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In addition to the core collection, the following are available:

  • Banting's scrapbooks - page images of three scrapbooks, compiled by FG Banting, documenting his career and personal life. Selected items in the scrapbooks have also been individually described and included in the core collection. These items are listed on each scrapbook page.
  • Descriptions of the archival collections - The materials for this digital collection were selected from several archival collections, at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library and elsewhere. Descriptions of each archival collection, its source, and the digital materials selected, are provided.
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Work on diabetes shows progress against disease
Declares Best shares honor
Winners named for Reeve prize
New York excited over new cure for diabetes
Biology club held interesting meeting
Banting and Best in seats of honor at fair luncheon
Banting given an ovation by assembly of scientists
Talented workers in research field paid high honors
City business men rise en masse to cheer discoverer of insulin
Would share honors with his colleagues
Discoverer of insulin gets a warm tribute from the old home town
Honored by the men of his own city
Notice announcing a meeting in the medical building of the University of Toronto 07/02/1922
Menu for banquet given by the town of Alliston
Letter to F. G. Banting 23/08/1921
Telegram to Dr. F. G. Banting 27/10/1923
Letter to Dr. F. G. Banting concerning the Reeve Prize 14/10/1922
Photograph of F. G. Banting and C. H. Best with a dog on the roof of the Medical Building
Photograph of C. H. Best and F. G. Banting ca. 1924
The Banting and Best Medical Research Act, 1923