collaborated with biochemist Marjory Stephenson on his lysozyme project but she did not have enough time to spare for a researcher in another department, and their results were not published. He yearned to have an interdisciplinary team and funds for work other than his own. After the sudden death of James Sholto Cameron Douglas on 30 October 1931 created a vacancy in the Joseph Hunter chair of pathology at the University of Sheffield, Florey decided to apply. That Florey was not a pathologist was not overlooked; the Scottish pathologist Robert Muir declared: "There is no pathologist named Florey." The faculty board decided to take a chance of Florey, and he was appointed on 9 December. He took up the appointment in March 1932. The Floreys moved for the fourth time in five years, this time to a Victorian manor on of ground about from the university, which later became student accommodation with the name "Florey Lodge". The chair came with a salary of £1,000 () per annum, but there was no provision for an assistant. He took Kent with him anyway, eventually securing 50 shillings a week () for him from the Medical Research Council. Guy's Hospital in London offered Florey a chair in pathology at in February 1933. This caused alarm at the university, for it had recently lost two of its senior professors through the retirement of John Beresford Leathes and Edward Mellanby leaving to become the secretary of the Medical Research Council. The university officials did not wish to lose Florey as well, and they raised his salary to £1,200 per annum to induce him to stay. The medical school was small, with only about fourteen students each year. The lack of a top-notch pathologist was remedied when Beatrice Pullinger joined the staff in January 1934, and she became Florey's ally in successfully lifting the standard of research and teaching in the department. While Florey's main interest was lysozyme, he pursued other lines of research as well. The death of his brother-in-law, John Gardner, from tetanus led to an interest in treating the disease, which he pursued in collaboration with Paul Fildes and H. E. Harding. He also researched the structure and function of the lymphatics with Pullinger, and continued his studies of contraception with Harry Carleton that had begun at London Hospital. Florey's son Charles du Vé was born in Sheffield on 11 September 1934, but