Walter Myers, died aged 28 while studying yellow fever in Brazil, 1900
Scope and Contents
Comprises one image of Myers lighting his pipe in an office setting and one image captioned as follows, 'Laboratory at the Domingos Freire Hospital, Para, Brazil: W. Myers at work at the ‘bench’ formed by the lid of a travelling reagent case in December 1900. The porous terra cotta water cooler is prominent. The glass jar contains a tick-infested toad.'
Dates
- Creation: 1900
Creator
- From the Fonds: Smith, George Stuart Graham-, 1875-1950 (bacteriologist) (Person)
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Extent
2 item(s)
Repository Details
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