Contains correspondence relating to Waddington's unsuccessful appeal for funding to the MacRobert Trust for the proposed Centre for Human Ecology and School of the Man Made Future. The University was also considering applying to the Trust to fund a Department or Chair of Land Economics and Centre for Reproductive Biology at this time.

Chiefly contains letters to the University of Edinburgh Principal, Michael Swann, from various funding bodies including the World Health Organisation, Rockefeller Foundation, the Wellcome Trust and the MacRobert Trust, generally declining applications for funding. Also contains draft covering letters to various institutions for applications.