1891 16 April; 3 August; 28 August; 16 October; 17 October; 19
October; 26 November; 30 November.

MS of an address entitled The aims of physiology — presented to the
Biological Club, Oxford, 1893. [including fragments]

MS of an address entitled The mechanicalistic and vitalistic theories of
life – presented to the British Association, Nottingham, September 15, 1893. [including fragments]

Typescript of The causes and prevention of death by suffocation in
mines – an address to ? British Association, ? 1894.

Typescript of The effects on man of vitiated atmospheres — a lecture to
the Scottish Natural History Society, Edinburgh, January 10, 1896. Contains some handwritten notes, and sketches on verso of some leaves.

Haldane, J. S., Personal Documents

Birth certificate.
University of Edinburgh, 1st class certificate of merit, moral
philosophy, 1878- 1879.
University of Edinburgh, 1st class certificate of merit, anatomy, 1881-
82.
Certificate of merit in botany, written in German and signed by
Professor Strasburger, 1897.
Diploma of election to the Royal Society, signed by M. Foster, dated
June 4, 1897. (xeroxed)

Proof of an article, Vitalism, by John Haldane, to be published in The
nineteenth century in 1898. Some handwritten marginal notes.

MS of Natural selection as a mechanical theory of development –
address given to the Biological Club, June 9, 1900. 19 1. Draft copy?--has many corrections.

MS of The vitalistic and physico-chemical conceptions of life – address
presented at a joint meeting of the Philosophical Society and the Biological Club, January 26, 1902

A letter to Edinburgh professors by a medical student. (J.S.H.) London.

1906. Life and mechanism. London. 1906.

MS of an address entitled Some recent investigations on the hygiene of
subterranean and subaqueous work – presented at the General Meeting of the International Congress of Hygiene, Berlin, September 26, 1907. [including 3 fragments]

Douglas, C. Gordon and Haldane, J. S., “The regulation of normal
breathing”, Journal of physiology, v. 38, p. 420-440.

Douglas, C. Gordon and Haldane, J. S., “The regulation of normal
breathing”, Journal of physiology, v. 38, p. 420-440

Manuscripts of papers written by Haldane and C.G. Douglas

Douglas, C. Gordon and Haldane, J.S., “The effects of previous forced
breathing and oxygen inhalation on the distress caused by muscular work”, Journal of physiology, v.39, p.i-iv

MS of an address entitled Vitalism, presented to the Manchester
University Pathological Society, October 11, 1911. Haldane summarizes his position thus:
a. Biology has made no progress whatever in the direction of a physicochemical theory of life.
b. From the nature of the facts to be explained in connection with life a physico-chemical explanation of them is inconceivable.
c. The conception of the living organism as such is the root-conception on which alone biology as a science can be based. This conception is not reducible to anything simpler, and apart from it the facts of biology are a mere chaos.

MS of an address entitled The supposed physical basis of life –
presented to the Exeter College Dialectical Society, June 13, 1912. Further remarks on his views of the impossibility of explaining living organisms solely in terms of physics and chemistry.

1913 30 April; 27 August; 17 October; 16 November.

MS. drafts and notes for the classical paper describing the expedition
(with Douglas, Yandell Henderson, and Schneider) to Pike's Peak, 1913; Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc., 203, 308. There are many corrections to the tables and to the drafts of the text.

Notes during Pike's Peak expedition.

Typewritten report on the content of a German “gas” shell, signed by
William Henry Perkin (1860-1929), dated July 31,1914. (xeroxed)

1915 20 February; 7 April; 12 April; 3 June; 2 July; 17 September; 10
October; 1 November; 22 December.

1916 12 February; 18 March; 27 March; 24 April; 20 June; 6 August; 29
August; 24 September; 1 October; 10 November.

1917 7 February; 3 March; 7 March; 24 April; 30 April; 11 August; 27
August; 8 October.

Physiology (War) Committee of the Royal Society, The pathology and
treatment of the effects of pulmonary irritant gases. June 20, 1917. Marked “Private and Confidential.” Printed.

Physiology (War) Committee of the Royal Society, Notes on the
pathology and treatment of the effects of pulmonary irritant gases, dated September 1917. Printed, marked “Private and Confidential” and “Secret”, Haldane's Copy, with handwritten comments . (xeroxed)

Douglas, C. G., Captain, R.A.M.C., Physiological Advisor for Director
of Gas Services, Gas shell bombardment of Ypres, July 12-13, 1917, Report M60 A/1. Typed MS. (xeroxed)

Douglas, C.G., Effects of a gas shell bombardment (in continuation of
Report M.60 A/1) dated 17.7.17. Report M.60 A/2. Marked “Secret.” Typed MS.(xeroxed)

Medical Research Committee, Reports of the Chemical Warfare
Medical Committee, No. 9, Treatment of patients suffering from effort syndrome by continuous inhalation of oxygen. August, 1918. Marked “For official use only.” Printed.

Reports and correspondence on the use of gas in World War I

May 4, 1915 From Thomas Wakefield, Hempsford, Fairford, Glos. To
Dear Sir. He is not able to join the army and is “wil1ing to be used for experiments” “if you are inventing any new methods, and expresses thanks “for your great kindness to me in the past.” A.L.S.
Aug. 9, 1917 From C. Gordon Douglas (1882-1963), G.H.Q. To Dear
Haldane. Marked “Confidential.” He complains about a lack of communication with other members of the forces - "If was not so hung up out here I should try and get over to England to see you, and to stir up others who could at least act as versuchstiere!" He has been experimenting on himself with treatments for gas induced injuries to the skin. He comments on observations and post mortem results of others. Note: versuchstiere is German for experimental animal. A.L.S. 6p. Names: Fletcher, Barcroft, Boycott, Peters, Hunt, Dunn, Elliott, Hartley.
Aug. 28, 1917 From C. Gordon Douglas. To Dear Haldane. Describes an
experiment on a cat concerning absorption and excretion of di-chlor-ethyl-sulphide (etc.). A.L.S.
May 24, 1918 From C.G. Douglas, No.1 B.R.C. Hospital. To Dear
Haldane. Douglas has been in hospital with a severe case of vertigo, but is recovering and hopes soon to be back at work. He is expecting some sick leave in England. He suggests a correction to an equation in a PV paper written by Haldane. A.L.S. Names: Barcroft
July 16, 1918 From C.G. Douglas, c/o D.C.S., G.H.Q., 2nd Echelon, to
Dear Haldane. He discusses the pros and cons of bloodletting for gas victims and criticizes Barcroft (Joseph, 1872-1947), whom he considers to be too anxious to use this treatment when it is not indicated. He mentions three pamphlets on gas poisoning: "… our revised pamphlet for Medical officers ...,” a German one he has been having printed, and an advance copy of a revised French one. Typed letter with handwritten postscript, signed. 2p. Names: Barcroft, Edkins, Bayliss.
No date. From C.G. Douglas, c/o D.G.S., G.H.Q., 2nd. Echelon, B.E.F.
France. To Dear Haldane. He asks for some information regarding Aschoff (Karl Albert Ludwig? 1866-1942), a German pathologist in the military whose captured document Douglas is translating. A.L.S. Names: Aschoff

1918 7 April; 2 May.
1919 21 March; 1 May.
1920 25 February; 30 April; 6 September.

Reports, tables , and correspondence, related to research into
miners' nystagmus, an eye problem that afflicts many coal-miners.

9 September, 1916.
12 June, 1922

From E. DuBois-Reymond to Miss (Elizabeth Sanderson) Haldane
declining her translation of one of his works: 21 May, 1887.
From Merete (?) in Lyngby, Denmark to Mrs. Haldane: 25 September,
1922.

Letters from Mary E. Haldane to John Scott Haldane and Kathleen

Letters and booklets

1921 30 April; 9 November.
1922 8 March; 5 May; ?June; 22 October.
1923 23 April; 27 April; 18 July.

21 May, 1918(?); 1 undated; 4 February, 1916; 11 January, 1917; 24
March, 1917; 28 March, 1918; 26 June, 1918; 25 February, 1923; 7 March, 1925; 25 February, 1924.

1924 6 March; 13 March; 14 March; 17 March; 3 July; 24 July; 10
September; 30 September.

Letters from Mary E. Haldane to John Scott Haldane

Series consists of letters from Mary E. Haldane to John Scott Haldane, Letters from Mary E. Haldane to John Scott Haldane and Kathleen, Letters from Mary E. Haldane to Kathleen, Letters to JSH, and other letters.

Unpublished lectures and addresses.

Series consists of Haldane's personal documents, records from Medical Research Council – Miners' Nystagmus Committee, Admiralty. Medical Department, Tuberculosis Conference, manuscripts of papers written by Haldane and C.G. Douglas, manuscripts of drafts, notes, unpublished lectures and address, reports and correspondence on the use of gas in World War I, and manuscript of unpublished book: <em>Outlines of a vitalistic physiology</em>, by J.S. Haldane.

MS of The kinetic theory of gases – lecture given at Birmingham
University, July 14, 1925, to Technical School Teachers' Association.

From Geoffrey Mitchison to his grandfather (JSH), undated.
From Naomi Mitchison (N.) to “Uffer” (JSH) (typed, signed) 16th –
(1925 or 1926).
From Sir John Burdon Sanderson: 1 undated; 2 June, 1883; 21 July,
1883; 19 August, 1883; 2 September, 1883.
From Hugh Ross: 25 February, 1883 to JSH and WSH(?); 9 March,

1883. (On church membership which they have allowed to lapse.)

: From J. C. Ewart: 23 February, 1884.
From John Kemp: 2 August, 1887. (Year added by hand.)
From Coutts Trotter (future father-in-law): 11 August, 1891.
From Kathleen Trotter (his fiancée): 17 August, 1891.
From Elizabeth Sanderson Haldane: 14 February, 1926.
From J.B.S. Haldane (boy): undated.
From Naomi Mitchison (N.): 17 October, 1916. (Date from postmark.)
From W.S.H. (?): 18 June, 1915.
From J. (?) – S. (Strassburg); 13 July, 1891. (Pencil note: No. 18 is
from James Lorrain Smith (1862-1931), from 1912 Professor of Pathology at Edinburgh - Steve Sturdy)

Letters to John Scott Haldane

The first part of the collection contains letters between Haldane from his mother, Mary Elizabeth Haldane (née Burdon Sanderson) and other family members regarding familial matters. These letters range from 1883 to1926. There are other letters pertaining to Mary Elizabeth Haldane and Edinburgh professors that are in the collection as well ranging from 1887 to 1922. Haldane’s personal documents, including his birth certificate and university certificates are also in this collection, ranging between 1878 to1897.

His reports, tables and correspondences are contained within, as well as his papers and speeches. These are largely undated and concern topics such as miners’ eye problems, tuberculosis in the Navy, regulation of normal breathing, functions of sweat, kinetic theory of gases, death by suffocation and the like. According to H.M. Sinclair: “Mrs. Haldane told me that her husband destroyed his MS as soon as the paper was published, and these lectures and addresses to various societies were not published. Haldane always wrote his addresses out in full, and this collection is mainly written in full in his own hand.”

A section of the collection contains reports and correspondence of Haldane’s work with the use of gas in WWI. H.M. Sinclair states that the collection is: “A most important collection of papers relating to his and Douglas's researches in World War I when gas was first used. Included are long autograph letters from Douglas (who was in the field in France), very out spoken about the military authorities and giving full descriptions of the casualties and attempts to prevent them.”

Finally, there are 2 drafts of an unpublished book written by Haldane on vitalistic physiology. H.M. Sinclair notes that: “The first draft is copiously corrected . . . This has been entirely rewritten in nine chapters of the final draft. . . . This very interesting book was never published, but illustrates the state of physiology at the turn of the century as seen by a young graduate of about 30 years.”