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- nd [c 1960-1978] (Creation)
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Extent: 1 box
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Bought in an auction lot by Anna Cullingford, July 2011
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Glass slides, negatives and some prints of viruses and diagrams, some marked R Horne (Robert W Horne): 6 Ilford Plate Special Lantern Contrasty boxes (5 labelled: 12 plates 6.5 x 9 cm), 1 Ilford Plate Thin Film Half Tone 12 plates 2.5 X 3.5 in, 1 Kodak Plates 8.2 x 8.2 cm, 1 : hand written labels include 'Bacteria', 'Polio', 'L & C + Saponin-Reversable'; yellow kodak box (22.5 x 17.5) labelled '5 x 4 negs, virus models, diagrams etc.' containing assorted glass slides and negatives; shoe box of loose/enveloped negatives, some with handwritten labels ('adenovirus', 'herpes', 'Asian flu', 'Sendai virus', 'Mumps virus' 'published polio virus plates', published herpes virus plates', 'Mycoplasma virus (Compton), 'published ORF virus', 'symmetry diagrams, virus models etc.', 'phage diagrams and published data', 'Kew Wallis'.
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Admin History: Prof. Robert W (Bob) Horne, MA, Sc.D. (Cambridge): appointed head of the new Electron Microscope Laboratory and Photograph Department in April 1968, formed from a combination of staff and apparatus from the Virus Unit, Cambridge and the John Innes Institute. He collaborated with Roy Markham in experiments using high resolution electron micrographs. He retired from JIC in January 1983.