Item BSDB/2/3/2 - BSDB Committee Matters 1965-1967

Extent: 1 folder

BSDB Committee Matters 1965-1967: Booklet: 'Society for Developmental Biology', c 1966, containing SDB aims, rules, officers and committee for 1965/66 and alphabetical index of members? /scientists in associated fields. Rules (typed) c 1967. Original committee members, notes of election (handwritten list) c 1967 Minutes (typed): 29 April 1965, Middlesex Hospital Med. School; 8 September 1965, Bedford College, London; 20 Nov 1965, Sussex University; 12 July 1967, Bangor University; 15 April 1966, Bristol; 17 March 1967, University of East Anglia Committee Meeting Agendas: 21 Nov 1964; 15 April 1966, Bristol; 1 July 1966, Aberdeen; 16-17 Dec 1966, London; 17 March 1967, University of East Anglia; 10 July 1967, Bangor; Handwritten list of dates and places of future meetings 1966-1969. Correspondence: Mainly with Dr F (Frank) S Billett (as Club Hon. Sec) Prof. G H Waddington (Inst. of Animal genetics, Edinburgh), request to chair meeting, October 1966. Prof. D R Newth on committee matters, Sep-Nov 1966. Dr P N Campbell (Hon. Secretary, Biological Council), request to sponsor/attend their symposium (declined), programme of symposium 'The interaction of drugs and subcellular components in animal cells', 10-11 April 1967, Middlesex Hospital. Prof. D R Newth (Zoology, Glasgow), 19 Dec 1966-4 Jan 1967: re committee matters, need for better financial/membership administration, the debate about the change of name to the 'British' Society for Developmental Biology given that there was an American SDB. Dr F A L (Lionel) Clowes (Botany Sch., Oxford), 8 Dec 1966, 4 Mar 1967, 1-3 July 1967, re Society's change of name. Dr J (John) McKenzie (Anatomy. Aberdeen), 6 Mar - 5 July 1967. Prof. C H Waddington, 6-3 July 1967, re list of vacant positions to be circulated to members, Society's change of name. Prof. D R Newth and Subak-Sharpe (Secretary of the Genetical Society), 23 Mar-26 May 1967, re a joint meeting. Dr John Paul (Director, Royal Beatson Hosp. Cancer Research), 26-27 June. Dr A Hughes (Zoology, Bristol), 30 June 1967, re re-election. Dr Alan Fisk, 29 June 1967, re accounts. Dr Sydney Smith (Zoology, Cambridge), 28 Nov 1966

Admin History: Francis (Frank) S Billett, Zoology Dept., University of Southampton, Club Committee Member, Hon.Sec., 1965-1971; ISDB Secretary 1980s