Box Acc.2013/020, Box 81

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Correspondence about the official opening of the Sir Hugh Robson Building, and about the redesignation of the Department of Cardiology as a World Health Organisation Collaborating Centre for Research and Training in Cardiovascular Diseases.

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Correspondence about a visit by the Principal to the Western General Hospital on 22 August 1989 (including copies of the 1987-88 departmental reports for Medicine, Surgery, Neurosciences and Oncology), correspondence about the production of a fundraising brochure for a proposed Molecular Medicine Centre (with a foreword to be written by the Principal), and correspondence about a visit by Dr Lowe to the Western General Hospital on 29 May 1990.

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Correspondence about increases to grants to fund additional staff posts, correspondence about an academic link between the Department of Meteorology and the Nanjing Institute of Meteorology in China including a copy of the signed agreement from March 1984, correspondence in 1964 about the state of meteorology in the University and the establishment of a separate Department of Meteorology within the Faculty of Science, and correspondence about staffing issues.

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Correspondence about increases to grants to fund additional staff posts, correspondence in 1966 about the establishment of a separate Department of Microbiology within the Faculty of Science, copy of a 1965 report on the Microbiological Culture Collections, correspondence about rent payments for the MRC Microbial Genetics Research Unit in 1969, correspondence about the position of Microbiology in the School of Agriculture in 1984, and correspondence on staffing issues.

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Correspondence about the receipt of royalties from Biogen Inc in relation to University patents on Hepatitis B products, and about Biogen's funding of the Research Chair in Molecular Biology. Includes a copy of a signed annex to a minute of agreement between the University and Professor Murray dated July 1989.

Scope and Contents Correspondence about increases to grants to fund additional staff posts, about the official opening of the Department of Molecular Biology on 15 November 1968 (including invitation lists, copies of the programme, a poster for a celebratory lecture and letters of thanks), about staffing issues, about the provision of office accommodation for the Department in 1968, about the retiming of an examination in 1986, about the establishment of the Biocomputing Research Unit in 1987, and about...

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Correspondence about disabled access to the matriculation process, correspondence about how EUSA and the Sport Union needed to comply with the Disability Discrimination Act, copy of the University's August 2003 Action Plan to ensure compliance with the DDA, and correspondence about staffing issues in the Disability Office.

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Correspondence about the proposal to create a Science and Engineering Library, Learning and Information Centre (SELLIC), including copies of SELLIC Update newsletters and a copy of the SELLIC Competition Conditions and Brief for the architectural competition to build SELLIC.

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Correspondence about Stage 2 of the SELLIC Competition, including technical assessments of each entry and Technical Panel reports.

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Copy of the University of Edinburgh Natural History Collections Annual Report 1996/1997, a briefing note for the naming ceremony for the Natural History Museum Gallery on 12 December 1997, and a timetable and invitation for the ceremony. The Gallery was to be named after Aubrey Manning, Professor of Natural History 1973-1997.