Items

[X088B-F] James Bumgardner Murphy Papers

Title: [X088B-F] James Bumgardner Murphy Papers
Description: These two letters exchanged between Edison and Lillia W. D. Trask, librarian of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, are from November 1916. The letters concern a list of fluorescent salts that Edison apparently published in 1895. Trask forwarded Edison's letter to James B. Murphy, a pathologist in charge of cancer research at the Institute, who was studying the effects of x-ray radiation on living tissue.
An online finding aid to the archival collection is available.
Identifier: X088B-F
uri: https://edisondigital.rutgers.edu/folder/X088B-F
Alternative Title: James Bumgardner Murphy Papers
Is Part Of: American Philosophical Society Library
Rights: American Philosophical Society Library, Philadelphia, Pa.

Advanced search