Topics and correspondents include: discussion of current research projects, virus supplies and orders (insect and virus specimens, research equipment, catalogues etc.), exchange of samples of diseased plants, virus identification requests and questions from individuals and institutions, heating glasshouses, maintenance work, memos on salary grades, a typed history of the VRU, 1p (c 1957), MAFF committee notes on problems in the flower-growing industry, the Commonwealth Fund application, Cruelty to Animals Act, Bundle of papers and correspondence concerning hosting Dr Veljko Nikolic and Kiril Sidor as part of the Yugoslav Technical Assistance Scheme, Milan Nikolich, Novi Sad, Yugoslavia, Prof. Klinkowski, East Berlin (invitation to visit labs.), report on work on genetics of polyhedral virus disease by K G McWhirter and E B Ford, Oxford, the Virus Nomenclature Committee, Kawanda Research Station, Uganda, Sugar Experiment Station, Australia, Biologische Bundesanstalt, Germany, letters from publishers regarding proofs, Empire Cotton Growing Corp., Rosalind Franklin (request for supply of TYM), Commonwealth Mycological Inst. Kew (re Plant Disease Survey of Malta, specimen exchanges, advice etc.), States of Guernsey Horticultural Advisory Service, The Royal Horticultural Society's Gardens, Wisley, D J Hagedorn, University of Wisconsin, The Rockefeller Inst. for Medical Research, New York, B D Harrison, Scottish Hort. Research Inst. (research report on cross protection ringspot experiments), I Harpaz, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem ( new Virus Lab., visit to Cambridge, Pine Processionary caterpillar, search for leafhopper-borne viruses etc.), Bryn M Jones, Dept. of Zoology, The Ashworth Lab., University of Edinburgh, Howard Davis farm, Jersey (to participate in trial of virus based control of cabbage white caterpillars), Ministry of Agriculture, Jamaica (request for a course in Virology for plant pathologist A G Naylor), Dr L C P Kerling, Phytopathologisch Laboratorium, Baarn, Netherlands (re Atropa belladonna virus), Genetics Lab., Oxford, H Ronde Kristensen, Statens Plantepatologiske Forsog, Lyngby, Denmark, James W Moulder, University of Chicago (synopsis of the Viral Biology exhibit for the Int. Science Section of the Brussels 1958 Universal and International Exhibition: Smith supplied electron micrographs), the John Ray Society, Cambridge, Dr Leon L J Ossowski, the Wattle Research Inst., University of Natal, South Africa (article by Ossowski, bagworms, virus-spraying experiments), E O Pearson, Commonwealth Inst. of Entomology (specimens from Africa of Diparopsis castanea and report on work of J P Tunstall in Southern Rhodesia), E A Parkin, Dept. of Scientific and Industrial research, Slough (virus experiment results, Tineola larvae), Dr H Ross, Max-Planck Inst., Germany, The Jones Bateman Cup award, the Royal Agricultural Soc. of England research medal, A F Ross, New York State College of Agriculture (re Evamarie Sander's work on red clover vein mosaic virus and ref. for work at VRU and letter from Sander), E W Russell, East African Agric. and Forestry Research Org., /Oxford, Dr M Rubio, Fisiologia Vegetal, Madrid, Prof. Elio Baldacci, Inst. Di Patologia Vegetale, Milan, Dr E H Rapoport, Nat. University, Argentina, Miriam Rothschild, Oxford (caterpillars), J M Styles, Alice Holt Lodge, bundle of letters concerning R H Stobbart for research post, K Sakimara, Pineapple Research Inst., Hawaii (Lily ring spot), Gordon B Thompson, Chesterfield Park Research station, Essex (Colombo Plan students), M V Fernández Valiela, Ministerio De Agricultura, Argentina, Robley C Williams, University of California (manuscript on TIV to be forwarded to Aaaron Klug who was writing a companion piece), P T Walker Colonial Insecticide Research, Arusha, Tanganyika, East Africa (former British territory 1916-1961) regarding virus infected Maize Stalk Borors , Brusseola fusca, C E Yarwood, University of California (Guggenheim fellowship to work at VRU), Dr V Zaman (electron microscope study of Entamoebae invadens), F Solymosy, Inst. for Plant protection, Hungary, J Semal, Gembloux (in French), Prof. W Moycho, Poland (request for samples of potato X and TMV), Prof. M Klinkowski and Dr A Hein, Biologische Zentralanstalt, Aschersleben (in German). Paper: Richardson, D E, ' Interim Notes on an Unidentified Latent Virus in Potato' (August 1955), 4 pp. re: NIAB seed potatoes in N Ireland, varieties Ulster Premier and Majestic.
