Gold Rush Doc. Separata Copy from Gesnerus, vol. 8, 1951, pp. 114-123. SIGNED BY CHAUNCEY D. LEAKE TO SANFORD LARKEY.

LEAKE, Chauncey D. [BLAKE, James] [LARKEY, Sanford]

Published by Aarau: Buchdruckerei H. R. Sauerländer, [1951].

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Pp. 114-123. Original wrappers, with cloth tape over spine and on to front and rear wrappers (see photo). Paper yellowed. Good. First Edition. SIGNED BY CHAUNCEY D. LEAKE (SIGNED in pencil on blank recto of first leaf; p. 114 is on the verso, see photo): "October 25, 1951/ On the occasion of a memorable meeting of the Committee on Medical/ Indexing of the Army Medical Library/ at the Welch Medical Library/ this memento to Sanford Larkey,/ Director of the Welch Medical Library/ of another & earlier, & equally/ extraordinary, Californian/ Chauncey D. Leake." There is a .pdf online of Leake's article, which you can read for free by searching online for "Gesnerus volume 8 issue 1-2". On pp. 342-347 of Henry Harris's book, "California's Medical Story", there is a biographical sketch of James Blake, the Gold Rush Doc of Leake's paper. James Blake (b. 1815) was British but came to the US in 1847, first in St. Louis and then he joined the gold rush to California in 1849, and stayed in California. Leake also wrote this short piece about James Blake: "A Chronology of James Blake, M.D., Pioneer Molecular Pharmacologist, and California's First Great Scientist." San Francisco, Calif.: Fifth International Congress of Pharmacology, 1972. Keepsake prepared by Chauncey Leake for the Fifth International Congress of Pharmacology, 1972. As for the inscription by Leake to Sanford Larkey, Leake cites the meeting in 1951 of the Committee on Medical Indexing. The second meeting of that committee was in 1948. There is a photo online of the committee at that meeting, including Leake and Larkey, among other notables, which you can see for free by searching for "Seond Meeting of the Committee of Consultants for Study of Indexes to Medical Literature" (you do need to use the misspelling "Seond" in your search). There are two pieces by Jeremy Norman about this committee, and in particular the part played by Sanford Larkey, as Larkey was a pioneer in the use of the computer in medical indexing. You can read them for free by searching online by their titles: "Sanford Larkey Describes One of the Earliest Attempts at Automating Information Retrieval" and "The Welch Medical Library Indexing Project Applies Computer Methods to Library Cataloguing and Research".

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Gold Rush Doc. Separata Copy from Gesnerus, vol. 8, 1951, pp. 114-123. SIGNED BY CHAUNCEY D. LEAKE TO SANFORD LARKEY.
• Publisher: Aarau: Buchdruckerei H. R. Sauerländer, [1951].
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)