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- 30.6.1949 (Creation)
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Extent: 2 photographs & 1 photocopy
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Black and white photograph of [?] J R Baker, Peter Medawar, [?] Race, and (seated) Huxley and Reeve, 100th Meeting of the Genetical Society, Cambridge
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Admin History: John Randal Baker: (23 October 1900 – 8 June 1984) was a biologist, zoologist, and professor at the University of Oxford (where he was the Emeritus Reader in Cytology). Sir Peter Brian Medawar: (28 February 1915 – 2 October 1987)[3] was a British biologist born in Brazil, whose work on graft rejection and the discovery of acquired immune tolerance was fundamental to the practice of tissue and organ transplants Sir Julian Sorell Huxley: (22 June 1887 – 14 February 1975) was a British evolutionary biologist, eugenicist, and internationalist. He was a proponent of natural selection, and a leading figure in the mid-twentieth century modern evolutionary synthesis. He was secretary of the Zoological Society of London (1935–1942), the first Director of UNESCO, a founding member of the World Wildlife Fund and the first President of the British Humanist Association.