| Description | Correspondence, dated August 1941 - January 1952, with Dr [subsequently Professor] F. G. Young, National Institute for Medical Research, Hampstead, London [subsequently St Thomas's Hospital Medical School, The Manor House, Godalming, Surrey. Then, Department of Biochemistry, University College, London, and then, Biochemistry Laboratory, Cambridge], regarding Young not seeing Kosterlitz when he was in Aberdeen and their attempts to meet in London and then in Cambridge. Letters relate to the Biochemical and Physiological Society meetings held in Cambridge at the end of September 1941. Correspondence relates to the sending of reprint journal articles.
Brief correspondence, dated May 1957 - February 1968, with Dr [Professor] Eleanor J. Zaimis, Department of Pharmacology, Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine, London, regarding Kosterlitz's attempt to obtain a sample of mecamylamine and his query regarding the concentration needed to be used in the organ bath to cause ganglionic block in the guinea - pig ileum. Also a letter from Zaimis, dated 7 February 1968, regarding some enclosed [not present] publications by Zaimis. Letter includes addresses of where Kosterlitz can obtain slide holders.
Correspondence, dated July - August 1958, with Dr Iwao Yanagiya, Laboratory of Veterinary Pharmacology, University of Osaka Prefecture, College of Agriculture, Taisen - Che, Sakai City, Osaka, Japan, detailing Yanagiya's observations on the contractions of the longitudinal and circular muscle layers caused by the raising pressure in the lumen and relating to his experiments in which he placed a glass tube over the isolated ileum. Correspondence relate to Kosterlitz and Yanagiya sending copies of reprints to one another. |