Janus: Archives of the Molteno Institute of Biology and Parasitology

University contains:
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Min.VII	Minutes of University Committees, occasionally with other papers
Min.VIII	Minutes of intercollegiate Committees and University examiners; occasionally with other papers
Misc.Collect.	University Registry miscellanea
Misc.Inst.	University papers concerning external educational institutions
Miscellanea	Stray supporting documents and objects among the University Archives
MOL	Archives of the Molteno Institute of Biology and Parasitology
MPET	Archives of the Department of Mineralogy and Petrology
NC	Newspaper cuttings on Higher Education
NUTAE	Archives of the Nuffield Unit of Tropical Animal Ecology
O	Records relating to the administrative and academic officers of the University
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Archives of the Molteno Institute of Biology and Parasitology

Title	Archives of the Molteno Institute of Biology and Parasitology
Reference	GBR/0265/MOL
Creator	Molteno Institute of Biology and Parasitology
Covering Dates	1908–1987
Extent and Medium	1 box; paper; waxed linen; photograph
Repository	Cambridge University Archives

Content and context

The Molteno Institute, endowed by Percy Alport Molteno (1861-1937, Trinity College) and his wife, Elizabeth Martin Molteno, to provide modern, spacious accommodation for the work of the Quick Laboratory, opened in a new building on the Downing Site in November 1921. The Quick Professor of Biology was its Director, responsible directly to the General Board of the Faculties and the Financial Board for its management. First known as the Molteno Institute for Research in Parasitology, its name changed in 1934 to the Molteno Institute of Biology and Parasitology. In 1987, it became part of the Department of Pathology. For further background information, see http://www.path.cam.ac.uk/~schisto/History/Molteno.html

The surviving archives are few, providing mainly summary details of the building at its opening and its research activity.

The archives were transferred to the University Archives in 1999.

Access and Use

Please cite as Cambridge University Archives, Archives of the Molteno Institute of Biology and Parasitology, MOL

Further information

The online catalogue for Janus was completed in December 2004 and emended in January and February 2005.

Index Terms

University Laboratories

Parasitology

University of Cambridge. Molteno Institute of Biology and Parasitology

University/MOL contains:

Annual reports, 1908-75; annual lists of publications by academics associated with the Institute, 1962-83. The reports, written by the Quick Professor of Biology, cover the work of the Quick Laboratory up to 1921 and thereafter of the Institute.
1 bundle of loose papers, in envelope.

1908–1983

'The Molteno Institute', reprinted from the journal African World. This article reports on the Institute's background and purposes and the opening ceremony. It includes two photographs.
1 double sheet.

3 Dec. 1921

Floor plans. Cover the ground, first and second floors and roof level. Scale: 1 1/4 inches to 10 feet.
5 items; paper; waxed linen.

1921

Photographs.

1921–1936

Papers relating to quinquennial statements of needs, 1952-7, 1957-62 and estimates, 1962-7, 1967-72. Include i) The Molteno Institute of Biology and Parasitology (CUP, 1951), a detailed report on its activity, needs and financial position prepared for the use of the General Board in discussions of its future and ii) a historical sketch of staffing levels and research interests.
4 items.

1951–1965

Lists of journals in the Institute library.
8 items.

1959–1973

Capacity records, with related letter. Record room number, floor, use, total floor area in square metres and comments.
3 items.

1984–1986

Plan showing proposed alterations to accommodation on the second floor of the Institute, with related letter. Plan shows a new Human Serum Room, Radioactivity Laboratory and Tissue Culture Room.
2 items.

Mar. 1987

Correspondence relating to dispersal of Institute's historic research and teaching materials, with related photographs. Covers:- Professor D. Keilin's spectroscopes, deposited in the Whipple Museum of the History of Science, Cambridge, in Sept. 1987; Professor G. Nuttall's slide collection, used in teaching for the Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene until 1921, transferred to the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, Euston Road, London.
6 items.

1986–1987