Section KMS/3 - 4 Handwritten Experiment Notebooks and 2 Bound Volumes of Reprints

Extent: 1 box

4 spiral-bound hardback, notebooks containing handwritten experiments in diary entries dating from 26 July 1932 - 1946 Book 1: 26 July 1932 -20 May 1941. Experiments on viruses, including Spotted Wilt, Ringspot, Necrotic Tobacco, Hopkins Mottle, Brassica, Lovage, Mallow and Broad Bean Mosaic, filtration methods, absorption tests, Book 2: entitled 'Tobacco Necrosis, Lovage Viruses 1936-7', 14 July 1936 - 11 July 1941. Book 3: entitled 'Ultrafiltration 1936-7', includes experiments with Dutch Ringspot, Turnip Yellow Mosaic, Spotted Wilt, Yellow and Green Stripe, Tomato, Tobacco Mosaic Crystals and Jensen's Green Mosaic 1933-1946. Book 4: entitled 'X-Ray & U-V Light (D E Lea) 1937-', 'Field Experiments on Spread of Viruses', 23 Oct 1936 - 1943. Includes 2 letters to Smith from Douglas E Lea, 28 July and 2 Aug 1937 and 1 letter from F C Bawden, 24 Jan 1941. 2 books (bound volumes of KMS reprints): 'Studies on Potato Virus Diseases, Vol I., Nos 1-6', (1924 -1929) and 'Studies in Plant Virus Diseases, Vol. II., nos. 7-11' (1930-1933).

Admin History: Douglas Edward Lea (February 2, 1910 – June 16, 1947) was an experimental physicist working primarily in the field of radiobiology. He started working at the Cavendish Laboratory at University of Cambridge in the 1930s, and in time moved from nuclear physics to focus on biology. After obtaining his PhD from Cambridge, he worked at Strangeways Laboratory, then at the Royal College of Surgeons between 1942 and 1946.