Pièce VRU/1/11/2/1 - VRU Correspondence (Kenneth M Smith)

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VRU correspondence with (mainly) Kenneth M Smith (KMS), Roy Markham (RM) and others: To Members and Prospective Members from J M Wallace, Chairman, the International Organization of Citrus Virologists, Univ. of California, with attached membership list and membership form, 1 Jan 1959. To Delegates and Members from J M Wallace, Chairman, the International Organization of Citrus Virologists, Univ. of California, with attached paper ' Report of the Business Session Held During the Riverside Conference on Citrus Virus Diseases, Nov 18-22, 1957', 20 Jan 1959. Btw KMS, C H Andrewes, Medical Research Council, London and Dr G H Bergold, Inst. Venezolano de Investigaciones Cientificas, Venezuela, South America, re meeting and report from the Insect Virus Study group on nomenclature incl. non-Linnean binomials, talks with Dr Steinhaus (Prague) and Dr Zhadanov (Stockholm), includes paper 'The Present Status of Insect Virus Nomenclature and Classification', G H Bergold et. al, Feb 1959, diseased caterpillars for a BBC talk, 2 Mar, 28, 28 Oct, 4 Dec 1959. To KMS from J A Tomlinson, National Vegetable Research Stat., Warwick, re invite to give a lecture, ('Recent work on the electron microscophy of viruses' on 12 Nov), 17, 23 Jun, 23 Jul 1959. Btw KMS and P A C Thorne, ARC, re visits abroad and grants, visit, Aug 1959, 10, 11, 16 Mar 1960. To KMS from Miss M S Sladden, ARC, London re invite to conference on scrapie research, 23 Nov 1959. Btw KMS and G G Samuel, ARC, re new glasshouses, moths, A. Mylitta, 4 Dec 1959, 16 Mar 1960. To KMS from W G Alexander, ARC, re visits abroad and grant for CFR, 14 Dec 1959. To KMS from W Ness, ARC, re National Rate area extended to Cambridge, 17 Dec 1959. To KMS and G J Hills from Aeon Labs., Egham, re visits to VRU, maintenance of electron microscope, 1 Jan, 1 Mar, 2 Dec 1960. To KMS from the Home Office (Aliens Dept.) re visa authorised for Tadeusz Bleslaw Grela, 5 Jan 1960. To KMS from Robert W Fulton, Univ. of Wisconsin, USA, re visit to the VRU, 7 Jan 1960. Btw KMS and D l Orme, MAFF, London, re licence order for the VRU under 'Destructive Insects and Pests Order of 1933', 15, 18 Jan 1960. To Simon Frey from J Roberts, Neville Brown and Co. Ltd., London, cover glasses for transparencies, 19 Jan 1960. To KMS from F Wilson, Div. of Entomology, Commonwealth Sci. and Indust. Research org., Australia, re Wilson's appointment as Scientific Liaison Officer at ASLO, London, 19 Jan 1960. To Sirs (VRU) from C W Brookson, The Rubber Research Inst. of Malaya, re rubber seeds sent to the VRU, 1 Feb 1960. Bundle to KMS/RM from Miss Lesley Collins, Birmingham, Graham F Curtis, St Crispin, Northampton and Penelope J Norwood, Victoria, Australia, re requests for employment at the VRU, 15, 16, 20 Feb 1960. Btw KMS and Joseph Xavier Arachi, St Joseph's College, Tiruchirspalli, South India, re request or a scholarship to work at the VRU, 26 Jan, 1 Feb 1960. Btw KMS and Necati Kaskaloglu, (former Colombo Plan student), Plant Protection Inst., Turkey, re sample of plants (eggplant, lettuce, cabbage and spinach) for virus testing, 28 Jan, 15 Feb, 5 Nov 1960. To KMS from D J Macleod, Plant Pathology Lab., CDA Research Stat., Canada, re article in Nature about electron microscopy of viruses, 16 Feb 1960. To KMS from Richard S Thomas, Virus Lab., Univ. of California, Berkeley, re stability of purified TIV, 17 Feb 1960. To KMS from P V Harris, East Malling Research Stat. re Indian student work on eelworms transmitting Arabis mosaic virus, 18 Feb 1960. Btw KMS and Dr John T Stamp, Moredon Inst., Animal Diseases Research Assoc., Edinburgh, re how to send samples in ice, prints of fibres in a pituitary gland with Van Gieson's technnique, 19 Feb, 4 Apr 1960. To VRU from Paul C Ressler Jr., Applied Physics Corporation, USA, re literature on Cary Model 14, 23 Feb 1960. To Mrs Simester, ARA, London from RM, re Mrs Piggott overtime pay, 17 Feb 1960. To KMS from Paul Surany, South Pacific Commission, New Caledonia, re Oryctee research, plans for coming year, 25 Feb 1960. To VRU from A F Bulgin & Co Ltd., Barking, re order for micro switch, 2 Mar 1960. To KMS from J Meltzer, Philips-Duphar, Amsterdam, re sample of Tetranychus mites from lab. culture, questionable nomenclature, ref to article in Nature (184), 3 Mar, 4 Apr 1960. To Dr L Ossowski, Wattle Research Inst., University of Natal, South Africa, re meeting at the Commonwealth Inst. of Entomology, 8 Mar 1960. Btw Roy Markham and Lindsay M Black, Dept. of Botany, Univ. of Illinois, USA, re nucleic acid in leafhopper viruses, wound-tumour virus, 8, 17 Mar 1960. Btw KMS and John Musgrove, The Nuffield Foundation, London, re data from survey collected 1955/6 from VRU being used for report on design of research laboratories, 9, 11 Mar 1960. To KMS from Dr Gordon E Bucher, Entomology Research Centre, Canada, re thanks for reprints 'Bacteria of Grasshoppers of Western Canada', 11 Mar 1960. To Miss Short from A J Gibbs, Rothamsted Experimental Stat., re inoculums of ringspot, tomato spotted wilt, inoculum from R Milne of Wye College, 18 Mar 1960. To KMS from J Rivers, J & A Churchill Ltd., Medical and Scientific Publishers, London, re publishing climate in Eastern Europe 'very confused', 22 Mar 1960. Btw KMS and B D Moreton, MAFF, Ashford, Kent, re dead millipedes (Paradesmus gracilis) from glasshouse in Acol, formaldehyde treatment, 28 Mar, 11 May 1960 To KMS from Btw KMS and Vera Filimon, Inst. Medico-Farmaceutic, Romania, re exchange of books, 19 Apr, 20 May 1960. Goblin Electrical Appliance guarantee certificate, 20 Apr 1960. To KMS from J M Todd, Dept. for Agric., Scotland, request for inoculum for a list of viruses for a collection to freeze dry for teaching, 21 Apr 1960. Btw Dr J H Hitchborn, VRU and Ronald C Close, Rothamsted Experimental Stat., Harpenden, re visit to VRU, strains of PVX onto N. glutinosa, strains worked on by Matthews, virus X and Y work with Dr Kassanis, 25, 26 Apr, 3, 31 May, 2, 14 Jun, 8 Jul 1960. To KMS from M A B Deakin, Beecham Foods Ltd, re viruses, blackcurrants, toxic residue from sprays, 29 Apr 1960. To KMS from J S Porterfield, Med. Research Council, re asking if any positions available for Paul Surany (Hungarian insect physiologist) currently working in Muguga, East Africa, 3 May 1960. To KMS from Russell L Steere, Crops Research Div., US Dept. of Agric., re work on turnip yellow mosaic virus, new lab and electron equipment, 4 May 1960. To KMS from Mel Rubio?, Madrid, re finding accommodation for Mr and Mrs Staley, ring spot in petunias with 3 b & w prints, 11 May 1960. Btw KMS and J MacBain Cameron, Insect Pathology Research Inst., Canada Dept. of Agric., Canada, re visit to VRU on way to Vienna conference, research on Tipula iridescent virus, establishing colony of Pieris, Dr Prebble in Vienna, positions for, Dr Ossowski, Dr Botovitsch, 13, 20 May, 15 Sep, 7 Nov 1960. Btw KMS and D D Jensen, Phytopathologisch Lab., Baarn, Holland, re visit to the VRU, 17, 20 May 1960. Btw KMS and Miss E N Ball, The British Council, Cambridge, re arranging a visit to the VRU for Mr G N Bhatia, a Locust Entomologist from India, and a Columbo Plan trainee attached to the Anti- Locust Research Centre in London, 18 May 1960. Btw KMS and Dr L Broadbent, Glasshouse Crops Research Inst., Rustington, Littlehampton, re TMV on tomato house structures, Dr Eric Taylor, cucumber virus, 19, 20 May, 19 Sep 1960. To Sirs (VRU) from A J Simpson, Director, Steralic Filters, Beaconsfield, re order of filters, 25 May 1960. To VRU from Metalife Liquid Metals Ltd., Harrogate, re order of PFU Thinners, 26 May 1960. To KMS from P T Walker, Colonial Pesticides Research Unit, Porton Down, Wilts., re enclosed sample of diseased Busseola fusca (Maize stalk borer) from Tanganyika, interest in 'repulsive secretion of caterpillars' and the bacteria contained within it, writing to Prof. Steinhaus, 30 May, 3, 9 Nov 1960. To KMS from Francesco B Boselli, Observatorio Di Fitopatologia, Cagliari, Italy, re the Lymantria dispar (pest of cork oaks in Sardinia), 7 Jun 1960. To KMS from I Harpaz, (a former visiting student/worker at VRU), The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, re his teaching and virus work, publications, sending cocoons of Processionary caterpillar, Vienna conference and other news, 10 Jun, 19 Jul 1960. To KMS from Milton W Shaw, Entomology Dept., Marischal College, The North of Scotland College of Agriculture, Aberdeen, re enclosed larvae found on silver birch trees infected with polyhedral virus, control trials with sprays on loopers, outbreaks of O. fageta etc. on birch, 13, 21, 27 Jun, 12 Jul 1960. To KMS from John Finch, Birkbeck College Crystallography Lab., London re Sir Lawrence Bragg exhibit on virus structure for the Royal Soc., 15, 23 Jun 1960. To KMS from W G Robertson, Millhoues, Sheffield, re work on cowpea in Nigeria, Miss Short's cowpeas infected with TMV, visit to the VRU, 19 Jun 1960. To KMS from I W Prentice, MAFF, re tomato scorch, 20 Jun 1960. To KMS from D L Gunn (Director) and J Cranham (Entomologist), Tea Research Inst. of Ceylon, re looking for a virus to control scolytid beetle (Shot-hole Borer), nettle grub research, wilt disease, DDT spray, 21, 23 Jun, 28 Jul 1960. Letter and MS to RM from A D Thomson, Plant Diseases Div., New Zealand: 'Interactions Between Plant Viruses, I. Appearance of New Strains after Mixed Infection with Potato Virus X Strains', 26 Jun 1960. To KMS from Peter S H? The Packhouse, Billingshurst, re cox leaf with Small Ermine Moth, discussion at meeting of hunt for virus material amongst the Tortricid moth, commercial interest in virus sprays? 1 Jul 1960. Btw KMS and O W Shill, MAFF, Newcastle Upon Tyne, re 'Joynson, Crofton, Sweet Pea Problem 1959' and 'Notes - Sweet Pea Problem -Joynson Crofton 1960', memorandum from T A White for sweet peas (1 Jul 1960), 1, 21 Jul 1960. Btw KMS and Rosemary Merivale, King's College Hospital, Preliminary Training Sch., Farnborough, re sweet peas infected with pea mosaic, 3, 21 Jul 1960. To KMS from J Walker, County Beekeeping Officer, Riseholme Farm Inst., Lincoln, re bee paralysis, incl. paralysis due to poisoning by rhododendron and buttercups, biological controls, 4 Jul 1960. To KMS from W M Stanley, Virus Lab., Berkeley, USA, re request to use photograph of TIV crystals for jacket cover, 8, 21 Jul, 9 Aug 1960. To KMS from Humphrey Denham, Manor Farm, Herts., re form of Lunaria biennis (Honesty) requested by the Royal Horticultural Soc. to be examined for virus or genetic mutation, 12, 18 Jul, 15 Aug 1960. Bundle from Aerovap, Shepherd's Aerosols Ltd, re Aerovap installation and invoice, 12, 14, 27 Jul 1960. To KMS from Prof. D P Mellor, Univ. of New South Wales, Australia, re Tipula iridescent virus, 20 Jul 1960. To Sirs, Thermal Syndicate Ltd., Wallsend, re M V lamp for repair, 25 Jul 1960. To KMS from T Swarbrick, Director, Scottish Hort. Research Inst., re Mr W Oleksiak, a scholarship student from the Pomology Experimental Stat., Poland to visit the VRU, 3 Aug 1960. To KMS from G S Bragg? Gatehouse Farm, Woodbridge, Suffolk, re viruses on potato crop, 6 Aug 1960. Btw KMS and B A Porter, Entomology Research Div., US Dept. of Agric., Maryland, USA, re Dr Cressman, shipment of citrus red mites, licence, 8, 12 Aug 1960. To Mrs D Piggott from F Cain, D Matthews & Son Ltd., Liverpool, re photo clips sample, 11 Aug 1960. To KMS from C E Yarwood, Dept. of Plant Pathology, Berkeley, USA, re diseases of sugar beet bacterium not virus, description of his experiments and findings as well as of Drs Ark, Resconich and Schlegel, MS and invite to co-author, 19 Aug, 19 Sep 1960. To KMS from Dr A Krieg, Inst. Für Biologische Schädlingsbekämpfung, Darmstadt, Germany (in German), 1, 20 Sep 1960. To KMS from W Gordon Whaley, the Plant Research Inst., Univ. of Texas, USA, re thanks for epoxy resin, and photographs of Tipula iridescent virus for the Journal, 8 Sep 1960. To KMS from A Ruperez, Laboratorio de Patologia de Insectos, Madrid, request for VRU publications, 9 Sep, 25 Oct 1960. To KMS from Miriam Rothschild, Peterborough, re virus disease in Burnets, 13 Sep 1960. To KMS from Methuen & Co Ltd Publishers, re 'Plant Viruses', 21 Sep 1960. To Basil Kassanis, Rothamsted Experimental Stat. from Roy Markham, VRU re request for some Nicotiana glauca, 28 Sep 1960. To KMS from Prof. V Butovitsch, Statens Skogforskningsinstitut, Stockholm, re purified TIV, use in larvae of Pieris brassicae, death of Dr Ossowski, 30 Sep 1960. To KMS from A W Cressman, entomologist, US Dept. of Agric., California, mites on lemons sent to VRU for analysis, 6 Oct 1960. To KMS from N Caraso and P Favard, Lab. De Synthése Atomique et D'Optique Protonique, Ivry, France (in French), 13 Oct, 14 Nov 1960. To KMS from Lindsay M Black, Dept. of Botany, Univ. of Illinois, USA, article for publication in 'Virology', fellowships, 13 Oct 1960. To KMS from Raymond Weinstein, San Francisco 11, USA, request for print, an architect comparing architecture with photos of viruses, 14 Oct, 1960. To KMS from E G Cox, ARC, 17 Oct 1960. To KMS from S Gershewson, Dept. of Genetics, Acad. Section of the Ukrainian SSR, Kiev, USSR (Russia), re request for sample of Tipula iridescent virus, 14 Oct 1960. To KMS from Mrs Sigrid von Wettstein, Zoological Dept., Statens Skogforskningsinstitut, Stockholm, re TIV infected pupae of Lymantria dispar, TIV generally, 8, 22 Oct, 4 Nov 1960. Btw Miss M N Short and Mrs M P Pursehouse, Houghton House, Norfolk, re identification of Galinsoga parviflora cav. and Veronica serpillifolia, 26 Oct, 7 Nov 1960. To KMS from W J Hall, Commonwealth Inst. of Entomology, re MS for article read at conference, 28 Oct 1960. To KMS from Jack Litwin, Univ. of Chicago, USA, request for consideration for employment with synopsis of education, research interests etc., 28 Oct 1960. To KMS from J C F Hopkins, Commonwealth Mycological Inst., Kew, Surrey, re 'virus disease not in Africa', ref. to list of possibly dangerous viruses not yet in Africa, 4 Nov 1960. To KMS from B D Famison? Rothamsted Experimental Stat., re lettuce ringspot, tomato black ring viruses, 14 Nov 1960. To VRU from Charles Britain (Radio) Ltd., cancelled Avometer order, 30 Nov 1960. To KMS from Stanley W Smee, Rushmere Heath, Ipswich, Suffolk, re request for advice on a virus infecting a bulbous plant, 'Hera and Aurora', nd, c 1960. From Edward A Steinhaus, Dept. of Insect Pathology, Berkeley, USA, re the formation of a new insect pathology department, nd, c Jul 1960. To KMS from Peter Posnette, East Malling Research Stat., sending an aphid for analysis, nd c. 1960. To KMS from Assessorato All'Agricoltura E Foreste, Cagliari, Italy (in Italian), nd, c. 1960. List of addresses: J W Blaszczak, Cambridge, Prof. D? M Joscforic, Belgrade, Dr Zliga? Zoryic, nd, c. 1960.