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Biology

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE

Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:

Figures and plates for publications, 1940-c.1968

 Series
Identifier: Coll-41/4
Scope and Contents The material consists of photographic material, diagrams and illustrations used as figures or plates for Waddington's publications, including: various articles, published in scientific journals, including Evolution, the Journal of Embryology and Experimental Morphology, the Journal of Experimental Biology and ...
Dates: 1940-c.1968

Manuscripts, typescripts and related correspondence, 1923-1975

 Series
Identifier: Coll-41/2
Scope and Contents

The material has been divided into two sections:


  1. manuscripts and typescripts of articles and larger works;
  2. correspondence relating to Waddington's publications
Dates: 1923-1975

Material relating to conferences, meetings and visits, 1936-1975

 Series
Identifier: Coll-41/7
Scope and Contents

Most of the files of correspondence contain original letters from correspondents, as well as manuscript or carbon copies of Waddington's responses.

Dates: 1936-1975

Material relating to societies and organisations, 1946-1976

 Series
Identifier: Coll-41/6
Scope and Contents Waddington was a member of numerous societies throughout his life, many of which were science-related. However, he was also involved with organisations and 'think tanks' with a wide-ranging environmental, societal, political or ethical scope, including the Club of Rome or the Council for Science and Society. Waddington's involvement with other organisations was on a more informal basis, and he also delivered lectures to various societies. The societies covered within this series...
Dates: 1946-1976

Material relating to the University of Edinburgh, 1946-1975

 Series
Identifier: Coll-41/8
Scope and Contents

This material includes correspondence with the ARC and University boards and committees upon which Waddington sat, as well as material concerning Waddington's lectures at the University.

Most of the files of correspondence contain original letters from correspondents, as well as manuscript or carbon copies of Waddington's responses.

Dates: 1946-1975

Material relating to Waddington's lectures, 1955-1974

 Series
Identifier: Coll-41/3
Scope and Contents

The material includes: correspondence and lecture invitations, draft typescripts of lectures and research materials. Most of the files of correspondence contain original letters from correspondents, as well as manuscript or carbon copies of Waddington's responses.

Dates: 1955-1974

Papers of Conrad Hal Waddington

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-41
Scope and Contents Contains: laboratory notebooks and bundles of research notes, including many from Waddington's early years of research in Cambridge in the 1930s; manuscripts, typescripts and related correspondence, including draft manuscripts of New Patterns in Genetics and Development and Principes of Development and Differentiation, and...
Dates: 1923-1976

Personal and departmental papers, 1934-1975

 Series
Identifier: Coll-41/9
Scope and Contents

The material within this series concerns Waddington's own research and professional arrangements, as well as departmental and staffing matters concerned with the Institute of Animal Genetics.

Most of the files of correspondence contain original letters from correspondents, as well as manuscript or carbon copies of Waddington's responses.

Dates: 1934-1975

Subject files in A-Z order, 1942-1975

 Series
Identifier: Coll-41/10
Scope and Contents These files chiefly look to have been collated by Waddington as 'research files' on a particular topic. It would appear that Waddington collected various magazine articles and press cuttings on certain subjects of interest to him or upon which he was writing or lecturing. Many files also contain correspondence relevant to the related research topics, event, lecture and so forth. Most of the files of correspondence contain original letters from correspondents, as well as...
Dates: 1942-1975