Stuk BSDB/1/3 - The Embryologist's Club Symposiums 1963 and 1964: Correspondence, Launch of the BSDB, New Rules

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The Embryologist's Club Symposiums, 4 January 1963 'Development of Skeletal Patterns' and 1 January 1964: 'Experimental Approaches to Early Mammalian Development': Letter to Elizabeth (Deuchar?) from Alan Fisk with a copy of 'The Embryologist's Club Rules', nd c 1963. The Embryologist's Club annual symposium attendance slip, nd (x2). Symposium programme 1963. Symposium programme 1964 (x4). Embryologist's Club Special General meeting, 1 Jan 1964: 'Proposals for Alterations in Draft rules for the new Society'. Letter bundle (x2): letter from Dr E ( Elizabeth) M Deuchar (Club Secretary) dated 7 Nov, 1963, noting the intention of the committee to launch the British Society for Developmental Biology (BSDB) as a successor to the Embryologist's Club, inviting as many British biologists as possible to become members with a call on members to submit opinions; a letter giving notice of a Special General Meeting on 1 January 1964 at the Middlesex Hospital to discuss the proposal and a copy of the draft rules for the BSDB; copy of the symposium programme 1964; copy of proposed letter to be sent to biologists. Bundle of 4 letters between Dr E M Deuchar (Club Secretary), E W Baxter (Club Treasurer) and Prof. M A Rushton (Dental Dept. Guy's Hospital), about work on effect of radiation on rabbit's teeth under Dame Janet Vaughan (Oxford), 25 Oct-1 Nov 1962. Bundle of 4 letters/postcards between Dr E M Deuchar and Dr Cecilia Lutwak-Mann (The Molteno Inst. of Biology & Parasitology, Cambridge) 4 Oct-4 Nov1963, re. her talk 'Some aspects of embryonic-maternal relationships in early pregnancy' for the 1964 symposium. Letters (x2) between E M Deuchar and Shelia Macpherson (Bone-Seeking Isotopes Research Unit, Oxford) re. her attendance at the 1963 symposium with Janet Vaughan,10 and 13th Dec 1962. Bundle of 8 letters between E M Deuchar and Dr V Clifford Jones (Dept. Zoology, Bangor), 25 Oct 1962- 8 Jan 1963, re. his talk on sponges for the 1963 symposium. Bundle of 6 letters between E M Deuchar and Prof. H Grüneberg (Dept. Genetics, UCL) re. her talk at the 1963 symposium. Bundle of 6 letters between E M Deuchar and Dr Honor Fell (Strangeways Research Unit, Cambridge), 25 Oct 1962 - 9 Jan 1963 re. introductory speech at the 1963 symposium. Bundle of 5 letters between E M Deuchar and Prof. F W Rogers Brambell (Dept. Zoology, Bangor), 8 -30 October 1963 re talk at 1964 symposium. Letter from E M Deuchar to Dr W D Billingdon (Dept Zoology, Oxford), 10 Oct 1963 re talk at 1964 symposium 'The influence of immunological incompatibility of mother and foetus on placental size in mice'. Letter from E M Deuchar to Dr D (Denis) A T New (Strangeways Research Unit, Cambridge), 4 Oct 1963, re. talk at 1964 symposium ('Development of post-implantation rat and mouse embryos in vitro'). Letter from E M Deuchar to Dr Glenister (Anatomy Dept., Charing Cross Hospital), 4 Oct 1963, re. talk at 1964 symposium ('Embryo-maternal relationships in organ-culture'). Bundle of 9 letters between E M Deuchar and Dame Janet Vaughan (Bone Seeking Isotopes Research Unit, Medical Research Council, Oxford), 1 Nov 1962 - 7 Jan 1963, re. talk at 1963 symposium, 1 Nov 1962 - 7 January 1963. Bundle of 9 letters between E M Deuchar and Dr Angus d'' A Bellaire (St Mary's Hospital Medical School), 25 Oct 1962-7 January 1963. Letter from E M Deuchar to Prof. A St. G Huggett (Physiology Dept. St Mary's Hospital Medical School), re. invitation to talk and dinner, 12 Nov 1963. Letter from C E Ford (Radiobiological Research Unit, Medical Research Council) to E M Deuchar re. Club meeting, 22 Nov 1963. Letter from Roy Spector to E M Deuchar re. Club meeting, 5 Dec 1963. Letter from Prof C H Waddington, Inst. of Animal Genetics, Edinburgh, re. suggesting Dr Anne McLaren for symposium, 11 Nov 1963. Bundle of 5 letters between E M Deuchar and speakers at the 1964 Symposium Prof Brambell (Bangor), Dr Billington (Cambridge), Dr D R S Kirby (Zoology, Oxford), Dr Denis A T New (Strangeways), and Dr Tony W Glenister (Charing Cross) re. list of other speakers. Bundle of 10 letters between E M Deuchar and Prof C H Waddington, Prof. F W Rogers Brambell, Prof. J D Boyd (Anatomy School, Cambridge), Honor B Fell (Strangeways), Dr J B Gurdon (Zoology & Comparative Anatomy Oxford), about turning the club into a society, 11-28 June 1963. Bundle of 3 letters between E M Deuchar and Dr McGee Russell (Virus Research Unit, Carshalton, Surrey), 18-20 Oct 1962.

Admin History: Elizabeth Marion Deucher (1927-1979): Biochemical Embryologist; Zoology (Oxford), PhD (Edinburgh) under C. H. Waddington, contributed important work on embryonic induction, uptake of amino acids into embryo from yolk proteins, control mechanisms in somite segmentation and studies in early mammalian embryos; 1953-66: Lecturer and Reader at UCL (Anatomy Department), 1968: University of Bristol, 1972: University of Exeter; Embryologist's Club/SDB Secretary 1962-67. Alan Fisk: B.Sc., 1936 (Imperial College, St Mary's), Biology Department, St Mary's Hospital Medical School, London, Embryologist's Club Secretary 1950-1962, Treasurer 1965- c 1970