Letter to Dr Olga Lekhnovich, St Petersburg, Russia with notes and comments about the work of her father Dr V Lekhnovich, particularly his work on potato varieties, Hawkes collecting expedition to South America with E K Balls, Hawkes visit to Russia and work with Lekhnovich and his colleague Dr Bukasov
Contains the result of a colour blindness examination on D.G Marshall and the coloured thread samples used
Letter to Sir Daniel Hall from Fred J Clutterden, technical advisor for the Royal Agricultural Society with suggestions on the manuscript of 'The Genus Tulipa'
The letter chiefly concerns the Report of a meeting on the Memorial Fund at St John's College Cambridge.
7 letters between Markham and Lipkin: Lipkin's Guggenheim fellowship and visit to Europe. Dates: RM to DL: 8 Feb 1953, 18 Jul 1954, 26 Jul, 25 Oct 1955. DL to RM: 20 Jul, 1 Aug 1955, 9 Jan 1956
9 letters between Roy Markham and David Lipkin: Tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) , ATP runs, includes hand drawn diagrams of experiments and results by RM. Dates: From RM to DL: 17 Jan, 3 Jul, 20 July, 8 Aug, 16 Aug, 30, Aug 16 Sep and 4 Oct, from DL to RM: 1 Jul, 13 Aug and 23 Sep.
9 letters between Roy Markham and David Lipkin: Dates RM to DL: 3 Mar, 19 Apr, 8 Jul, 29 Aug, 3 Nov and 4 Nov. DL to RM: 16 Jul, 27 Oct and 25 Nov
14 letters between Roy Markham and David Lipkin: ATP hydrolysis, adrenosine triphosphate, Dates RM to DL: 26 Jan, 24 Mar, 28 May, 2 Jul, 17 Oct, 29 Dec (x2). DL to RM: 9 Jan, 26 Jan, 24 Jun, 17 Jul, 8 Oct, 23 Dec 1959 and 31 Mar 1960.
To RM from Sidney, Sheffield, invitation to stay when visiting to lecture undergraduates Biochemical Society, 11 Jan c 1959. To A (Andy) D Thomson, VRU from M Hollings, MAFF, anemone and celery strain of CMV, against Price's yellow strain, advice on centrifuges, 3 Mar 1959. To RM from Beecham Foods Ltd., Brentford, thanks for tobacco starch, 19 Feb 1959. To RM from W H Elliot, The John Curtin Sch. of Med. Research, The Australian Nat. University, Canberra, re work on enzyme synthesis, 6 May 1959. To RM from C (Chris) B Anfinsen Jr., Public Health Service, Bethesda, USA, review on ribonuclease for Vol. III of 'The Enzymes', 18 Jun 1959. To RM from David Lipkin, Washington University, re to work at VRU in 1960, the 3'-nucleotidase, 17 Jul 1959. To RM from Walter Frisch-Niggemeyer, Österreichische Biochemische Gesellschaft Society, Wein, Austria, invitation to visit and lecture, 2 Sep 1959. Btw RM and Dr F orm, Inst. of Chemistry, Czechoslovak Academy of Science, Prague, Czechoslovakia, re Dr ebesta at VRU, invitation to come to Prague, 12 Sep, 12 Nov, 16 Dec 1959. To RM from Milton G Gordon[?], University of Washington, USA, thanks for purified TYMV, 16, 22 Sep 1959. To RM from H Fraenkel-Conrat, University of California, re Dr Paul Whitfield, 16 Oct 1959. To RM from J N Davidson, Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Glasgow, re thesis by G D Birnie for external examination, includes the report by RM, 23 Oct 1959. To RM from Alfred G Marshak, Jefferson Medical College Hospital, Pennsylvania, re vacancy for Assistant Professor, 30 Oct 1959. To RM from Robert T Hutcheson, University of Glasgow, request to examine Ph.D thesis 'a Study of Pyrimidine Biosynthesis', 30 Oct 1959. To RM from Michael, Dept of Virology, University of Glasgow, re [J N] Davidson, virus meeting, 3 Nov c 1959. To RM from Victor, Merton Hall, Cambridge, re measuring viscosity, density of TMV, G I Taylor, 10, 24 Nov 1959. To RM from Christine Wills, Butterworths, Legal, Medical and Scientific Publishers, London, request to reproduce a table in publication by D C Jordan, University of Adelaide, 11 Nov 1959. To RM from the Manager, Barclays Bank, Cambridge, referee for account for Robert Peter Van Tubergen, 13 Nov 1959. To RM from E C Slater (Bill), Biocimica et Biophysica Acta, Int. Journal of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Amsterdam, requesting editorial advice on rejecting a paper by Polson, 16 Nov 1959. To RM from W Klyne (Bill), Postgrad. Med. Sch. London, re 'Abbreviations and Symbols for Chemical Names', 30 Nov 1959. To RM from William[?], hand written letter with scientific equations on TMV[?], 3pp, 9 Dec 1959. To RM from Miss M S Sladden, ARC, re conference on scrapie research, 10 Dec 1959. To RM from D C Martin[?], The Royal Soc., London, re RM appointed as member of Government Grant Board F for 4 years, 18 Dec 1959. To RM from R G Milne, Wye College, Kent, re visit, 6 Jan 1960. To RM from C W Brookson, The Rubber Research Inst. of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaya, re testing of seeds of Hevea brasiliensis, 11 Jan 1960. To RM from W V Thorpe, The Biochemical Journal, The Lister Inst., London, re formal dinner for Sandy Ogston's retirement, 20 Jan 1960. To RM from F Clark, The Biochemical Journal, London, about next meeting, 20 Jan 1960. To RM from F, Research Stat., Long Ashton, University of Bristol, nd c 1959-60. To RM from John, California Inst. of Tech., Pasadena, California, USA, re detecting nucleosides, Rupert Bert, nd, c 1959-60.