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- 1944-1973 (Creation)
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Fonds
Extent and medium
0.78 m of records (textual, graphic, architectural) (2 boxes, oversized folders)
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Name of creator
Biographical history
Associate professor in Physiology, Faculty of Medicine; Professor in and acting head (1967) of the Banting and Best Department of Medical Research, University of Toronto.
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Scope and content
Correspondence, memoranda, notes, reports, minutes and addresses relating to Donald Clarke's involvement with the Banting and Best Department of Medical Research. Included are files on the opening of the Best Institute, and the following activities linked to the impending construction of the Medical Sciences Building: a review of the BBDMR, renovations to the Banting Institute (including a blueprint), and meetings Faculty of Medicine Advisory Committee on Audio-Visual Resources. Included is a photograph of Clarke and Charles H. Best (1970), and of a frigate and corvette on which Clarke served as a group radar officer during World War II (1944-1945).
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Open
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