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University of Edinburgh. Faculty of Veterinary Medicine (1964-:)

 Organization

Found in 53 Collections and/or Records:

Interviews with former staff of the Institute of Animal Genetics, 1969-1971

 Series
Identifier: EUA CA16/1
Scope and Contents

Contains interviews with: Charlotte Auerbach, Alick Buchanan Smith, Lord Balerno, F.A.E. Crew, Frank Fraser Darling, Hugh Paterson Donald, Honor Fell and Alan William Greenwood. The interviewer in all cases is Margaret Deacon.

Dates: 1969-1971

Laboratory notes and diagrams relating to "Drosophila" wing and mutation experiments, [c.1947]

 Item
Identifier: Coll-41/1/11
Scope and Contents

'Century' ringbound notebook, written in from both ends.

The volume is undated, although one page is marked 'Department of Genetics accounts' so the volume must date from after 1947, when Waddington was fully established in the Institute of Animal Genetics.

Dates: [c.1947]

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from John Alexander Fraser Roberts, 25 November 1931

 Item
Identifier: Coll-14/9/37/10
Scope and Contents

Roberts sends Ewart his birthday wishes and tells him that 'we at the Institute of Animal Genetics always remember that it is owing to you that our department was created' and that 'it will never be forgotten that you were an experimentalist on Natural History during a time when experiment had almost ceased.'

Dates: 25 November 1931

Material relating to the Epigenetics Research Group, 1952-1972

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Coll-41/8/7
Scope and Contents

Contains material relating to the funding of the group and staffing, administration and financial matters.

Dates: 1952-1972

Notes concerning data about rabbit spermatozoa, Undated, c.1960

 File
Identifier: Coll-1364/3/34
Scope and Contents

Pages numbered and annotated 'I.A.G' - page 10 appears to be wanting. The notes reference research done by Beatty and Napier.

Dates: Undated, c.1960

Page mounted with five photographs, Undated, 1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1057/6/2/5
Scope and Contents

Recto: photograph of unidentified man; photograph of Alan Greenwood and F.A.E Crew; photograph of Alan Greenwood, F.A.E Crew and J.E Wilson with two unidentified men, outside a building.

Verso: Two photographs of the Institute of Animal Genetics building under snow.

The photographs are undated, but are likely to date from before the Second World War, when Crew and Greenwood were both still based at the Institute of Animal Genetics.

Dates: Undated, 1930s

Page mounted with four photographs, Undated, 1940s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1057/6/2/11
Scope and Contents Recto: photograph of the Institute of Animal Genetics building, with the Poultry Research Centre in background; photograph of a woman, captioned 'Evelyn' and dog 'Pip' lying on grass. Verso: sepia photograph of Alan Greenwood, A. Dods, W. Smith and two unidentified men in Home Guard uniform standing in front of a line of cars outside the Institute of Animal Genetics, annotated 'K.B [King's Buildings] Home Guard (Transport)'; group photograph labelled 'K.B Home Guard', possibly...
Dates: Undated, 1940s

Page mounted with four photographs, c.1954

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1057/6/2/76
Scope and Contents Recto: photograph of B.M. Slizynski, Helen Slizynska, Dr Kaufman, Dr Grjewski, Dr Blyth outside the Institute of Animal Genetics building; photograph of Dr P.E Lake looking down a microscope and Miss Ishbel Paterson holding a cockerel. Verso: photograph of Alan Greenwood with James Ritchie and R.C Fisher at a desk, taken at a meeting of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (picture credited to Edinburgh Evening News); photograph of Alan Greenwood seated on a...
Dates: c.1954

Papers concerning the 1966 annual report to the Agricultural Research Council, March 1967

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1364/5/33
Scope and Contents

Contains notes relating to research work carried out at the Institute of Animal Genetics.

Dates: March 1967

Papers concerning the reduction in financial aid of overseas postgraduate students, 1967

 Item
Identifier: Coll-41/8/13
Scope and Contents

Contains several copies of a typescript titled 'Overseas Graduate Students at the Institute of Animal Genetics, Edinburgh', written by Waddington in response to a circular letter from the Council for Scientific Policy.

Dates: 1967