| Description Of Item | These were the bound pages of the volume, now housed in a custom-made box. Includes the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh Bio-Chemical Laboratory - Regulations for the Conduct of the Laboratory 2 May 1921, with a list of members of the Advisory Committee; letters from William Strathie Caw, treasurer and clerk of the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh to Professor Meakins on insurance of the Laboratory, fire policy etc 1920-1924; annual reports by the Director of the Bio-Chemical Laboratory, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh with the totals for the number and types of specimens examined 1921-1928, 1938-1946; letters from Lt Col Sir J Fayrer, superintendent, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh to Professor Meakins; minutes of the Advisory Committee 26th July 1922-8th February 1937; report by the Advisory Committee 26th July 1922 which includes a list of those employed in the Laboratory and the number of specimens each one analysed and a list of research workers other than paid research assistants; copy of a letter from Meakins to Fayrer on the salary of William Archibald, March 1925; copy of a letter from Meakins to Caw with an account for the work done by the Laboratory and a request for an honorarium to the clinical assistant who carried out the work on basal metabolic rates, August 1925; handwritten notes on blood analysis; account rendered to the Royal Infirmary for estimations done in the Laboratory, 1925, 1928; copy of a letter to Fayrer on the appointment of William Forshall, February 1927; letter containing a statement on administration of the Laboratory by Professor Murray Lyon, July 1927; letter from Col G StC Thom, superintendent, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh to Professor D Murray Lyon on the salary of the senior chemist, 27th July 1927; conditions for the use of the Clinical Medicine Laboratory 23rd March 1925; memorandum from the Laboratory on the availability of facilities to all honorary staff, November 1928; rules for admission of patients to Ward 21, 1929; equipment list, January 1929; electrocardiographs summary c1932; statement of payments for routine analyses, electrocardiographic technician and clerical assistants, March 1932; and list of accommodation of the Laboratory, c1937. |