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Series 1. Biographical Information and Primary Works


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    Funk's work chronology

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    List of Funk's chronology of work in English; multiple copies of "Casimir Funk, His Life and Work" and "Chronological Condensation of Scientific Contributions from Research carried out by Casimir Funk"

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    Vitamins

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    English and Spanish drafts of chapter "The Science of Vitamins. Introduction: The Bases of Vitaminology. Doctrine of Casimir Funk". Reprints of Funk's articles "Studies on beri-beri. The probable role of vitamines in the process of digestion and utilisation of food" (1913) and "The Antiberiberi Vitamine" (1921)

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    Series 5. Reprints and articles

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    This series contains: The following series of reprint and offprint articles are in the order as received from the Burndy Library. It is difficult to tell if the order reflects the way in which these materials were organized at the Funk Foundation and/or Dr. Funk's personal library or are the result of an archivist's later arrangement. The series "Reprints of articles by others" and "Reprints of articles by colleagues" for example, appear to overalap and in some cases, duplicate each other. Folders titled "Article listings" contains two computer printouts listing articles and showing brief location codes "e.g. "Funkcoff"; "Funk3" and may be from the Funk Foundation library. The "Funk articles" group contains articles authored or co-authored by Casimir Funk. Many folders have multiple copies of the same article(s)The "Funk articles" and "Funk reprints/articles" groups contains articles authored or co-authored by Casimir Funk. Many folders have multiple copies of the same article(s)

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    "Funk's 50th Anniversary" by Benjamin Harrow, reproduction, p. 321-335, 3 unnumbered pages

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    Photocopy of "A Page of Medical History: the Vitamins" by Casimir Funk. Letter from Casimir Funk to Mr. Spanel, June 30, 1946 [photocopy] and Letter from Casimir Funk to Dr. Martin Gumpert, March 30, 1940 [photocopy]

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    Funk Foundation, history

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    Funk Foundation annual report, July 1952. Draft of "New Vistas in Medicine" by Casimir Funk. Undated Funk Foundation mission statement and projected budget for Benjamin Harrow (B.H.) research.

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    Casimir Funk Collection

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    Collection composed of research notes, articles and offprints, clinical notebooks, personal and work-related correspondence, Funk Foundation materials, and a few slides/photos. Includes drafts of Funk's autobiography, and drafts of Benjamin Harrow's published biography of Funk. Some of the earliest material in the collection dates from the beginning of his professional career in Paris (1904-1906), but the bulk focuses on his life and career in the United States from 1939-1967. Manuscript materials are in English, French, German and Polish and the collection of published professional literature mostly in offprints and reproductions contains works in English, French, German, Polish, Russian and Spanish. Topics include: cancer, diabetes, vitamins, ulcers and hormones.

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