Pièce VRU/1/6/2 - Kenneth M Smith Correspondence 1956

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To KMS from J & A Churchill Ltd., Medical & Scientific Publishers, Gloucester Place, London, re textbook of 'Plant Virus Diseases', 30 Dec 1955, 6, 13 Jan, 9, 20 Feb, 3 Apr, 25 Jun, 27 Jul, 7, 21 Aug, 17, 18, 25, 26 Sep 1956. To Mr Clayson, The Labs, J Lyons & Co. Ltd., re proposed talk on electron microscope, 3 Jan 1956. Btw KMS and Dr J G ten Houten, Inst. Voor Plantenziektenkundig Onderzoek, Holland, re travel report, 3, 22 Jan 1956. To KMS from Owen F? Waller (Ed), The Chemist and Druggist (magazine), Strand, London, re request for article, 5 Jan 1956. Btw KMS and Leslie Mutum, Bury Free Press, Bury St Edmunds, re request to send a reporter to VRU esp. interested in White cabbage butterfly control, 7, 10, 18 Jan 1956. To Maria Langa, Molkerbastei, Vienna, contract for article, copyright, 11 Jan 1956. To KMS from V B Wigglesworth, Quick Prof. of Biology, Dept. Zoo. Univ. of Cambridge, re research using KMS photographs, 11 Jan 1956. To R B Webb from KMS, re chrysanthemum sample infected with 'aspermy', 16 Jan 1956. To KMS and Mr R W Marsh, Research St., Bristol from Leon L J Ossowski, Wattle Research Inst., Univ. of Natal, South Africa, re paper on virus control of A. junodi, virus experiments, includes extract of experiment data, 16 Jan, 6 Feb, 16, 21 Aug, 18 Sep 1956. Btw KMS and Dr B H H Bergman, de Bilt, Netherlands, re thesis paper on transmission of virus diseases of the groundnut in Java, 17, 20 Jan 1956. To KMS from F Solymosy, Hungarian Research Inst. for Plant Protection, Budapest, re sample of cowpes, 18 Jan 1956. To KMS from Woon Hah Paik, Univ. of Minnesota, re request for paper, 18 Jan 1956. Btw KMS and Dr A Guido Fratini, Manciano, Italy, re virus against Decus oelae, 18, 30 Jan. To KMS from Walter Carter, Pineapple Research Inst., Hawaii, re request copy of article, 19 Jan 1956. Btw KMS and S R Chant, Edinb., a plant pathologist from Nigeria requesting a visit to VRU, 23, 26 Jan 1956. To KMS from F R Cann, re experiment 30 Jan 1956. To KMS from F C (?) Chandler, 'The Grower', London, 20 Feb 1956. To KMS from H L Nixin, Rothamstead Experimental St., re Miss Glauert's MS in 'Nature', thanks for visit, 'araldite' letter to 'Nature', Borisko's paper, nosepiece, polymerisation, microtome, M-V machine, etc., 20 Jan, 30 Jul, 20 Aug, 3 Nov 1956. To KMS from N B Joy, Arusha, Tanganyika Dept. of Agric. (Tanzania), re dwarf beans with 'oily pod'' condition, includes list of JIHI recent papers, 21 Jan 1956. Btw KMS and Dr A R Hill, Zoology Dept., Glasgow Univ., re student William Yule for W K Kellog Foundation grant and Ph.D. at Cambridge, 21, 27, 30 Jan 1956. To KMS from W R Thompson, President, 10th Int. Congress of Entomology, Canada, re invitation to present paper, 24 Jan 1956. Btw KMS and P J Girard, Headmaster, Castel Middle Sch. (and Guernsey's 'Bulb Inspector), Guernsey, re advice on recognising bulb viruses, 26 Jan, 13, 16 Feb 1956. To KMS from A D Thomson, Crop Division, Christchurch, New Zealand, re research fellowship to work at VRU, potato virus, 26 Jan, 31 Dec 1956. To KMS from James Munro, Dept. of Agric., Canada, re KMS opinion on certification schemes and viruses, potatoes free from virus X/mosaic etc., 2 Feb 1956. To KMS from Dhanesh C Sharma, Poona, India, re request for reprints, 3 Feb 1956. To KMS from G H Coone, Sugar Crops Section, US Dept. of Agric., re sugar cane diseases/research and visit of Dr E V Abbott to VRU, 7 Feb 1956. To KMS from F F C Edmunds, Cambridge Inst. of Education, Cambridge, re students visit to VRU, 17 Feb 1956. To KMS from J H Styler, Forestry Commission, Surrey, enclosing pupae of pine looper moth, Lymantria monacha L., 18 Feb, 19 July 1956. To KMS from Julian Huxley (Sir Julian Sorell Huxley), 31 Pond St, Hampstead, re list of six queries about viruses, 23 Feb 1956. Btw KMS and editors of 'Nature', Macmillan, London, re mistake in article by Dr Tanada, Dr Cheng, 27 Feb, 18 Dec 1956. To KMS from John Smith (John Derek Smith), University of California, re work on tobacco mosaic virus, TYM protein, Dr Takahashi, 28 Feb 1956. To KMS from N B Joy(?), Plant Path. Lab., Arusha, Tanganyika Territory Dept. Agric., diseased specimens sent to VRU, 6 Mar 1956. To KMS from Fernández Valiela, Ministerio de Agric., Argentina, re thanks for books, potato seed, 7 March 1956. To KMS from Harry Lawer, Univ. of Adelaide, Waite Agric. Research Stat., re thanks for reprints, 7 Mar 1956. Btw KMS and George Connell, Ottawa, Canada, re reapplying for place at VRU, 8, 15 March 1956. To KMS from B D Harrison, Scottish Hort. Research Inst., Dundee, re virus in sugar beet, soil-borne ringspot in lettuce, beet, raspberry ringspot virus, 8, 15 Mar, 15 Dec 1956. To KMS from Michael L G Smith, St Patrick's Hall, Reading University, re request to visit the VRU, 12, 14, 18, 18 March 1956. Btw KMS and Prof. R Lontie, Univ. Te Leuven, Belgium, request to accept visiting worker Dr H Borginon (declined), 12, 14 Mar 1956. To KMS from E B Watson, Vitex Ltd., re order of wetting agent, letter and invoice, 13 March 1956. To KMS from Florence M Schwarz, the Rockefeller Inst., re publishing KMS paper 'The structure of insect virus particles', 14 Mar 1956. To Dr Steinhaus, Lab. of Insect Pathology, Univ. of California from KMS, re review for 'Plant Viruses', 14 March 1956. To KMS from W F Bewley, Glasshouse Crops Research Inst., re opening ceremony, 15 Mar 1956. To Mr Williams from KMS, re no vacancies, 15 Mar 1956. To KMS from Mr L J Clements? Royal Nat. Orthopaedic Hospital, re request for copies of magnified photographs for teaching purposes, 20 Mar 1956. To E B Watson from KMS, re Sovix wetting agent, 21 Mar 1956. To KMS from Reidar Holmøy, Gomera, Canary Islands, re advice on virus diseases on his tomato farm, probably tobacco mosaic, detailed description and sends samples, 23 Mar, 5, 21 Apr 1956. Btw KMS and Revue de Vulgarisation Scientifique, Paris, re thanks for colour transparencies for article (May issue), 23, 27, 30 March 1956. To KMS from M K (Kenneth) Corbett, Agric. Experiment Stat., Univ. of Florida, re request for reprints for teaching, 27 Mar 1956. To KMS from D L Milne, Rothamsted Experimental Station, re gall midges, Diptera larvae, diseased larvae of the white clover seed midge, 28 Mar, 4 April, 17, 26 July, 10 Oct 1956. To KMS from R Eric Taylor, MAFF, re tomato plant sample, mosaic virus, 3 April 1956. To KMS from Myles Crooke and S J Chesterman, Forestry Commission, Alice Holt Lodge, Surrey, virus against Neodiprion sertifer, larvae of Bupalus piniarius, 3 April, 25 Sep, 10, 16 Oct 1956. To KMS from Prof. A F Ross, New York State College of Agriculture, re request for reprints, possibility of visit to VRU, 9 Apr 1956. To KMS from Adrian Posuette? East Malling Research Station, re leafhoppers, 11 Apr 1956. To KMS from Sec. of the Office for High Commission for the Union of South Africa, re Dr A P D McClean visit to VRU, 11 April 1956. To KMS from P Grigson, French Ministry of Agric., 15 Apr 1956. To KMS from Lilian E Hawker, Bristol Univ. request for virus material for class inoculation experiments, 17 Apr 1956. To KMS from G S Hartley, Chesterford Park Research Station, Essex, re invitation to KMS to attend lecture by Prof. A W A Brown of Univ. of Western Ontario, 17 Apr 1956. To Mr Robert Antoine, Mauritius Sugar Industry Research Inst., sugar cane cuttings with clorotic streak, 18 Apr 1956. To Mr Kapoor from KMS, re visit to VRU, 20 Apr 1956. To KMS from Dr J Franz, Inst. für Kartoffelkäferforschung, re Dr A Krieg, 23 Apr 1956. Btw KMS and Measuring & Scientific Equipment Ltd., re 13,000 Centrifuge, invoice, service report etc. 23 April, 3, 18 May, 24 Aug, 18 Nov 1956. To KMS from G S Verna, Lucknow University, India, re visit to VRU, 8 May 1956. To KMS from S P Wiltshire, Commonwealth Mycological Inst., Surrey, re list of common names of virus diseases, 10, 18 May 1956. To KMS from J C Hopkins, Commonwealth Mycological Inst. Kew Surrey, re Darwin's tulips, naming of potato virus Y, 11 May, 19 Nov 1956. To KMS from Lee M Hutchins, United Nations, Beograd, Yugoslavia (now Belgrade, Serbia), a plant pathologist assisting the Yugolsavian government in research and control of virus disease in fruit trees especially sarka in plum, assisting Prof. Jossivovic and Dr D Šutic, gives synopsis of career and present work, possible future visit to VRU, includes a translation of an article from BORBA (17 May 1956) on virus control which mentions KMS and two newspaper clippings of the article, 20 May 1956. Btw KMS and R Hull, Rothamsted Exp. Stat., Dunholme Field Stat., re L D Leach (Davis, California), visit to VRU, 28, 29 May 1956. To KMS from George W Cochran, Utah State Agric. College, request to spend sabbatical at VRU, 31 May 1956. To KMS from J? R A Hohnen, The Australian Nat. University, Canberra, re Mr N Xeros application for a research fellowship, 1 Jun 1956. To KMS from F L Edgelow(?), Sch. of Agric., Univ. Cambridge, re irises with a 'pleating' disorder, 6 Jun 1956. To KMS from R Hasemer, Gordon Edgell & Sons Ltd., New South Wales, re Cabbage white butterfly virus for cabbage, broccoli and cauliflower crops, 6 Jun 1956. To KMS from J H Johnson, Chesterfield, re enclosing dead and dying larvae of P. pedaria, 15 Jun 1956. To KMS from A H Whyte, Horticultural Stat., North Burlingham, Norfolk, re request for student visit to VRU, 15 Jun 1956. Btw KMS and W Heffer & Sons Ltd., missing numbers of Journal of Biophysical and Biochemical Cytology, 22 Jun 1956. To KMS from C? Everard, Dell Park Estate, disease in Cattleya plants in Mr Schroder's Dell collection, 23 Jun, 2, 10 Jul 1956. Btw KMS and B D Moreton, MAFF, Ashford, Kent, re P. brassica, cabbage butterfly experiments in kale fields, Isle of Thanet, leather-jacket samples, 23 Jun, 6, 7 Nov 1956., Btw KMS and G R Salmon, Cheshire, enclosing specimens, 26 Jun, 5, 7 Sep 1956. To KMS from Gordon B Thompson, Chesterfield Park Research Station, Fisons Pest Control Ltd., re KMS/VRU visit to talk to Columbo Plan Students, includes a list of Columbo Plan students 1956, 26 Jun, 2, 19 July 1956. To KMS from Osvaldo Lovisolo, Ministry Dell'Agricoltura E Delle Foreste, Roma, Italy, re tomato bushy stunt, Datura inoculation, Petunia, 28 Jun 1956. Btw KMS and Eduardo Zarco, Inst. de Entomologia, Madrid, re request to work at VRU for a month re virus research techniques esp. forest insects, 28 Jun, 14 Aug 1956. To KMS from Freida Gerold, Institut für Gemüsebau und Unkrautforschung, Lauvenburg, diseased lettuce plants sent for diagnoses, 28 Jun 1956. To KMS from Elvio Refette? and Prof. Elio Baldacci, Inst. di Patologia Vegetale, Univ. of Milan, re request for seeds, soil sterilization, new book, Vigna sinensis seeds, 3 Jul, 10 Dec 1956. To KMS from Margaret Senior, Ministry of Supply, London, re invitation to a new committee of government advisors - the 'Agricultural Defence Advisory Committee', 5 July 1956. To KMS from D Bevan, Forestry Comm., Alice Holt Lodge, Surrey, re N Sertiferin, importing Canadian strain, 5 Jul 1956. to KMS from Dr Giacinto Ciaccio, Laboratori Scientifici Farmitalia, Milan, re thanks for KMS' recent lectures in Milan and request for more info, 5 Jul 1956. To KMS from Donald O Green, The Royal Hort. Society's gardens, Wisley, Surrey, re advice on recent viruses in delphiniums, 7 Jul 1956. Btw KMS and P C Smethurst, Smethurst High-Light Ltd, Lancs., re microtome machine, Siemens microscope, visit to VRU, advice for glass cutting, Sitte's design notes, order of grids etc., 9 Jul, 13, 18 Sep, 3 Dec 1956. To KMS from H Fairbank, MAFF, re Dahlia virus, 11 Jul 1956. To KMS from Ralph W G Wyckoff, Dept. of Health, Ed. and Welfare, Bethesda, USA, re turnip yellows, including reprint of article from 'Science', May 11, 1956, Vol 123, 'Crystal Structure of Turnip Yellows Virus Protein' by Louis W Laraw and Ralph W G Wyckoff, 12 July 1956. To KMS from E C Gowlton(?), Swanley, Kent, re breeding bearded iris, 13, 18 Jul 1956. To KMS from A Doná dalle Rose, France? re analysis of sample of sugar beets with virus yellow, 13 Jul, 9 Aug 1956. To KMS from P Ostoya, 'La Nature', Paris, 17 Jul 1956. To KMS from Dr Alojz Zuffa, Biotevta, Nitra, Czechoslovakia, 20 Jul 1956. Btw KMS and R Higgs, re invitation to lecture at Leeds University, 26 Jul, 28 Aug 1956. To Dr Keith E Jenson (copied to KMS and Alan R Liss) from Max A Lauffer, re manuscript for 'advances', 30 Jul 1956. Bundle btw KMS and Metroplolitan Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd., Trafford Park, Manchester, re electron microscope, evaporation plant, 30 Jul, 23 Aug, 12, 20 Nov, 3, 20, 27 Dec 1956. To KMS from S H Williams(?), Eastern Electricity Board, Cambridge, reinforcement of supply along Storey's Way, 31 Jul 1956. Btw KMS and M A Zaher, Rothamsted Exp. Stat., Herts., re research on lepidoptern, Pradenia litura from Egypt with virus, 8, 13 Aug 1956. Btw KMS and F J Furley-Lewis, agrigultural undergraduate, Kenton, Middx., request for employment as a technician, 9, 13 Aug 1956. To 'The Insect Virologist', Lab. d' Etude, Versailles, re Dr Harpas, granulosis virus disease of Pieris brassicae, virus for Aporia crataegi and request for larvae, 15 Aug 1956. To KMS from Lindsay M Black, 'Virology' Journal, Univ. of Illinois, USA, re KMS' publication in the journal, illustrations of crystallisation of tomato bushy stunt virus in cells, 20 Aug 1956. To KMS from R Ascot, Ministry of Works, Cambridge, re heating in the microscope room, 23 Aug 1956. Btw KMS and E R Franklin, the Science Masters' Association, re visit to VRU and electron microscope demonstration, 27, 28 Aug, 3 Sep 1956. To KMS from J H Styles, Forestry Comm., Alice Holt Lodge, larvae sample of B. pimianum? and L, monarch eggs for Claude F Rivers, 31 Aug 1956. to KMS from C J Edwards, Chesterford Park Research Station, Essex, re visit with Mr Penney to VRU, 3 Sep 1956. To KMS from R le Pulley, Scott Agric. Labs., Nairobi, re a Lymantriid attacking Wattle trees, 6, 15 Sep 1956. To KMS from P R Wood, T Werner Laurie Ltd. re photograph 'view from orbit two', 10 Sep 1956. To KMS from J G Gillow, Hort. Advisory Service, Guernsey, re request to test sample of Jersey potatoes, 10 Sep 1956. To KMS from Prof. R H Stoughton, Univ. of Reading, request for help with paper: 'Memorandum on problems of the flower-growing industry', includes 2 appendix papers, 11 Sep 1956. To KMS from W T Y Hancock, Measuring & Scientific Equipment Ltd, re stainless steel tubes, 13 Sep 1956. To KMS from Russell L Steere, Univ. of California, re writing a chapter in Vol VI of 'Advances in Virus Research', 17 Sep 1956. Btw KMS and Mr R Whitesmith, ARC, London, re exchange of research workers between European countries, 17 Sep, 6, 7 Nov 1956. To KMS from F O Holmes, The Rockefeller Inst., New York, re new edition of KMS's text-book 'Plant Virus Diseases' re use of phrases by Dr Thomas that were jokes and need to be omitted if possible, 21 Sep 1956. To KMS from Dr C Toumanoff, Inst. Pasteur, 27 Sep 1956. Btw KMS and Prof. J Caldwell, Univ. of Exeter, re Vigna sinensis seeds, 29 Sep, 1 Oct 1956. To KMS from J B Legge, Tobacco Research Board, Southern Rhodesia, material infected with Rosette, tobacco plants, aphids, 3 Oct 1956. To KMS from Miss E M Everard, The British Council, Cambridge, re Mr A L Eloja, request for report on his study/work at the Molteno Inst. and if to extend, 5 Oct 1956. To KMS from B Kassanis, Rothamsted Experimental Station, re Tobacco mosaic virus, inoculum of Ranunculus virus, spinach and barley, 5, 12, 18 Oct, 5 Dec 1956. To KMS from W K Slater, ARC, meeting with Taylor and Sartain, 9 Oct 1956. TO KMS from the Nat. Inst. of Agric. Botany, Cambridge, re change in recommended potatoes in farmer's leaflet, 12 Oct 1956. To KMS from J T Slykhuis, Rothamsted Experimental Research Station, re leaf hoppers with wheat streak disease, visit with Dr Bald, 17, 19, 22 Oct 1956. To KMS from Alain Gautier, Centre de Microscopie Electronique, Univ. Lausanne, 24 Oct 1956. Btw KMS, C F Rivers and A R Kloock, Assist. Sec., the National Farmers Union, Gloucester, interest in viruses as method of pest control, setting up of field experiment to test Cabbage White Butterfly virus, 25, 27 Oct, 21, 27, 29 Nov 1956. To KMS from R G Smith, Plateau Wattle Co. Ltd., Eldoret, Kenya, re polyhedral virus diseases, includes a reprint of 'Some Pests of Black Wattle in Kenya' by J L Elmer and R G Smith (East African Agric. Journal Vol XXI, Apr 1956), 2 Nov 1956. Btw KMS and T E Pearson, ARC, London, re voltage regulator for electron microscope, 6, 6, 7 Nov 1956. To KMS from H B D Kettlewell, fulminating polyhedral disease, 7 Nov 1956. To KMS from W J Hull, Commonwealth Inst. of Entomology re letter (included) from C Vago, French Ministry of Agric., 12, 26 Nov 1956. To KMS from E A Perkins, Johnson, Matthey & Co., Ltd., Hatton Garden, London, re supply of platinum gauze and crucibles, 4 Dec 1956. Bundle btw KMS, Jaroslav Weiser, Inst. of Biology, Praha (Prague), Wards Natural History, Rochester and Claude F Rivers, re sending eggs of Philosamia xicini, Weisers' recent visit to VRU, Dr Xeros, cross-infectivity, Lyme disease, help with publication, 5, 14, 27 Dec 1956. To KMS from A Kohn, Israeli inst. for Biological Research, re granulosis virus, 7 Dec 1956. To KMS from Dr Charlotte Korn, Heidelberg, Germany, re visit to VRU, 9 Dec 1956. Paper: 'Biographical note' re Mr Gungor Karel from Turkey, nd [c 1956]. To KMS from Prof. N N Das Gupta, Inst. of Nuclear Physics, Univ. of Calcutta, re request for crystalline plant viruses for electron microscope work, 11 Dec 1956.