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Notes and discussions

A note on the proposed amalgamation of the Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine and the Medical Research Committee: Philanthropy and state support of medical research, 1914

Pages 287-289 | Received 01 Mar 1986, Published online: 22 Aug 2006

  • See et al. War on Disease, A History of the Lister Institute London 1971
  • MacLeod , R.M. 1971 . The support of Victorian Science: The Endowment of Research Movement in Great Britain, 1868–1900 . Minerva , 4 : 197 – 230 .
  • Searle , G.R. 1971 . The Quest for National Efficiency. A Study in British Politics and Political Thought, 1899–1914 Oxford
  • Turner , Frank M. 1980 . Public Science in Britain, 1880–1919 . Isis , 71 : 589 – 608 .
  • See Searle The Quest for National Efficiency. A Study in British Politics and Political Thought, 1899–1914 Oxford 1971 210 210 Chapter 7 The quotation is from R. L. Morant, The Complete Organisation of National Education of All Grades as Practised in Switzerland (1898), Special Reports on Educational Subjects, Vol. 3, c. 8988, p. 24.
  • Now at the Contemporary Medical Archives Centre, Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 183 Euston Road, London. See Hall L. Morgan N. The Archive of the Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine Medical History in press 1986 30
  • Sir David Bruce (1855–1931), Member of the Governing Body of the Lister Institute. For biographical information see Dictionary of National Biography 1931–1940 108 110
  • Edwin Ray Lankester (1847–1929), Member of the Council of the Lister Institute, Director of the British Museum (Natural History), 1898–1907. For biographical information see Dictionary of Scientific Biography 1973 VIII 26 27
  • 1914 . British Medical Journal , August : 315 – 315 . 8 See also ibid. 1 August (1914), p. 265.
  • Letter C. Martin to W. Osler: 20 Lister Institute Archive SA/LIS/H 15 f.15 1914 November
  • Lankester , E. Ray . December 1914 . “ Science from an Easy Chair ” . In Daily Telegraph December , 15 cutting, Lister Archive.
  • Letter from Henry Roscoe to Charles Martin, dated 23 Lister Institute Archive SA/LIS/H 15 f. 28 1914 November
  • Letter from W. Osler to Charles Martin, 18 Lister Institute Archive 1914 July (This letter refers to the earlier Governing Board Meeting at which Bradford resigned. Osler remarks: ‘I really was very sorry for Bradford. It is a terrible thing to have no faith in democracy and in Members of Parliament! … What a disappointment your general character must be to your friends! Still, please be comforted by the thought that I still have the lingering traces of belief in you.’ SA/LIS/H 12 f.26.
  • December 1914 . British Medical Journal December , 997 – 998 . 5
  • On the National Research Committee, see Thomson A. Landsborough The Medical Research Council Half a Century of Medical Research HMSO London 1973 2 1975). Vol. 1: Origins and Policy of the Medical Research Council (UK), Vol. 2: The Programme of the Medical Research Council (UK).

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