Stuk VRU/1/8/2 - Requests for Advice to Roy Markham

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Letters to Roy Markham (RM) and others from growers, scientists etc., regarding viruses sending samples for investigation and asking for advice: To RM from Aaron King, Birkbeck College Crystallography Lab. re busy stunt virus, 12 Aug 1960. Btw RM and Park W Espenschade Jr., John Hopkins Univ., USA, work with Dr A H Owens on uptake of radioactive glycine and adenine by human leukemic leukocytes using VRU's chromatographic system, request for table of Rf values, 10, 14 Oct 1960. Btw RM and Ruth van Heyningen, Univ. of Oxford, Nuffield Ophthalmology, re working with Stephen Waley on nucleic acids and protein synthesis in the lens, nucleotides, RNA, 14, 19, 24, 28 Oct 1960. Btw RM and H R V Arnstein, Med. Research Council, Mill Hill, London, re identifying a purine excreted by children suffering from Kwashiorkor, request for methylxanthine for experiments, RM refers to D B Dunn and P D Lawley, 20, 21, 24 Oct 1960. Btw RM and H R A Broadbelt, Peterborough, re privet leaves tested, 5, 6 Dec 1960. To RM from M Hollings, Glasshouse Crops Research Inst., Sussex, request for rabbits for breeding, nd [c 1960]. Btw RM, R Brian Heap, Sch. of Agric., Cambridge and Dr Alan Richter, The Wistar Inst., Philadelphia, re tobacco necrosis virus, nucleic acid, 16 Feb, 6, 11 Dec 1962. Btw RM and Dr D H Burges, ARC, Pest Infection Lab., Slough, re using insect pathogens in food stores, Bacillus thuringiensis, 1, 5 May 1961. Btw RM and E B Anderson, The Old Schoolhouse, Lower Slaughter, Cheltenham, re infected Oncocyclus iris from Israel, 19, 24 Feb 1962. Btw C F Rivers and Keith M Brown, Rhodes House, E Lothian, re Geometrid larvae in Uganda softwood plantations, 24 Apr, 11 May 1962. To RM from R I B Francki, Waite Agric. Research Inst., Univ. of Adelaide, Australia, re infectivity of TMV, ultracentrifugation, 15 Aug 1962. To RM from J L Sirlin, Inst. of Animal Genetics, Edinburgh, re TMV virus and anti-TMV antibody request, 10 Oct 1962. Btw RM, Dr F V Bird, Miss M Hawes and B H Baker re Mrs White, Piggott and Murray leaving VRU and to Miss Hawes on being employed as Lab. Assistant, 21 Nov, 28 Dec 1962. To Dr J C White, London Post-Grad. Med. School, London, re plate showing centrifuged sample, 12 Dec 1962. Btw RM and Dr H G Jerrard, Univ. of Southampton, re help and material for experiments, Tobacco Mosaic virus (TMV), Potato x and Cucumber Mosaic, 16, 21 Jan 1963. To RM from Lennart Phillipson, Inst. of Virology, Univ. of Uppsala, Sweden, re agar gel filtration, 9 Apr 1963. To Dr Beljenski, Pasteur Inst., Paris, TNS virus request, 4 May 1963. Btw RM and Harold L Nixon, Rothamsted Experimental Stat., Herts., re determining the molecular weight of an enzyme, 8, 9 May 1963. Btw RM and J A Hunt, Nat. Inst., Medical Research Council, London, re TMV RNA testing, 7, 11 Jun 1963. Btw RM and Watson Fuller, Medical Research Council, Biophysics Research Unit, London, re RNA from Clover Wound Virus, two stranded for X-ray diffraction study, 22 Jul, 13 Aug 1963. Btw RM and Mrs Mary Lees, Ffwdgrech Cottage, Brecon, Wales, re Lilium Testaceum for testing, includes 2 photographs, 15, 24 Jul, 1, 6 Aug 1963. Btw RM and Joseph Bentley Ltd., Wholesale Horticultural Chemical Manufacturers, Barrow-on Humber, Lincs., re spinach infected with cucumber mosaic virus, 16, 19, 21, 22 Oct, 3, 10, 12 Nov and one nd 1964. Btw RM and Dr Muzaffer Ozsarac, Director of Plant Protection, Adana, Turkey, re vine viruses, 15 Oct, 16 Nov 1964. Btw RM and D V Raghava Reddy, Hydrabad, India, re preparation for potato virus, includes 2 photographs, advice on testing, 14, 28 Dec 1966.