University of Edinburgh. Faculty of Veterinary Medicine (1964-:)
Found in 53 Collections and/or Records:
Interviews with former staff of the Institute of Animal Genetics, 1969-1971
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.
Laboratory notes and diagrams relating to "Drosophila" wing and mutation experiments, [c.1947]
'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.
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from John Alexander Fraser Roberts, 25 November 1931
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.'
Material relating to the Epigenetics Research Group, 1952-1972
Contains material relating to the funding of the group and staffing, administration and financial matters.
Notes concerning data about rabbit spermatozoa, Undated, c.1960
Pages numbered and annotated 'I.A.G' - page 10 appears to be wanting. The notes reference research done by Beatty and Napier.
Page mounted with five photographs, Undated, 1930s
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.
Page mounted with four photographs, Undated, 1940s
Page mounted with four photographs, c.1954
Papers concerning the 1966 annual report to the Agricultural Research Council, March 1967
Contains notes relating to research work carried out at the Institute of Animal Genetics.
Papers concerning the reduction in financial aid of overseas postgraduate students, 1967
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.