Collection GGH - Graham Hussey collection

Extent: 4 boxes

Reprint collection, 1953-89; two scrapbooks on the move of the John Innes Institute from Merton Park to Bayfordbury, 1964-5; loose photographs and slides of plants including Aravidopsis thaliana sowing, 24 Jun 1952 and images of buildings and labs at the Bayfordbury and Colney sites; collection regarding the move from Bayfordbury to Norwich in 1967; minutes of meetings of the JII Council and Charity; research notes on Shoot apices; PhD work on the seed of the Oil Palm and Arabidopsis thaliana; G H's Memoir (draft) of life at John Innes 1957-1988; A.R.C 1984 Report; entenary correspondence, 2009.

Admin History: Graham Hussey (1928- ) BSc (Lond), 1949, PhD, DIC. Research worker at the JII 1957-1988. G H worked at the Research Institute of Plant Physiology at the Imperial College of Science and Technology, London from 1951-3 (completing his PhD on flowering under F G Gregory 1949-53). He was appointed Plant Physiologist at the West African Institute for Oil Palm research, 1953-7 before joining the JII in 1957, working under W J C Lawrence at Bayfordbury in the Department of Physiology and Plant Culture. He worked on the effects of light and temperature on plant growth, using the tomato plant as a model. He worked on Shoot apices from 1963, micropropagation from 1969 in the Department of Applied Genetics under Roy Davies and continued research establishing regeneration systems for and researching the tissue culture of peas and sugar beet. He was one of the many senior staff opposed to the move from Bayfordbury to Norwich and the way it was handled, particularly by the then Director, Kenneth Dodds. The senior staff formed a "protest movement" supported by previous staff including C D Darlington and W J C Lawrence. They formed the Senior Staff Committee to coordinate staff discussions about the future of the Institute, met with and wrote statements and letters to the press, senior scientists, administrators and government officials. William Lawrence- WJC Lawrence (1899-1985) joined the John Innes Institute in 1913 as an unpaid garden boy, he joined the scientific staff in 1926 later becoming head of the department of physiology and plant culture and Curator to the institute in 1932. Alongside John Newell he invented the formula for the John Innes Compost. His research included genetical work on the Dahlia and Streptocarpus, plant growth in different environments using the tomato and work on the development of scientific standard glasshouses and growth rooms at Merton and Bayfordbury. He served for a time as acting director and retired from JI in 1963.; Mgt Group: Private Accessions