I. Scientific Correspondence with Individuals, 1913-1964., 1913-1964.

Scientific Correspondence with Individuals (Series I) consists of Forbes’ correspondence with almost 600 individuals, including many British and American neurophysiologists of the period. Forbes studied with Charles S. Sherrington (1857-1952, 57 letters) in Liverpool, England from 1911 to 1912 and their subsequent letters over a forty-two year period reflect Sherrington's views, including regarding his Nobel Prize award in 1932. Letters exchanged with Edgar D. Adrian (1889-1977, 111 letters), with whom Forbes collaborated in 1921, cover the period from 1914 to 1959, when the Cambridge University, Cambridge, England physiologist was doing the work that won him a Nobel prize. The correspondence with Horatio B. Williams (died 1955, 115 letters), the Columbia physiologist trained as an engineer, is largely concerned with instrumentation; from 1913 to 1949 Forbes sought technical advice and reported his experimental results. Hallowell Davis (1896-1992, 64 letters) was Forbes' student and colleague and their letters from 1922 to 1963 trace a long and productive relationship. More neurophysiological topics are addressed in Forbes’ correspondence with Grayson McCouch (78) from 1925 to 1958. Correspondence with John Eccles (1903-1997, 18 letters) in the 1930s indicates controversy on the nature of synaptic transmission. Other exchanges in the 1920s and 1930s include those with Herbert Gasser (1888-1963, 23 letters), Ralph Gerard (1900-1974, 48 letters), and John Fulton (1899-1960, 84 letters). Less voluminous exchanges are between Forbes and the following physiologists: Clarence J. Campbell, Walter B. Cannon (1871-1945), Stanley Cobb (1887-1968), Archibald V. Hill (1886-1977), Genichi Kato (born 1890), Raphael Lorente de No (1902-1990), Keith Lucas (1879-1916) James M. D. Olmsted (1886-1956), George H. Parker (1864-1955), Alfred C. Redfield (1890-1983), Birdsey Renshaw (1911-1948), Ragnar Granit (1900-1991), H. Keffer Hartline (1903-1983), Ernst T. von Brucke (1880-1941), and George Wald (1906-1997).