Agricultural Research Council (UK research council)
Found in 52 Collections and/or Records:
File concerning Agricultural Research Council studentships, 1979-1990
Contains various proposals for studentships, correspondence with the ARC, internal memoranda, notes and a copy of the AFRC booklet 'Research Student and Supervisor: an approach to good supervisory practice.'
File relating to the ARC Management Services review of engineering services and gardening and grounds services, 1982-1984
Comprises administrative, financial, personnel and estates records of the PRC, as well as reports, publications and visitors books. These files are chiefly those of the PRC Secretary, Alistair Menzies. There is a very limited amount of research material.
File relating to the purchase of Stanhope farm by the Agricultural Research Council, 1949
Comprises administrative, financial and estates records of ABRO, as well as reports, publications and press cuttings. There is also a large amount of research data, including the working papers of the scientist St Clair Taylor.
Files relating to the Agricultural Research Council Rayner Review of Support Services , 1982-1985
Contains a copy of the Rayner Review draft report on stores, buildings and estate management (April 1983) and related notes, memoranda and correspondence.
Files relating to various audits, 1981-1993
These files relate to internal audits conducted by the ARC (later AFRC) as well as the National Audit Office.
Laboratory and capital equipment inventories, 1948-1982
Consists of inventories of scientific apparatus and equipment in the Genetics Department, as well as in the Genetics Film Unit. Files also contain capital equipment returns to the Agricultural Research Council.
List of Beatty's group's publications 1970-1975 with cover page outlining aspects of Beatty's work, 07 October 1975
Front page notes 'ARC ref. D76/5.'
Memorandum on Climatological Work at the ARC Poultry Research Centre, September 1957
Contains various lectures and articles by Greenwood, including some texts from broadcasts and public speeches.
Note summarising the research carried out by Beatty's group, headed 'Report for ARC', 23 March 1976
Papers chiefly relating to patents for the control of sex ratio in mammalian offspring, 1974-1977
Chiefly contains correspondence concerning the patent application process for 'Control of Sex Ratio in Mammalian Offspring' and the grant from the Scottish Milk Marketing Board. Correspondents include the Agricultural Research Council, the University of Edinburgh's Centre for Industrial Consultancy and Liaison and the Scottish Milk Marketing Board.