Includes photographs, correspondence, newsclippings and publications
Clipping with image and caption of pollination tests on cherries at the JII, 6 Aug 1943 Article describing the official opening of the John Innes Horticultural Institute at Bayfordbury on Fri 2 Jun 1950 Article on Dr Dan Lewis becoming a Fellow of the Royal Society, 2 Apr 1955
Postcard of Dr Dan Lewis in a corn field, nd Postcard of Dr G.H Beale inspecting plants in a field, nd Postcard of the John Innes cricket team playing a match, 4 Jun 1937 Postcard of staff eating corn on the cob in the canteen, nd Postcards of Mr H.C Osterstock, John Innes artist/photographer, nd Shot of building work at Bayford Green, Dec 1948 Shots of the interior of an unidentified greenhouse, c1945 Shot of the John Innes library staff in the library, Oct 1945 (most staff named) Various group photographs of staff, unidentified, c1945 Shot of a constant temperature cabinet designed by H. Osterstock and used by Dan Lewis from late 1930s to 1945 for Oenothera work at Merton Park. The experiment being shown is using mustard gas to check for Mutagenesis in cherry, c1940 Shot of Bayfordbury Park, Hertfordshire, c1950 Shot of H.J Muller at Merton, 31 Oct 1945 Shot of Dan Lewis sampling cherry flowers with Miss Irena Modlibowska at Merton Park in the mid 1940s Shot of Hugh Rogers, Deputy Director of the Plant Breeding Institute with Mark Carlisle, Secretary of State for Education and Science, c1980 Shots of the Genetics and Cytology labs at Merton, 1935 Photocopies of photographs of Norman Simmonds and Brian Harrison, nd
Includes alternative proposals, reports and a statement by senior members nof the Institute's staff. Correspondents include Prof C.D Darlington, Prof M.B.E Godward, The Agricultural Research Council, The Genetical Society, Lieut-Col J.I Innes and Prof N.F Robertson.
Includes photocopy of a University of London report on the John Innes Institute, 1936, notes on how the John Innes Institute Trustees came to appoint Bateson as Director and a copy of the eulogy written and performed by Dan Lewis at a memorial service for Cyril Darlington with a thank you letter from his son Oliver Darlington, 1981
The Experimental Approach to Life, D. Lewis, 1957 Article on the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1965 being awarded jointly to François Jacob, André Lwoff and Jacques Monod "for their discoveries concerning genetic control of enzyme and virus synthesis", c1965 Incompatability in flowering plants, J. Heslop-Harrison and D. Lewis, 1974 Resistance to p-fluorophenylalanine in diploid/haploid dikararyons, D. Lewis and Dina Vakeria, 1977 Genetic versatility of incompatiblity in plants, D. Lewis, 1979 Sexual Incompatibility in Plants, Dan Lewis, 1979 DNA polymerase of a basidiomycete fungus, Coprinus cinereus, Dorrit Lowe and Dan Lewis, 1980 The Genetics of incompatability in Brassica, M.I Zuberi, S. Zuberi and D. Lewis, 1981 Gametophytic-sprophytic incompatibility in the Cruciferae - Brassica campestris, M.I Zuberi and D. Lewis, 1988
Seed and Food in War-time, M.B Crane, 1940 Gene Relations and Synthetic Processes, G.H Beale, 1941 A survey of anthocyanins VII The natural selection of flower colour, G.H Beale, J.R Price and V.C Sturgess, 1941 The Fruit, the seed and the soil, John Innes Horticultural Institute, 1949 Artificial Illumination of Seedlings, John Innes Leaflet no.11, 1952 Soil blocks, John Innes Leaflet no.11, 1953 The Bayfordbury Corridors, J. Newell, 1953