks, and in some cases correspondence with individuals arranged in alphabetical series overlaps in the matter under discussion with the subject files. To assist in the use of the collection, therefore, an index of correspondents has been compiled. As in most cases Professor Garnham seems to have kept a draft or a carbon of letters out, addressees as well as senders have been indexed; also the addressees and writers of letters which were sent to Professor Garnham as enclosures or copies for reference.

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.

Predominantly English

The catalogue to this collection has not yet been fully converted to electronic form: for detail, and to order material, see hard-copy list available in the Wellcome Library. Copies of the catalogue are available on request. The catalogue is available on microfiche via the National Inventory of Documentary Sources (NIDS). Acc nos 19, 161, LAH Acc No 258 and a file of photographs in the Accession File uncatalogued.

Collection level description available on-line on the Wellcome Library website

PP/PCG/A.7, Prof Garnham lecturing in Cairo to US Naval Medical Research Unit, 3 May 1954, L30608.

Professor Garnham's collection of Haemosporadia has been placed in the Wellcome Museum of Medical Science and a catalogue of them has been prepared by Professor Garnham and Dr. A.J. Duggan.

Copied from the Wellcome Library catalogue by Sarah Drewery.

In compliance with ISAD (G): General International Standard Archival Description - 2nd Edition (1999); UNESCO Thesaurus, December 2001; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Jan 2009 London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Colonial Medical Service Infectious diseases Garnham , Professor , Percy Cyril Claude , 1901-1994 , parasitologist Malaria Pathology Diseases Tropical diseases Medical sciences Veterinary medicine West Africa Africa Kenya East Africa East Asia Far East South Asia

The papers were presented to the Wellcome Library by Professor Garnham in February 1980, June 1984 and March 1987.

Papers relating to Professor Garnham's career, with a little material of personal and biographical interest in Section A, and includes notebooks, correspondence, photographs etc. relating to his career in the Colonial Medical Services in Kenya, 1925-1947, and at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 1947-1968.

The papers fall into 3 groups: notebooks (Section B), subject files (Section C), and correspondence with individuals and organisations (Section D). This distinction is not altogether clearcut, for example there are letters inserted into some of the notebooks, and in some cases correspondence with individuals arranged in alphabetical series overlaps in the matter under discussion with the subject files. To assist in the use of the collection, therefore, an index of correspondents has been compiled. As in most cases Professor Garnham seems to have kept a draft or a carbon of letters out, addressees as well as senders have been indexed; also the addressees and writers of letters which were sent to Professor Garnham as enclosures or copies for reference.

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.

• English

• Latin

Predominantly English

Professor Garnham's collection of Haemosporadia has been placed in the Wellcome Museum of Medical Science and a catalogue of them has been prepared by Professor Garnham and Dr. A.J. Duggan.

The catalogue to this collection has not yet been fully converted to electronic form: for detail, and to order material, see hard-copy list available in the Wellcome Library. Copies of the catalogue are available on request. The catalogue is available on microfiche via the National Inventory of Documentary Sources (NIDS). Acc nos 19, 161, LAH Acc No 258 and a file of photographs in the Accession File uncatalogued.

Collection level description available on-line on the Wellcome Library website

PP/PCG/A.7, Prof Garnham lecturing in Cairo to US Naval Medical Research Unit, 3 May 1954, L30608.

In compliance with ISAD (G): General International Standard Archival Description - 2nd Edition (1999); UNESCO Thesaurus, December 2001; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

• English