Item BSDB/2/3/1 - Meetings Minute Book 1964-1970

Extent: 1 folder

Meetings Minute Book (red A4 hardback) record of meetings 1964-1970: written and signed by Prof D R Newth (Chairman 1964-70? ), Sydney Smith Loose papers and correspondence: Correspondence with/about the American 'Society for Developmental Biology' incorporated in 1964 (Secretary- Howard A Schneiderman) and the subsequent change of SDB to BSDB (British Society for Developmental Biology), 1966-1967. Typed meeting minutes for 17 March 1967?, University of East Anglia, 12 July 1967, Bangor University, 16 July 1968, Glasgow. Draft for Society essay competition rules, c 1966. Annual General Meeting 1967, Bangor University. probable programme of meetings 1968-9. Applications for membership 15 July - 25 September 1968 Annual General Meeting 1968 agenda and list of future meetings 1968. Officers and Committee (list of) 1968. Minutes of Annual General Meeting, 16 July 1968, Glasgow University. Letter from F S Billett (Hon.Sec) 13 Sep 1968 with agenda for next meeting (25 September 1968, Oxford). Letter from F S Billett (Hon.Sec) with agenda for next meeting (27 March, 1969, Edinburgh). Minutes of Meeting 27 March, 1969, University of Edinburgh. Letter from F S Billett (Hon.Sec) with agenda for next meeting (24 July 1969, Newcastle upon Tyne). Minutes of Meeting, 24 July 1969, Newcastle upon Tyne. Minutes of Fifth Annual General Meeting, 25 July, Royal Victoria Infirmary Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne. Accounts for year ending 5 April 1969. BSDB Rules c 1969 Appointment of bankers, 29 June 196. Programmes: 21 Nov 1964, Mill Hill, London, July 9-10 1965, Glasgow, 20 Nov 1965, Brighton, 15-16 april 1966, Bristol, 1-2 July 1966, University of Aberdeen Accounts year ending April 1966 Accounts year ending April 1967 Accounts year ending April 1968 SDB Glasgow Conference programme

Admin History: Prof David Richmond Newth FRSE LLD (19 Oct 1921-5 June 1988) was a British zoologist and embryologist. He was one of the founding members of the BSDB and member of the committee. BSc ( Zoology), PhD, University of London, lecturer in Zoology at UCL, 1947, Prof. of Biology at Middlesex Hospital School,1960 and Prof. of Zoology at Glasgow University 1965-81. Publications include: Simple Animal Growth and Development (1970), Nervous Systems (1975). Sydney Smith (1911-88), zoologist and Darwin specialist, attended St. Catharine's College, Cambridge, 1929-32 (BA). He later became a Fellow, 1939-88, and University Lecturer in Zoology.