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NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
Notes on Contributors
LHUTENAKT-COLONQ. G. W. G. BIRD has been with
the Indian Army Blood Trantfution Service in Iraq
and India
the Blood Transfusion Department of the Armed
Force* Medical College , Poona
interests include studies of baemaggratinini and of
human erythrocyte variation. He hat worked on cold
auto-agglutinins, the cross-reacting agglatinim of
human 0 sera, and seed agglntinins. In collaboration
with Dn A. E. Monrant and Hermann I^hirmnn, he
is conducting anthropological surveys of blood groups
and haemoglobin variants. He has published several
papers alone and in collaboration. Among these are:
"The nature of auto-aggrutmins" (Lancet, 1931, 1,
997); "Observation* on haemaggtutlnin 'linkage' in
relation to iso-agglutinlns and auto-agglutinins"
(Brit. J. exp. Path. 1953, 34, 131); and, in collaboration
with Dr Hermann Lehmann, "Haemoglobin D"
(Man, 1956, 56, 1).
DR R. R. A. COOMBS is an assistant director of
research in the Department of Pathology, University
of Cambridge
be devoted himself to studies on immunology.
He has held the John Lucas Walker Studentship at
College, Cambridge
on the antlglobulin reaction, the conglutination reaction
and the mixed agglutination reactions.
Ds L. E. GLYNN was Acting Head of the Department
of Morbid Anatomy at University College Hospital
Anatomy at the same hospital, 1945-47. From 1947
to the present time he has been Director of the
Department of Pathology at the Canadian Red Cross
of the Medical Research Council's Rheumatism
Research Unit—and since April 1958 he has been a
member of the full-time staff of the Medical Research
Council. Until 1947 Dr Glynn's main work, done in
collaboration with Sir Harold Himsworth, was on
the relationship of nutrition to liver difrtt*. but since
1947 his main research activities have been on
problems in the field of rheumatic diseases, with
special reference to the production of auto-antibodies.
His many published articles include: with E. J.
Holborow, "The production of complete antigens
from polysaccharide haptenes by streptococci and
other organisms" (/. Path. Bact. 1952, 64, 775); with
H. P. Himsworth, "Massive hepatic necrosis and
diffuse hepatic fibrosis (acute yellow atrophy and
portal cirrhosis): their production by means of diet"
(Clln. Scl. 1944, 5,93); and, with J. Colover, "Experimental
iso-lmmune adrenalitis" (Immunology, 1938,
1, 172).
DR K. L. O. GOLDSMITH has been Blood Transfusion
Officer at Westminster Hospital , London
From 1946 to 1948 he served with the Royal Air
Force Volunteer Reserve. His research has included
a survey of the blood groups of the Somalia
spent a short time in the Somaliiand Protectorate in
the course of this work. Among Dr Goldsmith's
publications are: "Papain-treated red cells in the
detection of incomplete antibodies" (Lancet, 1955,
1, 76); and "Reactions after transfusion" (Lancet,
1957, 1, 739).
DR E. J. HOLBOROW is Bacteriologist and Immunologist
at the Medical Research Council's Rheumatism
Research Unit, Taplow, Maidenhead. After serving
as Pathologist in the Royal Army Medical Corps,
in bacteriology at the Postgraduate Medical
post in 1948. Interested in possible mechanisms of
immunity and auto-Immunity in connective tissue
diseases, Dr Holborow has published work on antistreptococcal
responses in children with rheumatic
fever, on the conversion of haptens to full antigens
and on the detection and distribution of blood-group
antigens in saliva. Recent papers are: with A. A.
Glynn ft L. E. Glynn, "The secretor status in
rheumatic-fever patients" (Lanat, 195«, 2, 759);
with L. E. Glynn & G.D.Johnson, "The distribution
of blood-group substances in human gastric and
duodenal mncosa" (Lancet, 1957, 2, 1083); and, with
D. M. Weir 4 G. D. Johnson, "A serum factor in
lupus erythematotus with affinity for tissue nuclei"
(Brit. med. J. 1957, 2, 732).
DR VALERIE C. JOYSEY graduated in zoology at
studies in the Department of Pathology, University
of Cambridge
Assistant for five years. During part of this period
the hat worked on the aerology and inheritance of
blood groups of the rabbit, and has studied bloodgroup
distribution in wild rabbit populations. In
collaboration with Dr R. R, A. Coombs and Dr
R. F. W. Goodwin, she has worked on the blood
groupt of the pig. especially in relation to haemolytic
disease of the new-born, and also to the incidence of
the blood groups in different breeds of pig. Dr
Joysey's published papers include: "A study of the
blood groupt of the rabbit, with reference to the
inheritance of three antigens, and the agglutinability
of the red cells carrying them" (/. exp. Blot. 1955,
32, 440); and, jointly with Dr R. F. W. Goodwin
ft Dr R. R. A. Coombs, "The blood groups of the
pig: VI. Red cell antigens other than the A-O
system" (/. comp. Path. 1959, 69, 29), and "The
blood groups of the pig: VII. The distribution of
twelve red cell antigens in seven breeds " (/. comp. Path.
1959, 69 (In press)).
DR SYLVIA D. LAWUS has been a member of the
Medical Research Council's Blood Group Research
Unit, directed by Dr R. R. Race, at the Lister Institute
of Preventive Medicine, London
held a Leverhulme Scholarship. She has been, for
several years, an honorary research assistant at the
Oalton Laboratory, University College , London
b at present a member of the External Scientific
Staff of the Medical Research Council. Dr Lawler
is Interested In human genetics in general and In the
human blood groups in particular. Her publications
include: Human blood groups and Inheritance (2nd ed.,
1957) written with her husband. She has been concerned
with the discovery of two of the genetic
UnVag*« known in man: that between one elliptocytosls
locus and the Rhesus complex locus (Ann.
Eugen., Land. 1953, 17, 272, with H. B. Goodall,
D. W. W. Hendry ft S. A. Stephen); and the nallpatdlaLABO
linkage (Ann. hum. Genet., Land. 1953,
19, 312, with J. H. Renwick).
DR P. L. MOLLUON contributed a paper entitled
"Measurement of survival and destruction of red
cells in haemolytic syndromes", to the recent number
of the Bulletin on haematology (Brit. med. Bull. 1959,
15, 59), with which a biographical note was published.
For an earlier number (Brit, med. Bull. 1954,
10, 27) he wrote a paper entitled "Recent advances
in the preservation of red blood celU".
PROFESSOR W. T. J. MOROAN is Deputy Director of
the Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine, London
and Professor of Biochemistry in the University of
immunochemistry and in 1944 contributed articles to
the Bulletin on bacterial antigens and on the nature
and occurrence of human blood-group substances.
In recent years he hat been engaged primarily In
studies on the chemical basis of blood-group specificity
In m«n Professor Morgan has published many
papers in the Biochemical Journal, the British Journal
of Experimental Pathology and other journals. Three
recent publications covering various aspects of the
work on the blood-group specific substances are:
with W. M. Watklns, "The A and H character of the
blood group substances secreted by persons belonging
to group A," (Ada genet. 1956-57, 6, 521); "Mucopolysaccharidei
associated with blood group specificity"
(In: Clba Foundation Symposium: Chemtitrj
and biology of mucopolysacchartdes, 1958, p. 200);
and, with A. Pusztai, "Degradation of blood groupspecific
mucopolysaccharides by flcin and papain"
(Nature, Land. 1958, 1J2, 648).
DR A. E. MOURANT has been Director since its
inception in 1946 of the Blood Group Reference
Laboratory at the Lister Institute of Preventive
Medidne, London
Medical Research Council. He is Honorary Advi*«r
to the Nurndd Blood Group Centre of the Royal
Anthropological Institute of Great Britain
graduated at Oxford
after tome time spent in geological research be turned
to chemical pathology and thence to medicine which
he studied at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London
After qualifying in 1943 he spent short periods in
clinical and blood-transfusion work, and as Assistant
In the Galton Laboratory Serum Unit at Cambridge
He has published numerous papers on blood-group
serology and genetics, and on the anthropological
application of the blood groups. He b also the author
of 77x distribution of the human blood groups (1934)
and part author of 77«e ABO blood groups: comprehensive
tables and maps of world distribution (1958),
which is reviewed on p. 171 of thb Bulletin.
DR R. R. RACE U Director of the Medical Research
Council's Blood Group Research Unit, at the Lister
worked on blood groups since 1938 when he joined
the Serologicsl Department of the Galton Laboratory,
now Sir Ronald—Fisher and the late Dr G. L.
was moved to the Department of Pathology, Cambridge
with the duty of providing blood-grouping
serum for the Emergency Blood Transfusion Service.
Dr Race's m«Jn interest has been, and continues to
be, the genetics of blood groups. He has written
many papers on the subject and, together with Ruth
Sanger, one book—Blood groups In man, now in Its
3rd edition (1958). In 1952 he was elected a Fellow
of the Royal Society. Other honours include the
Charles J. Finlay Medal, Republic of Cuba
Oliver Memorial Award for Blood Transfusion
(British Red Cross); and Jointly with his wife, Ruth
Sanger, the Karl Landsteiner Memorial Award
(American Association of Blood Banks). He a an
honorary member of La Asociad6n MnJrem de
Transfusion y Hematologta, and of the Sotiedad de
Hematologia del
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Sodal, and of the Sociedad Fenian* de Patologla.
He is a vice-president of the Genetical Society of
Sodety, British Region. Dr Race has contriboted
three articles to earlier numbers of the Bulletin: with
O. L. Taylor, "Human blood groups" (Brit. med.
Bull. 1944, 2, 160); "Some recent observations on the
inheritance of blood groups" (Brit. med. Bull. 1944,
2, 165); and "A summary of present knowledge of
rnrmnn blood-groups, with special reference to
terological incompatibility as a cause of congenital
disease" (Brit. med. Bull. 1946, 4, 188).
Da J. H. RENWIOC started in general medicine and
during hia Army service played a part-time role in
the American investigation at Hiroshima
genetic effects of nuclear bombs. For the past five
years, he has worked with Medical Research Council
support on genetic linkage detection in man, in
collaboration with Dr Sylvia Lawler. This work, at
the Oalton Laboratory, London
various Issues of the Annals of Human Genetics, and
some of it formed the subject of a London Ph.D.
thesis in 1956. His most recent interest has been an
attempt to utilize a fast electronic computer in
purpose of obtaining more complete analyses of
human linkage data.
D» J. A. FRASER ROBERTS is Director of the Medical
Research Council's Clinical Genetics Research Unit
at the Institute of Child Health, University of London
and Honorary Consultant in Medical Genetics to the
Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street ,
years were spent in biology, when he held appointments
at the Department of Animal Genetics,
University of Edinburgh
Research Association. Since 1931 his research work
has been principally in the fields of human genetics,
biometry and mental deficiency. He has been Director
of the Burden Mental Research Department at
During the Second World War he served in the
Royal Navy as Consultant in Medical Statistics. He
is the author of An Introduction to medical genetics
(2nd ed., 1939), and of numerous papers in medical,
genetic and biometrical journals. He is President of
the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain
and Ireland
DR FUI-TON ROBERTS has been a demonstrator or
lecturer in the Department of Pathology, Cambridge
since 1948; and Fellow and Director of Medical
Studies at Jesus College
the Blood Transfusion Service in 1945 and 1946, and
as pathologist in the Royal Air Force Institute of
Pathology and Tropical Medicine, Hilton, from 1946
to 1948, leaving the Service with the rink of squadronleader.
His research interests include some serological
matters concerning red blood cells, and
haemolytic disease of the new-bom In man and other
species about which he published in 1957 a monograph
entitled Comparative aspects of haemolytic
disease of the newborn.
Dm RUTH SANOER is Assistant Director of the
Medical Research Council's Blood Group Research
Unit, at the Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine,
for the Red Cross Blood Transfusion Service in Sydney
Her main interest is in blood-group genetics.
She is joint author with Dr R. R. Race of Blood
groups in man (1950; 2nd ed., 1954; 3rd ed., 1958),
and has written many papers on blood groups. With
Dr Race she was awarded the Karl Landsteiner
Memorial Award (American Association of Blood
Banks) in 1957; she is an honorary member of the
Sociedad de Hematologla del Instituto M ex lean o del
Seguro Social.
Da P. M. SHEPPARD has been Senior Lecturer in
Genetics in the University of Liverpool
From 1951 to 1956 he worked in the Genetics
Laboratory at Oxford
of Dr E. B. Ford, F.R.S., and in 1954 was awarded
a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship to enable him
to work for one year with Professor Th. Dobzhansky
at Columbia University , New York
mainly been concerned with the study of selection in
natural populations, the genetics of some polymorphic
animals and the relationship between human
polymorphisms and rfiw"- His published works
include: Natural selection and heredity (1958);
"Genetic variability and polymorphism : synthesis"
(Cold Spr. Harb. Symp. quant. Biol. 1955, 20, 271);
and, jointly with Dr C. A. Clarke & Dr R. B.
McConnell, "ABO blood groups and duodenal
ulcer" (Brit. med. J. 1957, 1, 758).
MRS JOAN S. SNEATH was from 1949 to 1955 Research
Assistant to Dr R. R. Race at the Medical Research
Council's Blood Group Research Unit at the Lister
been Interested in many aspects of blood groups, and
has published papers on Lewis groups with her
husband and, in association with Dr Race and
colleagues, work on blood-group chimeras (Brit,
med. J. 1953, 2, 81) and Duffy and Kidd groups
(Heredity, 1951, S, 103; Vox Sang. 1953, 3, 71).
DR P. H. A. SNIATH is a member of the Scientific
Staff of the Medical Research Council at the National
Institute for Medical Research, London
at King's College Hospital , London
an appointment as Demonstrator in Pathology.
From 1950 to 1952 he served In the Royal Army
Medical Corps in the Far East , where he made some
blood-group surveys among the aboriginals of
Postgraduate Diploma in Bacteriology at London
University. His pnbllcations include: with his wife,
"Transformation of the Lewis groups of human red
cells" (Nature. Loud. 1935,176, 172); with I. Pohinin,
"Studies of blood groups in South-East Asia "
(J.R. anthrop. Inst. 1953, 83, 215); and a number of
bacteriological papers. At present he holds a Rockefeller
Travelling Research Fellowship, and is working
upon bacterial genetics with Professor Joshua
Lederbcrg in the USA
DR W. WALKER held appointments in the Army Blood
Transfusion Service while serving in the Royal Army
Medical Corps. On leaving the army he was Deputy
Regional Transfusion Officer in the National Blood
Transfusion Service before taking up a Luocock
Research Fellowship in the University of Durham
In 1951 he was appointed to the staff of the Child
Health Department and is now a senior lecturer in
paediatrics and assistant physician to the Royal
Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle upon Tyne . Most of
his work has been concerned with the management of
haemolytic disease of the new-born and other
haematological problems in childhood. Dr Walker's
published papers include: "The changing pattern of
haemolytic disease of the newborn (1948 to 1937)"
(Vox Sang. 1958, n j . 3, 223, 336); and, jointly with
Dr P. L. Mollison," Controlled trials of the treatment
of haemolytic disease of the newborn" (Lancet, 1932,
1, 429); and "Haemolytic disease of the newborn:
deaths in England and Wales
(Lancet, 1957, 1, 1309).
Da WINIFRED M. WATXTNS has, since 1955, been a
member of the staff of the Lister Institute of Preventive
Medicine, London
worked with Professor A. Wormall in the Department
of Biochemistry, St Bartholomew's Hospital
special reference to the nitrogen mustards. Since
1950 she has worked in the Department of Biochemistry
of the Lister Institute and from 1932 to
1955 held a Beit Memorial Research Fellowship. In
collaboration with Professor W. T. J. Morgan, she
has studied various aspects of the immunology and
biochemistry of the human blood-group substances.
Her published papers include: with W. T. J. Morgan,
"The product of the human blood group A and B
genes in individuals belonging to group AB" (Nature,
Land. 1956, 177, 521); "Enzymic synthesis of
nitrogen-containing disaccharides by a-galactosyl
transfer" (Nature, Land. 1958, 181, 117); and
"Enzymes of Trlchomonas foetus: the action of cellfree
extracts on blood-group substances and lowmolecular-
weight glycosides" (Biochem. J. 1959, 71,
261).
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