IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0103 MS ADD 349
Held at: University College London
Title: Evans Notebooks
Date(s): 1903-1947
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 13 volumes
Name of creator(s): Evans | Sir | Charles Arthur Lovatt | 1884-1968 | physiologist
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Evans was educated at the University of Birmingham, University College London and University College Hospital. From 1916 to 1918 he was in the Royal Army Medical Corps. He moved on to become Professor of Experimental Physiology in Leeds, 1918-1919. He joined the National Institute for Medical Research, 1919-1922. From 1922 to 1926 he was Professor of Physiology at St Bartholomew's Medical College, and from 1926 to 1949 he was Jodrell Professor of Physiology at University College London. He did national service from 1939 to 1944. Evans became Emeritus Professor of Physiology at the University of London in 1949. He was also a Consultant at the War Office from 1959. From 1946 to 1948 Evans was a member of the Council and Vice-President of the Royal Society. He was also Chairman of the Military Personnel Research Committee, War Office, 1948-1953. He was knighted in 1951. He published a couple of books on physiology and some papers on physiology and biochemistry. He died on 29 August 1968.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers of Sir Charles Arthur Lovatt Evans, comprising notebooks of physiology experiments, 1903-1947, and one notebook by Shiro Tsubura, 1924-1925.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
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Conditions governing access:
Open.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Normal copyright restrictions apply.
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Not yet catalogued.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
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Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Transferred from the Physiology Department in November 1988.
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
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Date(s) of descriptions: 1999