Ainsworth, Geoffrey Clough

Papers on medical mycology 1950-1964, including records of the informal meetings of the Medical Research Council Medical Mycology Committee and the Industrial Epidermophytosis (Miners' Foot Ringworm) Committee.

1950-1964

1 box

These papers were given to the Library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine in 1978 by Dr G C Ainsworth. They were transferred to the care of the Contemporary Medical Archives Centre in 1980.

Dr Ainsworth, a mycologist in the Department of Botany in the University of Exeter, was Secretary of the Medical Mycology committee of the Medical Research Council and a member of the Industrial Epidermophytosis Committee. The papers of the MRC Medical Mycology Committee including in this collection cover the period 1953-64 (the Committee was disbanded in 1969).

Dr Ainsworth's published note on the history of the Committee can be found at GC/1/3 - The Medical Research Council's Medical Mycology Committee (1943-69). A Chapter in the History of Medical Mycology in the UK. Sabouraudia (1978), 16, 1-7.