Title:

Letter from Colin M. MacLeod, Mary MacLeod to Oswald T. Avery

Creator:

MacLeod, Mary
MacLeod, Colin M. (Colin Munro), 1909-1972

Recipient:

Avery, Oswald Theodore, 1877-1955

Date:

[18-19 July 1944]

Description:

The poem attached to this note from MacLeod was penned by his daughter, Mary, to honor Avery on his election as a member of the Royal Society of London.

Original Repository:

Tennessee State Library and Archives. Oswald T. Avery Papers

Rights:

Courtesy of the Tennessee State Library and Archives. and http://www.tennessee.gov/tsla/

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Genre:

Letters (correspondence)
Poems

Format:

Text

Extent:

3 pages

Relation:

List of Proposed Foreign Members [to the Royal Society] 1944: Oswald Theodore Avery (b. 1877), 1944
Letter from Percival Hartley to Henry Dale, 1944
Copley Medal certificate, 1945
Address of the President: Sir Henry Dale, O.M., G.B.E., at the Anniversary Meeting, 30 November 1945, 1946
Oswald T. Avery and the Copley Medal of the Royal Society, 1996

Language:

English

Legacy Source Citation:

Original Repository. Tennessee State Library and Archives. Oswald T. Avery Papers. 361

Legacy ID:

CCBDBH

NLM ID:

101584575X521

Profiles Collection:

The Oswald T. Avery Collection

Shareable Link:

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584575X521

Story Section:

DNA as the "Stuff of Genes": The Discovery of the Transforming Principle, 1940-1944