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One menu is from the Royal Society Dining Club, which dined at the Poultry Research Centre on 04 June 1951; the second menu is from the Directors' Dinner, 24 October 1951.

Scope and Contents Contains signatures and addresses from visitors to the Poultry Research Centre, as well as pages dedicated to the attendees of particular events, such as Poultry Research Centre 'Christening Party' (1950). There are signatures by academics from universities and institutions around the world, key figures at the University of Edinburgh such as Edward Appleton and J. Russell Greig, and politicians such as Denzil Freeth, Michael Clark Hutchison and Herbert Morrison. The volume also...

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The paper is a brief biographical history of the Directors' Club, an annual social event involving the directors of Scottish Agricultural Research Institutes. Begun in 1942, Greenwood soon became the chef and host of the event, both at the Institute of Animal Genetics and then the Poultry Research Centre, until his retirement in 1962.

Scope and Contents The memorandum appears to consist of two separate parts: the first being titled 'The Poultry Research Centre of the Agricultural Research Council 1947-1962: A Director's Story (compiled as memory serves, and perhaps as conscience dictates'; and the second a shorter summary of the Poultry Research Centre's involvement with the Agricultural Research Council (which begins with a W.H Auden quote beginning 'Thou shalt not worship Projects...'), together with a list of publications sorted by...