Catalogue description Lumsden, W H Russell (1914-2002)

This record is held by London University: London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Details of GB 0809 Lumsden
Reference: GB 0809 Lumsden
Title: Lumsden, W H Russell (1914-2002)
Description:

Papers of W H Russell Lumsden, 1941-1950, comprise material on a Malaria survey of Transjordan in 1941-1942 by No. 3 Malaria Field Laboratory, Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) and a subsequent report.
Date: 1941-1950
Arrangement:

Arranged within one series.
Held by: London University: London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, not available at The National Archives
Legal status: Not Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Lumsden

W H Russell

b.1914

Scientist
Physical description: 3 boxes, 1 oversize item
Access conditions:

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Subjects:
  • Malaria
Administrative / biographical background:

W H Russell Lumsden was born, 1914; graduated in science and medicine from the University of Glasgow; studied tropical medicine and hygiene at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, and worked as a research fellow in the Department of Parasitology and Entomology. During World War Two he served in malaria field laboratories of the Royal Army Medical Corps and then spent a year with Patrick Buxton becoming Medical Research Council Senior Fellow in Buxton's department, 1946-1947; joined the Yellow Fever Research Institute at Entebbe, Uganda where he remained until he became Director of the East African Trypanosomiasis Research Organisation (EATRO) from 1957 to 1963. Lumsden was Chair of Medical Protozoology 1968-1979. Lumsden died at the aged of 88 on 13th May 2002.

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