Professor Ivan de Burgh Daly

The papers cover the years 1858 - 1974 and were received from Professor Michael de Burgh Daly, elder son of Ivan de Burgh Daly, who retains some biographical material.

The collection consists primarily of Professor Daly's meticulous records of experiments. Professor Michael de Burgh Daly also retains the original draft and related manuscripts, notes and correspondence of an unpublished monograph entitled 'Intrinsic Lung Mechanisms'.

The collection also includes one box of correspondence with (and biographical information regarding) several eminent physiologists.

All items are manuscript unless otherwise indicated; titles in inverted commas are those which appear on the manuscripts.

A. Biographical and correspondence CSAC 39.3.76/A.1 - CSAC 39.3.76/A.14

B. Scientific notebooks and working papers CSAC 39.3.76/B.1 - CSAC 39.3.76/B.29

Summary of career

b. 1893

Educated Rossall School

1914 1st Class Natural Science Tripos Part I, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge

1918 M.B M.B., St. Bartholomew's Hospital

1922 M.D.

1919 - 23 Assistant in Department of Physiology, University College London

1923 - 27 Lecturer in Experimental Physiology, University of Wales, Cardiff

1927 - 33 Professor of Physiology, University of Birmingham

1933 - 47 Professor of Physiology, University of Edinburgh

1934 Fellow of the Royal Society, Edinburgh

1943 Fellow of the Royal Society

1948 - 58 Director, Institute of Animal Physiology, Babraham, Cambridge

1958 - 62 Wellcome Trust Research Fellow, Oxford

A full list of the honours and awards received by Professor Daly may be found in the obituary notices in Item CSAC 39.3.76/A.14.