NATIONAL COLLECTION OF TYPE CULTURES

(MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL)

CENTRAL PUBLIC HEALTH LABORATORY,

Telephone :
COLINDALE COLINDALE AVENUE
6041 and 4081. LONDON, N.W.9

 

14th July, 1954

Dear Dr. Lederberg,

Dr. Felix tells me that you have been inquirying for
details of the origin of NCTC nos. 122 and 123. Unfortunately
our information is very meagre and all we know is that both strains
were in the original collection taken over by my predecessor
from the Lister Institute in January, 1920.

The strain names of the cultures suggest that their origins
were quite distinct; 122 is named Hueppe and 123 St. Georges,
St. Georges being the name of a hospital in London. All those
likely to have handled the cultures when they were first received
at the Lister Institute are dead and I do not think we shall be
able to trace their origin with any degree of certainty.

Yours sincerely,

  

L

 
 

-T. Cowan,
Curator.

Prof. J. Lederberg,
Department of Genetics,
University of Wisconsin,
Madison 6,

Wisconsin,

U.S.A.