Contains typescripts, clippings, reprints of materials written by or about George Coleman.

George Edward Coleman was born in Grass Valley, California, on December 8, 1867. He graduated from the University of California in 1891 with a B.S. in chemistry. He worked in metallurgy and horticulture until 1909, when he began the study of bacteriology and allied subjects. During 1909 and 1910 he was a volunteer worker at the Pasteur Institute in Paris and later, for ten months, he studied and worked in the Clinical laboratory of the Santa Maria Nuova Hospital in Florence, Italy.

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