Reminiscences of George Robert Coatney : oral history, 1964.

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Reminiscences of George Robert Coatney : oral history, 1964.

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Investigations of malaria of migrating birds; Public Health Service study of malaria, drug therapies; Board for the Coordination of Malaria Studies; use of prison population to screen new malarial drugs; search for long-action injectible drug; Memphis and Milledgeville malaria labs; investigations of monkey malaria transmission; resistance phenomena; establishment of Malaria Study Section; opinion of Public Health Service grant system.

Transcript: 119 leaves.

Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

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