| Description | Correspondence with J.L Fairrie, Wargrave, Berkshire, regarding research on amino acids in oats and ground nuts, January - May 1947. Fairrie requests Kosterlitz's assistance on a consultancy basis, in finishing off work commenced by Dr W.E. Gaunt 'prior to his departure to the United States last August.' During the Second World War Fairrie 'turned out a considerable number of emergency ration bars for M.I.9. and also Special Ration Backs for the Air Force, S.E.A.C. ... Some 40 % of this ration consisted of a processed mixture of the oat and the ground-nut, lightly reinforced with dried skimmed milk'. He was now interested in determining 'the amino-acid make-ups of the oat and the ground-nut and their supplementary values' and 'whether the theory of valuable protein supplementation is applicable to this case.' Fairrie's research notes and Kosterlitz's analysis are attached.
Correspondence with Farbwerke Hoechst A.G. vormals Meister Lucius and Bruning, Frankfurt, regarding the supply of chemicals and other substances, including 3:4 dioxy ephedrine and Hoechst 9980 ('I understand that this material has an atropine-like action but is more selective than atropine'), January 1952 - February 1953 and May - July 1963.
Letter from Dr Don W. Fawcett, Department of Anatomy, Harvard Medical School, thanking Kosterlitz for sending him reprints of his work ('they will be most helpful to me in pursuing further the structural changes associated with fluctuations of R.N.A. content of the liver'), 13 January 1954.
Correspondence with Dr Wilhelm Siegmund Feldberg (b 1900), National Institute for Medical Research, Medical Research Council, London, regarding various matters, professional and personal, 1953 - 1961. Includes Feldberg's recommendation of the daughter of a family friend for a place in Aberdeen's medical school, c 1953 (notes that the family fled Germany in 1933); correspondence regarding Schaumann's work on the contraction of the longitudinal muscle during peristalsis, noting similarities with Kosterlitz's findings, April 1953; correspondence regarding the vacant Chair of Physiology at the University of Sydney, 1954 (Kosterlitz states 'As I should like to have some time a department of my own, I am seriously wondering whether to apply for this Chair'). More routine topics include the supply of chemicals and other substances, the filling of vacant junior research posts, attendance at conferences, etc.
Correspondence with Dr I.D. Ferguson, Institute of Physiology, University of Glasgow, seeking clarification from Kosterlitz on the correct use of the term 'decentralised' and the difference between 'decentralisation' and 'denervation', June 1953.
Correspondence with Dr D. Fishlock, London Hospital Medical College, regarding Fishlock's research on 'Nicotine in the Human Colon', January 1964 and his paper on the 'Effect of bradykinin on the human isolated small and large intestine', January 1967. Kosterlitz requests copies of the papers.
Correspondence with Dr K. Fleischhauer, Anatomisches Institut, Neue Universitat, Kiel, November 1959 - August 1960. Kosterlitz encloses photographs of Fleischhauer and Feldberg on the moors above Balmoral, notes that he saw their demonstration at a recent Physiological Society meeting, discusses his summer holiday plans for 1960, including a visit to Fleischhauer in Kiel, and passes on references to Schild's work on the amnion. Fleischhauer's correspondence is in German.
General correspondence with Fleming Radio (Developments) Limited, London, October 1950 - March 1951. Includes publicity regarding the release of amplifier type 1049A, a machine which assists in 'proportional or scintillation counting ', and which has already been supplied to A.E.R.E. at Harwell.
Correspondence with Dr J.S. Folley, National Institute for Research in Dairying, Reading, regarding Kosterlitz's proposed membership of the Society for Endocrinology, May 1949, and a sample of potassium salt of galactose-1-phosphate which Kosterlitz gave to Folley, August 1949 - September 1950. Folley is curious about its use.
Letter to Dr P. de Fonbrune, L'Institut Pasteur, Paris, asking if he might obtain a quotation from the manufacturers of 'le micromanipulateur pneumatique' and 'la microforge', 3 April 1952. With de Fonbrune's reply (in French), stating that he has forwarded the enquiry on to the manufacturers, 7 May 1952.
Letter from Margaret Forster, Physiology Department, Medical School, King's College, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, seeking details of the fluorine content of rat cubes used in a recent experiment, 25 October 1950. With two replies from Kosterlitz, October - November 1950.
Correspondence with Dr Howard A. Frank, Surgical Research Department, Beth Israel Hospital, Boston, regarding Frank's paper on 'Traumatic Shock, in particular his observation that hypoglycaemia plays a vital role in the development of irreversable haemorrhagic shock, October - December 1946. Also brief correspondence regarding Frank's paper, 'Besitzt die Restreduktion bei der Blutzuckerbestimmung eine praktische klinische Bedeutung?', August 1950 (at this time Frank was based at the Universitats-Krankenhaus Eppendorf, Hamburg).
Letters from Kosterlitz to Professor E. Frommel, Institut de Therapeutique experimentale, Universite de Geneve, enquiring where he might obtain a sample of the new ganglionic blocking agent Sy 108, described by Frommel in a recent paper, 26 October 1955, and thanking Frommel for sending him a sample of the same, noting its similarity to hexamethonium, 17 November. Also Frommel's reply, 21 November 1955.
Letter from ?W. Mann enclosing half a dozen reticulocyte films from a case of haemolytic anaemia, at Professor Fullerton's [Department of Medicine, University of Aberdeen] request, 21 October 1954.
Correspondence with Dr R.F. Furchtgott, Department of Pharmacology, Washington University School of Medicine, regarding Furchtgott's experiments 'with 'cross protection' among epinephrine, norepinephrine and isopropylarterenol against dibenamine blockade', December 1954 - February 1955. Three letters containing detailed analysis of the work.
Correspondence with Furzehill Laboratories Ltd., Boreham Wood Hertfordshire, regarding invoice for equipment (not identified) recently purchased , July 1953. |