Roger Thomas, University of Cambridge, UK

https://doi.org/10.36866/pn.112.7

In Physiology News 108, p.15, Austin Elliott drew readers’ attention to AV Hill’s unpublished Memories and Reflections being made available as a digital file by Churchill College’s Archives Centre in Cambridge. Sadly this was in the form of three large PDFs of what seem to be carbon copies of the original text, with a total file size of almost 900 Mb.

Since I found these hard to read but very interesting, I have laboriously converted them to a single word file, which is only 1.3 Mb, or 2.3 Mb as a PDF. Churchill College will add these to its website, as I hope will the History and Archives Committee of The Society.

There are many fascinating pieces, particularly those about anti-aircraft gunnery, immunisation and appeasement. I never met AV myself, but he was clearly a physiologist who could turn his hands to almost anything.