Letter from Melbourne: Dr Findlay's casebooks

The name of Alexander Findlay (1874-1966), Professor of Chemistry at the University of Aberdeen (1919-45), came to my attention several times during recent reading and research. I recalled that I had his 'Introduction to physical chemistry' that had served through undergraduate years. I still have it and although little consulted, it must have had some talismanic value to have survived my changes of address and consequent library purges over the years. I'm not even sure that it's my 'original' copy since this one clearly had previous owners, first J.J. Bischoff and then Gerald Oppenheim who, with his wife Rae, founded Ego Pharmaceuticals.