The file contains material relating to Lord Rothschild's 1972 green paper, which proposed to transfer £28 million research council funds into various ministries. Waddington's views appeared in The New Scientist on 27 January 1972 and a piece entitled 'Improving the Turkey' appeared in Nature (235, 534, p. 179, 1972). Several typescripts of this, under the title 'Improving the Christmas Turkey', can be found here.

This material also includes copies of 'Framework for Government Research and Development' (July 1972), 'Memorandum by the Council of the Society of the Royal Society on the consultative document' and 'Statement of views expressed by Lord Rothschild' by the Institute of Biology.