| MS 098 BURNET, FRANK MACFARLANE (1899-1985) MEDICAL SCIENTIST AND BIOLOGIST Burnet was Director of the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne 1944-66 and in 1960 was awarded the Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine with P Medawar. 98/1 a Early technical papers 1928-40 (typescript) b Unpublished technical addresses, etc. 1955-64 (typescripts) c Unpublished technical lectures 1955-74 (typescripts - 2 published but no reprints) d Typescripts of lectures - ANZAAS, Wright, Croonian, Dyer, Wisconsin, Moynihan, Vanderbilt ... 1949-61, Pacific Science Congress lecture 1971 98/2 a 1 Correspondence and papers relating to WHO 1956-59 Correspondence regarding serving on various committees (22pp) The role of WHO in medical research. 1958 roneoed (29pp) Summary of discussions on an intensified medical research programme for the World Health Organisation 1958 (9pp) 2 Japan Bacteriological Society Meeting, 5-7 April 1961 Preliminary correspondence regarding invitation to speak at the meeting, itinerary, etc. Also a couple of letters on the translation of The clonal selection theory of acquired immunity into Japanese (36pp) 3 Early lectures on medical research 1947-50 Lecture on general functions of research and opportunities that are available in Melbourne, ca 1950 (11pp) Lecture on the technique of research with special reference to research at the clinical level, ca 1950 (6pp) 4 NHMRC reorganisation 1956-58 Draft handwritten letter to the Minister (2pp) A suggested long term approach (roneoed) (3pp) What do the major applicants really want, etc. (typescript) (4pp) Notes on Minister of Healths memorandum (1 typed page) Copies of 3 letters from W F Simmons, Chairman, Medical Research Advisory Committee (1 page each) Correspondence re Dr Ian Woods visit to USA 1958 (3pp) Report of the Sub-committee of the Advisory Committee of the National Health and Medical Research Council, together with covering letter from Harold Dew to Director-General of Health (7pp) The case for an increased annual grant (2pp) 5 Initiation of C J Martin Fellowship 1951 Letter from Sir Percival Hartley suggesting establishing a C J Martin Fellowship Correspondence between Burnet and Director-General of Health on the subject, suggestions from a sub-committee of Burnet, Professor Wright and Dr Keogh on the form the Fellowship should take, followed by draft recommendations from the sub-committee and associated correspondence (29pp) 6 Germ warfare in Korea 1952-53 (largely consists of correspondence) Pamphlet, New facts on US germ warfare in Korea and China. Supplement to Peoples China. (16pp) Germ warfare in Korea (FMB - draft statement) (7pp) Correspondence with Australian Association for the United Nations. Includes draft report from FMB (8pp) Correspondence with R G Casey (13pp) The germ warfare charges (ABC broadcast) (4pp) Pamphlet, Is germ warfare possible? NSW Peace Council. Scientists Auxiliary (12pp) Letter from Katharine Suzannah Prichard and FMBs reply (2pp) Correspondence re advising Australian Delegation to the UN on germ warfare 1952 (7pp) Germ warfare charges in Korea, and request for their publication by Secretary of Department of External Affairs (4pp) Newspaper cuttings from US on germ warfare, with covering letters from R G Casey to FMB and FMB to the Secretary of the Department of External Affairs (3pp) 7 America - Cold Spring Harbor 1958, Stanford 1960 This file has the title America shop letters 1960 typed on it. It consists largely of letters to Deb (presumably his daughter), with typed copies attached, describing meetings, symposia etc. (44pp) 8 Chairmanship of International Association of Microbiological Societies 1955-58 Large folder of miscellaneous correspondence. A lot of it is concerned with the venue for the 7th International Congress of Microbiology, and with FMBs resignation as Chairman (ca 200pp) b 1 Biological effects of nuclear explosion fallout. Commonwealth Partliamentary paper No. 29 of 1973 (8pp) 2 Summary of situation (5pp, 2 typed and 3 handwritten) 3 Australian Academy of Science. The biological effects of nuclear explosion fall-out. Report to the Prime Minister, 1973 4 Letter from E G Whitlam to Sir Rutherford Robertson thanking him for the above report c 1 The natural history of communicable disease. Chapter xii for Textbook of preventive and social medicine. (29pp) 2 Antibodies and immunity (32pp) 3 Speculations on the evolution of the immune process. Australian Society of Immunologists 1967 (14pp) 4 Autoimmune disease. In Pathologic physiology, ed. Godeman, 1967 (63pp) 5 Immunological surveillance an evolutionary approach. Brook Lodge, 1969 (24pp) 6 Immunological surveillance. Perugia, 1969 (32pp) 7 Immunological surveillance and the origin of tumour specific antigens. Unpublished draft, 1970 (20pp) 8 Kuru, with introduction, 1970 (11pp) 9 Invertebrate precursors to immune responses for Contemporary topics in immunology, vol. 4, chapter 1, 1972 (19pp) 10 Ageing and immunological surveillance. Article for Triangle, 1973 (13pp) 11 The evolution of biological recognition as exemplified in the immune system 1975 (12pp) 98/3 a Typescripts of papers, talks etc. 1967-76 b Typescripts of social and environmental papers 1962-75 c Miscellaneous talks: Listerian Oration; Ceylon Association for the Advancement of Science; AAS; Chinese Academy; Tintern Speech Day, etc. 1952-69 d Early manuscripts 1924-68 e Mutation and selection: some extensions of Darwinism 1974/75. Summary of clonal selection December 1963 (typescript with handwritten corrections and hand drawn figures) The significance of avidity in immunological reactions, 1 September 1966. Antibodies ca 1964 Handwritten letter from P B Medawar Royal Society acknowledgement of the book Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, 1915-1965 Handwritten notes New book, found in Auto-immunity and auto-immune disease 98/4 a Academy diary 1965-69 b Unpublished papers on technical topics 1971-74 c W.E.H.I. Office diary 1961-65 d Sir Macfarlane Burnet as President of the Australian Academy of Science, by J Deeble (written in June 1985 at the request of FMBs official biographer, C Sexton) 32 cm MS 98 BURNET, F M MS 98 BURNET, F M 4 5 | |
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