Accession No

6172

Brief Description

assorted material (slides, notebooks, letters, photographs, models) belonging to the biochemist, chemical pathologist & blood specialist Hermann H. Lehmann, mid- to late 20th century

Origin

Uganda and England; Cambridge

Maker

Lehmann, Hermann H. [collector]

Class

medical

Earliest Date

1930

Latest Date

1985

Inscription Date

Material

paper; glass; wood; metal; leather

Dimensions

box 1 = height 285mm; width 355mm; depth 425 mm box 2 = height 340mm; width 345mm; depth 405 mm

Special Collection

Provenance

Donated to the department of the History and Philosophy of Science, unknown date, unknown source. Found by the Whipple Museum in the old annexe resources room.

Inscription

Description Notes

3 boxes of assorted material (slides, notebooks, letters, photographs, models) belonging to the biochemist, chemical pathologist & blood specialist Hermann H. Lehmann.

Box 1 -
o Box of assorted slides — mainly lecture presentations
o Film reel of animal experiments
o Box of large-format slides
o 2 letters to Lehmann
o Small box of slides: ‘blood stains’
o Box of slides: ‘Specimen of Haemoglobin D’
o Box of colour slides of fieldwork
o Small microscope slide box with one slide
o 1 large loose slide
o Numerous large-format slides, some loose, some in boxes
o Various loose photographs, mainly of different races of people
o A wooden frame for holding large format slides, with “H. Lehmann London” written on it
o 2 framed photographs, one of four men in white coats (listed on the back as: “N. Payne; Dr. Lamie; Mr C.A. Smith; Dr. C.G.L. Wolf”) and one of Sir James Chrichton-Browne, “In his house”


Box 2 -
o In envelope entitled “Glass Slides”: Microscope slide case with roughly 80 slides, probably blood samples of named individuals
o Address book
o Photo album, entitled “Abnormal haemoglobin unit”
o Lehmann’s 1930s notebook
o Envelope of photographs of HL at various events, with two associated letters
o Similar pack of photographs, with one letter and one note
o Copy of Haemoglobin Colloquium, with assorted notes and letters inserted
o Thalassaemia slide
o Copy of Lehmann’s Biographical Memoirs of the Royal Society entry (written by Sir John Dacie)
o Sequence of alpha- beta- and gamma-chains (large slide)
o Stapled document: ‘Haemoglobin variants registered in Australia and NZ…’
o Two wooden boxes with brass clasps and leather straps, one empty, the other containing large format slides of lecture presentation material
o Multiple small boxes of slides, both large and small format
o 3 files of letters, notes, and off-prints
o 4 metal 35mm film canisters, all containing rolls of 35mm film negatives
o Box containing large format slides and large format negatives, in holders with “Official Navy Photograph” written on
o A pack of large photographs

Box 3 -
o Painted (black and red) plaster teaching models, with numbers written on. Models are bean shaped and about the size of a small melon. Perhaps models of haemoglobin?

NOTE: This donation also came with a number of A4 sized, hard-back red and black note books. Their content appears to be medical case notes. They are stored in the Whipple Library.

References

Events