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).