| Description | Correspondence with Dr A.H. Ennor, John Curtain School of Medical Research, The Australian National University, Melbourne and Canberra, December 1948 - January 1949 and May - June 1954. In the early letters Ennor seeks guidance from Kosterlitz on his methods of estimation of desoxyribosnucleic acid P and N; Kosterlitz responds with detailed notes. The later letters refer to the vacant Chair of Physiology in the University of Sydney, which Kosterlitz was considering applying for. Ennor provides a frank account of the state of play, referring to funding difficulties and the heavy teaching commitments of Heads of Departments in the Australian universities. In his letter of 8 May 1954, Kosterlitz also updates Ennor on his recent research activities: '... I gave up work on the liver more than two years ago. My present interests are centred on the transmission of the ?nerve in pulse at the endings of ?sympaticto fibres and the ... initiation of the heart beat. Last winter I spent five interesting months in the U.S.A., with O. Krayer at the Pharmaclogy Department of Harvard Medical School, investigating the effects of ?veretramine on the activity of the pacemaker of the heart'.
Correspondence with Dr C. von Euler, Nobel Institute of Neurophysiology, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm [presently engaged at the Physiological Laboratory, Cambridge], regarding arrangements for von Euler's visit to Aberdeen, where he was to deliver a lecture on 'The chemoceptive mechanism of the respiratory centres' to Aberdeen's 'Physiological Colloquium', January - February 1952. The Colloquium met two or three times a year and was attended by around twenty members of the University and local research institute staff.
Correspondence with Professor U.S. von Euler, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, regarding mutual research interests and attendances at various international conferences, 1947 - 1954. In March 1947, Kosterlitz requests reprints of papers on nucleic acids. In April 1950, he seeks an opportunity of discussing his work on the response of the denervated heart to adrenaline and noradrenaline and the effects of dietary protein on the liberation of liver sympathin. In January 1951, von Euler thanks Kosterlitz for 'the interesting reprints', being especially interested in his 'results with overnembutalized cats where you think the barosensory mechanism is more inhibited than the chemosensory. He suggests the 'this might be brought in accord with our earlier results concerning the effect of ergotamine in small doses which annulls the barosensory transmission but not the chemosensory'.
Correspondence with Dr H.M. Evans, Institute of Experimental Biology, University of California, regarding Kosterlitz's proposal to spend three months at Berkley studying liver changes in the rat during pregnancy, September - December 1952. Kosterlitz had hoped to undertake the research following the 1953 International Physiological Congress in Montreal, but did not appear to follow through with his plan after hearing of Evans intention to retire in July 1953. |