Pièce RM/4/3/5 - Correspondence with Lindsay M Black

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Correspondence with Lindsay MacLeod Black, Dept. of Botany, University of Illinois, Illinois/University of California, Berkeley, USA. LMB was on the editorial board of 'Virology' journal. Correspondence with RM and others mainly regarding publications in journals (RM read, edited, and approved papers for publication in 'Nature' and was associate ed. for 'Virology'). RM also sent papers to LMB for inclusion in 'Virology'. RM visited LMB in USA in 1963 and gave a talk on campus. Exchanges of photos, information and samples, family and work news and news about colleagues, including from Cambridge working in the USA eg. Kenneth M Smith, Roderick McLeod (Roddy). Re. Fellowship for LMB to work at VRU for one year and arrangements to send LMB's children to school/university in England, 1961. Re. Nicotiana rustica seed for work on potato yellow dwarf virus; wound tumour virus, exchange of samples, 1961. Re. LMB's work with Herb Stern on double/single stranded RNA, 1962 Re. 'methods for the enhancement of image detail and accentuation of structure in electron microscopy' by RM and Simon Frey for 'Virology', comments by LMB, 1962. Re. 'The Anatomy of Tobacco Mosaic Virus' by VRU to LMB for 'Virology', description of RM's time in US, 1963. Re. wild mosaic cucumber virus, 1964. Re. paper by LMB on the electron microscopy of potato yellow dwarf virus, 1965. Preparation of paper on 'monolayer culture of insect cells', by LMB and Ren-jung Chui, and copy of paper 'Application of Particle-Counting to a Leafhopper-Borne Virus', 1967.

Admin History: Lyndsay M Black, Dept. of Botany, University of Illinois. On Editorial board of 'Virology'.