Alexander Logie Stalker, Professor of Pathology papers The collection comprises research papers, 1940s - 1960s; conference papers, 1972; reprints from academic journals, c 1900 - c 1980; and a small volume of other printed papers, relating to the University's Pathology Department, 20th c. The principal research papers in the collection relate to Stalker's experimental work on Brown-Pearce carcinoma, c 1946 - 1950s; to his work with Dr (later Professor) M. Macleod, of the Department of Medicine, University of Aberdeen, on the diagnosis of Hodgkin's Disease by liver biopsy, 1950s - 1960s; and to research on Dextran conducted on behalf of the Medical Research Council, 1950s - 1960s. There is, additionally, some related material on anti-lymphocrytic and anti-reticular sera, 1948 - 1949; renal disease, c 1961 - c 1969 and haemochromatosis, c 1950 - c 1952. The reprints, which were accumulated by Stalker and his colleagues from the early twentieth century, are indicative of the research strengths and interests of the department during the twentieth century. They have been arranged in four series: papers by Stalker, 1948 - 1978; papers by the University's Pathology Department staff, 1896 - 1980; papers by the University's medical, surgical and forensic medicine departments and colleagues in Aberdeen hospitals and public health departments, 1914 - 1980; and signed reprints of papers by non-University of Aberdeen staff, 1930 - 1974. Authors represented include George Dean (d 1914), Professor of Pathology, Aberdeen; Theodore Shennan, Professor of Pathology, Aberdeen; John Stirling Young, Professor of Pathology, Aberdeen; Sir David Campbell (1889 - 1978), Professor of Materia Medica, Aberdeen; Sir James Rognvald Learmonth (1895 - 1967), Professor of Surgery, Aberdeen and Edingurgh; James Parlane Kinloch (d 1932), Chief Medical Officer, Department of Health for Scotland; C.H. Browning, Gardiner Professor of Bacteriology, Glasgow; Sir Robert Muir (1864 - 1959), Professor of Pathology, Glasgow; and Matthew J. Stewart, Professor of Pathology, Leeds. 20th century