MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

MS 087 – LEMBERG, M R (1896-1975)

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Australian Academy of Science Biochimica et Biophysica Acta

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Australian Academy of Science

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Examinations of theses by MRL 1957-70

Dunedin lectures 1947

Lectures 1958 and later

Lectures, Brisbane and Hobart 1964, 1965

Royal North Shore Hospital of Sydney. Institute of Medical Research. Council. Correspondence and minutes 1959-71

Royal North Shore Hospital of Sydney. Institute of Medical Research. Personal 1959-72

Royal North Shore Hospital of Sydney. Institute of Medical Research. Executive minutes December 1969 – September 1971

Photographs – Britannica Australia Awards 1965

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Early lectures 1930s and 1940s

Lectures on tour, 1949, 1950-57

1958 tour

Royalties – Interscience Publications 1950-69

Symposium on Haematin Enzymes, Canberra, 1959.
Organisational correspondence 1956-57

Osaka Symposium 1967

IUPAC Cytochrome Sub-Committee 1970-71

Photographs, including Osaka Symposium 1967; Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins; and Dr Heinrich Biltz, Breslau, 1933

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Gordon Research Conference on Tetrapyrrole Biosynthesis 1966 et al. Photograph

Work notes on Oocyan literature 1920s and 1930s

1949 trip

Haematological Societies 1962-71

Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften 1956-65

Johnson Foundation Philadelphia 1964-66

Royal Society of NSW 1950-71

Royal Australian Chemical Institute 1948-62

Testimonials given 1936-73

Publications – reviews by others 1948-65

Australian Journal of Experimental Biology and Medical Science 1951-63

First John Falk Lecture 1971

IUPAC-IUB Subcommittee on the Nomenclature of Porphyrins and Chlorophylls 1966-68

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Australian Academy of Science. National Committee for Biochemistry

Manuscript (typewritten)

Australian Biochemical Society

Miscellaneous work notes, etc.

Personal

Letters concerning autobiography

Miscellaneous letters

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FRS. Letters of congratulation

Retirement in 1972

Awards:

Britannica Australia 1965
Cook 1964

Old scientific lectures

Letters to and from Otago

Personal papers

Two group photographs, ca 1926

Letters from Professor Bredig, ca 1916

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WORK BOOKS AND PERSONAL DOCUMENTS [ALL IN GERMAN]

Work books

Personal documents:

Johannes Gymnasium report 1905-13
Militär pass 1917

Notebooks 1916-18

Work notes

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University of Sydney

Macquarie University, ANU and other people's reprints

List of own journals

Reviews of MRL's books

British Academy

Newspaper cuttings

New York Academy of Science

Zeitungsausschnitte

Scientific societies

Refugee problems

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Disarmament

Tertiary education in Australia, vols I and II

Booklets:

Rockefeller Foundation
List of MRL's publications ca 1962
International Society of Hematology. Asian-Pacific Division. Annual Reports XIII, 1971; XIV, 1972; XV, 1973
Australian Biochemical Society – general meetings, programmes and abstracts 1965, 1966, 1967
Australian Association of Clinical Biochemists. Constitution and By-Laws; List of Members July 1971

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Peace Council and peace work

Jugendbewegung

Studentenzeit to ca 1926

Habilitationsschrift 1930

Calendars of National and International Scientific Meetings to be held in Australia December 1973, June 1974, December 1974

American Society of Biological Chemists 1971-72, 1972-73

Research 1973 – Baker Institute and Alfred Hospital

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Australian Biochemical Society – newsletters 1972-74

The Biochemical Society (UK). Agenda papers 1974; meetings, etc, 1973-74

The Royal Society. Correspondence 1952-70

The Royal Society. Circulars and pamphlets 1963-72

The Royal Society. Circulars and pamphlets 1973-74

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Folder of typed and handwritten manuscripts: My last testament
Chance and order
Franck – reasons for failure
Religion, science and the scientist
Origin of life
Is modern science a threat to religion?
Introduction to a discussion
The refugee problem in South Vietnam
Lecture to NSW Academicians dinner 1962
Life in the universe
The dimensions of life
Facts and myths – reviews of books, The makings of a counter culture, by T Rosjak and Chance and necessity, by J Monod
Complementarity
Utopia, "utopian" and utopism
Truth [a poem]
Science and religion
Quakers and modern theology
Confession and other notes and cuttings

Lecture notes

Science and Peace

Peace Theory

"Theological" papers – Bible, Bonhoeffer, Buber, Quaker, J Huxley, A Schweitzer, B Russell, Szesny, Toynbee, Ullmann, comparative religion, Popper, science, philosophy, etc.

Religion, science and philosophy

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Correspondence 1958-74 A – W

Correspondence:

Envelope of letters and cards (German) 1915-18
To Mrs Lemberg after MRL's death (includes some to MRL)

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Letters of pupils

Correspondence with co-workers

Correspondence with scientists

General correspondence A – D

General correspondence E – F

General correspondence G – J

General correspondence K – L

General correspondence M – N

General correspondence O – Q

General correspondence R – S

General correspondence T – Z

Miscellaneous correspondence (5 folders)

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Page proofs of Haematin compounds and bile pigments, by MRL and J W Legge

MRL's copy of Cytochromes, by MRL and J Barrett

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1 box Kodachrome slides – plants and animals

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MISCELLANEOUS MATERIAL
1. Passport issue 30.12.1971

2. Royal North Shore Hospital of Sydney. Institute of Medical Research. Unit of Clinical Investigation. Report 1958-59, 1960-61, 1965, 1966-67, 1971-73

3. Photocopies of newspaper cuttings re: Brittanica Award for Science October 1965 (3 articles) "Myth for Mod Man?" Daily Mirror 1969

   Reprint of "Chemist, biochemist and seeker in three countries" by MRL. Annual Review of Biochemistry vol 34, 1965

   List of publications

4. Background letters etc re Lemberg memoir for Records of Australian Academy of Science, including photograph of International Biochemistry Conference, Canberra 1959

5. Drafts of Memoir by J Barrett and R N Robertson with comments and corrections

6. Folder – Notes from R L 1973 (Rudi Lemberg)

   HL – Rimington correspondence (Hanna Lemberg)

   Two letters to Barrett from Kamen and MRL

   Newscuttings – appreciations of Lemberg

7. Four photos (1918, 1930, prob late 1960s, 1972)

8. Letter of condolence from Executive Secretary of ANZAAS to Mrs Lemberg on the death of MRL

9. The Medical journal of Australia vol 143, August 5, 1985 (photograph and biographical material on Lemberg on p 97)

10. Zygon: journal of religion and science vol 14, no 4, December 1979. Contains article by MRL

11. Hand written notes by Hanna Lemberg "In childhood...." September 1985 (2 pages)

12. Press cutting "The wonders of Kosciusko Park". Undated

13. Obituary from Nature, May 22, 1975

14. "Encounter with Rudi Lemberg" (sent by David Hodgkin, Secretary of the Society of Friends, Canberra)

15. Exercise book of poems, all handwritten in German. 1920-

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Reprints (MRL)

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Books of "Extracts": A – B
C – D
E – M Fischer – G
H Fischer
H
I – K

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"Extracts": L – Me
Mi – Q
R – Sd
Se – Sz
W
X – Z

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1. Sanctuary plants

2. Botanical Survey of Boundary Road property (N. 1971 – )

3. Box marked "Botany": handwritten notes
   catalogues
   cuttings

4. Academic Press – agreement correspondence

5. Page proofs of book – Cytochromes (? Lemberg and Barrett)

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Laboratory Notebooks: Janette
M Stewart 1959
J P Callaghan. Book 2 1943 – J W Legge III 1938
B & C ?? Experiments Sydney 1936
? Phycoerythrin and Phycocyane IV
Phyllis Purdom Biochemistry A
Phyllis Purdom Biochemistry B
Phyllis Purdom Biochemistry C
Phyllis Purdom Biochemistry D 1948-49
Phyllis Purdom Biochemistry E 1949
Janette Stanbury Books 1-4

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M R Lemberg – Laboratory notebooks

Xanthine oxidase experiments Sydney 1955
TNT II
Polystictin
TNT metabolism

A     Experiments with haematin and haemoglobin (verdo haemochromogens) etc

D     began July 25, 1939

E     began June 1940

F     began March 3, 1941

G     began July 22, 1941

H     began December 3, 1941

I     began June 1942

K     began August 22, 1944

L     began 1.7.47

M     began 1.9.47

N     began 1.1.50

O     began November 27, 1950

P     began July 31, 1951

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Two large laboratory notebooks I and II (1932, ?1934)

Graphs III

Laboratory notebook 1966

Laboratory notebook (undated)

Laboratory notebook labelled "Janette Stanbury, Book 5, R Lemberg 1967"

"Legge's graphs"

Book of notes and graphs

Graphs II

Laboratory notebook – Anda Velins – 1964

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Laboratory notebooks: J M Legge TNT Book II 1942
J M Legge (Ascorbic Acid, Haemoglobin II 1938
J M Legge Stored blood 1939
J M Legge – 1939
J M Legge Vol 1 1938
J M Legge Novocaine 1941

R Lemberg P, Q 1952
R Lemberg R 1952
R Lemberg S 1952
R Lemberg T 1953
R Lemberg U 1953
R Lemberg V? 1954
R Lemberg W 1954
R Lemberg X
R Lemberg Y 1956
R Lemberg Z 1957
R Lemberg London 1958 I & II
R Lemberg IIA 1959
R Lemberg B 1959
R Lemberg C 1961
R Lemberg D 1961
R Lemberg III Versuche

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Laboratory Notebooks: Lemberg E 1963

Lemberg F 1964

Seminars
Symposium on haemoproteins
Notes

Laboratory notebooks:

Theodora B G Pilger Koch I, II, III 1962-63
Morell 1958
T B G Pilger 1969
Gillian Manndry? 1964
Anda Velins
? name illegible
Joseph Harris 1969
Dennis Geyer

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1-9 Sitzungsberichte der Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften Mathematisch-naturwissenschaftliche Klasse, 1962-1974 (9 items)

10-13 Sitzungsberichte der Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften. Jahreshefte 1943/55, 1958/59, 1960/61, 1961/62

14 Heidelberger Jachbücher 1962 (Band 6)

15-23 Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften. Jahrbuch 1962/63, 1963/64, 1965, 1966/67, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972

24 The Kanematsu Memorial Institute. April 20, 1933 to April 20, 1973

25 Endeavour vol XXXIII no 120 (September 1974)

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1. Laboratory notebook 1927

2. Laboratory notebook 1928-29

3. Laboratory notebook 1933

4. Preliminary report on the activities of the Biochemistry Department of the Institute of Medical Research, Royal North Shore Hospital, January-October 1938. Porphyrin notes. Urobilin notes

5. Pyruvic acid ca 1954

6. Photosynthetic bacterial reactions 1954-70

7. Oxidative phosphorylation 1962-65

8. Cyanide. Old notes, preliminary ca 1966

9. Biosynthesis 1969

10. Cytochrome synthesis ca 1970

11. Tables of cytochrome spectra ca 1971

12. Biosynthesis ca 1971

13. Jones, H E. "A sulfate-reducing bacterium with unusual morphology and pigment content." "A bi-polarly flagellate sulfate-reducing bacterium: its relationship to Desulfovibrio africanus." 1971

14. Portions of chapter 9 of Cytochromes, by Lemberg and J Barrett 1973. Handwritten and typescript

15. Draft pages for Cytochromes, by Lemberg and J Barrett 1973. Typescript, heavily amended

16. O'Hagan, J E. "Studies on haematin a compounds." Typescript, 1960

17. Janette Stanbury paper ca 1965

18. Velins, A. Work during Lemberg's absence from Sydney 1966

19. Cyanide experiments: 1f and 1h. Work with ? Gilmore 1966

20. Bois-Poltoratsky, Rosine. "Isolement et purification du cytochrome b5 microsomique. Etude de quelques unes de ses propriétés physico-chimiques." Doctoral thesis 1966

21. Ohaniance, Lisa. "Etude de la synthèse, induite par l'oxygène, du système respiratoire chez la levure; influence de Zn++." Doctoral thesis 1967

22. Reprints – K Okunuki 1957-63

23. Reprints – K Okunuki 1964-67

24. Reprints – K Okunuki 1968-72

25. Reprints – M F Perutz 1949-65

26. Reprints – M F Perutz 1967-71

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1-7. REPRINTS, NOT BY MRL
1. Adaptation 1953-71

2. Cytochrome b 1952-66

3. Cytochrome c papers, including those by Kadenbach, Drabkin 1950-70

4. Japanese researchers 1963-69

5. Miscellaneous 1960-69

6. Mitochondrial synthesis 1969-71

7. Photosynthesis 1944-68

8. Old absorption curves. Undated

9. Cyanide problem. Preliminary spectra

10. Absorption spectra 1963-69

11. Absorption spectra 1963-69

12. Absorption spectra September 1967 – 1969. Curves nos 0-123 (few missing)

13. Absorption spectra 1969

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Absorption spectra 1-500 (October 1961 – September 1965)

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Absorption spectra 501-848 (September 1965 – July 1969)

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