Série VRU/1/7/1 - VRU Correspondence: Kenneth M Smith

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Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAFF); Agricultural Research Council (ARC) Kenneth M Smith (KMS); Mrs D Piggott - Secretary to KMS Bundle of letters and papers to KMS from W Ness, ARC, London, re financial estimates for 1957-58 and 1958-59 regarding grants from the ARC, includes paper (4 pp) of VRU financial outgoings and estimates for 1956-1959, a (4pp) memorandum for grant aided bodies, 1 p estimates 1958-9 for equipment, letters re supplementation of pensions and paper (1pg) about increase in pensions from April 1956, 19 Nov 1955, 25, 28 Feb, [?] Aug, 1957. Bundle: To KMS from H S Wright, Hotpoint Ltd., replacement parts for the service cabinet at the field lab., 9 Aug 1957 and maintenance agreement for refrigeration equipment with Griddlestone Refrig. Ltd., Woodbridge, Suffolk, 2 Mar 1957. To KMS from Ministry of Works, Cambridge, re maintenance of refrigerators maintenance agreement, 4 Mar 1957. To KMS (Sir) from Minoru Tamashiro, Entomology Dept., Univ. of Hawaii re replacing Dr Yoshinori, request for reprints, Dec 1957. Btw KMS and T E Pearson, ARC, London re inventory of permanent equipment for new laboratory, includes 3 lists of items: 'Additions and or deletions...year ending 31 March 1958' 'Stock as at 31st May 1957' and VRU Laboratory Equipment 1957', 14 May, 2, 11 Jun 1958. From KMS to T E Pearson, details of Spinco Model E ultra-centrifuge with list of prices for cells and accessories and ultraviolet accessories, 4 Sep 1958. Bundle of correspondence and forms re the Eastern Electricity Board, Cambridge, application form for supply of electricity signed by KMS, 17 Oct 1957, an insulation test report and maintenance report for University Farm, Huntingdon Road, 9 Dec 1957, letters re electrical installation of Huntingdon Road Field Unit, modifications, repairs, inspection, 4, 5 Mar, 1, 25, 28 Apr, 18 Jun 1958. To KMS from Bary/Roy Baldwin? Dept. of Agric., Kawanda Research Stat., Kampala, Uganda, re description of plants for testing for viruses, 12 Nov 1957. Bundle of letters to KMS re estimates for construction for heating the greenhouse from William Sindall Ltd., C J Woolfenden and J O Lowe and Sons, Ltd., letter from the ARC, London agreeing to work on heating and sink and water supply to men's room, 23 Nov, 11 Dec 1957, 17 Apr, 12, 20 Jun 1958. To KMS from Hisno Aruga, Prof. of Sericulture, Japan, re thanks for reprints, silkworm larvae viruses in Japan, 5 Dec 1957, 3 Feb 1958. To KMS from MAFF, Emergency Services Division I, re a mission of European scientists from O.E.E.C countries, visit to VRU, 12 Dec 1957, 28 Jan, 1, 9 May 1958. To the Director of the VRU from Wiggins, Teape & Co. Ltd., Paper Makers, London, re vegetable parchment market research, 6 Jan 1958. To KMS from Guido Fratini, Comitato Nazionale per la Produttivita, Italy, re granulosis virus from P. brassicae, 7 Jan 1958. To KMS from Brian Treadle and J A Scott Watson, The Agricultural Review, London re his article 'Some plant and insect viruses in relation to agriculture', 9, 13 Jan, 15 Apr 1958. To KMS from Ray Baldwin, Kawada Research Stat., Uganda, re peas affected by mosaic virus, 10 Jan 1958. Btw KMS, Mrs D Piggott and R G Chatelain for R Whitesmith, ARC, London re grants for visits abroad, grant for Roy Markham and J D Smith for the Biochemical Congress in Vienna, 10 Jan, 30 May, 2 Jun 1958. To KMS from Dr Maria Borges, Sacavem, Portugal, re Solanaceae seeds, 14 Jan [?], 6 Nov 1958. To K M Smith from Dr C Ellenby, Univ. of Durham, re dead potato eelworm cyst, discussion of eelworm survival in unused soil, 15 Jan, 8 Jul 1958. To KMS from V P Whittaker, ARC, Inst. of Animal Physiology, Babraham Hall, Cambridge, re request for electron micrograph of subcellular particles in mammalian brain; re Dr G S Coleman request for an electron micrograph of a rumen micro-organism, 17 Jan, 2 Jul 1958. To KMS from Osvaldo Levisolo, Ministero Dell'Agricoltura E Delle Foreste, Stazione Di Patologia Vegetale, Turin, Italy, re inoculating tomatoes with bushy stunt from petunia, Levisolo's experiments with tomatoes and conditions in North Italy, his manuscript on one of the viruses he worked on during his year at the VRU and asks KMS to look at the English summary, 24 Jan 1958. To KMS from Prof. S Strugger, Botanisches Inst., Wilhelms Univ., Munster, Germany (in German), 25 Jan 1958. To KMS from C R Metcalfe, Botanical Sec., The Linnean Soc. of London; Prof. I Manton, Botany Dept., Leeds, re the Linnean Soc. symposium on the uses of electron microscopes, request for Smith to contribute, 27, 29 Jan 1958. Btw KMS and Johnathan Fallowfield Ltd., re disputed bill, 4, 26 Feb 1958. Btw KMS and T E Pearson, ARC, London re purchases of French centrifuge, Permutit deioniser, Spinco, Zeiss stereoscope; Dr J D Smith, 5, 14 Feb 1958. Btw KMS and L G Knight, Director of Parks, Allotments & Cemeteries Dept., Civic Hall, Leeds, re Miss Turner of Leeds Univ. examined Cineraria plants from Parks' nurseries and suspects Tomato Spotted Wilt and Ring Spot No. 2, requesting confirmation from VRU; no virus found, 11 Feb, 10 Mar 1958. To KMS from E B Anderson, enclosing a Galanthus plicatus for virus testing, 17, 20, 24 Feb 1958. Btw KMS and J T Legg, East Malling Research Stat., Nr. Maidstone, Kent, re Legg's interest in leafhopper transmitted virus from dead nettles discovered by Dr I Harpaz and relationship with Humulus with Urtica dioica. This turned out to be another Labiate, Black horehound but still of interest to Legg and his research on alternative hosts of hop virus diseases, 18, 20, 25 Feb 1958. To KMS from J H Shimwell, ARC, London, re valuation of VRU for payment of rates, 19 Feb 1958. To KMS from Lindsay M Black, University of Illinois, re attendance at congress, 24 Feb 1958. To KMS from W Ness, ARC, London re allocation of £26,526 to the VRU for maintenance and £2,005 for additional staff, ban on recruitment lifted and cuts reduced, includes 'a detailed list of VRU annual expenses, 'VRU Estimates for Financial Year 1958-59' (2 pp), 25 Feb 1958. To KMS from M B V Roberts re thanks for exhibit at the Nat. History Society, 25 Feb 1958. Btw KMS and W Ness, ARC, London and W J Sartain, University of Cambridge, re salaries and pensions of technical and clerical staff, transfer from University to ARC (VRU) at the new laboratory at the Huntingdon Road site, includes lists of staff salary scales and pension schemes, 5, 5 Mar, 23 Jun, 3, 3 Jul, 30 Oct 1958. Btw KMS and Dr S P Raychaudhuri, Kalimpong, Darjeeling, India, re a new plant virus lab. research sub stat. for the Indian Agric. Research Inst. in the Eastern Himalayas, summary of their research interests, request for reprints and papers for publication in their journal, 1, 10 Mar 1958. To KMS from Russell L Steere, Univ. of California, re Steere's manuscript, meet in Cambridge, 1 Mar, 30 Apr 1958. To KMS from Colin Cadman, Scottish Hort. Research Inst., re mosaic virus, raspberry yellow being the same, 12 Mar 1958. To KMS from F Veall, MAFF, London, re heating of the glasshouses, construction and cost estimates, 14 Mar 1958. To KMS from W G Alexander, ARC, London, re £25 for C F Rivers to travel to Prague, ARC foreign travel fund, attached to a paper by Paul Surany 'The nature of Diseases Attacking Cryctes spp.', 10 pp, 17 Mar 1958. To KMS from Paul Surany, South Pacific Commission, New Caledonia, from Kikuyu, Kenya, re his research on the biological control of the coconut rhinoceros beetle in the South Pacific area, schedule for his visit to UK and Cambridge and thanks for Smith's cooperation with electronmicroscopial studies, 18, 29 Mar 1958. To Sirs (VRU) from W L Wray, Wandleside Cable Works Ltd., London, re brochure for 'Hortiwarm', a system of soil-warming and air-heating for greenhouses, includes brochure and a reprint 'new Protection System for soil warming cables' by H H Lawrence, from Electrical Times (30 Jan 1958), 20 Mar 1958. To KMS from J S F Law, K H J Clarke, ARC, London, re breaking of concrete posts and failed insurance claim, 20, 28 Mar, 20 Jun 1958. To KMS from D K Jardine, Villa Marienia, France, re advice on market for an insecticide, West African Cacao Research Inst., swollen shoot disease, 2 Apr 1958. To KMS from W Ness, ARC, London, re provisional differentiation in salaries, includes memorandum E/112, 1 pp showing salary scales (April 1958), P.S.C Salary scale (1pp), 2, 25 April, 19 Oct 1958. To KMS from Marjorie R M Clark, the West of Scotland Agric. College, re Krelage's Triumph tulip sample with suspected Pythium virus, 4 Apr 1958. Btw KMS and J W Blaszozak re research on ability of bacteriophage to grow on bacteria, 5, 29 April 1958. Bundle re Dr N Xeros, Commonwealth Serum Labs., Melbourne, Australia: 2 letters from Xeros re research, looking for a job, request to post thesis to Dr J Weiser, paper on RNA of cytopolyhedrosis viruses, 2 Jun, 11 Nov 1958; letters from C H Andrewes, Med. Research Council, A J Williams, Univ. of Western Australia and E P Thomas, Australian Nat. Univ. re jobs/refs, 7, 17, 23 Jun; job description for Senior/Research Fellow at the Australian Nat. Univ., 18 April. To KMS from W Ness, ARC, London re £80 for greenhouse rewiring, 23 Apr 1958. Btw KMS and Donald Green, Royal Hort. Gardens, Wisley, re Daphne odora alba fascination test request, 30 Apr, 21 May 1958. To KMS and Mr M W Rees from W Ness, ARC, London, re transfer of Rees from Prof. Young to VRU as Principal Scientific Officer from 1 Aug 1958, 7 May, 11, 11 Jul 1958. Agenda and Minutes of the MAFF Advisory Service, Experimental Husbandry Farm, Boston, Lincs., Fram Advisory Committee, Kirton and Terrington St. Clement Experimental Farms, 12 May, 13 Oct 1958. To KMS from J B Legge, Tobacco Research Board of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, re tobacco material injected with Rosette disease, requesting meeting with KMS in Cambridge, 14 May 1958. To KMS from Max A Lauffer, Univ. of Pittsburgh, re Lauffer's paper for Nature, importance of his finding re 'assembly of protein subunits into their ultimate helical form into tobacco mosaic virus', asks for KMS to use influence to get it published, 17 May 1958. To KMS from A F Posnette, East Malling Research Stat., Maidstone, Kent, re strawberry aphids bred on caged F. vesca failing, 22 May, 2 Jun, 11, 16 Jul 1958. To the Director, VRU from J S Wilson & Son, Cambridge re bookbinding service, 23 May 1958. To KMS from Leon J J Ossowski, the Wattle Research Instit., Univ. of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa and Plateau Wattle Co. Ltd., Kenya Colony, re A. niobe, field tests, the X1th Int. Congress of Entomology and symposium in Vienna, experiments with polyhedra, 31 May, 7, 9, 21 Jun, 23 Jul, 2 Dec 1958. To KMS from P S Milne, MAFF, Harpenden, sacbrood-infected honeybee larvae, 29 May, 1 Jun 1958. To KMS and Mr M W Johnson, Cirencester, Glous., re Johnson's successful application for an ARC two-year research studentship in biochemistry at the VRU, 19, 19 Jun 1958. To KMS from Robley C Williams, Berkeley, Univ. of California re using the Araldite to penetrate cells, 23 Jun 1958. To KMS from J C F Hopkins, Commonwealth Mycological Inst., Surrey, re tobacco stunt virus, 25 Jun 1958. To J O Lowe and Sons, Cambridge from KMS re estimate for heating glasshouse accepted, 25 Jun 1958. Btw KMS and D W Beard, William Sindall Ltd., Cambridge re estimate accepted for sink to mess room, 25, 27 Jun 1958. From KMS to Inst. de Microbiologie, Bucharest, Romania and Kurt Jacoby, Academic Press Ltd., New York, re exchange of journals, 25, 25 Jun 1958. To KMS from Cyril Darlington, Botany Dept., Oxford, re request for Oxford graduate Richard Tilney-Bassett to work at VRU for a month to learn virus techniques to facilitate virus work at Oxford 25 Jun 1958. To KMS from John, MAFF, Woodthorne, Wolverhampton, 25 Jun 1958. Btw KMS and Prof. M Klinkowski, Inst. fur Phytopathologie, Ascherleben, Germany, re virus of dead nettle, KMS refers him to Dr Harpaz, Hebrew Univ., Israel, 26 Jun, 3 Jul 1958. To KMS from G H Parkinson, Lancashire County Council, Hutton, re sample of tomato foliage infected with tobacco mosaic virus, 30 Jun 1958. Btw KMS, Miss M N Short, Mrs D Piggott and Mr T Mulligan, Rothamsted Exp. Stat., re Mulligan's experiments on Cocksfoot viruses, with Myzus persicae on the Cocksfoot Streak, testing aphids on S143, S37, S26, sap inoculation, Italian Ryegrass, mites (A.hystrix), news from Dr Slykhuis in Ottawa re mites with Agropyron Streak, 2, 7 Jul, 25, 29 Sep, 24, 27 Oct, 24 Nov 1958. To KMS from P A C Thorne, ARC, London, request for information on any eminent visiting scientists/research workers at VRU and staff working abroad in an annual form, 4 Jul 1958. Btw KMS and Western Printing Services Ltd. re offprints of 'Scientific Basis of Medicine Vol. VI' without plates, 4, 8 Jul 1958. To KMS from G H Bergold, Dept. of Agric., Science Service, Ontario, Canada, re nomenclature, 8 July 1958. To KMS from E A Parkin, Pest Infestation Lab., Slough, re Tineola bisselliella failure, polyhedral disease in clothes moths, 14 Jul, 18 Nov 1958. To KMS from C A Bethell, The Shannon Ltd., re lateral filing to save floor space, 28 Jul 1958. To KMS from C W Graham, Advisory Entomologist, MAFF, South eastern region, Reading, re Phlox drummondii tests for leaf-hoppers and soil samples, 31 Jul 1958. To KMS from Dr Robert Dourmashkin, Lab. of Electron Microscopy, Inst. de Recherches sur le Cancer, Gustave, Roussy, re thanks for visit; Dr Horne, Cavendish Lab.; micrographs using plastic notebooks with manufacturer's details, 1 Aug 1958. Btw KMS and Dr Daniel Lihnell, Statens Vaxtakyddsanstalt, Stockholm, Sweden, re seeds for varieties of rape and reseda which KMS had requested during his visit to Sweden, Winter Rape Matador, Reseda odorata and Reseda phyteuma, symptoms of TYM on different varieties and Cleome, 27 Aug, 17 Nov 1958. Journal of General Microbiology, despatch dates, 1 Sep 1958. Btw KMS and Prof. Tokuzo Hirai, Nagoya University, Japan, re manuscript on effect of tobacco virus on rates of respiration of the leaves of Nicotiana glutinosa L., requesting proof reading, 1 Sep, 9 Dec 1958. From Academic Press Inc with K M Smith copied in: to Inst. Microbiologie, Parasitologie Si Epiidemiologie, Bucharest, Romania, re exchange of journals, 2 Sep 1958; to Kurt Jacoby (Academic Press Inc) from Albert B Sabin, re unable to write article, 31 Oct 1958. Btw KMS and Irvin M Hall, Citrus Experiment Stat. California and A W Cressman, US Depart. Agric. ( KMS had recently visited Hall's Lab.) re diseased citrus red mites specimens, data, possibility of joint publication, includes paper on diseased citrus red mites by F Munger and J E Gilmore, 11 Sep, 20 Oct, 15 Nov 1958. Btw KMS and Mauro E Martignoni, Univ. of California, re reprint on the microinjector needle for microfeeding requested by KMS while in Berkeley, 24 Sep, 17 Nov 1958. Btw KMS and A Oates, ARC, London, re installing controlled environment facilities, humidity chambers, 30 Sep, 14, 18 Nov 1958. To Dr V Armstrong, New Zealand Scientific Office, Africa House, W.C.2. from J D Smith, Huntingdon Rd (VRU), re report on Mr A D Thomson, 8 Oct 1958. Btw KMS and S Achmadhy, Republic of Indonesia, Ministry of Agriculture, re experiments with Plutella maculipennis, Crocidolomic binocaliszell, Artona catoxanthe Hamps., 9 Oct, 7, 18 Nov 1958. Btw KMS/C F Rivers and G Douglas Austin, Tea Research Inst. of Ceylon, re Noctuid caterpillars Prodenia litura, diagnosed granulosis virus disease, 13, 29 Oct 1958. Btw RM and R W Marsh, Research Station, Long Ashton, Bristol, Hon. Ed., The Annals of Applied Biology, re Sidor's paper, 4 Sep, 14 Oct 1958. To KMS from Rupert J Best, Reader in virology, Waite Agric. Research Inst., University of Adelaide, re request to work at VRU, 8 Sep 1958. To KMS from Miss A M Everard, The British Council, Cambridge, re Prof. Itaru Watanabe, Univ. of Tokyo visit to VRU, includes his CV, 15 Sep 1958. Btw KMS and Dr J Franz, Biologische Bundesanatalt für Land und Forstwirtschaft, Germany, re Tineola bisselliella, request to use photograph, 30 Sep, 11, 15 Nov 1958. Btw KMS and Dr Joseph L Melnick, Prof. of Virology and Epidemiology, Baylor Univ., Houston, Texas, USA, re reprints requested by KMS while in Houston of the first electron micrograph of crystalline animal viruses, human wart virus, developmental bodies of Vaccinia virus similar to Tipula, 10 Oct, 15 Nov 1958. To KMS from Dr Veljko J Nikolic, Novi Sad, Yugoslavia, re thanks for stay in Cambridge, future plans for work on viruses, C F Rivers visit to Yugoslavia, 24 Oct 1958. Btw KMS and R Tilney-Bassett, dept. Botany, Oxford re visit to VRU, 24, 29 Oct, 10, 13, 17, 18 Nov 1958. To KMS from Edward A Steinhaus, Univ. of California, re new Journal of Insect Pathology to be published by Academic Press Inc., 31 Oct 1958. Btw KMS and Dr R Bovey, re embedding medium for ultra-thin sectioning, 31 Oct, 15 Nov, 1958. Btw KMS and G G Samuel, ARC, London, re control of cabbage white butterfly using virus, 11, 17 and 19 Nov 1958. To KMS from A W Cressman, Entomologist, US Dept. of Agric., California, re citrus red mite, 12 Nov 1958. To Prof. J S Mitchell, Dept of Radio Therapeutics, Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge from KMS re letter from Mr Fisher, 13 Nov 1958. Btw KMS and Donald Cation, Michigan State University, re photographs of the gumming and necrosis of Shirofugan flowering cherry, 13, 26 Nov 1958. To the telephone manager, G P O Telephones, Cambridge, re connection, 14 Nov 1958. Btw KMS and Dr M I Goldin, Inst. of Microbiology, Moscow, re exchange of articles and books, 15 Nov and nd 1958. To KMS from Lilian E Hawker (Lilian Edith Hawker, micologist, 19 May 1908 – 5 February 1991), Dept. Botany, Univ. of Bristol, re request to use photographs for book on microbiology, 17 Nov 1958. To KMS from P J Macfarlane, MAFF, re N A A S journal reviews and articles, 19 Nov 1958. To KMS from K C P N [?], Lodge Farm, Compton, Wolverhampton, with sepia print of a field of plants, 19 Nov 1958. To KMS from W F Rochow, Cornell Univ., USA re experiments on aphids and membranes, 25 Nov 1958. Btw Dr C W Bennett, Plant Pathologist, Salinas, California and K M Smith, re the Plant Disease reporter, Mr Dewey Stewart, 26 Nov, 9 Dec 1958. To KMS from R Whitesmith, ARA, London, re request from the British Council to arrange a year's study for Dr Emanuel Marcelli of Italy, an Int. Energy Agency Fellowship candidate, 27 Nov 1958. To Director of Cambridge Univ. and Town Water co. re new fire hydrant, 3 Dec 1958. Btw KMS and Dr Paul Miller, Plant Disease Reporting Section, U.S Dept. of Agric., Maryland, USA, re placing Miller on mailing list for the 'Plant Disease Reporter and Supplements', 3, 16 Dec 1958. To KMS from [?] Borg, Stations Federales D'Essais Agricoles, re Mr O Aubert, a PhD student from Switzerland working on tobacco virus to work at VRU, 12 Dec 1958. To KMS from J A Churchill Ltd. Medical and Scientific Publishers, London, re Prof. Darlington's book 'An Introduction to Cytology', concerns about finishing it, advice requested for possible authors and titles for their 'Recent Advances' series, 12 Dec 1958. To KMS from W Ness, ARC London, re compressor, purchasing houses, 15 Dec 1958. To KMS from H C F Newton, ARC, Wolverhampton, re cereal root eelworm, Russell Lupins, 17 Dec 1958. To KMS from Walter Jepson[?], Imperial College, London, Field Stat., Silwood Park, Sunning Hill, Berks, re infestation of [?] with a yeast, 20 Dec, c 1958. To KMS from Johan W Hillbom, Almqvist & Wiksell, Uppsala and Stockholm, re reprints of Symposium Volume of the VII Int. Congress for Microbiology, 30 Dec 1958.