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London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

MARSHALL, John Frederick (1874-1949)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0809 Marshall

Held at: London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Title: MARSHALL, John Frederick (1874-1949)

Date(s): 1920-1965

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 1 box

Name of creator(s): Marshall | John Frederick | 1874-1949 | parasitologist

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born 5 Sep 1874; educated Rugby School and King's College, Cambridge; First Class Mechanical Sciences Tripos, Part I 1896, and Part II (with special distinction), 1898; called to Bar, Inner Temple, 1902; subsequently engaged in scientific research; Fellow of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene; organised in 1920, a scheme for mosquito control of Hayling Island; built and equipped the British Mosquito Control Institute, Hayling Island, 1925; died 5 Dec 1949. Publications: Unofficial Mosquito Control in England (1922); Coastal Mosquitoes and their Control (British Association Address, 1925); Principles and Practice of Mosquito Control (1927); The Organization of Mosquito Control Work (Presidential Address in Zoology Section, South-Eastern Union of Scientific Societies, Portsmouth Congress, 1930); The British Mosquitoes (1938); The Morphology and Biology of Culex molestus (1944).

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers of John Frederick Marshall, 1920-1965, mainly relating to his establishment of the British Mosquito Control Institute on Hayling Island in 1925 with associated papers concerning its work and administration; programmes, addresses and reports of meetings and conferences concerned with mosquito and malaria research; Reports of the Proceedings of the Institute; articles and pamphlets by Marshall on mosquitoes and malaria; press cuttings relating to mosquitoes and malaria in Britain, and to the malaria outbreak of 1927; sale particulars of the Institute as part of Marshall's estate.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English.

System of arrangement:

Conditions governing access:

This collection is open for consultation. Please contact the Archivist to arrange an appointment. All researchers must complete and sign a user registration form which signifies their agreement to abide by the archive rules. All researchers are required to provide proof of identity bearing your signature (for example, a passport or debit card) when registering. Please see website for further information at www.lshtm.ac.uk/library/archives.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Photocopies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Archivist.

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Donated by Marshall's family, c1965.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

Existence and location of copies:

Related material:

Portsmouth Museums and Records Service holds papers of Marshall relating to mosquitoes.

Publication note:

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Compiled by Erika Gwynett and Robert Baxter as part of the RSLP AIM25 Project. Source: Who's Who and National Register of Archives.

Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: Jun 2001


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Malaria | Infectious diseases | Diseases | Pathology

Personal names
Marshall | John Frederick | 1874-1949 | parasitologist

Corporate names
British Mosquito Control Institute

Places
Hayling Island | Hampshire | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe