Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1951-1980 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent
8 boxes
Scope and content
The papers of Hugh Davson comprise correspondence, working papers and printed reports, 1950-1988; including correspondence with the Medical Research Council, notably project applications and progress reports, 1951-1978; concerning Davson's publications, with reviews, 1962-1978; with the Wellcome Trust, 1974-1980; descriptions of recent research on the eye, 1970-1978; correspondence between Davson and colleagues in the United Kingdom, Europe and North America, mainly on administrative and publishing matters, including grant applications, conference organisation and reviews of new articles and books, 1958-1980.
General Information
Name of creator
Biographical history
Born, 1909; work in the Department of Biochemistry, University College London, 1932-1933; Research in the Department of Physiology, University College, 1933-1936; Travelling Fellow of the Rockefeller Foundation, University of Pennsylvania Medical School, 1936-1937; Boit Memorial Fellow in Medical Sciences, Department of Physiology, University College, 1937-1939; Associate Professor of Physiology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1939-1942; Senior Experimental Officer, Ministry of Supply, 1942-1946; with James Danielli published pioneering work on the structure of cell membranes, 1943; Staff of Medical Research Council in collaboration with University College, 1946-1976; Research Fellow in the Department of Physiology, King's College London, 1976-1996; died, 1996. Publications: Co-authored with James Danielli, The permeability of natural membranes (Cambridge, 1943); The physiology of the eye (London, 1949); A textbook of general physiology (London, 1951); Physiology of the ocular and cerebrospinal fluids (London, 1956); Physiology of the cerebrospinal fluid (London, 1967); Co-authored with Malcolm Segal, Introduction to physiology (London, 1975-1980); Co-authored with Keasley Welch and Malcolm Segal , Physiology and pathophysiology of the cerebrospinal fluid (Edinburgh, 1987 ); An introduction to the blood-brain barrier (Basingstoke, 1993); edited The eye (New York, 1969-1977). He also published numerous articles in learned journals.
Repository
Custodial history
Transferred to the Archives by Dr Davson in 1992.
Conditions governing access
Open, subject to signature of Reader's undertaking form, and appropriate provision of two forms of identification, to include one photographic ID.
Conditions governing reproduction
Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied from open material for research purposes only.
Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Archives.
Language of material
- English
Script of material
Existence and location of originals
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Alternative identifier(s)
Place access points
People and Organisations
- Medical Research Council (Subject)
- Wellcome Trust (Subject)
Genre access points
Rules and/or conventions used
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000.
Script(s)
Archivist's note
Entry compiled by Geoff Browell.