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The correspondence chiefly concerns Beale's comments and suggestions of Beisson and Adoutte's paper 'Cytoplasmic Inheritance of Erythromycin resistant mutations in Paramecium aurelia' as well as their collaboration with Beale, 'Genetic control of mitochondria in Paramecium'. Other items of correspondence also cover personal and social matters.

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Contains handwritten notes and data as well as some computer typed pages. Also includes two letters, dated 1956, from Myrtle Schneller at Indiana University, Bloomington, concerning the supply of Paramecia stocks to Beale.

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File also includes offprints by W. John Haynes and collaborators, email correspondence with Haynes and John Preer Jr. and a notebook containing Beale's notes relating to reading materials, experiments and some addresses of colleagues.

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Contains: Chapter 1: Endosymbionts in Ciliates'; Chapter 2: 'The Construction and Reproduction of Organelles in Ciliates'; Chapter IV: 'Determination of Surface Structures of Ciliates' and pages 4-14 of another chapter.

The first page is annotated: 'This was written 15 years after writing the Genetics of P. aurelia i.e. about 1953 - 1968.'

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Notebook contains notes from experiments concerning the injection of Paramecium aurelia into rabbits.

The notebook has been written in from both ends. There are also some loose leaf notes which were inserted into the volume.

Scope and Contents Lined notebook, inscribed 'Sheila M. Telfer', containing experimental notes. The notebook is divided into sections under the following headings: 'Maintenance of kappa particles in cells recently deprived of Gene K (stock 51, syngen 4) of Paramecium aurelia'; 'Study of particle maintenance in Didinium after feeding on particle containing Paramecia' and 'Collections of natural populations of P. aurelia'; '...

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Contains notes regarding crossing experiments with Paramecium. The back of the bound pages contain longhand notes on heredity, gene action, antigen variation in variety 1 of Paramecium aurelia, nuclear and cytoplasmic determinants of hereditary characters in Paramecium aurelia.

Scope and Contents From the Series: Contains chiefly correspondence with publishers and publications including Edward Arnold, Taylor and Francis, Encylopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia of Genetics and the Trends in Genetics journal. Also contains press cuttings reviewing Beale's publications from Cambridge University Press and correspondence with individuals such as John Preer, Sidney Pollack and Keith Vickermann. Except where noted,...

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Contains:

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Offprints include Oscar Hertwig, Richard Hertwig and August Weismann on fertilisation, Renzo Nobili on reproduction and syngens in Paramecium aurelia and Piero Luporini on cellular interactions. Also contains a copy of Genetics of the Protozoa by H.S. Jennings and obituaries of Clifford Dobell and Tracy Sonneborn.

Original box labelled 'Mating Types: Paramecium.'