Changing Patterns. An Atypical Autobiography. OFFERED WITH: Printed Letter, SIGNED BY BURNET.

BURNET, F. Macfarlane [CLYNE, General Andrew Jack]

Published by Melbourne & London: Heinemann, 1969.

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Frontispiece, ix, 282 pp; illus. Original boards. Very Good, in dust jacket (the dust jacket is not price-clipped!). First Edition. Tipped in to title page: Printed letter, SIGNED BY MACFARLANE BURNET (see photo). The printed letter acknowledges congratulations on the award of the 1960 Nobel Prize for Medicine to Macfarlane Burnet. Burnet has written in ink "Dear General Clyne" and signed "Yours sincerely F M Burnet". Frank Macfarlane Burnet shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1960 with Peter Medawar "for discovery of acquired immunological tolerance." General Clyne was Andrew Jack Clyne. In 1960 he was "appointed by the Royal Australian Army Medical Corps as their next director general of medical services. He served in this role from 1960 to 1967. He was made an honorary major general around 1963. He was an honorary surgeon to The Queen" (quoted from Plarr's Lives of the Fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons of England).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Changing Patterns. An Atypical Autobiography. OFFERED WITH: Printed Letter, SIGNED BY BURNET.
• Publisher: Melbourne & London: Heinemann, 1969.
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)