Membership lists, correspondence and administrative papers.
Correspondents: Elected at UCL Meeting Dec 1966: Muriel Florence Sutton (Chelsea College of Science and Technology), John D Simnet (Path. Dept., Royal Victoria, Newcastle), D J Wrigglesworth (Strangeways Research Lab), John Shine (Cambridge, PhD), Hugh Morgan (Allan & Hanburys Ltd),)Edna B Laurence (Birkbeck), Peter W Barlow (Botany School, Oxford), Dr M Balls (UEA). Includes their membership forms. Dr J R Hinchcliffe (Zoo., Aberystwyth), G S Sansom (Surrey), Dr K M Backhouse (Charing Cross Med. Sch.),
Correspondents: Dr Jacob (Edinb.), Elizabeth Kidston (London Hosp. Med College), Dr R M Moor (Cambridge), G E Morris, Mr Robert Shmookler and Mr O K Wilby (Univ. Sussex), Dr M I Sherman and Mr H R Woodland (Oxford), Dr B Slade, Dr M J Dunn and Mr P Thorogood (Aberystwyth), Dr Michael H L Snow, Dr Joan Feldman, Mr C P Flint and Dr Jonathan L B Bard (MRC, Edinb.), Dr D R Carrod (Middx Med Sch.), R G Davies (Imperial College), Peter W Barlow (Guy's), Mrs C Millington and Prof. James Leonard Hancock (Royal Vet. College), Dr David R Garrod (Princeton University, USA), Pamela Malfoix (Univ. Bruxelles, France), Dr E G Jordan (Queen Elizabeth College), Elizabeth Kidston (London Hosp. Med. College), Members elected at London Meeting, Jan 1971: C E Lloyd (Zoo., Aberystwyth), Dr Mary Campion (Keele Univ.), Jean M Fisher (Univ. Newcastle), Dr Harry Smith (Univ. Manchester), D C Burke (Univ. Warwick), Shirley Green (Univ. Southampton), Mike Snow (Edinb.), Dr R Moor (Cambridge), Dale Every (Univ. Leicester) Members elected at Cambridge, April, 1970: David D Cozens (Huntingdon Research Centre), B N Hemsworth, Dr M J O'Hare (Chester Beatty Research Inst.), Barry Douglas Bavister (Cambridge), Dr Morag Ellison (Chester Beatty Research Inst.), Geoffrey Goldspink (Zoo., Univ. Hull), Dr D G Whittingham (Cambridge), Dr J B Walls (Univ. Leeds). John McKenzie (Aberdeen), Local BSDB secretary? Programme for London Meeting, Jan 5-6, 1970
Misc. membership lists and application forms 1964-1971
Folder of material produced by/relating to BSDB Secretaries Elizabeth Deuchar 1964-66, Frank Billet 1966-71 and Alan Fisk 1966-71 and the inaugural meeting and early days of the SDB: Small red notebook: 'Century cash book' for the Embryologists Club inscribed 'E Deuchar, Embryologist's Club & Soc. Devel. Biol'; list of receipts and expenses Nov 1962 to 27 May 1965; includes 2 loose stationary receipts from M Johns, Small red notebook: 'St George Memorandum Book'': inscribed 'Soc Devel Biol Petty Cash Expenses, E M Deuchar''; list of expenses October 1964 to 25 May 1966; includes 3 loose receipts. Correspondence between Elizabeth Deuchar, Alan Fisk and Frank Billett. Elizabeth Deuchar: Letters sent out to members accepting/declining applications for reading a paper at the inaugural meeting, 1964. Acceptance letters from attendees, 1964. Bundle of letters from members about reading papers at the inaugural meeting, Sep-Nov 1964. Booklet: 'Calendar of Meetings of Biological Societies for the Year 1965', compiled by The Biological Council. SDB Club booklet c 1965, stating aims, list of committee staff and members, forthcoming meetings etc. Annotated minutes of the Society's first Annual General Meeting (as SDB) on 20 June 1964. Draft letter of SDB aims to be sent to scientists in UK, 31 Jan 1964. Draft of proposed rules of the SDB, 1 May 1964 and rules with suggested amendments, nd [c 1964]. Correspondence with Dr J H Humphry and Dr Leslie Brent of the Nat. Inst. for Med. Research, Mill Hill, London N W 7, Sep-Nov 1964. Correspondence with Prof. F W Rogers Brambell, Dept. Zoology, Bangor, N. Wales, Aug-Nov 1964 Frank Billett: Correspondence with Dr John McKenzie and Prof C D Waddington, 30 Sep 1966-Mar 1967. Correspondence with Dr Sydney Smith, St Catherine's, Cambridge, 1969. Correspondence with John McKenzie (SDB/BSDB Treasurer 1969-?) 1970 Misc. Correspondence with members mainly about presenting papers at meetings, 1970. BSDB Cambridge Meeting 3-4 April 1970 programme and drafts. Minutes of the 7th AGM, held in Leicester, 15 July 1971. Accounts 1971.
Booking form letter for the 13th SDB Meeting, Oxford, 26/27 Sep 1968. Letter inviting interested colleagues to the inaugural meeting of the SDB with outline of programme, from D R Newth and E M Deuchar, 28 Feb 1964 letter calling for papers for Glasgow Meeting 9-10 July 1965, nd, c 1965 Letter to members announcing next meeting date Bristol, April 1966 and request for papers, nd, c Dec 1965. Invite to Sherry Party, 1977. Letter re BSDB and Soc. for the Study of Fertility joint meeting 5-7 Jan 1977 Letter re one day meeting and possible speakers, March 1979. Letter about a meeting, 2007.
Paper: ' Summary Report on the Preparatory Meeting for the establishment of a European Developmental Biology Organisation', held in Utrecht, 28 Nov 1975. Correspondence about travel expenses, 1975 Copy of draft of Statutes and Bye-laws for EDBO, June 1976 and covering letter from Willem J Ouweneel (EDBO Secretary). Revised draft of statutes, nd. List of meetings, EDBO/BSDB, Feb 1977. Minutes of the British Joint Committee of Electron Microscopy, 1976 from Michael Balls as example of a similar organisation's constitutional concerns, Feb 1977. Correspondence between John McKenzie (BSDB Secretary, EDBO Founder/Sec/Treasurer), Michael Balls and Frank Billett (BSDB) regarding BSDB's role with the EDBO, Sep-Nov 1976. Paper: 'The British Society for Developmental Biology and the Proposed European Developmental Biology Organisation (EDBO)' by Michael Balls and Frank Billett, March 1977. Copy with extra comments from John McKenzie from Hull Meeting 4-6 April 1977. BSDB Agenda for an Extraordinary Meeting, Hull, 5 April 1977. BSDB Resolutions of the Extraordinary meeting 5 April 1977 re the foundation of the EDBO. Notes on the discussions at the 5 April meeting. Minutes of the BSDB special committee meeting on the constitution of the EDBO, Birmingham, 12 July 1977. EDBO Draft Constitution 11 March 1978. EDBO Constitution (approved) 27 Sep 1978. EDBO First General Meeting Minutes, Berlin, 26 Sep 1978. The Rijksuniversitair Centrm Antwerpen Symposium on "Mechanisms of Gastrulation", supported by DBO, 30 May- 1 June 1979, flyer. Programme for the 15th EDBO International Embryological Conference, Strasbourg, 21-25 June 1982.
Folder marked JEEM with handwritten history on cover: Programme 'Colloque International d' Embryologie', Paris 21-24 Sep 1959 with list of participants. Information booklet for the Ninth International Embryological Conference, Moscow 25-29 August 1969. Journal of Embryology & Experimental Morphology flyer with list of staff and board members, 1969. Programme for the 15th EDBO International Embryological Conference, Strasbourg, 21-25 June 1982. Programme for the European Developmental Biology Congress, Southampton, 2-7 Sep 1984.