Articles and reports about genetic modification (GM food and agriculture), biotechnology, global trade agreements and intellectual rights for plant breeders; work with FIS/ASSINSEL: papers, conferences, committee papers and correspondence; diaries (1985-2000); Biotechnology and GM books.
Letter to Dr E G Jefferys from R A Fisher about statistics and genetics, mentioning chapters of his books on statistics that would be helpful for geneticists. Talks about his latest experiments on Lythrum chromosomes and mice inbreeding. Mentions Mathers, Haldane and de Winton.
Correspondence and report on potato expedition to Bolivia, Spring 1963, Notebook of Kenneth S.Dodds on Potatoes in Venezuela, entitled: "Field notes." Research notes on Pisum
Notebooks, 1932-77 [43 vols], files, 1960s-1980s [62 items], photographs [10 boxes], negatives [2 bundles], slides [20 boxes], glass plate negatives [17 items], 1960s-80s and reprints, 1952-83
Papers re a BBS Open University course, Jan 1980 including correspondence and papers re Soviet genetics and the Lysenko dispute, biography, memorials and obituaries of Muller, photographs and sketches, articles, bibliographies, tapes of various lectures and debates.
Material relating to Rowland Biffen and his work on wheat at the Plant Breeding Institute (PBI); Newspaper cuttings re. research on wheat, 1905-1949; scrapbook; photographs; notes on wheat in Kenya, 1926-1927; Also copies of drawings by J Ling [see work with F Engledow]
Includes photographs, correspondence, newsclippings and publications
History of microinjection techniques ('gene gun''): correspondence, articles and photographs
Brenhilda Schafer: correspondence, notes, photographs, drawings, watercolours (mainly on research on Aquilegia) and two notebooks of comic verse. Mostly written during her post as secretary and librarian for Sir Daniel Hall at the John Innes Institute, Merton 1926 -1942 with some additional correspondence and writing while working for BX Plastics (including as editor of the BXL Review, Xylonite Magazine) and during retirement. Brenhilda Schafer (11.4.1900 - 1973), BSc., (Lond) Birkbeck College: librarian, registrar and secretary for Sir Daniel Hall at the John Innes Centre 1926 - 1942. While at John Innes she worked on the genetics of Aquilegia and Aconitum. Published articles: Anderson, E and Schafer, B (1931) 'Species hybrids in Aquilegia' in Ann.Bot, 639-46, Anderson, Edgar and Schafer, B (1933) 'Vicinism in Aquilegia vulgaris' in Amer.Nat.67, 190-2, Schafer, B (1934) 'Uniformity in bibliographic particulars' in Nature, Lond, 133, 380., Schafer, B and La Cour (1934) 'A chromosome survey of Aconitum. I.' in Ann.Bot, 48, 693-713. From 1942 she worked for BX Plastics.