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Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)OJL/1/351
TitleJ. Burdon Sanderson
Extent7 items
DateLate 19th-early 20th century
DescriptionCorrespondence from J. Burdon Sanderson [1828-1905, pathologist and physiologist]. With note identifying correspondent (possibly written in Oliver Lodge's hand).

/1 Letter from Burdon Sanderson to Oliver Lodge, written from Oxford, dated 27 June 1891. Sanderson discusses Dr Noel Paton's research and compares his methods to those of Mr Gotch, in connection with the two men's candidature for the Holt Professorship (see also OJL/1/351/4)

/2 Letter from J. Burdon Sanderson to Oliver Lodge, written from Oxford, dated 19 January 1895. Sanderson asks Lodge to read over his statement to check for errors and ambiguity.

/3 Letter from J. Burdon Sanderson to Oliver Lodge, written from Oxford, dated 27 August 1894, with envelope. Sanderson describes the movement of electrical charge through excited muscle (the Reizwelle theory) and asks whether Lodge sees any objections to his description. With letter dated 17 November [1894] in which Sanderson asks for a reply to his previous letter.

/4 Letter from J. Burdon Sanderson to Oliver Lodge, undated [1891]. Sanderson thanks Lodge for replying to his letter about the Holt Professorship. He writes that the methods [used by Dr Noel Paton] for determining nitrogen and uric acid have been condemned by Falck and Galkowski respectively. He is sure Gotch is a good choice but is sorry he will be leaving Oxford. (See also OJL/1/351/1).

/5 Letter from J. Burdon Sanderson to Oliver Lodge, written from The Athenaeum, Pall Mall, undated. Sanderson asks for Lodge's feedback on a statement he has written: 'it should be made clear that we want nothing short of an Institution similar to the Imperial Institute at Charlottenburg'.

/6 Letter from J. Burdon Sanderson to Oliver Lodge, written from Oxford, dated 18 July [----]. Sanderson is sorry that Lodge has had so much trouble looking over the paper of D. Levy, but suggests that Levy's ideas about brain recovery might be useful to someone.
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