Kuru research and correspondence files

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This collection of Kuru research and correspondence files (1956-1980) from the records of Frank Macfarlane Burnet, medical scientist and Nobel Laureate, consists of 19 files of working papers, notes, copy typescripts, reports and correspondence. File titles are as follows: Visit to New Guinea - Preliminaries; KURU 1 - Gajdusek letters 1957; KURU 2 - Repercussions in 1957; KURU 3 - Adelaide Workers; KURU 4 - Sydney Meeting of December 1959 and Subsequent actions; KURU 5 - 'Cannibalism in the Kuru Region'; KURU 6 - Demography and N. McArthur; KURU 7 - Replies to Draft Paper ('The Pathogenesis of Kuru'); Kuru 8 - P.R.J. Burch and J. Mathews; Kuru 9 - London Meeting 15 June 1964; Kuru 10 - Scrapie Reprints; Kuru Research correspondence 1965-1966; Kuru correspondence and Gajdusek's Nobel Nomination 1970s; Gajdusek correspondence 1980; Kuru correspondence 1956-1963; Kuru correspondence 1957-1959; KURU Correspondence and Reports 1959-1963; Reprints - (assorted authors) 1958-1977; Correspondence and papers held by American Philosophical Society and published as 'KURU 1956-1967 Correspondence', edited by J. Farquhar. 19 files (0.12 linear shelf metres).