THE ROYAL COMMISSION ON HISTORICAL MANUSCRIPTS
Report on the correspondence and papers of
CYRIL DEAN DARLINGTON
(1903 - 1981)
geneticist
deposited in the
Bodleian Library, Oxford
(CSAC 106/3/85)
Reproduced for the Contemporary Scientific Archives Centre
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1985
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CONTEMPORARY SCIENTIFIC ARCHIVES CENTRE
British National Committee for the History of Science, Medicine and Technology
under the guidance of the Royal Society’s
Catalogue of papers and correspondence of
CYRIL DEAN DARLINGTON
(1903 - 1981)
Compiled by
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List of Contents
General Introductions
Sections A- E
Jeannine Alton and Peter Harper
1985
Deposited in the Bodleian Library, Oxford
All rights reserved
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Processing
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The Institution of Mechanical Engineers
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NOT ALL THE MATERIAL IN THE COLLECTION IS YET
AVAILABLE FOR CONSULTATION.
ENQUIRIES SHOULD
BE ADDRESSED IN THE FIRST INSTANCE TO:
BODLEIAN LIBRARY,
THE KEEPER OF WESTERN MANUSCRIPTS,
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LIST OF CONTENTS
GENERAL INTRODUCTION
’ SECTION A
BIOGRAPHICAL AND PERSONAL
A.1 - A.207
A.l.
-A.16
Autobiographical and bibliographical
A.17 -A.98
Diaries and jotters
A.99 -A.118
School and university
A.119-A.138
Personal correspondence and material
A .139-A.199
Family correspondence and material
A.200-A. 207
Photographs and press~cuttings
SECTION 8B
JOHN INNES HORTICULTURAL INSTITUTION
(from 1960: JOHN INNES INSTITUTE)
;
B.1 - B.98
Introduction to Section B
SECTION C
OXFORD
C.i+C.425
B.1 -B.18
B.19-B.50
B.ot-B.79
B.80-B .92
Minutes and reports
Lectures and summer courses
Later correspondence and papers, 1954-80
Darlington's career at John Innes, 1923-40
General administration and organisation, 1930-53
Nuneham Courtenay Arboretum
Botanic and Genetic Gardens
Darlington's career ct Oxford
C.12-C.82
Botany Department
General administration
Introduction to Section C
B.93-B.98
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Lectures and teaching
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C.83 -C.109
Oxford reform
C.110-C.115
Magdalen College
C.116-C.121
Oxford colleges and societies
C.122-C.125
Historical miscellany
SECTION D
RESEARCH
D.1-D.206
Introduction to Section D
List of topics
SECTION E
PUBLICATIONS
Introduction to Section E
E.1
:+E.653
Publications and drafts
E.654-E.675
Miscellaneous and unpublished material
F .676-E.710
Editorial correspondence and material
Introduction to Section J
SECTION G
List of contents
SECTION F
Introduction to Section F
F.1 -F.66
Lectures
Introduction to Section G
F.67-F.120
Broadcasts
LECTURES AND BROADCASTS
F.1-F.120
SOCIETIES AND ORGANISATIONS G.1-G.110
INDEX OF INDIVIDUALS AND ORGANISATIONS
VISITS AND CONFERENCES
Introduction to Section H
SECTION J
CORRESPONDENCE
Jii1- 127
SECTION H
H.1-H.187
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GENERAL INTRODUCTION
PROVENANCE
The material, which is very extensive, was assembled at various dates between
August 1981 and March 1985, from Darlington's room at the Department of Botany, Oxford,
~ and his home at South Hinksey, Oxford, through the courtesy of his widow, Mrs. Gwendolen
Darlington, and of Professor P.D.A. Harvey, his stepson and literary executor.
OUTLINE OF THE CAREER OF C.D. DARLINGTON
Darlington was born in 1903, in Chorley, Lancashire, the second son of a serious~
minded and hard-working family.
His father was a schoolmaster until ill health obliged
him to adopt a new career as private secretary to the distinguished German chemist
K.E. Markell and to move with his family to Ealing. | Darlington was educated at Mercer's
School, Holborn, 1912-17, St. Paul's School, 1917-20 and Wye College, Ashford, 1920-
23.
In 1923 he began an association of more than thirty years with the John Innes
Horticultural Institution which he entered as a 'volunteer unpaid worker', later becoming
head of the Cytology Department (1937) and Director (1939).
Here much of his most
important work on cytology and chromosome theory was done, augmented by expeditions
and work abroad and by contacts with many distinguished British, American and Russian
workers in the field.
In 1953 Darlington resigned from the Institution, which had removed in 1949 from
Arboretum, and espoused the cause of extending the teaching of genetics in particular and
teaching, research and publication, he took a keen interest in the Botanic Garden, created
Sherardian Professorship of Botany at Oxford.
Here, in addition to the 'routine’ work of
the Genetic Garden, played an active part in the acquisition of Nuneham Courtenay
its original home at Merton to a new site at Bayfordbury near Hertford, and accepted the
made in some of the catalogue entries.
Sciences, which he had encouraged.
On retirement in 1971 Darlington remained in Oxford
Memoirs of Fellows-of the Royal Society, 29, 1983, pp.113-157, to which reference is
An account of Darlington's life and work by D. Lewis can be found in Biographical
science in general in the University.
A lasting result was the new School of Human
where he continued to study and publish extensively until his death in 1981.
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DESCRIPTION OF THE COLLECTION
The material, which fully documents all aspects of Darlington's career, is presented
in the order shown in the List of Contents; additional explanatory notes accompany many
of the Sections, sub-sections and individual entries in the catalogue.
The following
paragraphs aim only to draw attention to matters of particular substance or interest.
The division into Sections, though real enough, is no more than convenient, and
introduces a sense of linear development particularly artificial in the case of Darlington
who interwove past and present, friendships and controversy, research and personality into
a deliberate dialectic throughout his career.
Cross-references have been provided where
possible to link topics or correspondents between Sections, but these are no more than
pointers and it remains essential to view the collection as an entity.
Darlington never wrote, or at least never completed, an autobiography (see E.471
for a statement of his intention to do so).
In another sense, his whole life could be seen
as an autobiography, seen through his diaries and jotters, the many historical accounts -
published and unpublished - of episodes in his career and of friends or enemies made and
cherished, or in the more extended narratives compiled for the Royal Society and other
stance which constituted his person and his role.
Section A contains the greatest number of overtly autobiographical and personal
material in the form of narratives, diaries and jotters.
Darlington's own career is more
received from others.
Viewed in this manner, few can have revealed themselves more
aware of himself as an actor in his own life, aware of the value of his work, and eware
organisations.
To these must be added the innumerable comments and reflections added
of the many interlocking factors and influences of nature and nurture, heredity and circum-
fully, or more deliberately, for Darlington was among the most self-conscious of men,
not excepting earlier stages of his own work and certainly not sparing letters and papers
in manuscript and at various dafes to virtually every document that passed through nis hands -
austerity, of the Darlington family ambience and the seemingly affectionate and easy
exchanged with his parents 1920-49 (A.169~A.195) are revealing of the seriousness, even
as well as illuminating several aspects of Darlington's early career.
The letters and cards
lishment figure.
On the other hand, the family correspondence is of some general interest
fully documented in Sections B (John Innes) and C (Oxford) and there are relatively few
honours, awards or records of public life,
for Darlington was far removed from an estab~
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relations between parents and son.
Mrs. Darlington especially, who writes to both her
sons as 'My dear old’ Alfred or Cyril, has a spontaneous charm of expression as well as,
when required, a forthrightness worthy of Cyril.
Also in Section A are records of
Darlington's extreme. care for his own publications, their progress and incorporation in
an ongoing bibliography, and his lasting resentment of any tampering with them (or, as
he put it, 'censorship' or 'suppression').
Section B includes material relating to Darlington's own career at the John Innes
Horticultural Institution, its uneasy constitution, the move to Bayfordbury, and the problems
of the organisation of a research establishment high-lighted by Darlington's departure for
Oxford.
There are Annual Reports and Minutes - liberally annotated - going back to the
earliest days of the Institution in 1910.
Section C records Darlington's career at Oxford,
both in its embattled aspects of 'Oxford Reform’ (C.83-C.109) and its gentler features
such as the building-up of the Botanic and Genetic Gardens, and the interest in Oxford
history and topography.
Section D (Research) corresponds to Darlington's own description of the material
and includes his own early notebooks and observations.
A substantial portion (D.31-D.122)
a useful assemblage of contemporary ideas and publications on various topics.
The most substantial Section in the collection is
E (Publications), which enforces
scientific papers of all periods and technical range, as also the drafts and publishing
this Section not only chronicles the development of Darlington's thinking but also provides
own ordering
of his papers which has been respected.
The 'background information’ in
Russian genetics and the Lysenko controversy.
This is an obvious area of overlap with
as for his prolific output as researcher, polemicist and reviewer.
The material includes
is devoted to history of science and scientists, notably William Bateson, and to N.1. Vavilov,
other Sections such as E (Publications) and J (Correspondence) made inevitable by Darlington's
respect as much for Darlington's painstaking search for fluency and elegance of expression
these were fittingly
were lavish of time and effort (his own and other people's), involving multiple drafts, mostly
history of two of the major books on evolution produced in his later years - The evolution
keeping of deadlines, and the attention to detail which can be seen to extend to the exact
layout and colour-scheme for the dustjackets of his books.
Darlington's writing methods
of man and society, 1969, and The fittle universe of man, 1978.
It
is interesting to note
Darlington's friendly relations with his long-term publishers, his conscientious setting and
dated but written on confusing and diverse media such as old proofs or company reports,
annotated in black, blue, red or green ink, pencil and ballpoint;
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described as a 'palimpsest' by
his publisher (E.466), but they document significant changes
in substance or emphasis as well as Darlington's sense of style.
There is a remarkable
number of papers and writings additional to the official bibliography, and some unpublished
material;
these are listed in the Introduction to Section E.
Section F (Lectures and broadcasts) covers a wide span of Darlington's career,
including his major lectures (the Conway, Herbert Spencer, Woodhull and Gregynog
Lectures) and many shorter talks.
The broadcasts, often on such controversial topics as
evolution, heredity, Russian genetics and the relations between politics and science, regularly
elicited press comment and correspondence.
Section G (Societies and organisations) is not extensive, partly because of
Darlington's abrasive individualism and impatience with officialdom.
There is, however,
a full account of the journal Heredity founded and owned by Darlington and R.A. Fisher,
and its connection with and eventual! transfer to rhe Genetical Society (G.19-G.65) and
the immense effort Darlington invested in his responsibilities as editor and reviewer.
Section H (Visits and conferences) extends widely in time (1927-81) and space,
including especially the formative early visits to Persia, America and Japan, the Klampenborg
H.J. Muller).
Most, however, are relatively brief, but embellished with notes and
comments often of scientific, historical or personal interest.
These may be co-terminous
were involved, or forbidden tobe involved.
There are also records of the International
at Oxford.
The first three of these were held in Oxford in 1964, 1967 and 1970, as was
meeting in 1938 and various International Genetics Conferences in which Russian colleagues
over a period of time (e.g. J.B.S. Haldane, J.S. Huxley, E.K. Janaki-Ammal, P.C.Koller,
Chromosome Conferences which Darlington considered as one of his most important tasks
many of his papers with autobiographical or archival purposes in mind.
with receipt of the letter or document, or added !ater when Darlington went through
the last which Darlington attended in 1980.
Section J (Correspondence) contains some extended exchanges with colleagues
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LOCATIONS OF FURTHER MATERIAL
Some records of Darlington's career, and taped interviews conducted by B.J. Harrison,
are held at the John Innes Institute.
At the time of his death, Darlington was working on a book, A diagram of evolution,
for publication by Oxford University Press; correspondence, notes and a partial draft are
currently held by his literary executor, P.D.A. Harvey.
A little correspondence is retained in family hands.
The war memoirs of Alfred Darlington (brother) are deposited in the Imperial War
Museum, London.
The papers of John Harvey (cousin) which include further correspondence of the
Darlington family, particularly in the period 1895-1912, are deposited at the Royal Institute
of British Architects, London.
Darlington for making available his family letters.
Sincere thanks are due to Mrs. J.R. Knowles (Radcliffe College Archivist) who
did much of the preliminary sorting during sabbatical leave in Oxford.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
correspondence, and for their comments on the draft catalogue.
We thank Dr. O.F.
We are grateful to Mrs. G. Darlington and to Professor P.D.A. Harvey for making
the material available and for providing some information, in particular about the family
As always, we thank Mrs. M.M. Edwards for typing various drafts of the catalogue.
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SECTION A
BIOGRAPHICAL AND PERSONAL A.1 - A.207
A.l
-A.16
AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL A ND BIBLIOGRAPHICAL
A.17 -A.98
DIARIES AND JOTTERS
A.9 -A.118
SCHOOL AND UNIVERSITY
A.119-A.138
PERSONAL CORRESPONDENCE AND MATERIAL —
A.139-A.199
FAMILY CORRESPONDENCE AND MATERIAL
A.200-A.207
PHOTOGRAPHS AND PRESS-CUTTINGS
A.1-A.16
AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL AND BIBLIOGRAPHICAL
A.
Shorter autobiographical fragments, by or annotated by Darlington,
1904, 1907, n.d. but probably 1922 (announces intention to emigrate
te Australia), 1922 (mainly diary entries 1919-22), n.d. 1940s (on
MacBride and Gates), 1957 (on 'Espinasse).
ag
Also included is
headed 'The Battlefield’.
a diagram of the lay-out of the Institution in 1923,
‘My Approaches to Genetics & Evolution’; a 12pp. ms.
account of research and colleagues at John Innes Institution,
dated May 1974.
Autobiographical notes and jottings, October 1976 (headings of 'My
Seven Ages'), December 1976, October 1977 (early impressions of
London, John Innes Institution), November 1977, May 1980
(recollections of Hartley, Hall, and the 'Tots & Quots' dining club
founded by Zuckerman in 1940), November T980, and other shorter
notes.
Scienziati e tecnologi.
1965.
Includes diagrams to illustrate his theory of meiosis.
Multiple drafts for McGraw Hill, Modern Men of Science.
Biographical notes, articles and c.vs compiled by Darlington.
1942-60
(1969-71
1972-78.
Various drafts and updatings for Monadori Editore,
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Biographical and personal
A,8, A.9
"Personal record' for Royal Society.
A.8
A.9
18pp., November 1941
‘Personal Record II (1958)'.
identical).
Ms. and typescript versions (not
Biographical notes, prepared at request of the Oxford correspondent
of The Times, 1961.
Miscellaneous entries for various biographical compilations in Britain
and overseas, 1963-78.
Interview with C.J. Meyers, June 1964, on 'creativity' in science,
Darlington's methods of work, family and educational influence, etc.
Folder includes correspondence arranging interview, specimen questions
(annotated), several drafts of transcript, and later amended version,
September 1966, following further correspondence with Meyers.
A.13-A.16
Bibliographies
A.13
"Papers Published', Ip. ms. list, 1926-29
‘Work on Hand', Ip. ms.
list, ¢.1927
"Published reviews', ¢.1935
Bibliography, 1926-58 (printed booklet)
Bibliography, 1957-65
Typescript and ms. drafts, updatings, etc.
"Current Papers', 1956
Oct. 1961'
Ip. typescript list of publications, 1943-64
"Time Engaged on Papers', 2pp. ms. covering publications, 1925-37
with.
Miscellaneous ms. lists of publications in progress, under various
‘headings: 'In the Press',
"On the Plate', 'Current Work', 'Agenda', etc., 1968-81.
‘Supplement to Bibliography’, 3pp. typescript including entries 1927-81
Included here is
which Darlington considered his work had been suppressed or tampered
a ms. note ‘Censorship’, listing the occasions on
'In Statu Nascendi',
'Calendar of Commitments’,
Bibliography, 1926-71 (printed booker)
With ms. drafts, information, etc.
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Biographical and personal
A.17-A.98
DIARIES AND JOTTERS
DIARIES A.17-A.63
These are for the most part straightforward annual diaries in bound form, recording appoint-
ments and events, with varying degrees of detail and comment.
For some periods no bound volume survives and there may be a 'home-made' equivalent (A. 22)
or loose pages (A.23, A.25-A.27); occasionally these may include some more general
notes and reflections which are noted in the relevant entries, but on the whole a distinction
can fairly be drawn between this type of diary and the more discursive material entrusted
to the 'jotters' at A. 64 et seq.
1919
1921
1922
1924
Includes end of Darlington's period at Wye and his start at
there is a lp. résumé of critical dates ai rear
1923.
John Innes Institution;
of book.
"Diary 1925';
this is a home-made assembly of loose pages, and extends
to 17 October 1926 which is described as 'Beginning of a New Era' (the
arrival of Sir Daniel Hall as Director of John Innes Institution on the
death of Bateson).
;
Similar format of diary entries,
Includes visits to U.S.A. and Japan (see also A.66, A.67, A.184-A.190.
H.45-H.50).
Loose pages of diary entries, not all of same format, numbered I-XVII!
and covering period 2? October 1926-20 February 1929 (departure for
Persian expedition).
Notebook used as diary.
expedition (to July 1929), continues to August 1930, with additional pages
of notes and reflections.
Begins 22 February 1929 and includes Persian
For Persian visit see A.176-A.182, H.3-H.40.
Loose pages of diary entries, 28 August 1930-17 May 1932.
19 May 1932-12 September 1933.
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A.27
Biographical and personal
Loose pages used as diary, with front page headed, 'Diary Commonplace
Quotations'. — Entries run 13 September 1933-5 August 1937 (start
of Darlington's honeymoon with his second wife Margaret Upcott).
1945
1946
1950
195]
1952
1953
1953-54
A.30
A.3]
1949
1947
1948
1954-55
1955-56
1956-57
1957-58
1958-59
1964-65
1965-66
1962-63
1966-67
1980~81
1967-68
1972
1973
1974
A.58
A.59
A.60
A.6]
A.62
1969-70
1970-71
1968-69
1959-60
1960-61
1961-62
1963-64
A.6
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JOTTERS A.64-A.98
Biographical and personal
This term describes material in a wide variety of formats, including loose pages similar to
those used for some of the diary entries.
The content includes research ideas, reflections,
apophthegms, notes on books read, quotaticns, observations on foreign travel, thoughts for
speeches, articles or books, reminiscences, humorous limericks and all the varied material
presented by daily life to an observant eye and witty pen.
Not all the material is dated;
it
is presented in chronclogical order as far as this is
ascertainable.
Hard-backed notebook inscribed 'Record 1923'.
entries from diaries, 12 October 1923-12 February 1926, covering
Darlington's first years at John Innes Institution up to the death of
Bateson; several of the entries have annotations added at a later date.
Includes transcript
At rear of book are quotations and recollections of J.B.S. Haldane,
various dates, 1926-38, and (on loose page) caricature of A.D. (Sir
Daniel) Hal!, 1927.
Small notebook, inscribed with name and address and date 'xii 27'.
Both ends of book used.
Folder of notes, includes some references to impressions of America
and Japan, c.1932~33.
Miscellaneous research notes occur on several pages of the book,
which is similar to those used for early research at J.1.1. (see D.13,
D.14, D.19).
tf
Loose pages of notes, with a ms. heading by Darlington 'Aug. 1934-
March 1935'.
Loose pages of notes clipped together, some references to Japan,
ect 9ae.
Loose pages of notes, with a ms. heading '1937'.
Loose pages of notes clipped together, n.d., 1930s.
Small notebook,
latest date 1942.
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A.72
Biographical and personal
Black notebook inscribed on cover 'Family History 1946';
front cover are notes of salient episodes and of 'Dramatis Personae’.
Pages numbered 1-86.
inside
The main content is an account of Darlington's family history (from
1837) and his own career up to the purchase of Bayfordbury as a new
site for the John Innes Institution in 1947;
there is a larer note on
other members of the Darlington family pasted in, dated 1977, and
is possible that the narrative was written at more than one date.
it
The book was originally the address book of W.H.R. Darlington (father),
1885-1916, and there are entries of names and addresses at
of the book, several annotated by Darlington.
the rear
Small notebook, inscribed with name and address (Bayferdbury),
Was, 6.1992.
Small notebook, inscribed with name and address (Magdalen College)
and dated 14 July 1953.
ends of book used.
Some pages dated 1954 and 1955.
Bot
Small notebook, inscribed with name and address (Magdalen College),
n.d., 1950s.
Small spiral-bound notebook, inscribed with name and address (Magdalen
College) and dated March 1957.
Small spiral-bound notebook, inscribed with name and dared February
1959.
Mainly on education.
Small spiral-bound notebook, inscribed with name and dated 27 March
1958.
Latest date 1964.
Spiral-bound notebook, inscribed with name and address (Botany School)
and dated 1962. Many pages torn out.
.Spiral-bound notebook, inscribed with name and address (Botany School)
and dared 11 January 1964.
Spiral-bound notebook, dated 1962-63.
Spiral-bound notebook, some pages dated 1963, 1964.
Some pages dated 1965.
Notebook, almost ail pages torn out.
Loose pages torn from notebooks similar to A.76, A.77, n.d.
Spiral-bound notebook, inscribed 'Genetics of Society’, with name,
address (Magdalen College) and dated 1 November 1960.
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A.86
A.87
A.88
Biographical and personal
Spiral-bound notebook, inscribed with name and address (Magdalen
College) and dated 7 August 1965.
One item dated 1966.
Spiral-bound norebook, inscribed with name‘ and address (Botany
School) and dated August 1966.
Spiral-bound notebook, inscribed with name and home address and
dated August 1967.
Several recollections of Haldane and others,
and some items dated 1968, 1969.
;
A.89-A.97
Nine small spiral-bound notebooks of identical format.
dates are given though the entries do not follow in chronological
sequence.
Terminal
21 March 1969-16 April 1970
'1970-71', 20 April 1970-25 April 1971.
front and back covers.
List of topics on inside
10 May-25 December 1971
'1972 for EMS sequel’.
List of topics on back cover.
:
Entries run December 1971-21 August 1972.
'16 May 1976', 16 May 1976-9 August 1978
'25 Aug. 78',
25 August 1978-1 April 1980
Entries
AST ee
inside back cover.
Te September 1972-15 October 1973.
List of topics on
'1974-6', 18 January 1974-26 November 1976
'On an Unforeseen Adventure 1980', 15 April 1980-13 March 1981
Both ends of book used.
Spiral-bound notebook of larger format, inscribed '1978'.
run 11 December 1977-22 February 1981.
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Biographical and personal
A.99-A.118
SCHOOL AND UNIVERSITY
A.99, A.100
Boteler Grammar School, Warrington
School lists for 1910.(Alfred Darlington, Cyril's elder brother),
1911 (Alfred and Cyril).
.101-A.104
Mercer's School, Holborn
Darlington was a pupil 1912-17.
History notes.
Geography notes.
Certificate of admission, January 1912; miscellaneous fee receipts,
examination results, 1912-16.
Material relating to closure of the school in 1958, including letters
to the press by Darlington and others.
Darlington was a day-pupil 1917-20.
Physics notebook.
Carpentry exercises.
.105-A.110
St. Paul's School .
Includes letter from Dariington's father to
Entrance examination papers and correspondence re Darlington’s
admission to the School, November-December 1916; miscellaneous
class lists 1917-19.
Headmaster of Mercer's School.
Letter of recommendation from High Master, May.
Miscellaneous items 1920: 'Concise Encyclopaedia’ (on cards);
"Thoughts on leaving St. Paul's School’; speech day programme.
General essays, 1917-18.
"Introduction to Machines’.
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Biographical and personal
A.111-A.118
Wye College, 1920-23,
and some later material 1953-80.
A.111
Notebook, 'Organic Chemistry’ and dated 1921 (material mainly on
livestock and farm management).
Notebook, 'Vet. Science’ and dated 1921, notes on 'Common ailments
of farm animals’.
Notebook, ‘Practical Botany 1920-2'.
Notebook, 'Agrictl. Botany’.
Notebook, ‘Agriculture - Chemistry.
dated December 1922.
Soils and Manures', one entry
Miscellaneous material and memorabilia, 1921-23.
pondence re grant of the Paton-Figgis Scholarship which was twice
awarded to Darlington during his period at Wye.
Includes corres-
Miscellaneous later material.
1 box.
"Herbarium
Wye
1922-23'
A.119-A.138
PERSONAL CORRESPONDENCE AND MATERIAL
Includes ms. nofes for talk on 'Coming of Genefics' ot Wye, 1952
correspondence, notes for speech, etc. on conferral of Fellowship
of Wye College, June 1953; amended Charter of College, 1961;
requests by Darlington for information on old colleagues, history of
Wye College, miscellaneous invitations and printed iterns.
Various
dates to 1980.
Miscellaneous insurance, superannuation, etc.
Letters from friends about Darlington's coronary, with some scientific
and personal information, 1964.
Miscellaneous documenrs and records, various dates, 1944-48, 1974.
Miscellaneous receipts, mainly furniture, various dates, 1930s.
Miscellaneous income and investments, various dates, 1929-39.
A.121
A.122
A.123
Health
Awlig
A.120
Financial
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Houses
A.124
A.125
A.126
A.127
'Woodside', the house at Tubney, Abingdon, rented from Magdalen
College, 1953-73.
Pin Farm Cottage, South Hinksey, Oxford.
correspondence with previous owner re history, garden plants, etc.
Plans of house and garden,
Miscellaneous correspondence and papers re Darlington's gift of trees
and advice on tree-planting to replace damage caused by Dutch Elm
Disease in the parish of South Hinksey.
Miscellaneous correspondence re proposed Rail Transfer Station (rubbish
crusher) at South Hinksey, 1977-78.
Career and personal
A.128
e127
1923-27.
on visit to Germany.
Includes letters and postcards, 1924-25, from friends met
1933-44.
Nations.
Includes Darlington's reply to questionnaire on League of
includes letter from W.
Beveridge.
1948-61.
was Co-signatory.
1973.
for dinner at Magdalen.
SSS, AL 136
Personal and social invitations.
Two folders.
1969-78.
Includes note re family house at Billinge, Wigan.
Includes statement on ‘Freedom in Berlin’ of which Darlington
7Oth Birthday celebretions; greetings from friends, arrangements
1962.
Conferment of Honorary Doctorate, University of Ghent.
1944.
Correspondence and papers re invitation to Darlington to
stand 'as an independent progressive’ for London University seat in
Parliament.
and including letiers of thanks, mainly 1970-71.
Miscellaneous material, correspondence, memoranda ond notes relating
to Darlington's plans for gifts or sale of his journals, reprints and books,
Miscellaneous items of biographical interest.
Darlington.
stor
.138
Passports, 1922-73.
Includes drawings by
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A.139-A.199
FAMILY CORRESPONDENCE AND MATERIAL
A.139
Family Tree compiled by Darlington, probably in 1942, with subsequent
additions.
:
Folder includes a little miscellaneous correspondence on genealogical
matters, especially the Frankland family (Darlington's mother).
Miscellaneous birth, marriage and death certificates of members of the
Darlington family.
Henry Darlington and Alice Darlington (née Dean) (Darlington's grandparents)
A.141
Letters and postcards from Henry to W.H.R. Darlington (second son,
C.D. Darlingion's father), including a few replies from him, 1880-93.
Copy of letter from Alice Darlington to W.H.R. Darlington and made
by him 1901.
Alfred Darlington (Henry Darlington's eldest son) and Ellen Darlington (née Hilton)
A.142
Letters and telegrams (few only), 1888-1941.
A.143
Letters and cards (few only), 1890-1940.
Their two sons were Alfred
After several
Edith, Maud and Bertha Darlington (daughters of Henry Darlington)
William Henry Robertson Darlington, 1866-1943, and Ellen Darlington (née Frankland)
1874-1949.
Darlington's parents were married in 1896.
Frankland Dean, b.1897, and Cyril Dean, b.1903.
years as a schoolmaster at Leigh Grammar School, Williom Darlington
and his family moved to Ealing, London, on his appointment as secretary
to Dr. Karl Emil Markel (chief chemist of Crosfield Soap Limited).
After Markel's death in 1932, he remained as secretary and adviser
to Mrs. (later Lady) Vera Murray Morrison (daughter) who continued
on friendly terms with the Darlington family up to and after the dearhs
of William and Ellen.
for posts, posts at Leigh and Manchester, etc.
Miscellaneous letters and papers, mainly re WHRD's
includes set of London University Matriculation Examination
1890-97.
Miscellaneous letters and papers re degrees, applications
“'Samuel Johnson
L.L.D.'.
Dissertation by WHRD 'ca 1887".
1879-86.
education;
papers, 1884.
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Biographical and personal
Letters from C.H. Grace, 1891-92, 1897, and one letter from WHRD
1890.
An artist friend, whose letters have pen and ink illustrations;
he spent the last few weeks of his life in = Darlingtons' home,
dying of tuberculosis in 1900.
1902-3, 1916 (Special Constable), 1931 (election to Royal Institution).
1912-14.
& Company, and K.E. Markel, re WHRD's appointment.
Mainly Agreement between Brunner, Mond, Joseph Crosfield
Article on British and German Dyeing and Chemical Industries,
1915.
by Markel, published in ‘Morning Post', March, and correspondence
with H.E. Armstrong.
Miscellaneous later material re Markel and the Markelstifftung.
Includes Power of Attorney conferred on WHRD by Markel, 1926-27,
and ms. draft of Markel's will, n.d
Letters, 1915-17, from Darlington to Markel's wife thanking her for
gifts.
Miscellaneous later letters from Vera, Markel's daughter, to WHRD
and to Darlington, 1933, 1942, 1948.
Some of the letters have under-
. 154
.155-A.157
.158-A.163
Miscellaneous memorabilia.
published by WHRD in unidentified magazine.
Includes translations from the French
Two pocket diaries, 1933, 1937, and pocket notebook of miscellaneous
dates and contents, 1894-1929.
Letters exchanged by WHRD and Ellen Frankland (later Darlington).
The earlier letters are all from him, the later years include more from
Ellen (Nellie) during his absences abroad, holidays, periods of ill-
health and convalescence, etc.
scorings and brief comments by C.D. Darlington.
1922,-1925, 1933-35
1895.
but they have not survived.
are incomplete.
Letter of 24 May mentions sixty letters received from Ellen
Several of WHRD's letters in this folder
November 1893-June 1894
July-September 1894
1902, 1912-14, 1919
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A .163
Biographical and personal
1937, 1939, 1941.
house at Ealing, 1945, and two letters to Ellen from her father,
J.W. Frankland, 1894, 1916.
Also includes solicitors’ note of sale of family
Alfred Frankland Dean Darlington and Gwendoline (née Thompson) Darlington
Darlington's elder brother served in the First World War and won the
Military Cross.
Cheltenham.
He later became a doctor, living and working in
Letters from Ellen Darlington, various dates, 1918 (when Alfred was
wounded on active service)~44, and one letter from AFFD 1940.
Letters from William Darlington, various dates, 1921-41.
Deed of Covenant of AFDD to his father, 1932, two letters from
V.M. Morrison, and one letter from AFDD 1941.
Includes
Letters from Cyril Darlington to his brother, various dates, 1918-75.
Includes reflections on 'The Great Retreat’ based on Alfred's conversation
when home on sick leave in March 1918, suggestion thar AFFD should
study human genetics, 1927, criticisms of public hospital wards during
stay at Westminster Hospital, 1934.
Cyril Dean Darlington
one or two letters from other relations or friends occasionally
Letters from AFDD and Gwendoline to Darlington, various dates,
1918-78 and undated.
Hard-backed norebook, inscribed by Darlington 'AFD Darlington
1976-79', of Alfred Darlington's reminiscences of family and childhood
(to 1912 only).
A sequence of letters and postcards exchanged by Darlington with his
parents, 1920-48, covering many of the important incidents of his
early years;
occur.
Of special interest are the years at Wye College, 1920-23
(A.169-A.171), the expedition to Persia, 1929 (A.176-A.182), the
visits to America and Japan, 1932-33 and Darlington's brief first
marriage (A.184-A.190).
1923
A.169
A.170
A.171
Wye College
Three folders:
1920-21
1922
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A.172
Biographical and personal
Letters from WHRD, 1922-27, mainly sent during Darlington's holidays
abroad.
Lancashire, 1921, and his account of British Association meeting at
Oxford, 1926.
Also includes letter from Darlington on family visit to
Letters from EFD, 1923-28.
Letters and postcards sent by Darlington on holidays abroad, 1922,
1924, 1925.
Similar material, 1926-28.
entitled 'Harz Adventure’.
Includes budgets and a 4pp. narrative
The Persian Expedition, 1929
Letters, cards and papers from WHRD and EFD sent to Darlington, with various annotations,
chronologies and comments by WHRD. Three folders.
A.176
A.177
February-March
April-May
A.178
June
April-May
A.180
A.181
A.182
February-March.
Includes WHRD's list of 'Letters from Cyril’.
J
Three folders.
Letters and cards sent home by Darlington, 1929.
Letters from other relations and friends, February-May.
Cards sent home by Darlington on holidays abroad, 1930.
June-July
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Biographical and personal
Almost all letters sent to Darlington on this trip were from his mother;
from other friends and relatives but none from his father.
there are a very few
A.184
A.185
A.186
Letters from EFD, June-December 1932.
reaction to the news of Darlington's marriage.
Includes less than favourable
Letters from EFD, January-April 1933.
Darlington's letters and cards to his mother, June-December 1932,
with news of travel, research, colleagues, etc.;
contains news of marriage on 27 July to Kate Pinsdorf, a teacher
of history at Vassar.
Includes letter to his aunt Mary.
letter of 11 August
Similar material, January-April 1933.
acting début in Hamlet and (15 April) his forthcoming trip to Japan.
Includes news of Darlington's
Miscellaneous letters from others, mainly re Darlington's marriage, 1932.
Visit to Japan, 1933
A.189
A.190
Letters from EFD, May-July 1933.
1935-37
1934.
of unsatisfactory conditions for patients at Westminster Hospital .
Includes material re Darlington's attack of jaundice and complaint
Letters, cards, press-cuttings sent home by Darlington, May~July 1933,
most to his mother but one to his father and one to his aunt Mary.
Includes a little material relating
Letters and cards from EFD, 1940-44.
to the death and estate of WHRD and the covenant made by Vera Murray
Morrison (Markel's daughter) in 1939.
1948-49 (EFD died May 1949).
Letters to and from Darlington, his mother, brother and sister-in-law,
Letters from EFD, 1945-47.
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A.196
A.197
Biographical and personal
Brief correspondence and papers te Margaret (née Upcott), Darlington's
second wife, 1935, 1948-49.
Miscellaneous biographical data, weight and height charts, etc. of
Darlington's children.
—A.198, A.199
Letters from Darlington's children and grandchildren.
Two folders.
A.198
A.199
1971-80.
O.F. Darlington
1960-81
A.200-A.207
PHOTOGRAPHS AND PRESS-CUTTINGS
PHOTOGRAPHS
A. 200
Envelope of photographs of Darlington family and friends, 1890s, most
identified on verso.
A.201
A.202
Envelope of snapshots and photographs of Darlington family and houses.
Mainly 1930s, 1940s.
Most identified on verso.
Portrait studies of members of the Frankland family.
Portrait studies and photographs of the Markel family.
Portrait photographs of members of the Darlington family.
Photographs of W.C.F. Newton and of botanists ot British Association
Meeting, 1887.
1950-79
PRESS-CUTTINGS
A .206
A.207
1927-49
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SECTION B
JOHN INNES HORTICULTURAL INSTITUTION _ B.1 - B.98
(From 1960: JOHN INNES INSTITUTE)
INTRODUCTION TO SECTION B
B.1 -B.18
DARLINGTON'S CAREER AT JOHN INNES, 1923-40
B.19-B.50
GENERAL ADMINISTRATION AND ORGANISATION, 1930-53
B.51-B.79
LATER CORRESPONDENCE AND PAPERS, 1954-80
B.80-B.92
MINUTES AND REPORTS
B.93-B.98 | LECTURES AND SUMMER COURSES
Darlington spent over thirty years at the Institution, entering as a 'volunteer unpaid
worker’ in 1923 under Bateson's Directorship, becoming in 1937 Head of the Cytology
Department and, on the retirement of A.D. (Sir Daniel) Hall in 1939, Director.
He resigned
in 1953 on his appointment as Sherardian Professor of Botany at Oxford.
It was at the
J.B.S. Haldane, A.D. Hall and others on the staff of the Institution, and a series of
distinguished British and foreign, including Russian, visitors (see Memoir, pp.118-119).
When Darlington became Director, the Institution still occupied its original site at
Second World War.
Some of the efforts to find a new site are documented at, e.g.,
B.26-B.29, B.34, B.37;
eventually the Institution moved to Bayfordbury, near Hertford,
in 1949.
Its next move, in 1967, was part of a major re-organisation which incorporated
Merton (London) and suffered bomb damage as well as loss of charitable income during the
Institution that much of his crucial work on cytology and chromosome theory was carried out
and that many of his deepest professional contacts were made; these included W.C.F. Newton,
B.21) and wrote several memoranda at and after his resignation (8.48, B.52-B.54) as
Charity, and representatives of government, the universities and horticultura! and farming
The administration of the Institution in Darlington's time was uneasy and the Director's
as impatient of authority as Darlington's, this was particularly irksome; with ether
position in many ways anomalous.
The Council included the Trustees of the John Innes
interests.
The Director attended Council meetings by invitation to present his reports
but was not a member of it and saw its Minutes by courtesy, not of right.
For a temperament
colleagues he made representations to Counci! for a change in conditions in 1936 (B.19-
some of its Departments into the University of East Anglia at Norwich.
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well as incorporating his views into various historical accounts (B.49, B.50) to which
he continued to add to the end of his life (see especially B.78).
The move to Norwich
and the link with East Anglia also aroused his displeasure and his campaigning zeal (B.55-
B.73).
|The Annual Reports and Minutes at B.80-B.92 are of interest for the underscorings
and background comments, contemporary and retrospective, which
Darlington freely
bestowed on them.
Material relating to this long and important stage in Darlington's career is also to
be found elsewhere in the collection: his own research and the history of science and
scientists in Section D, expeditions, visits and conferences in Section H, correspondence
with colleagues in Section J.
There are abundant references to the Institution and its
personnel in the autobiographical writings, diaries and jotters in Section A.
A note on nomenclature
The title ‘John Innes Horticultural Institution’ has been adopted as the heading for
this Section, as being the original name and that operating throughout the period of
Darlington's active connection with the place.
The official name was changed to ‘John
Innes Institute’ from 1960;
in practice, written and spoken usage was '(the) John Innes’
and this shortened form is used in the catalogue entries.
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DARLINGTON'S CAREER AT JOHN INNES
1923
Letter to Darlington informing him of unsuccessful application for
Empire Cotton Growing Corporation studentship, July (photocopy).
Ms. drafts of Darlington's letters of application to Bateson, photo-
copies of replies, November.
(Memoir, pp.115-116.)
1927, Application for Ph.D., University of London.
1929-30, Application for D.Sc., University of London.
1927
Miscellaneous correspondence.
re possible post at Wye (photocopy), and letter by Darlington on
affairs of John Innes, to R.J. Chittenden, an early colleague.
Included here is a letter, 1942, from Chittenden's mother, when her
son was missing after the fall of Singapore.
Includes letter from E.S. Salmon
1928
1934
Letter re salary.
1937-39
Tenancy agreement
Letter of appointment, 1938
Leave of absence (for India), 1937
Applications for posts in America and Britain, notification of promotion
at John Innes.
Application for position as Director in succession to A.D. Hall,
notification of appointment (February 1939, to take effect October 1939).
signatures
Letters of congratulation received on appointment, several with
scientific or personal news, a few with drafts of Darlington's reply.
B.10
B.1]
B.12
K-M-N
Of?
S$-T-W
First name and unidentified
A-B
&
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Correspondence, list of contributors to retirement presentation to
A.D. Hall, September 1939.
Miscellaneous poems, skits, cartoons, parodies by various members
of John Innes staff on events and personalities.
1931-39 and undated:
Various dates,
Miscellaneous greetings and post-cards sent to John Innes, some from
Russian colleagues.
Mainly 1930s.
Correspondence re Merton Cottage (Director's Residence), November
}997.
Drafts, correspondence and memoranda re Director's Residence and
its garden, errors in Council Minutes, Director's access to Minutes,
and other Council matters, May 1940.
Subsequent material covering Darlington's period as Director of John Innes is included in
the administrative correspondence below.
B. 19=B.21
B.19-B.50
GENERAL ADMINISTRATION AND ORGANISATION, 1930-53
Drafts, memoranda, correspondence relating to proposed re-organisation
of the Institution, 1936-37.
Ms. and typescript crafts for various memoranda and resolutions,
mainly by Darlington with the support of some of his colleagues,
intended as discussion papers for submission to the Council.
concern almost all aspects of the John Innes: constitution, staff
salaries, communication between Director and staff, policy-making
and implementation, etc.
Financial estimate for John Innes, February 1938.
Account of interview with Council, July 1936, at which D.M. Cayley
and Darlington explained the Staff committee's proposals.
are ms. notes and narratives, probably contemporary with the events,
and a typed-up version dated August 1961.
These
They
1936, July-December
1937, January-July
. See also B.90.
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Miscellaneous items on research at John Innes:
(1937); research application on chromosome numbers (1938);
wartime research (1939).
All by Darlington.
Pisum investigation
Shorter correspondence re requests to work at John Innes, 1930,
1936-38.
Brief correspondence with J.A. Innes, 1935, 1939.
Correspondence, memoranda and proposals re possible move of John
Innes to Waterperry House (to be leased from Magdalen College,
Oxford).
Bursar of Magdalen, and T.G.B. Osborn, Professor of Botany, Oxford.
The correspondence is with members of the Council, the
1940, October-December
1941, January-June
1941, September-October.
Innes.
Includes Budget and salary list for John
Summary account of negotiations, September 1940-July 1941,
App. typescript, perhaps compiled at a later date.
Shorter correspondence on research, 1940-42.
Shorter administrative correspondence, 1944.
and diagram of flying bomb damage.
Includes correspondence
Shorter administrative correspondence on staff and affairs of John
Innes, 1940-42.
Shorter administrative correspondence on staff and affairs of John
Innes, 1943.
of Director's Report.
Includes report on activities (July), and Ip. ms. draft
with E.A. Courthope, 1945-46.
Correspondence and papers on the desirability of removal’ of John Innes,
July-October 1943. — Includes Darlington's memorandum on the
subject (September) and comments by others, and a long letter by
Prain (October).
General administrative correspondence, including staff, removal,
‘endowment appeal and bequests, Council meetings, etc., principally
Shorter correspondence on research and visitors, 1944-46.
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Correspondence, memoranda and reports, principally relating to various
possible sites for John Innes, endowment appeal, and application for
grant to ARC, 1945-46.
Miscellaneous correspondence with colleges of London University,
mainly re lectures. . Includes Darlington's letter of resignation from
Board of Studies in Botany (1950).
Various dates, 1946-50.
Administrative correspondence, 1947.
to Nuffield Foundation on behalf of Cytology Department.
Includes grant application
Administrative correspondence, 1948.
on possibility of HLM. The Queen opening new premises at Bayfordbury .
Includes exchange of letters
Administrative correspondence, 1949.
on Darlington's Annual Report.
Includes comments and material
Correspondence, mainly re A.J. Bateman and Soviet genetics, 1949-52.
Shorter correspondence on research and visitors, 1948-49.
Miscellaneous material re move to Bayfordbury: plans and diagrams,
postcards and stationery, ms. notes for Darlington's speech, draft of
his note on the occasion for Nature.
Material relating to Secretary of John Innes, 1950-52 (photocopies).
Administrative correspondence, 1951.
Committee of ARC, miscellaneous
Darlington's ‘Memorandum on a five-year Garden Programme’ for
Bayfordbury.
material re Pomology Department,
Includes report of Quinquennial
Administrative correspondence, 1952-53, mainly related to fruit-
breeding policy, and including some photocopied material about irregular
sale of John Innes varieties.
of comment from S.C. Harland.
Correspondence and papers, February-August 1953, relating to
Darlington's resignation from John Innes and the appointment of a
successor;
of the John Innes Horticultural Institution’ sent to Rothschild, 31 July
1953 (photecopies), and ms. notes for his speech at farewell presenta-
tion, June.
'J.I.H.1. 1939-53', Darlington's ms. account of John Innes under
-his Directorship, 11 May 1953.
33pp. typescript with ms. corrections, 28 July 1953.
Includes a letter
includes a copy of his 9pp. memorandum on 'The Directorship
"John Innes Horticultural Institution.
A Brief History'
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B.51-B.79
LATER CORRESPONDENCE AND PAPERS, 1954-80
B.51
Letter from K.S. Dodds (Darlington's successor as Director), 1954.
B .52-B . 54
Correspondence, memoranda, drafts and report on the organisation of John
Innes, submitted by Darlington to N.M.V. Rothschild and to the Agricultural Research Council,
1955-56.
The material is
in part a development of Darlington's memorandum of 1953 (B.48)
and in part an expansion of views he expressed in an article ‘Government Sponsored Research
in Britain’ (Science and Freedom, April 1955).
Rothschild took particular exception te
Darlington's reference to 'the business interests of those controlling research in the Agricuitural
Research Council’.
B.52
Correspondence with Rothschild, August-December 1955.
letter from Rothschild, annotated by Darlington, 15 December (photocopies).
Includes long
B.53
B.54
Commissioners was challenged.
B.55-B.73
Correspondence and papers on the move to Norwich,
1965-67.
Pp
Correspondence with ARC re Darlington's memorandum and the Council's
consideration of it, January-September 1956 (photocopies).
June 1965 and achieved in 1967, aroused dismay and protest from past and present staff
The move from Bayfordbury to Norwich, first proposed in 1962, agreed by the Council in
Ms. and typescript drafts for correspondence with Rothschild and memorandun
to ARC (January 1956).
Continued
national and specialist press, mobilising support from colleagues, learned societies such as
members, scientists in the genetical and biological fields and others.
The protest movement
came to a head in 1965-66.
Darlington played a prominent part, writing letters to the
Maidstone, Mr. J. Wells.
Questions were asked in the House, and the role of the Charity
the Genetical Society and the Royal Society, and from the Member of Parliament for
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The move envisaged the transfer of the Departments of Cell Biology and Genetics,
with professorial status for their Heads, to the School of Biological Sciences of the University
of East Anglia.
Other existing Departments were to be closed, and practical horticultural
and agricultural work would be carried on at a separate field station.
Thus, the university
- connection which had once existed with London would be re-established at East Anglia,
but at the cost of the truncation of the Institute's Departments, the separation of fundamental
and practical research, and the end of the John Innes as an independent integrated establish-
ment.
Terms such as 'dismemberment', ‘dissolution’ and 'dispersal' are often used (and not
only by Darlington) in the papers on the subject.
Darlington himself saw the proposed action of the Trustees as a further manifestation
of the divided responsibilities, multiple authorities and unworkable constitution of the
Institute with which he had wrestled from 1936 onwards (B.19-B.21).
His own contributions
to the debate reflect this extra dimension as well as seconding the criticisrns of others,
and often refer to the memoranda he submitted in 1953 (B.48) and 1955-56 (B.41-B.54).
In alphabetical order.
B50
B.56-B.62
Blackman, G.E. (carbon only)
Catcheside, D.G. (carbon only)
'Archie' (A.P. Balfour)
Beale, G.H.
Drafts of two circular letters, and list of those circulated (November
1965).
Correspondence with colleagues on future of John Innes, some in reply
to circulars and some reearlier protest letters.
Some are Darlington's
carbons only.
Hutchinson, J.B.
Fogg; >...
Frankel, O.H.
- Harland, S.C.
Hussey, G.
Department of Education and Science
Fincham, J.R.S.
Godward, M.B.E.
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Kemp, R.F.O.
Krebs, H.A. (carbon only)
Lawrence, W.J.C. | Asequence of letters, drafts for letters to the
press, comments, etc., July-December 1965.
Lewis, D.
Newell, J.
Paxman, J.G.
Race, R.R.
Riley, R.
Salisbury, Lord
Skilbeck, D.
(enclosing correspondence with J. Innes)
Stern, F.G.
(copy only)
Taylor, G.
Thoday, J.M.
Thomas, P.T.
B.65-B.72
A few of the documents are extra
Wells, J.J.
White, M.J.D.
Duplicated copies of memoranda, drafts,
with timetable of events, April-December 1965, compiled by Darlington.
Not all the original documents occur in the collection.
letters to press, resolutions,
Correspondence with newspaper editors re letters submitted by Darlington:
in the first instance to The Times (declined), then to Nature (declined),
New Statesman (no reply), Gardeners' Chronicle (agreed to publish)
Notes and drafts by Dariington.
A chronological sequence of ms. and typescript notes and drafts,
correspondence, etc. bearing on the John Innes controversy and
Darlington's involvement.
copies of letters from colleagues, but most are additional material.
Duplicated sheet of 'Historical Background’.
protest by senior staff of John Innes, heavily annotated by Darlington.
Copy of statement of
1965
1965, June-July
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1965, August-September
Notes and drafts by Darlington
1965, September-December
Documents and correspondence relating to meetings of John Innes
Council, and including statement by Chairman (James Innes) of decisions
reached at December meeting.
1966, January, May
Includes correspondence with J. Wells MP, and a
filed by Wells on the John Innes for reply in the House of Commons,
18 May.
list of questions
1967, Janvary-May
Includes
Corresp ondence on revised scheme for John Innes Foundation.
copy of Tes Commissioners Scheme of January 1909, and of revision
of April 1967
1967, September
Details of new appointments at East Anglia.
Press-cuitings re move to Norwich, 1965.
Later correspondence re Charity Law Reform Committee, 19
kept by Darlington with John Innes material.
Continued
Miscellaneous correspondence from John Innes colleagues, J. Newell
(1966), W.J.C. Lawrence (1972).
Correspondence with colleagues and historians, mainly recollections
of Bateson and early days at John Innes.
Recollections of work with Bateson. 1912-14 and 1919.
Biometrics and Me;
photocopy of eles
en and R.A. Fisher.
Includes
paper by Fisher).
Bateson and chromosome theory.
Coleman, W.
Lesley, J.W.
Mackenzie, D.
1967
1973
1973
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B.75 (Cont'd.)
Williams, C.B.
1973
Work with Bateson, 1911-16.
Miscellaneous correspondence, 1979-80 (includes letter from J. Newell
on John Innes apples), Darlington's letter on death of R. Markham,
and 3pp. notes for a lecture given at John Innes, 1981.
Correspondence principally with B.J. Harrison (Archivist of the
Genetical Society) and E. Atchison (Librarian, John Innes) on archive
material for the archives of genetics and of the John Innes.
contributed information, and a substantial file of documents.
Photo-
copies of these were returned to him and appear at B.47, B.48, B.52,
B.53.
1979 and 24 February 1981 for references to Darlington's own papers.
Harrison also made available to Darlington photocopies of early Council
Minutes, now at B.80, and some of the material relating to Bateson
in Section D.
The correspondence runs 1978-81; see letters of 4,
16 October
Darlington
Brief ms. notes by Darlington on various episodes of history of John
Innes, some intended for an autobiography.
as follows:
Various dates, 1979-80,
"JIHI', March 1979
"Subrosa History of JIHI', July 1979
"Autobiog.', November 1979
'Why I lefi JIHI', December 1980
Untitled (on John Innes fruit varieties), June 1980
"JIH! 1910-53" (for autobiography), November 1979
'The John Innes Chicanery 1953 to 1962', October 1980
'The Crucial Questions at the John Innes 1923-1953', December 1979
Vavilov (1924, reproduced).
Photographs, of John Innes at Norwich site (1979), of Bateson and
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B.80-B.92
MINUTES AND REPORTS
MINUTES
B.80
Council Minutes, 1923-24
Photocopies made available by B.J. Harrison, some annotated by
Darlington;
on content of the documents.
includes draft letter to Harrison, March 1981, commenting
Council Minutes, Agendas, Memoranda, 1936-37, 1939-46; printed,
several annotated by Darlington.
Council Minutes, Agendas, Memoranda, 1946-47, 1949-50; typescript
and duplicated, several annotated by Darlington.
Council Minutes, etc., 1950-51.
Council Minutes, etc., 1953-March 1954.
Darlington's resignation and
the appointment of a successor.
Includes period of
Minutes of meetings of Trustees, December 1952, March, June 1953 only.
REPORTS
B.86-B.88
B.86
The volume also
The front inside papers have comments and references by
Three bound volumes of Annual Reports, all bearing 'J.1.H.1. Reports’
and 'C.D.D.' on spine.
1910-35.
Darlington to events of special interest tohim.
includes a history and record of work of the John Innes Horticultural
Institution prepared to commemorate its first quarter century in 1935.
Some annotations by Darlington.
Until, and including, 1936, the reports were for Council only and
inscribed 'Not for publication’.
‘Publication suppressed’ and there is a note to this effect.
of the reports are also arinotated by Darlington.
Darlington interpreted this as
Several
1936-53
1954-66.
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B.89
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Additional material relating to Annual Reports and to the work of the
Institution.
Interim report by A.D. Hall on soil suitability of the Merton site
(unfavourable), 1910.
Annual Report, 1910 (original printed version;
photocopy).
the copy in B.86 is a
Annual Report, 1911 (full version inscribed 'For Council Only.
Publication’.
The version in B.86 is Abstract only.
Not for
List of overseas workers in Cytology Department, 1928-39.
Work in progress, 1930.
Report of Inspectors, February 1931.
‘Report of Special Committee appointed by Council on 26th November
1936' (on organisation, conditions of work, salaries, etc.) and a
little
related printed matter.
See also B.19-B.21.
Darlington's drafts for reports, 1937 (?), 1939,
1941 (2).
B.93-B.98
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1928
biennially.
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Drafts or proof copies of Annual Reports, 1942-48, all annotated or
with marginal comments by Darlington.
LECTURES AND SUMMER COURSES
The two-week summer courses in genetics and cytology
started in 1928 and were he!d
Darlington participated in these from the first,
at which he shared a course
on cytology with C.L. Huskins.
For conference held in 1929 to celebrate centenary of birth of John Innes, see H.2.
Programme of course.
1930
Typescript synopses, and ms. draft for course of 10 lectures on cytology,
with a later ms. note 'My first lecture course’.
Timetable, ms. notes for Darlington's contribution to course of 10 lectures
on cytology.
Also includes programme for visit of Genetical Society.
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1934
Programme, timetable, syllabus of Darlington's 8-lecture course on
cytology.
1936
Programme, timetable, synopsis of Darlington's 8-lecture course on
‘The Mechanism of Heredity’.
1947-48.
and Mather (programme only)
University of London Intercollegiate Lectures, by Darlington
1951 'Guide for Seminars'; by Darlington (1p. only)
1951 Summer Course and Bateson Lecture (notice)
1953 Summer Course and Bateson Lecture (notice)
Draft note on establishment of Bateson Lecture and correspondence
with R.A. Fisher, J.S. Huxley, who gave the lecture in 1951 and
1953 respectively.
Includes Darlington's ms. notes of introduction
to both lectures.
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SECTION C
OXFORD . C.t~ C.125
INTRODUCTION TO SECTION C
Ct oC. 11
DARLINGTON'S CAREER AT OXFORD
C.12 -C.82
BOTANY DEPARTMENT
Lectures and teaching
General administration
Botanic and Genetic Gardens
Nuneham Courtenay Arboretum
C.83 -C.109
OXFORD REFORM
C.110-C.115
=MAGDALEN COLLEGE
C.116-C.121
OXFORD COLLEGES AND SOCIETIES
C.122-C.125
HISTORICAL MISCELLANY
Darlington's own accounts of his time at Oxford (C.11), though often characteristically
He goes on to enumerate the methods he intended to adopt towards achieving this as ‘First,
to
building, inaugurated in 1951 though based on plans proposed in 1938, but its research under
his predecessors Osborn and Tansley had been mainly ecological.
Darlington defines his
‘purpose at Oxford’ as 'to make genetics in my own broad sense into the central framework
of biology and biology itself integrated in this way into the central framework of education’.
he encountered.
When he was appointed, the Botany Department was housed in a new
with other departments; fourthly, to establish through international conferences, which could
sweeping and denunciatory, make clear his aims for research at Oxford and the difficulties
teach undergraduates; secondly to appoint new staff in the department; thirdly to coordinate
not always reluctantly, into controversy with university faculty boards and administration
studies in biology which might otherwise be disregarded.
Fifthly to publish books explaining
conferences (see Section H).
His other ambitions however crew Darlington increasingly, and
carefully prepared and updated lectures (C.12-C.39) and the organisation of the chromosome
be held with the greatest convenience in Oxford, the basic importance of chr.Comosome J
my general educational goal and the means of getting there’.
Of these aims, the simplest were the teaching of undergraduates, illustrated in the
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(over new departmental appointments), with the colleges (over admissions policy and the
tutorial system) and more generally with the existing departmental system which militated
against the reformed curriculum and coordinated cross-disciplinary studies which he sought.
Like many heads of science departments, he was involved in proposals for the reform of the
‘Oxford system', gave evidence to the Franks Commission of Inquiry and wrote publicly on
the subject (C.83-C.109).
He appears to have been satisfied with the increase in the
number of college Fellows appointed after the Franks Commission, while remarking that
‘one of the results of course was an enormous waste of time in attending college meetings’.
Darlington's attempts to extend the scope of genetics into, for example, the new School
of Human Sciences reflected a change of direction or more correctly a concentration of his
own research away from plant genetics towards human and social genetics.
This is shown
in the major publications of his later years such as the revised Genetics and man (1964),
Evolution of man and society (1969), Little universe of man (1978) as well as many articles
and lectures, e.g., on Cousin marriage, and reviews.
See Sections Dand E.
— His aitention
to these topics, though by no means new in his work and specified as his fifth step in advancing
the cause of genetics, contributed toa withdrawal from university and departmental affairs,
and a certain measure of isolation.
Darlington was a diligent Keeper of the Botanic Garden; in addition, he established
a Genetic Garden and played a leading part in the acquisition of Nuneham Courtenay
Arboretum (see C.67-C.82).
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DARLINGTON'S CAREER AT OXFORD
Application for Sherardian Professorship of Botany, Oxford, and
notification of appointment, 1953.
Also included is Darlington's carbon to W.K. Slater (ARC) renew
appointments at John Innes.
Correspondence with colleagues and referees re application for Oxford
Chair, and related matters.
Champion, H.G.
Fisher, R.A.
Ford, E.B.
Mather, K.
Osborn, T.G.B. (Darlington's predecessor at Oxford)
Sinclair, H.M.
Stern, F.C.
G.7
2
C.9
O-R
S-T
U - W and first-name
signatures
B-C
F-H
K-M
List of papers and books submitted in application for D.Sc., Oxford,
1958.
Letters and telegrams of congratulation, some including other scientific
matters and a few with Darlington's reply.
For Darlington's Inaugural Lecture at Oxford, see F.23-F.28.
"Oxford Botany School 1953 to 1971', spiral-bound notebook so
inscribed, pp. ms. n.d. but followed by additional note, mainly
on discussion with J.R. Baker and A. Jensen on race, dated 14 August
1974 (see D.137).
The Sherardian Chair carried a Professorial Fellowship at Magdalen College (see C.110-
CG. 115);
‘What | did at Oxford', 2pp. ms. dated 20 October 1971.
Darlington's own accounts of his period at Oxford.
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BOTANY DEPARTMENT
Oxford
C.12-C.39
Lectures and teaching
C.40-C.66
General administration
C.67-C.76
Botanic and Genetic Gardens
C .77-C:82
Nuneham Courtenay Arboretum
C.12-
© 3S?
Lectures and teaching
All the material is autograph manuscript unless otherwise indicated.
grap
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Syllabuses, lecture lists, synopses, course outlines, 1954-70.
Duplicated typescript with ms. annotations.
Reading lists and bibliographies.
Duplicated typescript.
"Apomixis'
"Oenothera
Sex Chrs'
Ring-back notebook so inscribed, with Darlington's name and dated
'1955'.
Notes for lectures.
Ring~back notebook for course of four lectures, n.d.
early 1950s, but includes updating notes and Ip. dated 1965.
Tagged folder and some loose pages of notes for lectures on apomixis,
originally tucked into C.14.
and hybrids, breeding systems.
Two ring-back notebooks for lecture courses so titled.
bear various dates, 1962-66.
Lectures 5-8: Meiosis Il; polyploidy; chromosome breakage; species
Lectures 1-4:
Introduction; Mendel; nuclei;
meiosis.
Genetics 1A and 1B
"Genetics 1A'
Material probably
Some pages
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"Lecture notes Genetics |
1960-70'
Oxford
Five folders of loose pages of notes and diagrams under this general
heading, several using similar sub-topics to C.17, C.18, and some
intended for ‘Introduction to Biology’.
Two ring-back notebooks 'Genetics IVA’ and 'Genetics IVB',
containing notes for course of 8 lectures on cell physiology and genetic
particles.
has a
the order (see 1963 syllabus included in C.24).
list of topics on the cover, though Darlington sometimes changed
Various dates, 1956, 1958, 1959, 1963.
See also C.26.
Each book
,
Nucleic Acids
X Ray Breaks
Chemical Breakage
Biol. Effects of Radiation
Visible Genes
Plastids and Plasmagenes
Nucleus and Cytoplasm
Mutation Slides
'4 Lectures on Development'
"Chromosome models'
Variously
‘Introduction to Biology.
Oxford Biology Prelim'
Two versions, October 1965.
Two sets of notes and drafts, n.d.
Ms. notes tucked as loose pages into 'Genetics IVA'.
paginated and dated, 1957-67.
4 and 5 (2 versions of lecture 5, one dated May 1969).
Darlington lectured regularly under this general heading, offen cannibal~
ising or re-assigning previous material.
the notes with any certainty.
Outline for course on ‘Origins of Cultivated Plants’, 4pp. 1969.
"Implications of the Chromosome Theory
Lectures on 'Evolution of Genetic Systems'
'Heterostyle Diagram
1968'
It
is therefore not easy to date
Michaelmas 1967’
Lectures 3,
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Lectures 6 and 7.
Syllabus of course of 4 lectures, May 1971, and extensive notes
for Lecture 1.
"EGS 2, Meiosis’
May 1971.
‘EGS 3.
Outbreeding'
May 1971 and Ip. 'Lecture IV Summing Up'
Various notes and narratives for lectures on Evolution of Genetic Systems
March-May 1971.
’
Notes and nerratives for a course of three lectures on evolution of
genetic systems, April-May 1976.
Miscellaneous notes for lectures on chromosomes and genetics.
C.40-C. 66
General Administration
C.58-C.66 are shorter miscellaneous items.
Darlington's involvement in more general matters of 'Oxford Reform'
is at C.83 et. seq.
C.40-C.57 are a chronologica! sequence of correspondence and papers
on matters affecting teaching, appointments, organisation and the
running of the Department, and its relations with other Departments,
Faculty Boards, central University administration and the development
of science in general.
°1956, letter from E.B. Ford (1956).
Includes letter from T.G.B. Osborn with account of existing organisa-
tion of Department, correspondence with members of staff re teaching,
Darlington's note (March 1954) on 'Botany Tuition’.
Includes Darlington's proposal for establishment of Hooke Lecture
(1955), his draft memorandum on the need for 'New Biology Depts.'
1953-54
1955-56
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1957
Oxford
Mainly drafts and memoranda on need for change and expansion in
Oxford science, preparation of memorandum on 'Growing points of
Biology and Medicine’, etc.
1958-59
New appointments.
for Demonstrators, with colleagues, University Registry, etc.
Ip.
the structure of botany teaching in Oxford ...'
Mainly correspondence re Darlington's proposals
Includes
later note by Darlington beginning 'Three times | tried to change
1960-61
Open Day; expansion of biology; committee for History and Philosophy
of Science; ms. note on organisation of biology.
1961, February-April
Correspondence and drafts re meeting of Professors of Botany in London,
4 March, to discuss recruitment of students of required quality into
Schools of Botany (and a related letter, 1962).
1961, March-~May
25 Oct. 1961';
1961, October, December
Correspondence re proposed research into East ‘Africa dry country ecology.
Correspondence with Vice-Chancellor re wording of Darlington's Annual
Report and his memorandum on 'Admissions of Botany Undergraduates to
the University’.
October papers are Darlington's 'A day at Oxford:
December correspondence is with Lord Nuffield re possible support for
biology centre.
Darlington suffered in August.
Correspondence and papers arising from Darlington's paper 'The Social
Sciences’ (January 1964) on proposed collaborative course in Oxford,
mainly with Curator, Pitt Rivers Museum, and Professor of European
Archaeology.
Mainly papers and correspondence by Darlington and J.W.S. Pringle
on new collaborative biology course at Oxford.
Correspondence on financial matters, and on appointments.
Several of the letters refer to the heart attack which
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1962
1963
1964
. 1964
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1965-66
Oxford
Appointments; methods of teaching, and memorandum on ‘Botanical
Policy at Oxford’.
1966-67
Draft syllabus, reading lists, memorandum for genetics and the proposed
course in Human Sciences at Oxford.
1967-69
Chair of Forestry.
1967-69
Chair of Genetics; recommendation for George Eastman Professorship, etc.
1968-69
Correspondence on departmental affairs, sent to Darlington during his visii
to Australia, 1968.
See also H.125.
Minutes of staff meeting, February 1969.
1969-71
Sherardian Chair of Botany.
History of Science.
Shorter miscellaneous items
Doctors of Philosophy of Botany School, 1954-61.
Examiners in Final Honour School of Botany, 1946-60.
Lists of graduates of Botany School and their further careers, 1951-64,
1967.
Miscellaneous items relating to the Botany Department.
Examination questions, various dates, 1962-69.
‘Graduands' Complaints', June 1966.
includes some letters of thanks.
C.60
C.6]
C.62
we
oe
C.65
1958-62
;
1965
1966
1967-70, 1973
1963
1964
Ce
C.60-C.65
C.66
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C.67-C.76
Botanic and Genetic Gardens
The Sherardian Professor was ex-officio Keeper of the Botanic Garden (originally Physic
Garden, founded in 1621), the oldest in the country, situated near the 'old' Botany School
near Magdalen Bridge.
Darlington also established in 1954 a Genetic Garden, nearer to
_
to the new Botany Department in the Science Area, for hybrids, variegated plants and plants
used for chromosome studies.
The correspondence below relates to specimens for both gardens, though the variegated
plants were intended for the Genetic Garden.
See also J.238 for shorter correspondence on specimens.
C.67
C.68
1954
1955, October-December
Includes 5pp. note by Darlington ‘Classifying Variegated Planis',
13 October.
1955-56
Correspondence with colleagues at John Innes Horticultural Institution.
1955-58
1957
1959
1963-65
1964
Correspondence with Hilliers & Sons, Nurserymen. Includes 4pp.
Classification by Darlington of 'Veitch's Grafting Experiments 1912'
(the year of the first R.H.S. Chelsea Show).
Miscellaneous ms. and typescript notes by Darlington on variegated
plants from various sources (including his own garden) for the Genetic
Garden, 1957.
Sources’.
Includes material re Superintendancy of Botanic Garden, correspondence
re specimens and re founding of Garden.
Ms. and typescript notes and lists of 'Genetic Garden Notes 1964’,
’'Variegated Plants at Oxford 5 Feb. 64', ‘Genetic Garden Plant
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1970-71
Oxford
Correspondence
Garden, Edinburgh, and includes ms.
of Congratulation’ on the event.
1970 is re Tercentenary Celebrations of Royal Botanic
draft for Darlington's 'Address
Correspondence and papers 1971 are re 350th anniversary of Oxford
Botanic Garden and include
reception, exhibition handout, speech, article for Nature.
Darlington's drafts for celebratory
C.77-C.82
Nuneham Courtenay Arboretum
In his article for Nature (C.76 above), Darlington writes discreetly that 'in 1969 an anonymous
benefactor put a third garden at the disposal of the university, the established and now
rehabilitated arboretum at Nuneham Courtenay’.
His own summary ‘History of the Loss and
Recovery of Nuneham Courtenay Arboretum’ (C.78) is an outline of events 1962-70, usefully
supplementing gaps in the surviving correspondence and making clear Darlington's leading
before (1957-58), originally on a site adjoining the Cherwell (C.77).
role in negotiations with the University authorities and with the benefactor.
The earliest
documents, however, show that he was interested in establishing an arboretum several years
Includes Darlington's ms. and typescript drafts for 'Proposed Oxford
Arboretum'.
"History of the Loss and Recovery of Nuneham Courtenay Arboretum
1962-70', 6pp. duplicated typescript.
1966-70
Correspondence with benefactor (Mrs. Mary Snow) who made possible
the re~purchase of the land, through the Barbinder Trust.
Papers and correspondence re University's sale of land at Nuneham
Courtenay, and re the Pinetum.
C77,
1957-58
1962
1964-65
1966-69
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OXFORD REFORM, 1958-70
Oxford
A chronological sequence of memoranda, notes, correspondence and publications, relating
to matters widely debated in the 1950s and 1960s, including the-recruitment of undergraduates,
research students and staff, the relations between colleges and departments, the tutorial
- system, and the like.
Like many of his colleagues, Darlington gave evidence to the Robbins
Committee, the National Incomes Commission and the Franks Commission and aired his views
locally in the Oxford Magazine and more widely in the national press.
C.83
C.84
'Alma Mater Polytechnica'; drafts for letter to Oxford Magazine
December 1958, January 1959.
‘Graduates in Oxford'; drafts for letter to Oxford Magazine, November
1959, arising from letter on subject by Principal of St. Anne's.
Includes
correspondence, data, etc.
‘College dues for graduates’; drafts for letter to Oxford Magazine
Includes data and correspondence.
(published 11 February 1960).
'The Two Cultures'.
Article prepared for special 'Snow Symposium’
number of eects Journal, University of Texas, IV, Spring 1961,
Includes draft,
7pp. typescript
Two letters published in The Guardian,
Includes drafts, correspondence, press
‘Movement in the Universities’.
26 May and 14 June 1961.
cultings.
‘Colleges, Departments and the Teaching of Science’;
draft, with ms. date ‘July 1960'.
data, correspondence,
version of 'The dead hand on discovery’, see E.158-E.161).
copy of ntialt as soblithad (together with updated
Correspondence with W. Hume-Rothery, on college fees for graduates
and on admissions, 1961.
be
Memorandum submitted to the National Incomes Commission (on
‘Consequences of the Double Standard of Payment under the College
System in Oxfeord') June 1963.
and appendices, submitted 12 September 1964.
ms. corrections.
A
Notes, drafts, replies to questionnaire circulated to heads of departments.
- Proposals for reforrn in the University of Oxford’. Darlington's memorandurr
Typescript with extensive
Drafts, correspondence.
C.91-C.95
Franks Commission of Inquiry
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Correspondence arising from memorandum, September-December 1964.
'C.D.D. vs. Oxford United’.
proposals for reform at Oxford, 1964-65.
Press-cuttings about Darlington's
Spp. typescript report sent to Darlington, beginning 'You asked me to
find out to what extent the Franks Commission had taken note of your
evidence’, signed 'J.B.', 14 June 1966.
C.96-C.102
'Oxford reformed!
Darlington lists this in his Bibliography under 1965 as ‘Submitted to Encounter, 4 May
(unpublished)'.
In.a footnote to his drafts he accurately sums up the history of the article
as ‘invited by Encounter November 1964 ~ submitted to Encounter May 1965 - rejected by
Encounter 1 June 1966' (see C.96, C.100). This delay, and cavalier treatment, prompted
Darlington to correspond with the Society of Authors and others (C.101), especially after
the widespread press comment on CIA involvement in the finances of Encounter.
The periodica
1967) and a correction in the March issue (C.99).
In 1968 Darlington was invited to re-cast and re-submit the material for publication in
Question, the periodical of the Rationalist Press Association (C.103-C.106).
C.96
C.9
€.98
C.96-C.98
Drafts for 'Oxford Reformed’.
commissioned and published a shorier article 'Oxford Unreformed' (Encounter, 28, January
December 1964, with Darlington's note on the sequence of his dealings
with Encounter.
Extensive ms. and typescript re-draftings, various dates in April 1965,
enclosed in a folder inscribed 'My proposals for reform’.
invitation to write second article.
Correspondence with editor of Encounter (M.J. Lasky) and staff, December
1964-October 1966.
declining to publish (June 1966), subsequent correspondence and note of
‘Oxford Unreformed'.
misprints,’ reprints of article as published, and letter of correction.
Drafts for article, correspondence with editor on
Notes and ideas on various aspects of history, funding and organisation
of Oxford.
Includes invifation to write article, postcard
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C.101
Correspondence with others on Encounter article:
Society of Authors
The Guardian
J.F. Kermode
1966
1967
1967
Typescript copies of Encounter correspondence made by Darlington.
Press-cuttings about Encounter and CIA.
C.103-C.106
Article for Question
In 1968 Darlington was asked to consider publishing some of the first Encounter article in
Question.
He decided to write 'a fresh article’, submitted in January 1969 and published
in the January 1970 issue under the title 'The Evolution of Oxbridge'.
indicates the very extensive re-working which Darlington undertook in order to include an
The change of title
historical survey, the treatment of Dissenters and religious abuses as well as the secular
privileges previously attacked.
C.103
Correspondence with editor re article, 1968-69, copy of article as
printed.
C.104
'Can Oxford be reformed!
Notes and ideas on Oxford.
historical emphasis.
management of universities’ (no indication of place or date).
n the present position in the light of renewed student interest in the
Heavily-revised version of 'Oxford Reformed', dated 16 July 1968,
and with a ms. introduction 'We asked Prof. D ... to give us his views
Extensively-corrected drafts for article to adapt it for publication as
‘The Evolution of Oxbridge’, various dates, November 1968, Janvary~
March 1969.
eneadl ondinod.
Press-cuttings and articles on Oxford, assembled by
heavily annotated by him.
3 folders:
C.107-C.109
Darlington and many
Similar material to C.98 but with more
C.107
C.108
C.109
1960-64
1964-65
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MAGDALEN COLLEGE
Oxford
The Sherardian Chair carried with it
was made an Emeritus Fellow, and subsequently (1972) elected to an Honorary Fellowship.
a Fellowship at Magdalen.
On retirement, Darlington
C.110
1953-69
Correspondence 1953 commemorates his election.
1971
Building and appeal.
Gift by Darlington of stone plaque for the Magdalen Plane.
Ms. notes (n.d.) on Magdalen Rose Garden.
1971-72
Election to Emeritus (1971) and Honorary (1972) Fellowships at
Magdalen.
C.116-C.121
OXFORD COLLEGES AND SOCIETIES
Miscellaneous, mainly social invitations.
Arrangements for retirement parties, 1971, at Magdalen and New
College, including notes for soeeches.
B- Ho
Invitations to meetings (mainly declined), lists of members, history
of Club, etc.
A senior dining club, limited to twenty members;
elected in 1954.
An alphabetical sequence of shorter items:
invitations to lecture, dine.
Ce ih ee
Ashmolean Club
1955-80
Darlington wes
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Humanist Group
1963-70
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Natural Science Club
1957-78
A senior society, founded in 1907 with a limited membership of
twenty~seven, mainly heads of science departments.
Letter of election (1957), invitations to meetings, lists of members.
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HISTORICAL MISCELLANY
Darlington's
Folder includes correspondence, drafts for wording
Correspondence on Oxford science and scientists, 1962.
Correspondence re commemorative plaques for Hooke and Hooker, 1966.
Ge heZ
Correspondence and papers re plaque installed on wall of University
College, Oxford, to commemorate the work of Boyle and Hooke,
1960-65.
Correspondence begins in 1960, initiated by E.J. Bowen.
letter to the Master of the College, 6 October 1964, offers to meet
the cost, but the College agreed to do this, and the plaque was put
up in May 1965.
of plaque, press-cuttings and ms. draft of an article by Darlington
for the Oxford Mail about the plaque and about old Oxford street
names.
See J.97 for similar correspondence on London place and street names.
Correspondence on old Oxford street names which Darlington hoped
to revive, 1964-69.
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INTRODUCTION TO SECTION D
LIST OF TOPICS
| D.1-D.4
ECOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENT
D.5
ETHOLOGY
D.6-D.11
EUGENICS
~12-D.30
GENETICS
-31-D.122
HISTORY
Biographical
Correspondence
Soviet genetics
Background material
o31~D.65
.66-D.71
-72-D.116
.117-D.122
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Assortative mating
Crime, etc.
Culture, etc.
. 153-D.181
SOCIAL GENETICS
.124-D.128
INDIA
.129-D.143
INTELLIGENCE
. 144-D.152
IQ AND RACE
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Pedigrees
Population
Reflexes and instincts
Mental deficiency
Modern societies
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Miscellaneous
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The alphabetical arrangement by topics is for convenience only and does not reflect
the chronology of Darlington's research interests.
His earliest work, on plant chromosomes,
is documented in the laboratory notebooks, microscope observations and notes under
"Genetics' (D.12 et seq.), and his interest in eugenics is also shown to be of early date
(D.6).
The large component subsumed under ‘Social Genetics' (D.153-D.181) indicates
his later concentration on such problems as evolution, population genetics, intelligence
and the like.
The material under 'History' (D.31-D.122) includes documents (some originals,
some photocopies from the archives of the John Innes Institute) on William Bateson and his
family, and a substantial section on the history of Soviet genetics and Western attitudes
to it.
Darlington was one of the leading British opponents of Lysenkoism, and a personal
friend and strong supporter of Vavilov who had collaborated with Bateson in the early years
of the John Innes.
Darlington wrote several tributes and obituaries when news of his
friend's death was received and lived long enough to witness his rehabilitation.
The
Lysenko controversy illustrated divisions of opinion among British intellectuals, several
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articles and press~cuttings on the subject.
with a descriptive title now shown in inverted commas in the entries.
Almost all the
general thinking at the time, whether or not this was in line with his own.
They help
documents bear comments, summaries or assessments by Darlington*.
They are of interest
Most of the 'topics' contain some notes,
ideas and drafts by Darlington,
and a
little
articles, scientific papers, press-cuttings - usually kept in an envelope or stiff cover
correspondence, but a considerable proportion is his files of background information -
for the light they throw on the development of Darlington's views on a topic and also on
of whom such as J.B.S. Haldane, J.D. Bernal and G.B. Shaw supported Lysenko's views.
The background material at D.117-D.122 is a useful assemblage of contemporary pamphlets,
alone has been retained.
For reasons of space, and at the request of the receiving institution, material withoui
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annotation has been discarded end, when only the title page bore a comment, that
to illustrate the formulation of his ideas and hypotheses, and the composition of some
folders also indicate the wide range of Darlington's reading, which is further attested by the
Similar material can be found used specifically for a book at E.570-E.633
very numerous notes found in books in his study at home {(D.182-D.206).
n) and at E.661-E.665 assembled for a possible sequel to it.
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ECOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENT
Ms. notes on climate, history and changes of climate, deserts,
history of agriculture, man and his habitat, etc.
A few with
various dates, 1950s, 1960s.
Ms. notes on conservation, some dated 1972, 1974.
‘Land and Habitat'
Darlington's folder of annotated background material.
‘Ecology / Envmt.
Conservation - Pollution’
Darlington's folder of annotated background material.
ETHOLOGY
EUGENICS
ae eugenics’
'
Miscellaneous notes and references.
20a, Ct 1d Ip. types cript headed 'Conce rning eugenics' on cd cebut
os ms. drafts (5pp. and 2pp.), one headed "Huxley
Notes and correspondence, 1962, on family histories of the Jukes,
Kallikak and Bungler families.
Includes related printed matter.
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reference is made to © recent address' by Huxley (the Norman Lockyer
a
lac
Lecture, 1926).
Background material.
Correspondence with Eugenics Society and others on research int
adoption, 1960-63.
notes by Darlington.
Annotated backgre cane material, mainly 1962.
Tribune report on Darlington's support for population contr ol.
Includes Chicago Daily
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Includes a little related printed matter, and ms.
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GENETICS
Research
D.12
Small black notebook, inscribed 'Notes 1923-25'.
chromosome numbers and genetic theories.
Both ends of book used.
Mainly on
Includes as loose items an early passport photograph of Darlington and
a press announcement of his Royal Institution lectures on 'The
Cytological Theory of Heredity', 1931.
See E.21, F.1.
'Lactuca (Bolting) 1924'
Hard-back notebook so inscribed;
Both ends of book used.
$
some pages torn out and some loose.
Noies on lettuce cultivation, 1924, 1925, and Ip. ms. ‘Note on
Lettuce~bolting June 1925’.
"Cytology Notes 1924-26'
Inside front
Hard-back notebook so inscribed; some loose pages.
cover is a note 'On the Chromosome Behaviour and Origin of our
Cherries’ and further notes for a collaborative paper on the subject
with 'M.B.C.' [Crane].
of Occupation' of work and collaborators at Merton, 1923-28.
Intercalated on front page is a ms. 'Diary
"Cherries 1926.
Both ends of book used.
"Mr. Newton's Report’
on Tulipa.
n.d. ¢.1927.
Notes & Photos.
Leningrad Herbarium’
2pp. ms. by Darlington,
Folder of material so described.
Miscellaneous ms. notes on various species, 1927-29.
Book includes records of experiments on Prunus, Ribes, hyacinth,
begonia, etc.
f
Herd-back notebook so inscribed on front
‘Scilla.
Hyacint
front of the book,
bear dates 1926, 1929-30
Pages from loose-leaf notebook; notes on various topics in chrornosome
and genetic research.
Various dates, 1929-33.
cover
Rear cover i
the bulk of the work is
and on various specimens
of Fritillaria.
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"Tomatoes'
Hard-back notebook so inscribed, with note inside front cover ‘all
X-rayed 14.6.30.'
by another.
Pages headed by Darlington, observations made
Few pages used.
"Notes 1930’
Miscellaneous pages torn from a notebook, on chromosome theory.
"Notebooks, 1933-40!
Ring-back binder so inscribed on spine;
"Recent Advances in Cytology’ (book first published 1932, 2nd ed. 1937,
3rd ed. 1967).
inside front cover inscribed
See E.38-E.45.
Notes and diagrams on various species, many with later additions in
red and blue pencil.
D.23, D.24
Two hard-back notebooks (not by Darlington) of chromosome counts,
etc.
Both ends of books used.
D.23 has a note for 'Muller' on p.1.
D.24 (microscope and slide readings) has some pages dated 1934.
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J. Genet., 39.
Ms. notes and diagrams.
‘Chromosomes of monkeys and men’
Sequences of ms. notes and diagrams by Darlington, on 'The Origin
of Iso-Chromosomes', 1940;
perhaps drafts or preliminary work for
article published in
Correspondence with colleagues,
paper by Darlington and Haque so titled (Nature, 175, 1955) of which
a copy is enclosed.
Misce!laneous research notes, 1978, 1979 and undated.
Draft pages on centromeres, perhaps for book; paginated 106-111, latest
reference 1963.
Miscellaneous notes and drafts on chromosome coiling, some dated 1962.
related to
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HISTORY
Research
D.31 -D.65
Biographical
D.66 -D.71
Correspondence
D.72 -D.116
Soviet Genetics
D.117-D.122
Background material
D.31-D.65
Biographical
Correspondence, drafis, notes, documents (including photocopied and printed material)
on British geneticists and especially William Bateson and members of the Bateson family.
&
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D.31-D.45
Bateson, W.
The material is presented in chronological order.
documents, photocopied material cbtained by Darlington from the
Bateson archives at the John Innes Inst itute, and drafts of later bio-
graphical or historical work by others.
whatever source, bear Darlington's comments.
Many of the documents, from
It includes several original
'Rubus received 1902' and contains lépp. of
Back cover is labelled
brief notes by Bateson.
Small black notebook, originally Bateson's, inscribed on cover 'Violas'
and inside 'Violas received from President Brainerd Middlebury College
Vermont’.
specimens.
Contains 7pp. ms. notes and observations on viola
The book was extensively used by Darlington for his own biographica
and autobiographical writings.
The back cover is inscribed ‘Br ief
Lives' and the front page,dated '21.X.47', is heacled 'Occasional
y
Sketches'; the latest entry
Includes recollections of R.A. Fisher, E. Barker, R.
Haldane, G.R.S. Snow, conversations with
etc., as well as an account of Darlington's parents and early upbringing.
and another note on Gates and Bateson.
Letters to Bateson from Wilson, Morgan, Johannsen, Keynes.
dates, 1909-11.
Letter to Bateson from R.R. Gates, with
(‘Priority - Facilities at JIH] - Argument
Dariington's note of the contents
Recombination vs. Mutation’)
Photocopies, with Darlington's list of contents in folder.
is dated 8 February 197
J.B.S.
Birley,
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Various
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Letters from Bateson.
Mainly to his wife during visit to New York,
December 1921~January 1922, but also includes correspondence re
award of Darwin Medal, July 1922.
Photocopies, paginated 1-20 by Darlington and with a few annotations
by him.
Copy of Bateson's Leidy Memorial Lecture on 'Segregation', 1922,
extensively annotated by Darlington and with a ms. note on Bateson's
career, 1977.
Photographs of Bateson, at Ithaca, in Russia, with Johanssen, etc.,
1922-25; photograph of cartoon of E.W. MacBride, 1926.
identified on verso by Darlington.
All
Laisser~passer for Bateson, on his visit to Leningrad.
R. MacDonald, with a covering letter on conditions in Russian, 1924.
Issued by
Letters to Bateson from Catherine Vavilov, 15 and 29 January 1926.
Photocopies, annotated by Darlington.
See also D.62.
Miscellaneous Bateson memorabilia: press-cuttings, invitations, etc.,
Includes Darlington's letter of condelence to Mrs. Bateson.
1925-26.
Darlington's recollections of Bateson, written at various dates.
2pp. 'Auto' note, 1 December 1977.
2pp. 'Biog.', 22 May 1978.
Copy of W. Coleman: Bateson and chromosomes, 1967, annotated by
Darlington and with Ip. ms. notes by him.
‘Memories of William Bateson, written calamo currente 22.Xil.26.'
(with some later additions; Darlington's cartoon of MacBride, referred
to on p.6, is appended).
1977.
Draft chapter from proposed biography: chapter 4, ‘University politics:
degrees for women and compulsory Greek’.
Photocopy.
Correspondence with W.E. Castle and others re ‘Bateson at Harvard’,
and reorganisation of the Bussey Institution, 1961.
Miscellaneous publications by Cock on Bateson, Anna Bateson and other
members of the Bateson family.
Also included is a note by B. Mehler and G.E. Allen on 'The William
Bateson papers',
Correspondence with A.G. Cock re his proposed biography of Bateson,
1973, 3977.
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Bateson, G.
Gregory, born in 1904, was the youngest of Bateson's four sons.
He became an ethnologist, and married Margaret Mead.
Draft papers by Bateson, sent to Darlington for comment, with covering
letter, 1962, 1968. - Enclosed here is later correspondence, 1979,
from G. Bateson's publisher asking Darlington to review his book
Mind and Matter.
Correspondence with D. Lipset about his proposed biography 'Gregory
Bateson: The Legacy of a Scientist', 1975-79, with Ip.
corrections to the draft.
list of Darlington's
D.48-D.56
Drafts of book, under working title 'Gregory Bateson: Natural History
of a Naturalist’, with a few marginal corrections as listed.
D.48
Preface, two copies
D.49
List of contents; Chapter |
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Chapier II
Chapter III
Chapter V
Chapter VI
Chapter VIII
Chapter IV
Chapter VII
1965
Miscellaneous ms. notes on Haldane and family, some dated 1978, 1979.
Includes copies of Darlington's reviews of
'J.B.S.'
and ‘Haldane and Modern Biology’ (Nature, 222,
’)
‘Gregory Bateson: Early Biography'.
Lipset to About Bateson ed.
by Darlington.
Photocopy of contribution by
Short ms. note, 1979.
J. Brockman, 1977.
Frankel, O.H.
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Heavily annotated
Haldane, J.B.S.
RoC leh
(Nature,
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Huxley, T.H.
Brief notes only.
Morgan, T.H.
Photocopied article, annotated by Darlington.
Muller, H.J.
Photocopies of letters from Muller to J.S. Huxley, March 1937,
sent to Darlington 1980 with a covering letter from B.J. Harrison.
Annotated by Darlington; on Soviet genetics.
Ms. notes, 1978 and n.d.
Folder of book reviews and press~cuttings on history and philosophy of
science, biographies of scientists and liberals of 1930s, etc.
D.66-D.71
Correspondence
An alphabetical sequence of exchanges with colleagues and historians requesting or forwarding
information.
Kept tagether by Darlington.
D.66
Hrs, HLH.
Badash, L.
Baker, J.R.
Hillejan,
(Mendel)
1976
1974
1967
Kevles, D.J.
1960
1974
1978
Kupzow, A.J.
Brownlee, A. (Robert Burton)
1977
Macintyre, A.
Mackie, E.W.
Mayr, E.
Olby, R.C.
1975
1977
1978
1974-76
Osborn, T.G.B. — (Bobart)
Polani, P.E. and others
‘Pickering, G.W.
(Megaliths)
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(Poulton)
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1974
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Royal Scottish Museum
(W.S. Sutton)
Shine, I.
= (T. H. Morgan)
1977
1975
Sinclair, H.M.
(J. Adams)
"1978
Stuessy, R gts
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Wells, G.P. — (L. Hogben)
Wilczynski, J.
1975-76
1976
1951
D.72-D.116
Soviet Genetics
A chronological sequence of correspondence, drafts, notes and publications, concentrated
particularly on the 1940s and 1950s when Darlington was one of the central figures in
Britain attacking the theories and influence of Lysenko, and more generally the interference
of ideology and politics in Russian science.
Darlington wrote extensively and forcefully
on the subject, as well as giving broadcast talks or contributions to discussions and reviewing
publications by others.
J.B.S. Haldane, took the other view as a geneticist.
The publishing history of some of his articles was far from smooth (D.77-D.78) and some of
his suggestions were rejected (D.76).
Darlington lived long enough to see the rehabilitation
of his friend Vavilov and to write an obituary of Lysenko (D.114-D.116).
sciences were strongly left-wing.
Darlington, for all
his tilting at officialdom and despite
in the 1930s and 1940s when many leading practitioners of the physical and biological
his personal friendship for several participants in the debate, such as J.S. Huxley and
The 'background material’ at D.117-D.122 is of interest both for the presence of ephemera,
British and foreign, not easily assembled, and for the social and political aspects of science
Letters, 1945, 1946, with news of fate of colleagues in Russia.
Includes letter from A.D. Hall
-invitation to chair discussion on Soviet genetics - declined - 1940.
For shorter publications on Russian genetics, see E.71-E.73.
yn
Shorter correspondence, 1934-43.
1934, note on twinning research, 1940,
D.73
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Obituary notice of N.I. Vavilov, published in Nature, 156, 1945,
by Darlington and S.C. Harland.
script drafts.
and later correspondence, 1953, requesting Darlington to write Royal
Society Memoir of Vavilov (declined).
Includes copy of a letter, 1938, from Vavilov to Harland,
Extensively revised ms. and type~
Shorter correspondence, 1946-47
Includes letters on Russian cotton,
7
publications on Russian science.
‘Concerning genetics in USSR'
Translation of article so titled, made by T. Dobzhansky and sent to
Darlington.
Includes letter from Nature declining to publish, 1947.
‘The retreat from science in Soviet Russia’
Darlington had considerable difficulty in finding a publisher for this
article, which most thought too sweeping.
It appeared eventually in
The Nineteenth Century.
Magazine, The Fortnightly, Nature.
/
The magazine closed down before
Also includes request to reprint article in American
Included here is
to B. Crick about his biography of Orwell and Darlington's recollections
of Orwell.
a draft letter, December 1980, marked "Not sent'
Extensively corrected ms. and typescript drafts for article,
as published.
in Soviet Genetics, 1948.
Continuing correspondence, with G. Orwell and editor of Polemic,
which accepted the article.
publication but the editors arranged for publication in The Ninetee
Century, 1947.
publication New Leader.
J. Hered., 38, May 1947, with Ip. ms. notes.
Also includes 'Postscript' referring to later developments
'A revolution in Soviet Science’
copy of article
and reprinted
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See D.87.
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‘Genetics and science in the USSR'
Copy of letter as published in Br.med.J., November 1947.
‘Soviet biology ...' (review of address by Lysenko).
of thanks, copy of review in Br.med.J., November 1947.
Draft, letter
‘Russian Science’
Draft letter to editor (perhaps Br. med.J. ?), November 1947.
No indication of whether published.
D.83-D.86
orrespondence in response to Darlington's articles in Discovery,
Nineteenth Century and Br. med. J., 1947-48, some with additional
information on Soviet genetics.
A-D
F-H
D.85
D.86
K=-M
"Science in Russia’
‘The war against science in the Soviet Union'
Article written for
Picture Post, 25 September 1948, arising from the
session of the Lenin Academy of Agricultural Sciences in July 1948.
"
Article published in Thinker's Digest, 1948, based on some of the
material in Nineteenth Century article.
suggesting subsequent publication.
With letter from S$. Unwin
Correspondence with Discovery, 1948, on Lysenko, and an account of
Vavilov's last days by J.S. Alexandrowicz (see also D.100, D.116).
Copy of article as published, and of Italian translation in Vita e pensiero,
April 1949.
Ne tboto
Darlington's ms. draft, titled 'From Lenin to Lysenko', 18pp., not
identical with published text.
Includes correspondence from editor commissioning article urgently.
orrespondence with V.S. Frank, 1948,
.
Correspondence A- E, 1948.
»s, radio summaries, etc.
OUS background i
enclosing translations of Russian
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Third Programme broadcast, with contributions by Harland, Darlington,
Fisher, Haldane, published in The Listener, December 1948.
See also F.91.
Copy of broadcast as published, background material, correspondence
arising frora broadcast .
Correspondence,
1948-49, requesting permission to repramuce material.
Includes Darlington's ms. and typescript draft sent to editor of Research.
Correspondence, 1948-50, re proposed collection of papers on ‘The
death of a science in Russia’;
material to be included.
includes Darlington's ‘Bibliography’ of
Letter from German colleague on Lysenko controversy, 1948.
'Lysenko and the scientists’
Ms. and typescript drafts for letter to editor
Nation, published as 'The Lysenko controversy’, January 1949.
2w Statesman and
‘La Science résiste a
la Dictature'
See E: ] 68 .
L-M
D.99-D.102
Correspondence and information, 1949.
10pp. heavily-revised translation, apparently made by Darlington
himself, of article 'Science resists dictation’, New. Leader, New York,
1949
ae
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Includes draft for news item for publication on Darlington's and Mather's
'The elements of genetics', and correspondence with J.S. Huxley on his
article on Lysenko for Nature.
O-S
Includes copies of articles in Saturday | Review v of Literature by G.B.
Includes correspondence with D. Michie on Vavilov's fate.
- (defending by rane and Muller (against),
draft
D.99
D.102
Correspondence with H.J. Muller and
artict by Dobzhanzk
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Ms. and typescript draft of review of J.S. Huxley: Soviet genetics
and world science, for The Literary Guide, December 1949.
Material relating to VII International Botanical Congress, Stockholm,
July 1950 and especially to questions put to !.Y. Glushchenko, head
of Russian delegation, by Darlington and others.
See also H.78-H.83.
Miscellaneous correspondence and papers, 1951-53.
Includes copy of 'Why communism must fail’ (1951) with articles by
Russell, Shapiro, Darlington, F. Watson, W.N. Ewer, V. Feather;
arrangements for conference on ‘Aspects ar Coetiguateent
Darlington gave a talk, etc.
at which
Copies of Soviet press reports relating to Lysenko's reported 'disgrace',
sent to Darlington by Foreign Office, 1953.
Correspondence and papers, 1954.
Includes brief review by Darlington for Heredity of book on Soviet
science by A. Buchholz.
Correspondence and papers, 1956.
Includes reports by G. Bonnier, A. Gustafsson of visits to Russia,
and letter from A.J. Kupzow marked 'imp' by Darlington.
‘Science and State in the Soviet Union'
editorial correspondence, draft and shortened version.
‘The rise and fall of Trofim Lysenko'
Article for New Scientist, 25
5, 1965.
Correspondence and papers,
papers,
Pp
1959-61.
Includes A.J. Kupzow, H.J. Muller, Th. Dobzhansky.
Article commissioned by Central Office of Information for Oversecis
Press;
T.D. Lysenko, New Scientist, 43, 1969.
Includes editorial corresponderce, ms. and typescript drafts, press-
cuttings, brief correspondence arising.
Notes and draft for review of Z.A. Medvedev: The rise and fall of
Obituary of A.R. Zhebrak, July 1965.
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Correspondence, 1974-77.
Includes specimens of Vavilov memorial stamps issued as part of his
rehabilitation;
on these the date of his death is given as 1943, not
1942 as had previously been supposed.
Also includes Darlington's
reply to. J.M. Ziman re Soviet scientists.
Obituary of Lysenko, Nature, 266, 1977.
editorial correspondence, copy of obituary as published.
Ms. drafts and notes,
‘The last days of Nikolai Vavilov'
Article by
Darlington, New Scientist, December 1978, arising from
in his article Darlington reproduces the letter from J.S. Alexandrowicz
at D.88.
Scientist, November 1978);
Folder includes ms. drafts and notes, copies of articles as published,
brief correspondence arising.
-117-D.122
Background material
aTie
Reprints.
duplicated material on Lysenkoism, 1933-49 and n.d.
Includes paper by N.1I. Vavilov, 1927, printed and
;
;
Press-cuttings, 1948-67
Press-cuttings, mainly on death of Lysenko, 1976.
Reprints, reviews, duplicated papers on Lysenkoism and Soviet
genetics, 1950-71.
‘Press comment on Lysenko and Haldane, Bernal et al. 1946-49
(Darlington's own description of folder of press~cuttings.
Publications, brochures, pamphlets, on Soviet’science, Anglo~Soviel
relations, Marxism in science, etc.
1 box.
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INCEST
Notes, correspondence, 1963, 1967.
D.124-D.128
INDIA
D.124
Extensive ms. notes and re-workings, including notes on the literature,
probably for chapter or paper on 'Caste in India' for which Ip. list of
contents is provided.
Various paginations and sequences as kept by
Darlington.
:
D125, °@.126
Ms. notes and ideas on aspects of India.
2 folders.
D.125 contains some notes with various dates in 1970s.
Correspondence on India.
1941, on Eurasians (letter originally sent to E.W. Macfarlane).
1961, with F. Barth, on marriage patterns in Swot.
Darlington's folder of annotated press~cuttings on India.
D.129-D.143
INTELLIGENCE
The distinction between ‘Intelligence’
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to the material itself.
Notes, correspondence, background material.
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The items grouped under ‘Intelligence’ deal with
and measure the concept of intelligence, genetic variables and environmental factors;
promotion of intelligence testing whose data were subsequently discredited.
substantial proportion (D.129-D.134) is on the work of Cyril Burt, a leading figure in the
'IQ and Race’ is far from clear though it can usually be substantiated by designations given
-Darlington's notes on later doubts about Burt's data, some
Papers and articles by Burt, 1952-71, with annotations and comment
Darlington; also includes his diagrams on 'Race, Class and Culture
Burt's 1952 paper ‘Intelligence and Fertility’.
Material relating to Cyril Burt
attempts to define
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D.129
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D.131-D.133
Correspondence re Burt.
D.131
Banks, C.
(a colleague of Burt), 1976-80
Includes drafts for letters to the press, and a few related
press~cuttings.
Davidson, D.
Kamin, L.J.
Leaky, MJ.
1978, 1979
1974
1976
Requesting an article on Burt for Encounter.
Martin, N.
Roberts, J.A.F.
1974
1974, 1976
Press-cuttings and articles on Burt.
The Times as a contribution to press discussion of Burt, November 1976
and letters requesting copies.
Includes Darlington's letter to
D.135
D.136
Mainly 1960s.
1970s and n.d.
D.137
A-F
Darlington's ms. notes and drafts
Correspondence (most annotated)
Some intended for papers and books or revisions of books, some shorter notes on reading,
for discussion, etc.
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Includes letters te D.C. Gajdusek and others on brain size variation.
Includes correspondence from J.R. Baker arranging ¢ meeting with
Jensen and Darlington, 1974.
See C.11! for Darlington’s notes on the meeting
G-H
Jensen, A..R.
1972
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Background material
D.141
D.142
D.143
Research
Reprints and printed matter on intelligence, all annotated by Darlington.
Papers on intelligence by J.A. Fraser Roberts, 1938-45.
Annotated press-cuttings.
D.144-D.152
IQ AND RACE
This material, though closely linked to the 'nature-nurture' factors in ‘Intelligence’, usually
has specific designation, e.g. 'Race and IQ' by Darlington himself.
Some of the documents
are related to'two major conferences which Darlington attended, at the Maudsley Hospital
(1970), and at the University of Miami (1971).
See also H.136, H.137, H.140-H.143.
Much of the correspondence and background material is from American colleagues or on
American racial problems.
D.144
D.145
Osborne, R.T.
1978-80
Page, E.B. and others
MOFI-73
Correspondence (most annotated)
Darlington's notes and drafts
Includes copy of a letter to Osborne, 1971, from R.B. Cottell.
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Miscellaneous material, mainly dated 1972-74.
See also J.117.
Mainly arising from the 'Resolution on scientific freedom
regarding human behaviour and heredity’ (signed by 50 distinguished
scientists, among them Darlington) which Page circulated after its
publication in American Psychologist, 47, 1972). Includes corres-
pondence and papers both acu
and defending the
The 'Society for the Ps sychol logical Study of Social Issue
set up a 'Commission' to investigate the matter and cal ile d
a
information (some included in the folder).
survey of the ‘Affirmative Action Program’ at the University of
Pittsburg.
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Also included is
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Provine, W.B.
Bateson's views on race.
Seagrim, G.N.
Slater, E.
Swan, D.A.
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1961, 1968
1973-80
Mainly re publications of International Association for the
Advancement of Ethology and Eugenics, Inc.
(Darlington
was a member of the Executive Committee.)
Background material
D.149
D.150
D.151
D.152
Darlington's folder of 'Cuttings
IQ & Race’.
Reprints on race and heredity by R.T. Osborne, annotated by Darlington.
Printed matter and data on racial integration in America.
Reprints (some annotated) on race and I.Q.
Assortative mating
D.153
D.154
D.153-D.181
SOCIAL GENETICS
The topics are presented
in
Dariington's notes, ideas, references, n.d.
alphabetical order, for convenience only.
folders, bundles of notes or at the head of correspondence.
This very large category represents several topics separately designated on Darlington's
nating
Annotated
Annotated
reprints on assortative mating.
reprint
rtat
Correspondence :
Elston, R.N.
Roberts, D.F.
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Crime, etc.
Research
The full title of Darlington's box containing the material was 'Crime / Drugs / Opium /
Cannabis / Cocaine’.
D.156
‘Crime
Own Notes'
Darlington's folder of notes, comments and narratives, a few with
dates in 1970s, some probably earlier.
‘Chromosomes and Crime’
Notes, diagrams, ideas, correspondence from colleagues forwarding
information, 1967, 1971.
‘Crime’
Press~cuttings, 1962-74, annotated.
"American Crime
Black Power
Drugs’
Press-cuttings, 1963-73, annotated.
"Mafia
Thugs'
Press-cuttings, 1962-72, annotated.
Culture, etc.
Mental deficiency
Darlington's notes, ideas and narratives.
D.161
D.163
D.164
D.165
D.166
D.162
Reprints on Crime, 1945-67.
The full title of Darlington's folders was 'Culture and migration and invention’.
Chromosomes and crime, press-cuttings and reprints, 1966-73, and
n.d., annotated
Data, diagrams, notes.
Correspondence and data on the deaths of mental defectives, and especially of mongols, 1963.
Correspondence requesting or forwarding data.
Reprints and press-cuttings, most annotated.
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Modern societies
Research
Contents of a box of material so inscribed.
D.167
"UK modern'
Notes, ideas, annotated press-cuttings.
"History and Sociology UK'
Annotated press~cuttings.
'Russia'
Notes, ideas, annoteted press-cuttings.
"Geog. of notables'
Notes.
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Pedigrees
Notes, annotated press-cuttings, mainly on structure of society,
professional groups, classes, history.
D372
Notes, ideas, diagrams of family trees, mainly 1970s.
Populat ion
Primitive mind
D.174
Dial75
Dead 2
Notes, annotated reprints.
Notes, ideas, annotated press-cuttings, mainly 1960s.
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Miscellaneous notes, ideas, annotated press-cuttings, many on Adam
Smith,
Notes, narratives, ideas, mostly 1970s, and mainly on work of
Sherrington, Tinbergen and Lorenz.
Extensive folder of miscellaneous ms. notes on a variety of topics.
D.176
‘General and unclassified details'
Marx,
Malthus, 1977-78.
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Reflexes and instincts
Miscellaneous
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Miscellaneous notes, ideas, annotated press-cuttings on crime,
population and other topics, 1977-78.
Shorter ms. notes.
Miscellaneous annotated press-cuttings, 1979-81.
Annotated reprints.
D.182-D.206
NOTES ON READING
‘They were extracted by P.D.A. Harvey, Darlington’s
Professor Harvey points out in his explanatory note (included in D.182)
even so, most appear'to be related
The papers,
This box of material consists of papers (notes, quotations, references, ideas) found inside
books in Darlington's study at home.
stepson and executor, who has added to each the name of the author, title and, usually,
date of printing.
that some of the papers were used as bookmarks only;
to the book in question either directly or by reminiscence of similar ideas.
which are very numerous, are some measure of the extent of Darlington's reading, bearing
in mind that they relate only to his personal library and do not include the wide range of
books reviewed for Heredity or the annotated scientific papers found widely elsewhere in
the collection.
of original publication, nor date of reading.
The material is arranged chronologically by date of printing, not necessarily
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D.182
19th Century and earlier.
Included here is note,
explaining the provenance of the material.
29 March 1982, from P.D.A. Harvey
1900-19
1920-29
1930-39
1940-49
1950-51
1953-59
1960
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D.194
D195
196
197
.198
199
. 200
201
1968
1969
1970
1971
1972
1973
1974
1925
1962-63
1964-65
1966-67
1977
“3976
D.202
D.203
D204
1978-80
Notes on books with titles only, no date of publication.
Shorter correspondence re books, removed from books in Darlingten's
study and identified by P.D.A. Harvey.
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PUBLICATIONS
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INTRODUCTION TO SECTION E
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