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Descriptive Summary

Biographical/Historical Note

Collection Summary

Index Terms

Administrative Information

Restrictions

Series Descriptions

Series I: Biographical, 1933-1983

Series II: Correspondence, 1925-1973

Series III: Subjects, 1908-1974

Series IV: Writings, 1908-1970

Series V: Photographs and Slides, 1941-1966

Archives and Modern Manuscripts Program, History of Medicine Division
Processed by James Labosier; Processing Completed January 2005
Encoded by James Labosier


Descriptive Summary
	Collection Number:	MS C 548
	Creator:	Shear, Murray J.
	Title:	Murray J. Shear Papers
	Dates:	1908-1983
	Quantity:	27.6 linear feet
	Abstract:	Correspondence, reports, minutes, reprints documenting Dr. Shear's professional activities with the National Cancer Institute, including interaction with the International Union Against Cancer and the American Association for Cancer Research.

Biographical/Historical Note

Dr. Murray J. Shear spent the bulk of his career researching substances and methods which might prove effective in the eradication of cancer. He was a member of the National Cancer Institute's inaugural staff and he actively participated in international cancer organizations.

Born on November 7, 1899 in Brooklyn, NY, Murray Jacob Shear developed an early interest in philosophy. While attending the City College of New York for his Bachelor's degree, he became interested in physical chemistry and research. He saw a philosophic basis for scientific research in the sense that research provided information upon which a philosophy could be constructed. Indeed, he felt that any philosophy was possible only upon an examination of information and knowledge.

From that point Shear followed the path of science, earning his Masters and Doctoral degrees in chemistry at Columbia University. Upon graduation, he turned down lucrative positions with industrial companies to follow his own interests. His guiding purpose for being a research chemist was his own personal curiosity. He took a position at Jewish Hospital in Brooklyn where he concentrated on bone formation in rickets and the deposition of bone salts in children. He left when pressure to assume management roles threatened his devotion to research.

His work with cancer began when he joined the U.S. Public Health Service's cancer research division, located at Harvard, in 1931. This group of scientists formed the nucleus of what would become the National Cancer Institute (NCI) in 1939. He began investigating calcium's effect on cancer tumors and progressed to studying the ameliorative effects of bacterial toxins on cancerous tumors. During the 1940s and 1950s his experiments with a purified filtrate of bacillus prodigiosus, or Serratia marcescens (polysaccharide) excited much scientific interest.

His chemical approach to the study of cancer eradication marked him as an early leader in the field of chemotherapy. Shear remained with NCI until his retirement in 1969 and served as the laboratory chief of Clinical Pharmacology from 1951 to 1964. During his career he also served as president of the American Association of Cancer Research, secretary general of the International Union Against Cancer (IUAC), and chairman of the IUAC's Chemotherapy Committee.

Dr. Shear died in Bethesda on September 17, 1983.

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Collection Summary

Contains reprints, correspondence, reports, minutes, clippings, newsletters, and photographs which cover his entire professional career. Included are lists of Dr. Shear's publications along with his bound reprints (1932-1969) and reprints signed to him by other scientists. Correspondence covers his entire professional career (1925-1971) with emphasis on NCI and IUCC-related activities. There is very little personal correspondence. Scattered reports are primarily produced by NCI, NIH, and IUCC. Also present are NCI and IUCC meeting minutes and various international cancer conference guides and notes.

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Restrictions

Collection is not restricted. Contact the Reference Staff for information regarding access. For online customer service, please visit custserv@nlm.nih.gov.

Copyright

Copyright was transferred to the public domain. Contact the Reference Staff for details regarding rights. For online customer service, please visit custserv@nlm.nih.gov.

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Index Terms
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	MeSH Subjects
		Chemotherapy
		Neoplasms
		Polysaccharides
		Pyrogens
	Corporate Names
		American Association for Cancer Research
		International Union Against Cancer
		National Cancer Institute (U.S.)
		National Institutes of Health (U.S.)

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Series I: Biographical, 1933-1983 0.25 linear feet





Box	Folder
1	1	1933-1971
1	2	Bibliography, n.d.
1	3	Bibliography, n.d.
1	4	Career history, 1964-1983
1	5	Last will and testament, 1967
1	6	Lists of publications, 1949, n.d.
1	7	Memo, reports, MJS publication lists, 1951-1960
1	8	November 20 - retirement, 1969
1	9-10	Oral history interview, 1965, 1984
1	11	Publications, 1963
1	12	Publications and curriculum vitae, 1963-1968
1	13	Stationery, n.d.

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Series II: Correspondence, 1925-1973 8.50 linear feet





Box	Folder
1	14	Animals, 1958
1	15	Answers, 1966
		Associations

1	16		General, 1955-1967
			AACR (American Association for Cancer Research)

1	17			General, 1959-1969
1	18-19			General, 1956-1962
1	20			General, 1952-1968
1	21			Harold L. Stewart, 1958
1	22-23			Policy Committee, 1946-1961
1	24-25			Policy Committee, 1960-1962
1	26			Submitted ms., 1969
			American Cancer Society

1	27			General, 1954-1968
1	28			General, 1956-1971
1	29		Cosmos Club, 1966-1968
			IARC (International Agency for Research on Cancer)

1	30			Lyons, 1966
			National Academy of Sciences

1	31			General, 1967
1	32			NRC, 1950-1967
1	33		Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine, 1968
1	34		Washington Academy of Medicine, 1963
1	34-35		WHO (World Health Organization), 1957-1966
		Committees

1	37		George Washington University, 1954
		Diseases

1	38		"Cures", 1966
1	39-40		Treatment/Advice to Patients, Clinical, 1941-1961
		Employment

1	41		Fellowships, 1952
			Inside Government

1	42			1957-1969
1	43			1963-1969
			Outside Government

1	44			1952-1969
1	45			1962-1969
1	46		UICC fellowships, 1965-1971
1	47		Professional Services, 1967
		Information

			4.1.1

1	48			Comments, 1959
			4.2.1

1	49			Requests for reprints, 1947-1955
1	50-51			Reprints requests, 1930-1952
1	52		General, 1964-1968
1	53		International, Far East, 1958
1	54		World Health, 1967
2	1		Lectures, General, 1935-1966
		Meetings

			General

2	2			1945-1966
2	3			1962-1970
2	4			1952-1958
			AACR

2	5-6			General, 1938-1966
2	7			General, 1966
2	8			General, 1966
2	9			Program of Atlantic City meeting, 1946
			Foreign

2	10			5th International Congress of Biochemistry - Moscow (1961), 1957-1962
2	11			6th International Conference on Cancer - Brazil, 1954-1957
2	12			7th International Congress for Microbiology and Hematology, 1958
2	13			Europe, 1964
2	14			Hungary 1960, 1960
2	15			Japan, 1955-1969
2	16			International Symposium on Macromolecules, 1959
2	17			Peruvian Society of Cancerology, 1960-1961
2	18			Russia, 1960-1963
2	19			Stockholm, 1964
2	20			Sweden, 1964
2	21			IRAC (International Research Agency on Cancer), 1966
			UICC-IUAC (Union Internationale Contra Cancer - International Union Against Cancer)

2	22			General, 1958-1966
2	23			7th IUCC - London, 1958-1960
2	24			Bergel-Ross, 1956-1962
2	25			Caceres, G., 1956-1961
2	26			Camillo, Sellei, 1959
2	27			Cancer Chemotherapy committee, 1959-1962
2	28			Farber, 1959
2	29			Finance committee, 1958-1961
2	30			International Chemotherapy committee, 1954-1963
2	31			Japan 1960, 1956-1961
2	32			Khanolkar, 1954-1961
2	33			Kreyberg, 1956
2	34			Larionov, 1957-1962
2	35			Lettre, 1954-1958
2	36			Loustalot, 1958-1961
2	37			Luhrs, W., 1957
2	38			Maisin, 1956-1958
2	39			Mitchell, 1955-1958
2	40			Muhlbock, 1956-1962
2	41			Nasr, 1958
2	42			Paymaster, 1954-1958
2	43			Peacock, 1957-1958
2	44			Pentimalli, 1955
2	45			Research Commission, 1956
2	46			Rome 1956, 1953-1957
2	47			Serebrov, 1958
2	48-49			Stockholm meeting, 1964
2	50			Truhaut, 1954-1958
2	51-52			Yoshida, 1954-1970
			Interdisciplinary Communications Program

2	53			General, 1969-1973
2	54			Dr. James A. Miller - core group member, 1970-1972
2	55			Dr. Fred Rapp - core group member, 1970-1972
2	56			Dr. I. B. Weinstein - core group member, 1970-1971
2	57			Dr. H. G. Williams-Ashman - core group member, 1970-1972
2	58			Workshop letters, 1953-1972
			NCI (National Cancer Institute)

2	59			Gordon Cancer Conference, 1951
2	60			Gordon Cancer Conference, 1951-1963
2	61			Macy Foundation, 1958-1959
2	62-63			WHO (World Health Organization), 1965-1966
		Organizations

3	1		General, 1966
3	2		DHEW, 1968
			Jewish Hospital, Brooklyn

3	3			General, 1930-1931
3	4			Bone formation, 1927-1966
			NAS (National Academy of Sciences)

3	5			SATCOM, 1966-1968
			NIH (National Institutes of Health)

3	6			General, 1957-1963
3	7			General, 1963-1964
3	8			Planning, 1964-1968
			NCI (National Cancer Institute)

3	9			General, 1925-1965
3	10-15			General, 1960-1973
3	16-28			General, 1940-1959
3	29-30			General, 1941-1969
3	31			General, 1965
3	32			General, 1961-1963
3	33			General, 1954-1964
3	34			General, 1960-1963
3	35-36			Advisor 1966, 1964-1966
4	1			Associate Director in Charge of Research - Dr. Mider, 1946-1963
4	2			Bayne-Jones, 1960
4	3			Boston, 1938-1954
4	4			C and G to 1940, 1939-1940
4	5			Chemical pharmacology - Dr. Shear, 1956-1963
4	6			Chemistry Group/Spencer memos, 1943
4	7			Chemotherapeutic agents, 1954-1967
4	8-9			Chemotherapy, 1945-1947
4	10			Chemotherapy, 1938-1948
4	11			Chemotherapy, 1964
4	12-13			Chicago, 1941-1957
4	14-15			Collaborative projects, 1940-1960
4	16			Communications - historical, 1940-1960
4	17-18			Cooperative contacts, 1945-1946
4	19-20			Department of State, 1950-1966
4	21			Documents for Dr. Zubrod, 1945-1969
4	22			Donner Foundation, 1940-1942
4	23			Donner Foundation, 1944-1946
4	24			Environmental cancer, 1939-1968
4	25-26			Fan mail, 1947-1970
4	27			Farber, Sidney, 1946-1964
4	28			Fiscal, 1962
4	29			Japan - October 1960, 1959-1960
4	30			Landy-Pillemer, 1953-1957
5	1			Lasker, 1951-1983
5	2			Macy Foundation, 1958-1969
5	3-4			Meier, Rolf, 1955-1958
5	5			Members - communication group, 1967-1968
5	6			Memoranda - Voegtlin, 1937-1941
5	7			OIR-NIH-PHS-FIC, 1938-1969
5	8			Organization-LCP, 1957-1964
5	9			Other panels, 1966-1967
5	10			Pasteur Institute - Alex Berglas, 1958-1959
5	11			Patients, 1964-1967
5	12			Philadelphia, 1953-1955
5	13			Planning, 1967-1969
5	14-15			Polyclinical, 1940-1946
5	16-17			Polysaccharide, 1932-1968
5	18-23			Polysaccharide requests, 1943-1967
5	24			Program planning, 1967-1968
5	25			Program planning, 1965-1969
5	26			Program planning, 1965-1969
5	27			Promotion policy, 1949-1951
5	28			Research 1 - polysaccharides, 1950-1963
5	29			(Research Associates) Organization - training - res. assoc. program, 1963
5	30-31			C. P. Rhoads and SKI, 1941-1955
5	32			Schoenbach, Emanuel, 1948-1952
6	1-2			Seligman, Arnold, 1946-1954
6	3			Senate committee, 1957-1960
6	4			Service General, 1950-1952
6	5			Shimkin, Michael, 1951
6	6			Special advisor-1967, 1964-1968
6	7			Special advisor-1968, 1968
6	8			Special advisor, 1968-1969
6	9-10			Tobacco, 1947-1967
6	11-12			Tobacco, 1954-1969
6	13			Training-OADP, 1968-1969
6	14			UICC report to HEW on 8/13/63, 1954-1963
6	15			Workshops, 1972-1973
6	16			Workshops, 1972-1973
6	17			Dr. Zubrod, 1964-1965
			OADP

6	18			Planning, 1969
6	19			Public Health Service, 1957-1961
			UICC/IUAC (Union Internationale Contra Cancer - International Union Against Cancer)

6	20			General, 1946-1967
6	21-22			General, 1960-1963
6	23			(General) UICC, 1964-1965
6	24			Achinstein, Betty, 1965
6	25			Australia, 1964-1966
6	26			Bergel-Ross-Hadow, 1958-1961
6	27			Board and budget committee, 1965
6	28			CIOMS-Europe, 1964-1966
6	29-30			Delafresnaye, John F., 1964-1968
6	31			Delafresnaye, John F., 1965
6	32			Delafresnaye, John F., 1965
6	33-34			Druckrey, 1954-1970
6	35			Eastern Europe, 1965
6	36			Eastern Europe - USSR and Budapest, 1964-1965
6	37			Editor, 1964-1965
6	38			Europe, 1964-1966
6	39			Finance council, 1963-1965
6	40			Finances, 1958-1966
6	41			Finland, 1965
6	42			Professor William U. Gardner, 1964-1966
7	1			Geneva, 1964-1967
7	2			Geneva, 1964-1966
7	3			Haddow, Alexander, 1962-1968
7	4			Dr. Heller, 1964-1966
7	5			Higginson, John, 1964-1966
7	6			Hungary, n.d.
7	7			Ireland, 1965-1966
7	8			Japan, 1966-1967
7	9			Khanolkar, 1952-1963
7	10			Kilpatrick, Sir William, 1960-1966
7	9-12			Latin America, 1960-1967
7	13			Latin America, 1964-1966
7	14			Loustalot, Prosper, 1964-1965
7	15			Maisin-Dorn-Stewart-Delafresnaye, 1945-1964
7	16			Management planning, 1963-1966
7	17			NCI, 1958-1967
7	18			Near East, 1966
7	19-20			Pack, George, 1963-1968
7	21			George T. Pack, 1964-1966
7	22			Policies, 1960-1966
7	23			Publications, 1965
7	24			Publications committee, 1965-1966
7	25			Russia, 1964-1966
7	26			Scandinavia, 1965-1966
7	27			Switzerland, 1964-1966
7	28			Tokyo, Japan - Oct. 1957, 1956-1960
7	29			United States, 1964-1967
7	30			U.S. Senate subcommittee on international health, 1963-1964
7	31			WHO, 1964-1966
			USPHS/Harvard

7	32			General, 1926-1939
7	33-36			General, 1932-1939
7	37			Boston, 1931-1970
7	38-39	Personal letters, 1937-1969
		Personnel

7	40		General, 1957-1964
7	41		Applicants - C - D, 1949-1963
7	42		Dr. Bertil Bjorklund - consultant, 1957-1961
7	43		Personnel 10 (A - B), 1950-1961
8	1-2		Personnel 10 (H - K), 1948-1961
8	3-4		Personnel 10 (L - N), 1945-1962
8	5		Personnel O - S, 1950-1962
8	6		Personnel 10 (T - Z), 1949-1962
		Public Relations

8	7		General, 1959-1967
8	8		Recommendations, commendations and expressions of gratitude, 1954-1963
8	9		Books Info., 1969
8	10		Clippings, 1967
8	11		Grants, 1956-1957
			Invitations

8	12			Declinations, 1942-1967
8	13			Invitations, 1964-1969
8	14-15			Invitations, 1954-1962
8	16		Patients, 1964
			Requests

8	17			Information and requests and acknowledgement of, 1953-1963
8	18-19			Requests for appointments/consultations, 1938-1964
8	20-21			Requests for opinion/information, 1941-1960
8	22-23			Requests for opinion/information, 1934-1968
8	24			Research Material, 1966
			Visitors

8	25			General, 1964-1968
8	26			Invitations, 1963-1969
		Publications

8	27		General, 1964-1966
8	28		Books, 1968-1969
8	29		Carnegie, 1967
8	30-31		Comments on MSS, 1963-1967
8	32		International Meetings, 1969
8	33		Journals, 1966
8	34		Newspapers, 1965
8	35		Newspaper clippings, books, 1964-1969
			Publication Contacts

8	36			1958-1964
8	37			Contacts with TV, etc., 1963-1967
8	38		Reports, 1969
			Reprints

8	39			1963-1969
8	40			Requests, 1961-1964
			Submissions

8	41			1963
8	42			Submittal of manuscripts, 1962-1964
			UICC

8	43			1964-1967
8	44			UICC, 1965-1969
8	45-46		U.S. Government policies, 1965-1966
		Reports

8	47		General, 1965
			Administrative

8	48			1964
8	49			Dr. Mider, 1964-1965
8	50			Africa, 1965
			Outside Activities

8	51			1964-1965
8	52			Outside employment of NIH employees, 1948-1962
8	53		Policy reports, 1965
8	54		Progress reports, 1962
8	55		Scientific reports, 1966-1969
		Research

8	56		General, 1969
8	57		Dr. Eagle, memos, 1947
8	58		Sylven, 1951-1957
8	59		Voegtlin, memos, 1932-1953
8	60		Collaborative Projects, 1967
8	61		Disease Project, 1967
8	62		Drugs, 1964-1967
			International

8	63			Asia and Africa-other, 1954-1962
8	64			Australia, 1964-1969
8	65			Austria-UICC, 1964
8	66			Canada, 1964-1965
8	67			Eastern Europe, 1957-1963
8	68			Eastern Europe, 1964
8	69			England, 1964
9	1			England, 1964-1966
9	2			Europe, 1964-1968
9	3			Europe, 1964-1968
9	4			Europe-WHO, 1965-1966
9	5			Finland, 1965
9	6			France, 1964
9	7			France, 1964-1966
9	8			Geneva, 1954-1965
9	9			UICC-Geneva, 1964-1967
9	10			Hungary, 1964
9	11			Hungary, 1956-1963
9	12			India, 1962-1963
9	13			India, 1964
9	14			Israel, 1962-1964
9	15			Japan, 1963-1966
9	16			Japan, 1958-1962
9	17			Japan-Hawaii, 1963-1969
9	18			Latin America, 1955-1961
9	19			South America, 1963-1966
9	20			Turkey, 1964-1966
9	21			USA, 1963-1966
9	22			USA, 1963-1967
9	23			USA-UICC, 1964-1965
9	24			USSR, 1956-1962
9	25			USSR, 1964-1967
9	26		Polysaccharide, 1963
			Supplies

9	27			1965-1969
9	28			1949-1963
9	29		Drugs, tumors, animals, etc., 1963-1968
9	30		Tests, 1965-1969
		Travel

9	31		General, 1963-1966
			Foreign

9	32			General, 1964-1966
9	33			Canada, 1963
9	34			Japan, 1966
9	35			Mexico, 1964
9	36		UICC/IUAC, 1964
9	37		Hawaii, 1964

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Series III: Subjects, 1908-1974 14.5 linear feet





Box	Folder
		Associations

			General

9	38			Cancer Research Commission, 1956
9	39			CIOMS, 1967-1969
9	40			National scientific societies - pharmacol., biochem., immunol., 1959-1968
9	41		Advisory Committee on Scientific Personnel, 1945-1964
9	42		American Association for the Advancement of Science, Symposium on anti-metabolites and cancer, 1953
			AACR (American Association for Cancer Research)

9	43			General, 1956-1964
9	44			General, 1957-1970
9	45			General, 1959
9	46			General, 1964
9	47-48			ACS, 1948-1972
9	49			Detroit, 1949
9	50-52			Policy committee, 1954-1963
9	53			UICC, 1959
9	54			UICC correspondence and congressional articles, 1942-1969
9	55		Children's Cancer Research Foundation, 1951
9	56		Commission on Cancer Research, 1960
9	57		Cosmos Club, 1946
9	58		Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, Federation, 1971-1974
9	59		International Cancer Research Foundation, "Index to the literature of experimental cancer research: 1900-1935", 1935
9	60		National Advisory Cancer Council, Group on communications - panel recommendations, 1967-1968
			National Research Council

9	61			Annual report, 1961-1963
9	62-63			Bioassay panel-COG-NRC, 1946-1947
9	64			Committee on growth, 1944-1954
9	65			Committee on UICC 1956, 1956-1958
9	66			Miscellaneous - 1/20/73, 1946-1966
9	67			UICC, 1957-1961
9	68-69			UICC 1962, 1950-1963
10	1			UICC - bulletin/minutes, 1956-1958
10	2		National Science Foundation, 1945-1969
10	3		Scientific Research Board, History - president's commission, 1945-1968
			Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine

10	4			Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine, 1952-1959
10	5			Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine, 1959
		Diseases

10	6-7		"Cures", 1938-1968
10	8		"Cures", 1949-1966
		Employment, Inside Government

10	9		General, n.d.
10	10		Administrative/government, 1946-1949
10	11		Advisory Committee on Scientific Personnel - policy, 1945-1973
10	12		Civil service, 1946
10	13-14		Civil service policies, 1946-1952
10	15		Government employment, 1944-1946
10	16-17		Personnel policies, 1940-1968
10	18		Personnel, 1938-1947
10	19-20		Personnel, 1941-1968
10	21-23		Personnel, 1950-1963
10	24		Personnel administration, 1946-1964
10	25-26		Personnel records, 1938-1967
10	27		Position review record, 1957-1961
10	28		Scientific personnel management, 1947-1963
10	29		"The scientist as a government employee", 1947
11	1-4		"The scientist as a government employee", 1947 [cont'd.]
11	5-8		Scientists and civil service employment, 1945-1970
11	9		Supplemental information form for food and drug inspector position P-2 and P-3, n.d.
11	10		Teamwork in scientific research, 1946
11	11		Professional services contracts, 1961-1967
11	12	Invitations, 1949-1963
		Lectures

11	13		General, 1947-1966
11	14		"Carcinogenic activity of benzathracene derivatives" - seminar at Yale, 1938
11	15		"Invasion of the ivory tower - the AACR faces its second half century: presidential address" - Murray J. Shear, 1969
11	16		Lecture, 1961
11	17		Mss lectures, 1940-1945
11	18		Notes, 1939
11	19		Opening statement of the chairman - Shear, Japan, 1967
11	20		Pittsburgh lecture, 1953-1968
11	21-22		Seminars, 1938-1964
11	23		Seminars, 1947-1965
11	24		Talks - lectures, 1952-1953
11	25		Tokyo, Oct. 24-28, 1957
11	26		Yamagiwa lectures - May 30, 1969 lecture and misc., 1937-1969
		Meetings

			General

11	27			1939-1970
11	28			Cancer - articles and symposiums, 1928-1966
11	29			Cancer research conference, 1928
11	30			Conference on wound healing, 1927-1943
11	31			Conference, 1929-1970
11	32			Conferences, 1938-1968
11	33			Conferences, 1938-1969
11	34-35			Conferences, 1956-1974
11	36			Experimental tumor genesis - a colloquium, 1959
11	37			Fifth piromen conference, 1952
11	38			Immunological/immune reaction, 1961-1969
11	39			Meeting notes, 1948
12	1-2			Minutes - "Basic aspects of carcinogenesis", 1971
12	3			Oslo conference, 1956-1957
12	4			Podophyllin conference, 1947-1949
12	5-6			Poly. conference, 1956-1959
12	7			Proceedings - Research Conference on Activities of Bacterial Pyrogens, 1951
12	8-9			Stockholm conference, 1964
12	10			Symposium - The Developmental Biology of Neoplasia, 1967
			AACR

12	11			General, 1946-1971
12	12			36th annual meeting, 1945
12	13			Board of Directors meeting, Atlantic City, 1956-1963
12	14			Presidential address 1961, 1960-1969
12	15			ACS (American Cancer Society) meeting - Washington, 10/9/41, 1932-1941
12	16			National Advisory Council, Chemotherapy program, Oct. 9-11, 1967
			International Cancer Congress

12	17-18			1939-1958
12	19			International congress, 1947
12	20			Sixth congress, Brazil, 1953-1954
			NCI

12	21			General, 1948-1970
12	22			Agenda - carcinogenesis meeting, 1967
12	23			Agenda - supplements, 1967
12	24-25			Dec. 13, 1967 meeting, 1967
12	26			Gibson Island, 1945
12	27			Gordon conference, 1951
12	28			Japan, 1957-1969
12	29			Japan, 1969
12	30			Laboratory and branch chiefs meeting, 1958
12	31-32			May 30th symposium, 1968-1969
12	33			Meetings, 1939-1941
12	34-35			Meetings, 1948-1950
12	36			Meetings - general, 1964-1966
			UICC

12	37			General, 1956-1966
12	38			4th congress, 1947
12	39			6th congress- Brazil, 1954
13	1			10th congress, 1965-1970
13	2			22 May 1963, 1963
13	3			Hueper, 1956-1964
13	4			Minutes and agendas, 1958-1966
13	5			Minutes and correspondence, 1960-1965
13	6			Minutes - Nov. 1865, 1966
13	7			Minutes of the meeting of the executive committee, 1964
13	8			USPHS (U.S. Public Health Service), Career committee, 1965-1966
		Organizations

			General

13	9			American Institute of Cancer Research, n.d.
13	10			Children's Medical Center, 1949-1955
13	11			Office of Science and Technology - OST, 1967
13	12			Science - society - publications and information from various scientific organizations, 1966
13	13-14			Publications and information from various scientific organizations, 1946-1969
13	15			Federal Security Agency, Public Health Service, 1949
			Interdisciplinary Communications Program

13	16			General, 1970-1973
13	17			Agenda and lists, 1970
13	18			Extra attachments, 1969-1973
13	19			Extra - workshops, 1970-1971
13	20			First workshop in carcinogenesis, 1970
13	21			Peacock, Dr. Andrew C. - work biography, 1970
13	22			Michael Potter, 1971
13	23-24			Reading file, 1970-1971
13	25			Sixth program - people, 1972
13	26			Seventh workshop on carcinogenesis, 1973
13	27			Smithsonian, 1971
13	28			Universities, 1970-1971
13	29-30			Workshop I - VII - 6 complete sets, 1970-1973
			NIH (National Institutes of Health)

13	31			General, 1964-1973
13	32			Communication group, 1967
13	33			Congressional hearings, etc., 1930-1970
13	34			Dir., 1943-1968
13	35-36			Govt/NIH booklets, 1945-1973
13	37-38			Grant, 1959-1968
13	39-40			Interdisciplinary, 1967-1973
13	41			Institutes of basic medical science, 1964
13	42			"The mission of the National Institutes of Health", 1965
13	43			"The National Institute of Health: a study in public administration", 1937
13	44			NIH Almanac, 1969
13	45			NIH and research funding, 1954-1964
13	46			Opportunities for scientists, 1948
13	47			Organization - organizational research - NIH, 1961-1962
13	48			Organization Z (establishment-reorganization-liquidation) NIH, 1951-1963
14	1			PHS World article, 1967
14	2			Planning, 1969
14	3-4			Security, 1951-1968
14	5			Surgeon General's committee on personnel planning and policy, 1945-1947
			NCI (National Cancer Institute)

14	6			General, 1943-1958
14	7			General, 1948-1950
14	8-9			General, 1949-1972
14	10			1956, 1949-1956
14	11-12			Advisor, 1964-1965
14	13			Advisory committee on personnel and planning, 1945-1948
14	14			Algire's manuscript, 1947-1953
14	15-16			Bacterial filtrate, 1938-1971
14	17-18			Bone, 1944-1968
14	19			Bone chemistry manuscripts - Baltimore meeting, April 1937, 1937-1948
14	20			Books, 1944-1968
14	21			Breast cancer task force - minutes, 1970
14	22			Calcification - "Chemistry of bone salt deposition", 1934
14	23			Calcification, 1937-1949
14	24			Calcification, 1940-1967
14	25			Calcification, 1967-1969
14	26			Calendars, 1958-1974
14	27			Cancer chemotherapy committee, 1953-1954
14	28-29			Cancer chemotherapy program, 1965
14	30-31			Cancer program objectives, 1946-1972
14	32-33			Carcinogenesis, 1934-1967
14	34			Cerebral palsy, 1950-1951
14	35			Chemical alteration of polysaccharide from serratia marcescens, 1948
14	36			Chemical carcinogenesis center, 1965-1967
14	37			Chemical nature of the phosphate substance of phosphorites and their genesis, 1937
15	1			Chemotherapy, 1940-1958
15	2-3			Chemotherapy group official, 1946-1947
15	4-5			Chemotherapy screening committee, 1953-1958
15	6			Chemotherapy service center, 1955-1965
15	7			"A declaration of research policy and the appointment of an advisory committee to the chief, National Cancer Institute", 1945
15	8-9			Daily calendar, 1944-1958
15	10			Dr. Citron in re 12/19/61 visit, 1955-1961
15	11			Dr. Solomon Garb, 1944-1969
15	12			Drug evaluation committee, 1965
15	13			Endotoxins, 1954-1969
15	14			Endotoxins, 1955-1966
15	15			Fiscal 1956, 1951-1955
15	16			Forward planning, 1948-1951
15	17			Grouping of non-programmed research in NCI, 1968
15	18			HCP - health career program, 1964-1966
15	19-20			Historical, 1950-1981
15	21			History and NCI, 1934-1970
15	22			"History of NCI" and misc., 1926-1947
15	23			Japan, 1956-1970
15	24			Japan, 1960
15	25-26			Japan, 1960-1970
15	27			Japan - stomach cancer, 1969
15	28			KR - Moscow, 1939-1947
15	29			Lab management memo (Oct. 1951), 1951
15	30-31			Legislation - cancer, 1937-1941
16	1-2			LCP - fiscal '63-'64-'65, 1962-1965
16	3			Look into, 1954-1963
16	4-5			Management, 1936-1962
16	6			Management of NCI research laboratories - a proposal, 1951
16	7			Memoranda, 1945-1965
16	8			Misc. expenses and notes, 1961
16	9			Misc. office paperwork, 1948-1966
16	10			New NCI building - planning, 1960-1964
16	11			Noble winners, 1949-1966
16	12			Objectives, experiments, notes, 1960-1963
16	13-14			Organization, 1951-1969
16	15			Organization 1, 1956-1963
16	16			Organization (assembly of scientists), 1961-1967
16	17			Organization (cancer chemotherapy national service center), 1959-1961
16	18			Organization task force, 1968
16	19			Personnel, 1945-1966
16	20-21			Personnel and administration, management and organization, 1941-1964
16	22			Policy statement on NCI intramural chemotherapy program, 1955
16	23			Polysaccharides, 1951-1957
16	24			Polysaccharide - clinical, 1944-1965
16	25			Polysaccharide distribution - notebook, 1956
16	26			Programs and committees, 1955-1966
16	27			Program planning, 1953-1954
16	28-29			Project proposals - committees, 1945-1968
16	30			Proposal - NCI research labs, 1951
16	31			Putnam's manuscript, 1957-1959
16	32			Screening, 1947-1965
16	33			Screenings, 1946-1969
16	34			Section meeting, 1948-1950
16	35			Statements, 1954
16	36			Stationery - AACR, ICP, NIH, IUAC, n.d.
16	37-38			Strategy, 1968-1969
16	39			Surgeon General's letter - 6/15/57, 1957-1967
16	40-42			Talks, 1936-1964
17	1			Who's Who in the National Cancer Institute, 1964
17	2			Workshop group - carcinogenesis, 1965-1967
17	3			Workshop on communications - items, 1966-1969
			OADP

17	4-5			General, 1966-1969
17	6			"Scientific directorate", 1968
17	7		Sloan-Kettering Institute, Clinical problems in cancer research 1948-1949, 1952
			UICC/IUAC (Union Internationale Contra Cancer - International Union Against Cancer)

17	8			General, 1939-1971
17	9			General, 1959-1967
17	10-11			General, 1959-1966
17	12			General, 1962-1963
17	13			General, 1967-1970
17	14			Aboul Nasr, 1961
17	15			Board - budget, Jan. 1965, 1965
17	16			"Buying brainsÂ….", 1964
17	17-18			Eastern Europe, 1934, 1964-1969
17	19			Europe - Jan. 1965 trip to Geneva, 1964-1965
17	20			Geneva office, 1961-1967
17	21-22			History, 1938-1967
17	23			Hungary, 1958-1971
17	24			Letterhead, n.d.
17	25			Manual, 1967
17	26			Miscellaneous, 1954-1958
17	27			NIH grant, 1959-1961
17	28			Official records, 1963
17	29			Planning data, 1958-1970
17	30			Policies, 1963-1965
17	31			Policies, 1964-1965
17	32			Program, minutes and correspondence, 1956-1959
17	33-34			Publications, 1955-1966
18	1-2			Publications, 1959-1966
18	3			Russia, 1965-1966
18	4			U.S. govt. and Budapest, 1964-1966
18	5-6			USA national committee, 1960-1962
18	7			USA national committee on UICC, Atlantic City, April 6, 1961, 1960-1961
18	8			USA national committee on UICC, 1962
18	9-10			USA national committee, 1964-1966
			USPHS (U.S. Public Health Service)

18	11			Academics, 1968-1969
18	12			Conferences and councils, 1943-1949
18	13			Miscellaneous, 1944-1946
18	14			PHS-NIS individual project report - Jan. 1, 1963 - June 30, 1964, 1964
18	15			PHS international career committee, 1966
18	16			Postwar research committee, 1943-1946
18	17			Postwar research planning committee, 1943-1964
18	18			Postwar research planning committee, 1943-1955
18	19			Postwar research planning committee on Public Health Service, 1936-1964
18	20			Public Health Services Act, 1944
18	21-22			Research climate, 1947-1969
18	23			Voegtlin - early history of cancer research in PHS, 1968-1971
			USPHS/Harvard

18	24			Personnel, 1934-1936
18	25			WPA cancer projects - Boston, 1936-1937
			WHO (World Health Organization)

18	26			General, 1965
18	27			IARC, 1966-1967
18	28			International Health Care committee, 1965-1966
18	29	Personal, 1950-1972
		Public Relations

18	30		Clippings, 1939-1963
18	31		Clippings, 1948-1974
18	32		Clippings, 1953
18	33		Clippings re set up of National Cancer Institute, 1937-1948
18	34		Biographical information form, nurse [blank], 1946
18	35		Press Releases, 1946-1961
			Television

18	36			Dr. Wasserman - "Biography of a cancer" (from Rose Shear), 1960
		Publications

18	37		General, 1947-1967
18	38		Proceedings of the Japanese Cancer Association, the 41st annual meeting, 1982
			Journals

18	39			Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences - "Natural resistance to infections", 1956
18	40			Daz Artzliche Laboratorium, 1965
19	1			Die Pharmazie, 1946
19	2			I.C.R.S. Medical Reports, 1962
19	3			Journal of the Aichi Medical University Association, 1982
19	4-6			Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 1941-1943
19	7			Medical World News, 1966
19	8			Public Health Reports, 1944
19	9-10			PHS world, 1966
19	11			PHS World News, 1968
19	12-13			Scientific Personnel Bulletin, 1937-1946
19	14			World Health, 1965
			Newsletters

19	15-16			Misc. newsletters, 1946-1970
19	17			Activities Report, 1969
19	18-22			Bulletin UICC, 1964-1971
19	23			Graduate Faculties Newsletter, 1961
19	24			Regional and Field Letter, 1966
			Newspapers

19	25			Lay publications, 1933-1968
			Reports

19	26			"Science and public policy: volume one, a program for the nation", 1947
19	27			"The federal research program: volume two", 1947
19	28			"The U.S. government and the future of international medical research", 1959
		Reports

			General

19	29-32			1938-1965
19	33			"Cancer - a worldwide menace", 1959
19	34			Cancer research - congress, 1937
19	35			Case reports - Holloman-Lankenau Hospital, 1945
19	36			The Children's Hospital, 1952
19	37			Commission on Cancer Research, 1960
19	38			Federal Council for Science and Technology: annual report, 1962
19	39			Fieser collaboration, 1934-1967
19	40			The Institute for Cancer Research - 20th scientific report, 1974-1975
19	41			International health study, 1959
19	42			"Jacques Ellul, the technological society: a summation and critique", 1965
19	43			Joint House Colloquium to Discuss a National Policy for the Environment, 1968
19	44-45			President's commission, 1951-1968
19	46			Progress against cancer: a report by the National Advisory Cancer Council, 1970
19	47			Reports, c.1960s
19	48			Reports and reprints, 1950-1969
19	49			Report of the Commission on Research, 1967
19	50			Report of Committee on Persistent Pesticides - Division of Biology and Agriculture - National Research Council, 1969
19	51			Science, the endless frontier - Vannevar Bush, 1945
			General Administrative

19	52			1963-1969
19	53			Staffing international organizations - a report of the Advisory Committee on International Organization - Dept. of State, 1963
			International Cancer Research Foundation

19	54			1968 report to NACC, 1968
20	1			Report on activities, 1933-1936
20	2			Report on activities, 1937-1939
20	3			Report on activities, 1940-1943
			National Cancer Institute

20	4			General, 1943-1966
20	5			Annual reports, 1967-1969
20	6			Annual report - July 1, 1964 - June 30, 1965 - project title: special advisor, 1965
20	7			Annual report 1964-65, 1964-1967
20	8			Carcinogenesis workshop - "communication" reports, 1964-1967
20	9			Progress reports - march 1931 to June 1931, 1931
20	10-22			Progress reports - July 1931 to June 1943, 1931-1943
20	23			Progress reports - studies and projects, 1937-1946
20	24			Reports, 1946-1963
20	25			Reports, 1947-1959
20	26			Reports, 1948-1965
20	27			Reports (list of tumors), 1951-1961
20	28			Reports, 1953-1954
20	29			Reports, 1967-1968
20	30			Reports, annual, 1946-1961
			NIH (National Institutes of Health)

20	31			"The National Institutes of Health 1937-1953: a study in public administration", 1954
20	32			"Report of the secretary's advisory committee on the management of NIH contracts and grants", 1966
20	33-34			Reports - sc. dir. and annual bib. NIH, 1962-1969
			UICC (Union Internationale Contra Cancer)

20	35			General, 1958-1969
20	36			August 1963 report: "UICC and trip to Eastern Europe", 1963
20	37-38			Board and Budget Committee report Board and Budget Committee report, 1965
20	39			Business meeting report, 1966
20	40			Extraordinary meeting of the (old) council - meetings of the general assembly, 1966
20	41			Planning reports, 1965
20	42			Reports, 1963-1966
20	43			Reports, 1965-1967
20	44			Working group on asbestos and cancer, 1965
			USPHS (U.S. Public Health Service)

21	1			"Fundamental cancer research", 1938
21	2			"Report of the personnel program survey in the Public Health Service", 1945-1957
21	3		USPHS/Harvard, 1935-1937
21	4		WHO (World Health Organization), 1962-1965
		Research

21	5		Experimental carcinogenesis, 1964-1971
			International

21	6			India, 1952-1971
21	7			Italy, 1958-1962
		Travel

21	8		1962 trip to Eastern Europe, 1962-1963

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Series IV: Writings, 1908-1970 4.14 linear feet





Box	Folder
		Background Research

21	9		Articles, 1935-1952
21	10		Articles, 1937-1955
21	11		Articles - misc., 1950-1959
21	12		Articles, 1953-1968
21	13		Articles, 1953-1969
21	14		Articles, 1961-1962
21	15		Articles, 1966-1968
21	16		Articles translated from the Japanese GANN, 1938-1949
21	17		"Administration of research in the National Institutes of Health", 1952
21	18		"Antithrombatic effect of monoamine oxidase inhibitor (nialamide)" - Shimamoto, Ishoka, Fujita, 1962
21	19		"Bacterial polysaccharides" - M. Stacey, 1953
21	20		Bacterial pyrogens - a bibliography, 1952
21	21		Biochemische Zeitschrift, 1925-1928
21	22		Calcification, 1928-1930
21	23		Calcification, 1952-1969
21	24		Chemical treatment of tumors - reprints, 1935-1943
21	25		"A chemist's view of cancer prevention" - E. Boyland, 1967
21	26		"Chemotherapy of human carcinoma" - Shungo Osato, 1965
21	27		Coley, 1944
21	28		Coley's toxins, c.1930
21	29		Coley's toxins, 1956-1962
21	30		"The diagnosis and treatment of bone sarcoma" - William B. Coley, 1937
21	31		"The effects of a new class of anti-filarial compounds?" - M. Silverman, 1947
21	32		"The effects of the mustard derivative of phenylalanine amino acid on experimental tumours" - Koller, Veronesi, n.d.
21	33		"End results in inoperable malignant tumors treated by the coley toxins" and misc., 1917-1950
21	34		Endotoxins, 1908-1963
21	35		"Endotoxins: physiological disturbance" - Thomas, n.d.
21	36		"An examination of old literature (especially herbals) for drugs with supposed effects on cancer" - George Urdang, 1958
21	37		"Further investigations with the additional biological cancer treatment with highly potent b-coli products" - Friedrich Burgkhart, 1943
21	38		GANN, 1950
21	39		"Hoppe-Seyler's zeitschrift fur psychologische chemie" - F. Knoop, K. Thomas, 1929-1934
21	40		"Host factors and cancer" - E. Saxen, K. Penttinen, 1962
21	41		"Inhibition of tumour growth by D-Glucosamine" - J. H. Quaestel, A. Cantero, 1953
21	42		Monographs, symposia proceedings, etc., 1966-1967
21	43		"New clues in the search for cancer cures" - S. M. Spencer, 1959
21	44		"On the cancerogenic chemical substances" - R. Kinosita, 1938
21	45-46		Poly - bibliography, 1943-1969
22	1		"The possible significance of hexosephosphoric esters in ossification" - R. Robison, 1926
22	2		"The prevention and control of cancer: a plan for nation-wide organization" - Schereschwesky, 1938
22	3		Psycho-pharmacology, 1963
22	4		"Research in biology: new pattern of support is developing" - V. McElheny, 1964
22	5		"A review of the influence of bacterial infection and bacterial products (Coley's toxins) on malignant tumors in man" - Helen Coley Nauts, George A. Fowler, Frances H. Bogatko, 1953
22	6		"Sarcoma of the soft tissues, other than lymphosarcoma, treated by toxin therapy" - H. C. Nauts, L. Pelner, G. A. Fowler, 1959
22	7		"Serum and liver transaminase activities in experimental virus hepatitis in mice", 1956
22	8		"Studies in calcification" - L. E. Holt, Jr., Victor K. La Mer, H. Bruce Chown, 1925-1927
22	9		"The treatment of malignant inoperable tumors" - William B. Coley, 1914
22	10		"Virchow's archive fur anatomie und physiologie" - O. Lubarsch, 1928
22	11		"Vitamin D requirements in relation to the Ca and P content of the diet" - A. Querido, 1935
22	12		Writings, 1965
		By Murray Shear

22	13-15		Collected reprints, 1932-1959
22	16-18		Reprints, 1927-1969
22	19-20		Articles by Shear and cancer miscellany, 1946-1970
22	21		Bone, 1928-1956
22	22		Bulletin of the Medical Society of the County of Kings, 1939
22	23		"Chemistry of bone salt deposition", 1934
22	24		Endotoxin writings, 1966
22	25		"Strategies and tactics for cancer research in the USPHS since 1930", 1968
		By Others, Signed to Dr. Shear

22	26-32		1926-1965

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Series V: Photographs and Slides, 1941-1966 0.21 linear feet





Box	Folder
23	1-2	Photographs, 1950-1966
23	3	Photographs and slides, 1957-1966
23	4	Photographs, 1959
23	5	Photographs, 1963
23	6	Tumor photos, 1941

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Finding Aid to the Murray J. Shear Papers, 1908-1983

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Series I: Biographical, 1933-1983 0.25 linear feet

Series II: Correspondence, 1925-1973 8.50 linear feet

Series III: Subjects, 1908-1974 14.5 linear feet

Series IV: Writings, 1908-1970 4.14 linear feet

Series V: Photographs and Slides, 1941-1966 0.21 linear feet