MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

MS 011 – MARTIN, Sir Charles James (9 Jan 1866-15 Feb 1955)
Physiologist and Pathologist

Sir Charles Martin, CMG, MB, DSc, FRCP, FRS, was Director of the Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine from 1903 to 1930 and made many important contributions to medical research in such fields as typhoid, plague and myxomatosis.

He came to Australia in 1891 as demonstrator in physiology at the University of Sydney and moved to Melbourne as Professor of Physiology in 1901. In 1931 he returned to Australia, where he was Professor of Biochemistry and General Physiology at the University of Adelaide and Chief of the Division of Animal Nutrition of CSIR until 1933.

The first box in the collection contains material presented by Dr R O'Brien (item 7), Dame Harriette Chick (items 1-6 and part of item 11) and Dr A M Copping for Dr Peter Blackman, nephew of Dame Harriette Chick (items 8-19).

The first 8 items in box 2 were presented by the Lister Institute, which also presented an illustrated manuscript given to C J Martin by the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council for his contributions to Australian science and announcing the formation of the C J Martin Fellowships in medical science. Many early Fellows of the Australian Academy of Science were signatories to this document, which is on display in the Basser Library.

The remainder of box 2 and box 3 were transferred to the Basser Library from CSIRO Archives.

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1. Letters from C J Martin to Dr H Chick from No 3 Australian General Hospital, AIF, Lemnos and Abbesieh, Egypt 1916
2. Letters from C J Martin to Dr H Chick relating to their joint work on experiments on pigs on a maize diet. September 1936 – September 1938

3-5. three notebooks dealing with experiments using pigs on a maize diet carried out by C J Martin with Dr Harriette Chick and other workers at the Lister Institute, London, 1936-38 "This work was done between 1936 and 1938 jointly with other workers at the Lister Institute in London. Sir Charles looked after the experimental animals at the Dept. of Animal Pathology at Cambridge, Dr Macrae and I prepared all the materials needed in London and all the vitamin concentrates. Much of the material in these notebooks is in my handwriting. I frequently analysed Sir Charles' results and submitted them to him. There was a great deal of correspondence and mutual visiting."

Dame Harriette Chick, 20 June 1963

6. Reprints of results of above experiments published in the Biochemical journal vols XXXI, 1937 and XXXII, 1938
7. Letter from Martin to Dr R O'Brien, April 1942, recalling the Kitchener inoculation incident
8. Work note book of H Chick (undated) containing notes for a history of the Lister Institute which was published in 1971. This refers frequently to Martin
9. Signed photograph of drawing of Martin by A J Murch, Adelaide, 1933 (See also MS 11/2/8)
10. Obituary notices – newspaper cuttings
11. Obituary notices:

    American Society for Tropical Medicine Newsletter – E M Hume (typescript)

    Biographical memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society – H Chick

    British Journal of Nutrition – E M Hume

    British medical journal – various authors. Includes typescript note by W R Aykroyd

    Conquest – anon

    Journal of general microbiology – S P Bedson

    Journal of nutrition – A M Copping

    Journal of pathology and bacteriology – K Inglis

    The lancet – various authors

    Medical journal of Australia – various authors

    Nature – H Chick and A N Drury

    Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene – N Hamilton Fairley

12. Memorial service, St John's College, Cambridge, 12 March 1955
13. Biographical articles and other articles relevant to Martin's career:

    Fifty years of medical research in Australia – E V Keogh, 1951

    Sir Charles Martin and medical research – 1952

    Typescript copy of article for Dictionary of National Biography – H Chick, 1962

    Typescript copy of article for Munk's Roll, Royal College of Physicians – H Chick, 1963

    Myxomatosis – ca 1959

    Curriculum vitae and notes, probably by H R Marston on

    • Martin's student days, 1883-89;
    • work in Sydney, 1891-97
    • Sydney meeting of the Australian Association for the Advancement of Science, 1898;
    • work in Melbourne, 1897-1903
14. Curriculum vitae and bibliography of Australian period 1891-1903, 1931-33
15. Manuscript notes written by Sir Percival Hartley (May 1955) who as Captain Hartley served with Lt Col Martin at No 25 Stationary Hospital, Rouen 1917-18. "Recollections of the Boss's Tinkering and Sundry Pursuits"

    and a photograph of a drawing of the coat of arms of the Laboratory, Xmas 1917 with Lt Col C J Martin, Capt Percival Hartley and Sister F E Williams

16. Letters from various people and institutions to H Chick, 1955-56, providing information for Martin's memoir, arranged alphabetically: Birkbeck College, University of London
    Bull, Lionel B
    Carne, Roy
    Clunies Ross, Ian (re International Wool Secretariat)
    Development Commission
    Dunn Nutritional Laboratory
    Gibbs, Maisie (C J Martin's daughter)
    Guy's Hospital Medical School
    International Wool Secretariat
    Lepper, E H
    Macfarlane, Marjorie
    Marston, Hedley R (5 letters)
    Medical Research Council
    Molony, J B de W
    National Health and Medical Research Council
    St Thomas's Hospital Medical School
    University of London King's College
    University of London Senate House
17. Letters thanking H Chick for copies of the memoir, 1957, arranged alphabetically: Bull, Lionel B
    Canny, Martin (ICI Melbourne)
    Carne, Roy
    Clunies Ross, Ian
    Copping, Molly
    Damant, G C C
    Dawborn, Mary C
    Dunhill, Tom
    Huggett, A S W
    Inglis, Keith
    Kelly, W Stan (Distinguished Adviser to Australian Government)
    Ledingham, Barbara
    Lepper, E H
    Little, Marjory
    Macrae, T F (Glaxo)
    Macfarlane, Marjorie
    Moore, T (Dunn Nutritional Laboratory)
    Pierce, Alan E
    Rivett, David
    Robertson, Muriel
    Sinclair, Hugh (Oxford)
    Southwood, A R (Dept of Public Health, SA)
    Tebbutt, A H
18. Miscellaneous letters to H Chick regarding Martin, 1915, 1957, 1963
19. Letter to E M Hume from Dr R T Brain, 2 October 1955, with reminiscences of Martin

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1. C J Martin collected papers. Vol I. Snake venom, immunity, monotremes (1892-1907)
2. C J Martin collected papers. Vol II. Biochemical and biophysical studies (1908-1939)
3. C J Martin collected papers. Vol III. Addresses, lectures, obituaries (1898-1956)
4. C J Martin collected papers. Vol IV. Physiology, bacteriology, nutrition (1892-1948)
5. C J Martin collected papers. Index
6. C J Martin reprints which do not appear in the collected papers or which have manuscript material appended 1896-1942
7. Reprints, not by C J Martin, which refer to Martin's work. 1921, 1940
8. Line drawing of Martin (head and shoulders) by A J Murch, Adelaide. 1933 (See also MS 11/1/9)

9-17. Reprints, not by C J Martin, collected in labelled springback folders

9. Calcium
10. Calcium metabolism
11. Clothes moths
12. Heat transfer through fabrics
13. Light – biological action, irradiation
14. Metabolism – proteins – biological value
15. Nutrition
16. Osteomalacia
17. Pasture – mineral composition
18. Pellagra

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1-22. Reprints, not by C J Martin, collected in labelled springback folders

1. Phosphor
2. Proteins (vegetable)
3. Rickets (experimental)
4. Rickets (experimental) – McCollum
5. Scurvy
6. Vitamin C (Lister Institute)
7. Vitamin E
8. Wool and nutrition
9. Wool and water
10. Wool (biological and morphological)
11. Wool (chemical)
12. Wool (chemical) – Phillips, etc
13. Wool (chemical) – Speakman
14. Wool clothing, etc
15. Wool clothing – thermal conductivity, hygiene, etc
16. Wool – growth, etc
17. Wool (physical)
18. Wool – sulphur, cystin
19. Wool symposium, Leeds, 1946
20. X-ray – Astbury, MacArthur
21. X-ray – proteins
22. X-ray – proteins – wool, etc
23. Astbury, W T. Textile fibres under the X-rays. Imperial Chemical Industries Limited, ca 1943 [monograph]

72cm