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Catalogue of the papers and correspondence of Richard Laurence Millington Synge FRS (1914 - 1994) List of Contents General Introduction Sections A- G VOLUME | NCUACS catalogue no. 73/2/98 by Timothy E. Powell, Peter Harper, Adrian Nardone and Alan Hayward R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Title: Compiled by: Reference code: GB 16 Deposited in: Trinity College, Cambridge Description level: Fonds Date of material: 1892--1996 Extent of material: ca 1700 items Catalogue of the papers and correspondence of Richard Laurence Millington Synge FRS (1914-1994), Biochemist Timothy E. Powell, Peter Harper, Adrian Nardone and Alan Hayward © National Cataloguing Unit for the Archives of Contemporary Scientists, University of Bath. NCUACS catalogue no. 73/2/98 R. L. M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 The work of the National Cataloguing Unit for the Archives of Contemporary Scientists, and the production of this catalogue, are made possible by the support of the following societies and organisations: The Biochemical Society The Geological Society The Higher Education Funding Council for England The Institute of Physics The Royal Society The Wellcome Trust R. L. M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 NOT ALL THE MATERIAL IN THIS COLLECTION MAY YET BE AVAILABLE FOR CONSULTATION. ENQUIRIES SHOULD BE ADDRESSED IN THE FIRST INSTANCE TO: THE ARCHIVIST TRINITY COLLEGE LIBRARY CAMBRIDGE R. L. M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 LIST OF CONTENTS GENERAL INTRODUCTION SECTIONA BIOGRAPHICAL A.1-A.489 SECTIONB ~~ LISTER INSTITUTE OF PREVENTIVE MEDICINE SECTION C =ROWETT RESEARCH INSTITUTE C.1-C.103 SECTIOND FOOD RESEARCH INSTITUTE E.1-E.101 F.1-F.197 H.1-H.111 SECTIONE RESEARCH SECTION F SECTIONH SECTIONG VISITS, CONFERENCES AND TRAVEL SOCIETIES AND ORGANISATIONS PUBLICATIONS, LECTURES AND BROADCASTS INDEX OF CORRESPONDENTS SECTION J CORRESPONDENCE J.1-J.443 R. L. M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 GENERAL INTRODUCTION PROVENANCE The papers were received from Dr Ann Synge (widow) in May 1996 and from Dr Elizabeth Smith and Dr Charlotte Synge (daughters) in August and September 1997. OUTLINE OF THE CAREER OF R.L.M. SYNGE Richard Laurence Millington Synge was born in Liverpool on 28 October 1914. He was educated at Old Hall Preparatory School, Wellington, Shropshire and Winchester College before being awarded an exhibition in classics to Trinity College Cambridge in 1931. However, Synge switched from classics to science prior to taking up his place at Trinity College in 1933, and he graduated with a Double First in the Natural Sciences Tripos in 1936. After graduation Synge remained in Cambridge, studying in the Department of Biochemistry under the supervision of N.W. Pirie. He researched on protein analysis, in particular the separation of acetyl-amino acids. Contemporary techniques for separating biological substances into its component chemicals were insufficient for Synge’s needs techniques. Association. Following the separation and in May 1941, using a silica gel column, they demonstrated that partition followed shortly thereafter by Synge whose studentship was transferred to Leeds. Synge and Martin continued their joint work developing their ideas for amino acid In 1938 Martin moved to the Wool Industries Research Association Laboratories in Leeds. He was the extraction of vitamin E. Synge, with the support of the Australian biochemist H.R. Marston, was collaborated to build more a sophisticated apparatus for separation of amino acids by extraction chromatography could work in practice. This allowed complex biochemical substances to be broken award of his Ph.D. in 1940, Synge was appointed Biochemist to the Wool Industries Research given a studentship from the International Wool Secretariat for joint research with Martin and they and in 1938 he contacted A.J.P. Martin, also working in Cambridge, who had devised apparatus for Synge and Martin were awarded the Nobel prize for Chemistry in 1952. years Synge and Martin worked to find a more versatile medium than silica gel and developed the achievement that transformed the area of science that would come to be known as molecular biology, down and analysed with a facility impossible with previous chemical techniques. Over the next few filter paper chromatograph. For their invention of the technique of partition chromatography, an R. L. M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 In 1943, in order to work in an area with more relevance to the war effort, Synge joined the Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine in London. He researched on the chemistry of the antibiotic polypeptides of the gramicidin-tyrocidine group. During this period good relations with the USSR meant that samples of the antibiotic gramicidin S were made available. In 1945 using paper chromatography Synge established the sequence of the amino acids in gramicidin S. For the period August 1946 - May 1947 Synge worked at the laboratory of Arne Tiselius in the Fysikalisk-Kemiska Institution, Uppsala, Sweden. Synge left the Lister Institute in 1948 so that he could work on more immediately practical aspects of biochemistry and was given a post at the Rowett Research Institute, based in Aberdeen. He headed the Department of Protein and Carbohydrate Chemistry (later the Department of Protein and Lipid Chemistry, then the Department of Protein Chemistry). In 1965 Synge was appointed Deputy Director of the Institute. His research concentrated on the digestion of proteins, chiefly though not exclusively leaf proteins. During his time at the Rowett Research Institute Synge made a number of extended visits abroad. In 1958 he was invited to New Zealand by the New Zealand Department of Agriculture to help in investigating the cause and possible cure for facial eczema in sheep. He arrived in November 1958 and spent several months working with E.P. White on isolating and studying the poisonous fungus Sporidesmium bakeri. \In 1965 and 1966 Synge visited India, on both occasions as a guest of the Indian Statistical Institute, studying problems of tropical agriculture. He returned for a shorter visit in 1970. Cambridge Biochemistry Department, was Director of the Institute. Here Synge worked on the until his death on 18 August 1994. Anglia, a post he held until 1984. Synge retired from the Institute in 1976 but continued to research combination of phenolic compounds of plants with proteins and also, in a rather new area, problems relating to the electronic storage and retrieval of information on the structure of organic chemical compounds. In 1968 Synge was appointed Honorary Professor of Biology at the University of East Synge worked at the Rowett Research Institute until 1967 when he joined the Agricultural Research Council’s new Food Research Institute in Norwich. S.R. Elsden, his former colleague from the Among other honours, he was made a Fellow of Trinity College Cambridge in 1972. were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for their invention of partition chromatography. Synge was elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society in 1950 and two years later he and Martin R. L. M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Synge was on the political Left and in the 1930s and 1940s was a member of the Communist Party. This led to him being refused entry to the United States in 1949. In his later life he was active in the peace movement, as a member of the organisation Scientists Against Nuclear Arms and the Norwich branch of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. DESCRIPTION OF THE COLLECTION The material is presented in the order given in the List of Contents. It covers the period 1892-1996. This large collection is uneven in its coverage but papers survive from all phases of Synge’s life and career. Section A, Biographical, is extensive. The personal material includes pocket diaries 1926, 1945- 1992. There are records of Synge’s childhood in the form of school work, reports and printed material, and of his time as an undergraduate at Trinity College Cambridge, principally his lecture notes and work sheets. Documentation of Synge’s later career, honours and awards is patchy but there is material relating to the award of the 1952 Nobel prize for Chemistry to Synge and A.J.P. Martin. There is much family material, including correspondence between his parents during their courtship and after their marriage, and their correspondence with him, including many letters during Synge’s time at Old Hall School, Winchester College and Trinity College. Family material also includes correspondence with his wife Ann and his sisters Anthea and Katharine. Synge’s political includes many photographs. visit to Tiselius’s laboratory at the Fysikalisk-Kemiska Institution in Uppsala, Sweden. Section B, Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine, is slight. It includes correspondence and papers with the peace movement including Scientists Against Nuclear Arms 1981-1991. The section also relating to Synge’s appointment including his statement of proposed work, inventories of equipment and chemicals, and miscellaneous administrative material. There are also papers relating to Synge’s Party in the 1940s, the Society for Cultural Relations with the USSR 1946-1955 and to his later links interests are not particularly well documented although there is material relating to the Communist memorabilia. Institute, his headship of the Department of Protein and Carbohydrate Chemistry - including research Section C, Rowett Research Institute, presents documentation of Synge’s appointment to the relating to the Institute’s Strathcona Club of which Synge was a loyal member, and a and administrative material including sets of Institute notices and circulars. There is also material programmes, equipment and staff, the Agricultural Research Council Visiting Groups to the Institute, little R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Section D, Food Research Institute, is not extensive. It includes correspondence and papers relating to Synge’s appointment including his plan of research, comments on Lord Rothschild’s 1971 Green Paper A Framework for Government Research and Development, administrative papers from the Chemistry Division, and project reports on Synge’s research. Section E, Research, comprises notebooks and research notes. The notebooks document Synge’s research from postgraduate studies in the mid 1930s, through work for the Wool Industries Research Association in Leeds - including the invention and development of partition chromatography, the Lister Institute, Rowett Research Institute and Food Research Institute, to post-retirement work in the 1990s on electronic storage of chemical information. The bulk of the notebooks forms a sequence I-XXVII running from 1938 to ca 1979. There are also notebooks used for references from searches of the Science Citation Index and notebooks used by three collaborators, J.C. Wood, M.A. Youngson and S. Matai. The research notes cover the period 1938-1987. They include reports on work on proteins for the Wool Industries Research Association 1938-1943, wartime work on grass protein 1939-1943 and gramicidin S 1944-1946, studies on the nutritive value of by-products of the herring industry 1949- 1951, and papers relating to computer searching for chemical information searches 1981. Section F, Publications, lectures and broadcasts, documents some of Synge’s scientific publications 1940-1992, public lectures 1942-1983 and broadcasts 1947-1961. The publications material is not Frankland Memorial Lecture. ‘Biological aspects of proteins in the light of recent chemical studies’ to the bulk of the material is correspondence regarding arrangements. The section also includes drafts history of science, and a set of the collected off-prints of Synge’s published work. and papers relating to the possible translation from the Russian of Mikhail Semenovich Tsvet 1872- 1919 by E.M. Senchenkova. There is also editorial correspondence. Lectures material includes comprehensive. There are relatively few drafts of Synge’s biochemistry publications and the best documented work is Synge’s 1990 article ‘25 years of Science Citation Index - some experiences’. branches of learned societies and professional associations. They include his 1951 Second P.F. There are translations of articles in the Soviet scientific literature on gramicidin S and correspondence the Royal Institute of Chemistry and the Institution of Electrical Engineers. Again, there are few drafts, found in Synge’s two folders inscribed ‘Unpublished etc’ including book reviews and drafts on the documentation of some of the many public and invitation lectures Synge gave to local and university appear in the form Bibliog. ... References to Synge’s publications in this catalogue refer to the List of Publications at A.1 and R. L. M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Section G, Visits, conferences and travel, covers the period 1945-1992. The most extensively documented visit is Synge’s extended stay in New Zealand 1958-1959. There is correspondence relating to arrangements, documentation of Synge’s research and material relating to other engagements fulfilled during his stay. There is also material relating to the return journey, including travel on the Trans-Siberian railway. Other visits for which significant documentation survives are the 1955 International Wool Textile Research Conference in Australia, the International Symposium on the Origins of the Earth, Moscow, USSR, 1957, Synge’s visits to India as a guest of the Indian Statistical Institute in 1965, 1966 and 1970, and his visit to Cuba in May 1969. There is also material relating to Synge’s award of the Nobel Prize. He attended gatherings of Nobel laureates at Lindau, West Germany on several occasions and returned to Stockholm for other Nobel-related events. Synge often took his family on his visits and this is sometimes reflected in the material. Section H, Societies and organisations, documents Synge’s involvement with 24 UK and overseas organisations from ca 1936 to 1993. There is material relating to the Agricultural Research Council, principally the Ruminant Metabolism Group 1949-1953 and N.W. Pirie’s proposals for research on the extraction of leaf protein 1951-1953. Also well-documented is the Association of Scientific Workers 1938-1966. Synge was an enthusiastic supporter of the Association and served as a Vice-President from 1954. Other bodies for which there is significant material are the Biochemical Society - Synge There is a main sequence of principal Elsden, Hugh Gordon, Dorothy Hodgkin, J.H. served on the Editorial Board of the Biochemical Journal 1949-1955, the British Nutrition Foundation - There is also an index of correspondents. correspondents including A.C. Chibnall, S.R. for off-prints, and references and recommendations. Section J, Correspondence, is substantial and important. Society of Chemistry - particularly relating to its Chemical Information Group, 1984-1987. Arne Tiselius. There is also a chronological sequence of shorter scientific correspondence, requests Humphrey, H.R. Marston, A.J.P. Martin, Stanford Moore, N.W. Pirie, P.L. Robinson, F. Sanger and Synge was a scientific governor of the Foundation 1974-1979, the Royal Society, and the Royal Palaeontology Library, Natural History Museum, London. Correspondence from Synge to Pamela L. Robinson is held with the Robinson papers at the LOCATIONS OF FURTHER MATERIAL R. L. M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Synge’s Winchester College Senior Science Prize project, ‘Experiment on the Viscosity of Gases’, 1932, is held in Winchester College archives. A facsimile letter from Charles Darwin to George Rolleston dated 1876, found with the papers, has been added to the files of the Darwin Correspondence Project at Cambridge University Library. Dr R.W.A. Oliver, Honorary Archivist of the Biochemical Society, has arranged for the deposit of Synge’s chemicals and apparatus with the Biochemical Society, London. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS We are very grateful to Dr Ann Synge, Dr Elizabeth Smith and Dr Charlotte Synge for making the material available and to Dr S.R. Elsden and Dr Smith for their advice and encouragement. Timothy E. Powell Peter Harper Adrian Nardone Alan Hayward Bath 1998 R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 SECTION A BIOGRAPHICAL A.1-A.489 The material is presented as follows: A.1-A.77 BIOGRAPHICAL AND PERSONAL A.78-A.116 CHILDHOOD AND SCHOOLDAYS A.117-A.153 UNDERGRADUATE A.154-A.211 CAREER, HONOURS AND AWARDS A.212-A.354 FAMILY A.355-A.369 PERSONAL CORRESPONDENCE A.370-A.377 REQUESTS FOR AUTOGRAPHS A.378-A.428 A.429-A.435 A.471-A.489 A.436-A.442 MISCELLANEOUS A.443-A.470 PHOTOGRAPHS PERSONAL INTERESTS FINANCIAL AND BUSINESS K.C. SYNGE’S DIARIES R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Biographical BIOGRAPHICAL AND PERSONAL 1926-1996 A.1-A.4 Memoirs and obituaries A.5-A.16 Biographical and historical accounts and information A.17 Bibliographies A.18-A.77 Diaries Memoirs and obituaries 1994, 1996 ‘Richard Laurence Millington Synge’ by Hugh Gordon, Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 42 (1996), 455-479. Includes list of Synge’s publications. this catalogue refer to this list and appear in the form Bibliog. ... References to Synge’s publications in Obituaries: EEN [?Eastern Evening News], 23 August 1994. 3pp typescript draft obituary for The Times. Eastern Daily Press, 24 August 1994. Independent, 24 August 1994. 4pp manuscript notes on Synge and his interests for obituary notice. 1953), pp 58-60. ‘Synge, Richard L(aurence) M(illington)’, Current Biography 14 (November Biographical and historical accounts and information 1953-1994 R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Biographical ‘Reminiscences of my time at the Lister Institute (1943-8)’. 5pp typescript account, October 1966. With brief correspondence from M.G. Macfarlane 1966. ‘Richard L.M. Synge britischer Biochemiker’. 2pp photocopy from German biographical dictionary, 1979. ‘Synge, Richard Laurence Millington’, McGraw-Hill Modern Scientists and Engineers (1980), pp 180-181. ‘Richard Laurence Millington Laureates in Chemistry (1993). Correspondence; proof. Synge’, Biographical Dictionary of Nobel ‘The Biochemistry Department at the Lister Institute, Chelsea (1940-1975)’ by W.M. Watkins, Biochemist 15 (Dec/Jan 1993/94). Includes Synge’s reminiscences. Photocopy, brief correspondence re Synge’s contribution. ‘New Zealand, New Zealanders and the Royal Society’. Extract from article referring to Synge, 3 May 1994. Requests for biographical information, for reference books and articles and from individuals, 1953-1992. 1977. Includes correspondence re UK stamp featuring Synge and A.J.P. Martin, Requests to use photographs and pictures of Synge, 1952-1993. R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Biographical Anecdotes. diary 1990 acquaintances. Includes intercalated material. Synge used for anecdotes by about colleagues and Index to A.14 (index cards). Curriculum vitae, 1959. Bibliographies Lists of publications covering 1937-1952, 1953-1961, 1961-1968, 1969-1980, 1980-1992. Diaries A.18-A.65 1926. A.66-A.77 Desk diaries A.18-A.65 A.18-A.77 Pocket diaries Pocket diaries 1926, 1945-1992 1926, 1945-1992 Used for notes on domestic and travel arrangements. 1946 (blue). R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Biographical 1946 (red). R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Biographical R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Biographical R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Biographical A.66-A.77 Desk diaries 1968-1977, 1980, 1981 Used for notes on research work, university commitments, conferences etc. 1968. R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Biographical A.78-A.116 CHILDHOOD AND SCHOOLDAYS 1919-1945 A.78-A.82 General A.83-A.100 Old Hill Preparatory School A.101-A.116 Winchester College General A.78 1922-1926 A.78-A.82 ‘A Scotch Tour June Softback pocket notebook used for pocket money accounts 1922-1923. Softback notebook used by Synge for his record of 1922’. Softback pocket notebook used by Synge as diary 12-22 August [1927]. Softback ‘Nature Note Book’ used by Synge for his record of ‘Our tour on the Roman Wall’, April 1926. Memorabilia of December 1926. Synge’s Confirmation into the Church of England, 8 R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Biographical A.83-A.100 Old Hall Preparatory School 1919-1945 Synge was at Old Hall School, Wellington, Shropshire 1923-1928. For correspondence with his parents while at Old Hall see A.265-A.273 and A.280-A.281. School brochures, 1919. A.84-A.88 Synge’s termly school reports and examination results 1923-1928. A.84 1923-1924. Drawing book, used by Synge summer term 1924. A.90-A.92 School work. 3 folders. Issues of Old Hall School Record 1923-1928 and 1941-45. 4 folders. Manuscript notes etc. The material was found in disorder and may possibly include work done at Winchester College. Miscellaneous manuscript material, including sketch-map of area near Old Hall. A.94-A.97 R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Biographical Issues 1-9 and 11 folders. of ‘Old Hall Times’, 12 February - 12 October 1927. 2 Synge’s score cards from Old Hall Golf Club. A.101-A.116 Winchester College 1927-1933 Synge came first in the entry examinations for scholarships to Winchester College in 1928. He was at school at Winchester from 1928 until 1933 when he entered Trinity College Cambridge. Letter re possible entrance to Winchester College in 1927; entry regulations and examination papers for scholarships and exhibitions to Winchester College, June 1928; notification of first place in examinations, 9 June 1928 and newspaper cutting. A.102, A.103 Letters and telegrams of congratulation to Synge and his parents, June 1928. 2 folders. A.104 1928-1930. 1931-1933. A.104, A.105 Synge’s termly reports 1928-1933. A.106-A.109 School work. Manuscript essay on ‘Autumn’. Marked. Exercise book used by Synge for essay on ‘The Mediaeval Crusader’, possibly entered for school prize 1930. Marked. ?Draft manuscript essay on ‘The Crusading Age’. A.106 R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Biographical Manuscript play ‘New Wine (scenario for a talking film by R.L.M. Synge)’. Marked. Winchester College Rolls 1929, 1930. Winchester College calendars, 1932, 1933. Synge’s Oxford and Cambridge Schools Examination certificate, 1930: Winchester College examination papers in Hinduism 1933; papers for ?oral examinations 1933; newspaper cutting recording School Speech Day at Winchester College (Synge received the Science Prize). Officer Training Corps examination and certificate, 1930. Programmes etc for social and other occasions. Miscellaneous receipts. A.117-A.153 UNDERGRADUATE 1931-1936 Manuscript poem ‘The Compleat Bolshevist’. Exhibition, 18 December 1931; telegrams. In 1931 Synge won an Exhibition to Trinity College Cambridge to study classics. However, he decided instead to study biochemistry. Synge entered Trinity College in 1933, graduating with First Class in the Natural Sciences Tripos in 1936. Papers for entrance scholarship examination, December 1931; notification of R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 A.119-A.121 Biographical ‘Shorthand Note Book’ used by Synge for notes on lectures on Statistical mechanics by E.C. Stoner. ‘Miscellaneous notes - NW Pirie - Peptidases, S Cpds. Stuff” envelope so inscribed divided into three for ease of reference. RLMS - Carbohydrate-proteins (NWP)’. FG Hopkins “Living Contents of Synge’s ‘Living duplicated typescript notes on isolation of organic compounds. N.d. Stuff, 6pp typescript of lecture by F.G. Hopkins; typescript and A.120, A.121 Manuscript and typescript notes on reference 1932. 2 folders. the literature, latest bibliographical A.122-A.132 Manuscript lecture and other notes. Arranged alphabetically by subject. Some have the name of the lecturer. ‘Biochemistry of nervous system’. ‘Holmes. “Cell pathology” ’. ‘Chemical embryology’. ‘Aspects of CO. transport’. ‘[E.] Baldwin Comparative biochemistry’. ‘Chemical aspects of protein study - final revision’. ‘Carcinogenic hydrocarbons & the sterols (Prof. Cook)’. ‘Enzymes’. ‘Electromagnetic theory of light’. ‘Deviations from Mass Law’. R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Biographical ‘Ethereal sulphates’. ‘Evaluation of p”’. ‘Fate of carbon residues of amino-acids’. (Not all in Synge’s hand). ‘Glycolysis in Chick embryo’. (Not in Synge’s hand). ‘Haemoglobin ([R.A.] Millikan)’. ‘Haemoglobin’. ‘Intermediary metabolism’. ‘Mercapturic acid’. ‘Metabolism of fatty acids’. ‘Metabolism of micro-organisms (Miss [M.] Stephenson)’. ‘Morphogenetic fields’. ‘Oxidation & reduction in the living cell ([M.] Dixon)’. ‘Oxidation-reduction potentials - Dr M. Dixon’. ‘Oxidation reduction potential, & pH’. ‘Pigments’. ‘Nitrogen excretion’. ‘Muscle biochemistry’. ‘Work on muscle metabolism’. ‘Plant biochemistry ( [R.] Hill)’. ‘Phosphorylation of adenylic acid by phosphocreatine’. Dated 2 December 1935. ‘Physio-chemical medium of self-differentiation’. R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Biographical ‘Proteins ( [G.S] Adair)’. ‘Green - Reconstruction of Lactic dehydrogenase system of muscle’. ‘Diagrams of sterol chemistry’. ‘Thermodynamical proofs in Physical Chemistry’. ‘Transport of gases in blood & other applications of physical chemistry (see Rideal’s lectures on surface chemistry)’. ‘Uric acid synthesis in birds’. ‘Vitamins (Dr Harris)’. Untitled. A.133-A.138 Manuscript and typescript notes on practical work. Not all dated. A.134-A.138 arranged in alphabetical order by subject. ‘Practical work’. 11 October - November [?1935]. 29-31 January, 6-7 February and ‘Practical work on biological oxidations’. 13-19 February 1936. ‘Practical work on bacterial metabolism’. 10-12 February 1936. ‘Practical work on plant pigments’. ‘Practical work on pigments (Mr [R.] Hill’. 20 January 1936. ‘Practical work on enzymes’. 3-5 February 1936. ‘Work on Frog’s heart’. 25-29 November [71935]. ‘Practical work in plant biochemistry’. R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Biographical ‘Practical work on mineral metabolism’. 7-13 November. ‘Practical work on vitamin C’. A.139-A.143 Bound volumes of duplicated typescript work sheets for practical work ca 1934-1935. Hardback ‘Part |. Biochemistry Practical Work Michaelmas Lent and Easter Terms 1934-5’. Softback ‘Experimental physiology Course A. Lent term, 1934’. Softback ‘Course A. Easter term 1934. Experimental physiology’. Softback ‘Course B. Easter term 1935. Experimental work’. A.144-A.150 Duplicated typescript and typescript work sheets and hand-outs. 7 folders. Some manuscript notes interleaved. Natural Sciences Tripos examination papers 1936. Softback ‘Experimental physiology. Michaelmas term’. degree, June 1936. Telegram from Synge to his parents informing them of first class in Part | (June 1935); letter of congratulation to Synge’s father on Synge’s First Class Synge’s manuscript notes on ‘N.S.T. pt (1932-1935)’. Il Written papers in Biochemistry R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Biographical A.154-A.211 CAREER, HONOURS AND AWARDS 1936-1992 Offer of post in Sheffield working on haemophilia under Dr Timperley, 18 November 1936. A.155-A.157 Postgraduate research 1936-1940. acids. Contemporary techniques for After graduation Synge stayed in Cambridge, studying in the Department of Biochemistry under the supervision of N.W. Pirie. Supported by a Benn Levy studentship he researched on protein analysis, in particular the separation of acetyl-amino biological substances into its component chemicals were insufficient for Synge’s needs and he contacted A.J.P. Martin, also working in Cambridge, who had devised apparatus for the extraction of vitamin E. They collaborated to build more a sophisticated equipment for extraction. In 1938 Martin moved to the Wool Industries Research Laboratories in Leeds where he was joined shortly afterwards by Synge, who had been given a grant from the International Wool Secretariat to continue their joint research. They built an extended mechanism for their extraction work. Synge received his Ph.D. in 1940. separating Benn Levy Studentship, 1937-1938. Newspaper cutting only. Telegram and letter June 1938. re Synge’s International Wool Secretariat fellowship, Miscellaneous Department of Biochemistry material 1938-1939. song referring to members of the Department. Includes ‘Some new methods in amino-acid analysis: the amino-acid composition of wool’, Synge’s Ph.D. thesis, submitted 1940. WIRA in 1941. After receiving his Ph.D. in 1940 Synge remained at Leeds working on chemistry of silk and wool until 1943. He was appointed Biochemist with Papers re employment by the Wool Industries Research Association (WIRA), 1940-1941. R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Biographical Exchange with ICI re possible employment opportunities, October 1941. Synge was looking for a post with more relevance to the war effort. Miscellaneous papers re anti-aircraft training and war service with the Home Guard, 1942-1944. Synge served with the 101 (County of London) Anti-Aircraft Rocket Battery. It stood down in November 1944. Election to Life Membership of the French Société de Chimie Biologique, 31 August 1945. Offers of appointment: Faculty of Medicine, University of Western Ontario, Canada, 1947. Senior Australia, 1952. Principal Research Officer, Division of Plant Industry, CSIRO, A.163-A.165 Election to Fellowship of the Royal Society, 1950. A.163 In chronological order. A.164, A.165 Letters of congratulation, 1950-1951. 2 folders. Letter from A.C. Chibnall re nomination, 5 October 1949. Appointment as Deputy Chief Scientific Officer, Rowett Research Institute, Aberdeen, 28 July 1952. R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Biographical A.167-A.194 Nobel Prize for Chemistry, 1952. Synge and A.J.P. Martin were awarded the Nobel prize ‘for their invention of partition chromatography. to Stockholm for the award ceremonies by his wife and children. After the ceremonies and other events in Sweden Synge and his family went to Norway for a skiing holiday. Synge was accompanied on visit his Notification of award, November 1952. A.168-A.175 Letters of congratulation, October 1952 - February 1953, n.d. 8 folders. In chronological order. Unindexed. Correspondence re Includes letters from family members invited by Synge to accompany him. etc arrangements for Sweden and travel Norway. A.177, A.178 Correspondence arrangements. 2 folders. and papers re Nobel prize ceremony and _ related publication of Synge’s Nobel speech and _ lecture, Nobel speech. Correspondence re January - August 1953. 2pp typescript of Synge’s speech (in Swedish); manuscript notes. The speech was given at the Nobel banquet following the award ceremony. invited to give a speech to the Fralsningsarmén (Salvation Army), Stockholm. Synge lectured to Clarté, a student peace movement, in Uppsala and was Correspondence re lectures to other organisations in Sweden. Invitations to other social functions in Stockholm. R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Biographical A.183, A.184 Broadcasts. A.183 ‘Chromatography’, BBC Radio Swedish Service, 7 December 1952. Correspondence; rough manuscript draft. Radio interview with Norsk Rikskringkasting, December 1952. Invitation; manuscript notes. Contribution to Swedish peace journal Leva i Fred. Synge was asked to send a message for the Christmas issue of the journal. Correspondence; draft and final copy of Synge’s message. Miscellaneous Scandinavia, October 1952 - March 1953, n.d. correspondence Nobel re prize and Synge’s visit to from 1991. A.188 Correspondence correspondence re re-publishing Synge’s Nobel lecture and speech. 1956-1965, award, arising Includes A.188-A.190 Diary and accounts of visit. Hardback notebook used by Ann Synge as diary of visit, 6-31 December 1952. Incomplete manuscript accounts by Ann Synge. Incomplete letter by Ann Synge to ‘Mother’ dated 20 December 1952 giving detailed account of the visit to date; manuscript notes by Synge. R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Biographical A.191-A.194 Memorabilia A.191-A.193 Scrap-books of newspaper cuttings and other memorabilia, numbered by Synge 1-3. 4g 2 ‘Om férdelningskromatografi. Nobelpriset i kemi 1952’ by W. Forsling, Sartryck ur Elementa (1953); Wool Industries Research Association Bulletin 15 (1953), with article on the Nobel Prize for Chemistry 1952, pp.11-13; sketch of Synge and his wife in Sweden; comic songs by D.L. Mould and A.T. signed menu from celebratory dinner in Aberdeen, 26 November 1952. Synge’s achievements; celebrating Phillipson Offers of appointment: Chair of Biochemistry, University of Sheffield, 1954. Chair of Biochemistry, Imperial College London, 1955. John Price Wetherill Medal, Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, 1959. Honorary Member, Cambridge University Natural Science Club, 1956. receiving the prize; congratulations. Synge was awarded the Medal jointly with A.J.P. Martin and A.T. James for ‘their development of gas-liquid (partition) chromatography’. Press release; newspaper cutting; correspondence re arrangements for R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Biographical Honorary Membership, American Society of Biological Chemists, 1961. Letter of notification, 4 May 1961; certificate. Fellowship, Royal Society of Edinburgh, 1963. Letter of notification, 4 March 1963; certificate; congratulatory letter. Offers of appointment: Correspondence re possible appointment at University of Malaya, 1965. Synge had expressed interest in work in a less developed country. Visiting Professorship of Biochemistry, University of Texas Medical Branch, 1965. Honorary Research Associate, University of Aberdeen, 1966. Letter of notification, 19 May 1966. Honorary Professorship, University of East Anglia, 1968. Letter of congratulation only, 30 April 1968. Honorary Membership, Royal Irish Academy, 1971. Letter of notification, 16 March 1971. Life Fellow Membership, Franklin Institute, Pennsylvania, 1971. College, 1979 and 1981. Letter of notification, 4 February 1972; notes thanking Synge for gifts to the Letter of notification, 31 August 1971. Honorary Fellowship, Trinity College Cambridge, 1972. R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Biographical Honorary Membership, Royal Society of New Zealand, 1974. Letter of notification, 28 June 1974 and Synge’s letter of thanks, November. Emeritus Member, Biochemical Society, 1976. Letter of notification, 26 November 1976. Invitation to serve as UNESCO Consultant, Alexandria, Egypt, 5 March 1974. Retirement, 1976. Two letters re retirement dinner, August, September 1976. Honorary D.Sc., University of East Anglia, 1976. Letter of congratulation, 24 December 1976. For photographs taken at the occasion see A.466. Offer of appointment: Programme. A.207, A.208 Honorary D.Sc., University of Uppsala, 1980. For photographs taken at the occasion see A.468. Correspondence and papers re arrangements, Senior research post, National Research Council of Canada, 1 December 1977. Letter of notification, 5 May 1982. Honorary Life Membership, Phytochemical Society, 1982. R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Biographical Honorary D.Sc., University of Aberdeen, 1987. Correspondence and papers re arrangements, 1987. For photographs taken at the occasion see A.470. The ‘Synge Building’, Rowett Research Institute, Aberdeen. Letter re naming laboratory building after Synge, 4 June 1992 A.212-A.354 FAMILY 1892-1990. n.d. its immediate past, Synge’s family came from Bridgnorth in Shropshire. In However, the traditional family seat was Millington in Cheshire. The name ‘Millington’ appeared frequently in the Synge family, being borne not only by Synge himself, his father Laurence Millington and uncle Richard Millington, but by their distant relative the playwright John Millington Synge (who came from a branch of the family that emigrated to Ireland in the seventeenth century). its pronunciation. A.212-A.311 Parents A.330-A.335 Children A.336-A.343 Sisters Ann Synge (née Stephen), wife In some of the earlier material the family surname is spelled ‘Sing’ or ‘Singe’, reflecting The current spelling seems to have been adopted consistently only after the First World War. Miscellaneous family material A.348-A.352 Other relatives A.312-A.329 A.344-A.347 Grandparents A.353, A.354 R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Biographical A.212-A.311 Parents 1892-1972 Synge’s parents were Laurence Millington Synge, a stockbroker in Liverpool, and Katharine Charlotte Swan. They were married in 1913 and had three children. R.L.M. Synge was the eldest and the only son. A.212-A.239 — Laurence Millington Synge A.240-A.261 Katharine Charlotte Synge (née Swan) A.262-A.311 | Correspondence between Synge and his parents A.212-A.239 Laurence Millington Synge 1895-1940 A.212 Letters to A.M. Singe (father of L.M. Synge), March, April 1895. A.213-A.230 Correspondence from L.M. to K.C. Synge, 1913-1914. A.213 A.215-A.217 A.218, A.219 A.220, A.221 1913 March. 1913 February. 1913 April. 3 folders. 1913 May. 2 folders. 1913 August. 3 folders. 1913 June. 2 folders. A.222-A.224 1913 July. 3 folders. A.225-A.227 R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Biographical A.228, A.229 1914 May. 2 folders. L.M. Synge was stationed in Co. Tipperary, Ireland, for military exercises. 1914 July. A.231-A.233 War service. the First World War L.M. Synge served with In (Howitzer) Brigade, Royal Field Artillery, Colonel. He was wounded on a number of occasions. 4th West Lancs rising to the rank of Lieutenant- the Miscellaneous memorabilia, including letters to K.C. Synge re hospitalisation of her husband and postcards. A.232, A.233 Correspondence to L.M. Synge 1917-1918, n.d. 2 folders. Letters from fellow officers etc, some with news of the Brigade. Correspondence from L.M. to K.C. Synge, 1960. Correspondence from L.M. to K.C. Synge, 1926, 1936. Correspondence from L.M. Synge to Emma Henrietta Swan (L.M. Synge’s mother-in-law), 1913, with draft of a letter of reply, 19 February. L.M. Synge relinquished command in December 1932. Correspondence between Mary Synge (L.M. Synge’s mother) and L.M. Synge, 1929-1940. Correspondence and papers re command of Territorial Army 55th (West Lancs.) Division, 1932. R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Biographical Miscellaneous personal correspondence to L.M. Synge, 1915-1943. A.240-A.261 Katharine Charlotte Synge (née Swan) 1892-1964 For diaries of K.C. Synge see A.471-A.489. A.240, A.241 School reports etc, 1892-1902. A.240 1892-1895, n.d. 1892 report is from Notting Hill School. & Bayswater Kindergarten & Preparatory 1901-1902. From Hamilton House School, Tunbridge Wells, Kent. Folder also includes extract from Class Lists from 1902 University of Cambridge Local Examinations for Girls. K.C. Swan gained honours in class II. A.247, A.248 L.M. and K.C. Synge, St Botolph’s Church, Cambridge, 3 Marriage of September 1913. Correspondence from K.C. Synge to E.H. Swan (mother), 1913, 1934. Letters of congratulation on and arising from engagement and marriage to L.M. Synge, February - September 1913. 4 folders. Receipts from hotels. Invitation to wedding; order of service; newspaper cutting from [?Cambridge] Weekly News, 5 September 1913; other memorabilia. A.243-A.246 Honeymoon, September 1913. R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Biographical A.249-A.251 Correspondence to K.C. Synge from L.M. and Mary Synge, 1913-1943, n.d. A.249 1913. 1923-1930. 1935-1943, n.d. A.252-A.255 Wartime correspondence to K.C. Synge, 1915-1918. Includes letters from soldiers under her husband’s command thanking her for gifts, and letters reporting on L.M. Synge after hospitalisation. 1915. A.257-A.259 Correspondence from K.C. to L.M. Synge, 1932-1941. 1932. Correspondence to K.C. Synge from E.H. Swan (mother), 1925-1933, n.d. 1934, 1941. A.257 R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Biographical Miscellaneous personal and family correspondence to K.C. Synge, 1922- 1964, n.d. Silver Wedding Anniversary, 3 September 1938. Telegrams, cards and letters of congratulation. A.262-A.311 Correspondence between Synge and his parents, 1915-1972. A.262-A.279 Letters to Synge from his parents, 1915-1959, 1966. From 1941 the correspondence also includes letters to Ann Synge (wife). 1915-1918. 1924 March - June. 1924 July - December. 1925 January - June. 1926 May - July. 1925 September - October. 1926 January - March. R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Biographical 1926 September - December. 1927 February - March. 1927 October - December. 1941-1945. 1946-1948. 1950-1952. 1953-1959, 1966. 1925-1926. A.280-A.311 Letters from Synge to his parents, 1925-1972. From the start Synge’s letters to his parents were frequent, usually giving detailed reports of daily activities, both work and leisure. 1927-1929. From 1941 the correspondence also includes letters from Ann Synge (wife). R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Biographical 1932 February - July. 1932 September - December. 1933 January - July. 1933 August - December. 1934 January - May. 1935 January - April. 1934 July - November. 1935 May - December. R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Biographical 1940 January - June. 1940 July - December. 1941 January - June. 1941 July - December. 1947-1950. 1962-1965. 1960-1961. 1951-1953. 1954-1958. R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Biographical 1966-1969. 1970-1972. A.312-A.329 Ann Synge (née Stephen), wife 1941-1985, n.d. Ann was born in London in 1916, the daughter of A.L. and Karin Stephen. She was already married (to [?R]. Davis) when she met Synge during her final year as a medical student in Cambridge. Ann was divorced ca 1942 and Synge and Ann married in 1943. Physicians and Surgeons, 8 October 1941; Notification of award of President’s Silver Medal, Biological Society, Royal College of of appointment as part-time Casualty Officer, Hammersmith Hospital, 3 May 1945; letter re vacancy at Social Medicine Research Unit, 30 December 1948. notification A.313-A.322 Correspondence from Ann to Synge, 1941-1985, n.d. 1944-1945. 1948. 1941. From 1943 the letters are mostly to Synge when he was away attending visits and conferences. [1940s]. Includes one letter from Synge to Ann. R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Biographical 1951-1953. 1957-1958. 1969, 1985, n.d. A.323-A.325 Correspondence to Ann from Synge, August - October 1955. Synge was attending the International Wool Textile Research Conference, Australia (see G.27-G.34). August. September. October. A.327 A.327-A.329 Passports 1946-1956. Other family correspondence to Ann Synge. 1956-1966. R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Biographical A.330-A.335 Children Ann and R.L.M. Synge had eight children: Jane (born 1943), Elizabeth (3 May 1944), Thomas Millington (6 September 1945, died in childhood), Matthew Millington (7 January 1951), Alexander Millington (29 May 1953), Charlotte and Mary (18 June 1955). (25 January 1948), Millington Patrick April 11 A.330-A.332 Jane Synge 1960, 1975-1976 Jane was born in 1943. She studied at the University of Aberdeen and went on to receive her Ph.D. in 1971 from the London School of Economics. She moved to Canada, joining the Department of Sociology at McMaster University, Ontario. Newspaper cutting from Press & Journal, 8 June 1960, recording Jane’s bursary to the University of Aberdeen. A.331, A.332 ‘Jane’s reprints’. Contents of envelope so inscribed divided into two for ease of reference: copies of papers by Jane Synge 1975-1976. 1979 Correspondence re paper by Elizabeth Elizabeth Synge (afterwards Smith) ‘Corr re Dictyostelium paper etc’. Smith and K.L. Williams, 1979. Elizabeth was born in 1944. She moved to Australia, taking up a post in the Research School of Biological Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra. Correspondence 1981-1984. Patrick was born in 1951. building. He moved to Australia where he took up boat Patrick Millington Synge 1981-1984 R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Biographical Alexander Millington Synge 1983, 1990, n.d. Miscellaneous correspondence and papers. A.336-A.343 Sisters A.336-A.339 Anthea D. Synge 1920s-1980s A.336, A.337 Correspondence to Synge, 1920s-1980s. 2 folders. A.336 Dated. Undated. Letters to L.M. and K.C. Synge from Anthea’s landlord and landlady, 1939, 1941. A.340-A.343 Katharine M. Synge 1916-1991, n.d. A.340 The letters relate to Synge’s relationship with Ann. Letters to L.M. and K.C. Synge from Anthea, 1941-1942. Biographical material including telegram to L.M. Synge, 15 January 1916 re birth of Katharine, manuscript programmes for children’s plays (featuring both K.M. and A.D. Synge), 1925 and 1926, results of music examinations 1926 and 1927, letter re music, 9 December 1931. Includes letter from Synge 7 December 1928. A.341, A.342 Correspondence to Synge, 1923-1991, n.d. A.341 Dated. R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Biographical Undated. [?1920s]. Letters to L.M. and K.C. Synge from Katharine, 1942-1943. The letters relate to Synge’s relationship with Ann. A.344-A.347 Grandparents A.344-A.346 Mary Synge (paternal grandmother) Principally correspondence to Synge 1921-1942, n.d. 1921-1924. 1925-1926. 1927-1942, n.d. Correspondence to Synge, 1918-1940. Karin Stephen (mother-in-law) A.348 Richard Millington Synge (uncle) A.348-A.352 Other relatives Emma Henrietta Swan (maternal grandmother) Miscellaneous correspondence, 1942, 1952, n.d. Correspondence to Synge, 1913-1949, n.d. R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Biographical A.350-A.352 Miscellaneous relatives. Correspondence 1917-1966, n.d. 1917-1936. 1943-1949. 1950-1966, n.d. A.353, A.354 Miscellaneous family material A.353 Obituaries of John Synge (/rish Times 1 September 1982); Francis Millington Synge (/rish Times, 30 November 1983) and related correspondence 1983- 1984. A.355-A.369 PERSONAL CORRESPONDENCE 1920s-1991, n.d. 1920s. Correspondence and papers re family history etc. Many of the letters are first name only and may In chronological order. include more distant relatives. Includes correspondence of Ann Synge’s. 1940-1946. R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Biographical 1949-1952. 1953-1957. 1960s-1970s. 1981-1982. 1984-1985. 1986-1987. 1988-1989. 1990-1991. A.368, A.369 N.d. 2 folders. A.370-A.377 REQUESTS FOR AUTOGRAPHS 1952-1992, n.d. Arranged chronologically. Not indexed. 1952-1965. 1981-1984. R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Biographical 1985-1986. 1987-1988. 1989-1990. A.378-A.428 PERSONAL INTERESTS A.419-A.426 Travel Cairngorm Club 1938-1992 A.378-A.418 Politics A.427 A.428 A.378-A.418 Politics Volunteers for lonising Radiation Synge was on the political Left. He was a member of the Communist Party in the 1930s and 1940s. His later political activity concentrated on the peace movement and organisations concerned with human rights. Miscellaneous A.383-A.412 | Organisations and concerns Correspondence and appeals A.413-A.415 Drafts A.416-A.418 A.378-A.382 R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Biographical A.378-A.382 Correspondence and appeals 1938-1991, n.d. A.378 1938-1954 Includes letter from J. Needham re possible nomination of Synge as Britain- China Friendship Association delegate to China, 6 September 1951. 1965-1981. 1982-1983. 1984-1986. 1987-1991, n.d. In alphabetical order. 1943-1992 1943-1945 Common Voice 1988-1992 British Peace Committee 1952-1960 A.383-A.412 Organisations and concerns Includes correspondence re meeting addressed by Linus Pauling, to chaired by Synge, July 1960. be a meeting on 13 May. Common Voice was an organisation formed after the 1987 General Election to encourage cooperation between the Labour and Liberal Democrat parties to defeat the Conservative government at the next General Election. Synge was a member of the Communist Party in the 1930s and 1940s. In early 1945 he was asked to assist in drafting the Party’s policy on science for A.385-A.390 Communist Party of Great Britain R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Biographical A.385-A.387 Papers re science policy memorandum, 1945. A.385 Letter to Synge re proposed memorandum on science; paper ‘Organisation and Finance of Science (delivered to Sc. W. Conference, “Science in Peace”, 18-2-45)’, 12pp; agenda for meeting, 13 May with ‘Suggestions for completing the proposed memorandum on science’, 20 March. A. ‘Draft memorandum on typescript. science’ by Lilley, 13 April, 29pp duplicated ‘Draft memorandum on science’, anon, n.d., 14pp duplicated typescript. A.388-A.390 Communist Party pamphlets. A.388 ‘Unity and Victory. 1943’. Report of the 16th Congress of the Communist Party, ‘How to win the Peace’ by Harry Pollitt, 2nd edition 1944. Fabian Society 1947-1948 ‘Take over the mines! The case for nationalisation’ by Harry Pollitt, 1944. Correspondence and papers re Fabian Society Conference on the Industrial Future of Great Britain. Synge spoke on ‘Changes to be expected due to technical developments in Chemistry and Biochemistry’. Correspondence and papers. International Campaign - Orlov and Shcharansky 1985, 1987 Circulars. International Sacharov Tribunal of Conscience and Peace R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Biographical J.D. Bernal Peace Library Letter re Trustees meeting; notice of Peace Scholarship, 1973. Medical Aid for Vietnam 1976-1977 Correspondence and papers. Norwich and District Peace Council 1985, n.d. Papers. A.397-A.402 Scientists Against Nuclear Arms (SANA) 1981-1991 SANA was founded in 1981 to promote and coordinate the activities scientists involved in the peace movement. Synge was a Sponsor. of A.397-A.399 Circulars 1981-1991. 3 folders. A.400-A.402 A.403-A.408 1945-1955 related correspondence April-May 1953; Newsletters 1982-1991. 3 folders. Invitation correspondence and circulars 1955. join SCR and to Society for Cultural Relations with the USSR (SCR) Although Synge had made use of its Library of translations of articles from Soviet periodicals earlier, Synge only joined the SCR in 1953. He was a member of the Science Section. October 1953, February 1954. SCR Science and Engineering Section Bulletins. February and June 1953. A.404, A.405 A.404 R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Biographical SCR Soviet Science Bulletins, August 1954 - February 1955. A.407, A.408 SCR Translation Library. A.407 Accession lists, September-October 1945 - April-July 1948. Accession lists April 1953; other lists of translations available. United Nations Association Letter re membership. A.410, A.411 World Council of Peace 1954 re presentation of one of Material International Peace Prizes Council’s representatives at Chaplin’s home in Switzerland. to the World Council of Peace’s 1953 the place at Chaplin. Synge was one the award ceremony, which took Charlie of World Disarmament Campaign Invitation to act as Advisor to the Campaign, 3 December. Issue of Défense de la Paix, July 1954, with article ‘Charles Chaplin, l’'ami des hommes’, on pp.9-17. Includes photographs, one featuring Synge. World Council of Peace Bulletin 12 (June 1954), with feature about the award on pp.24-25; 4 photographs from the ceremony. from Science & Society, 22 July 1940. ‘Chemistry and the nature of living matter’ by Synge, contribution to Marx House Faculty of Science meeting on Marxism and Science, August 1939, submitted for publication to Science & Society. 6pp typescript with manuscript corrections; summaries of papers given at Marx House symposium; manuscript comments from B.C.J.G. Knight; letter 1939, 1969, n.d. A.413 A.413-A.415 Drafts R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Biographical ‘The scientist's responsibilities’, address for National Conference of Science for Peace, 14 March 1953. Subsequently published in Nature 172, 11 July 1953 but not listed in Bibliog. Ypp typescript + introduction. ‘Nationalisation of railways’, n.d. 6pp typescript with manuscript annotation. ‘Fifty years of Soviet science’ by Synge, contribution to Symposium on the [Russian] Revolution. 12pp typescript + references; letter re non-publication, 17 June 1969. A.416-A.418 Miscellaneous A.416 5pp duplicated typescript Marxism, ca 1930s. syllabus of unidentified three-day course on Manuscript draft December 1952. of telegram to peace congress, Vienna, Austria, 15 Songs: ‘Three Press Lords’, 1p typescript, ca 1939. ‘John Bull and the New Taxes’, 1p typescript, copy of ?1840s ballad. ‘My cousin’s an agent for Franco’ and ‘As | stroll around the Kremlin with a non-committal air’, 1p typescript, ca late 1930s. the each seat. Synge’s manuscript list of English parliamentary constituencies after the 1983 or 1987 General Election indicating actual and ‘pot[ential]’ winners of R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Biographical A.419-A.426 Travel 1931-1980 Synge was interested in travel from an early age and his love of journeying continued throughout his He made a number of long visits to attend scientific meetings, usually taking his family with him. life. The bulk of the material relating to Synge’s visits is to be found in section G. Manuscript notes on Manchester - London Marylebone, 18 September 1931, list journeys during 1931’, Leicester - London St Pancras, 20 January 1932. railway journeys: Winchester - Chester ca 1930, of ‘Railway Synge’s hand-drawn map of rail network around Manchester. Manuscript list of ‘Control’s Longer Journeys’, ca 1937. ‘Control’ was the name Synge and A.H. Gordon gave to their shared car at Cambridge. The list covers the period December 1934 - January 1937. notebook inscribed Book A.423 inside front cover ‘Log 1955-1960. 1945-1955. A.423-A.426 Passports, 1945-1980. Hardback Bedford Dormobile SU 6731’. Used for record of ‘Petrol and routes’ November 1953 - October 1958. 1970-1980. 1960-1970. R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Biographical Cairngorm Club 1987-1992 Synge joined the Cairngorm Club while working at the Rowett Research Institute. He retained membership to his death. Circulars. Volunteers for lonising Radiation (VIR) 1986-1990 VIR was established in 1986 by Sir Frederick Warner who wrote to Fellows of the Fellowship of Engineering and the Royal Society calling for volunteers over the age of 65 prepared to act in emergencies where there was a high level of ionising radiation. Correspondence and circulars. A.429-A.435 FINANCIAL AND BUSINESS 1933-1991 A.429, A.430 Bank statements 1933-1943. A.429 1939-1943. 1933-1938. Financial and business correspondence 1941-1942. Financial and business correspondence 1950-1953. Hardback notebook used from the front for household accounts 1948-1951 and car mileage 1951-1953 and from the back for household accounts 1948- 1956. includes Extensive calculations of income and expenditure, etc. intercalated material receipts, lists of expenses R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Biographical Two hardback pocket notebooks glued together. The smaller was used to record expenses during the visit to Scandinavia in 1952 to receive the Nobel prize; the larger to record expenses 1958-1964. Financial and business correspondence 1981-1991. Includes correspondence with solicitors re the estate of L.M. Synge. A.436-A.442 MISCELLANEOUS 1922-1994 Horoscopes for Richard, ‘Anne’ [Anthea] and Katharine Synge, done for K.C. Synge, 1922 and n.d. Programme and local newspaper reviews of performance of ‘The Rose and the Ring’ by the Christleton Village Players, January 1928. L.M. Synge, R.L.M. Synge and K.M. Synge all played characters. Invitations etc for social occasions 1933-1989. Synge’s notes on questions asked/to ask. Papers re Synge’s health. Manuscript note headed ‘ “Brains Trust” - W. Drayton - 7.4.46’. Invitation 1989 is for luncheon at 10 Downing Street with the Prime Minister in honour of British science Nobel prizewinners. Synge declined on political grounds. ‘things to do’ etc. 1983-1994. Includes x-ray of Synge’s hand, 5 February 1964, scientific paper re gout, from which Synge suffered. A.439-A.441 Pages from spiral bound reporter’s notebooks, used by Synge for lists of R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Biographical 1983-1984. 1990. 19911. 1991, ca October- December. 1992. 1993-1994. Miscellaneous correspondence and papers, 1934-1989. A.443-A.470 PHOTOGRAPHS 1918-1991, n.d. Synge as a child. N.d. 25 May Synge as a child, in a rowing boat. N.d. Synge as a student or researcher. N.d. ?Anthea and Katharine (sisters), one with ?L.M. Synge (father), 1918. 2 photographs. Christmas card, 1927, with picture of Christleton House. ?K.C. Synge, with Synge and Anthea. N.d. Family home. N.d. 10 photographs. R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Biographical Inscribed on verso ‘Demonstration - Physiol. Lab. [...] Cambridge 71935’. Found in envelope ‘[...] Photo by A. Fyvie Ruakura Animal Research Station [New Zealand]’, 1937. Synge not featured. Sent to Synge by S. Corran, inscribed on verso: ‘Dick & Stan Corran Biochem Lab, Cambridge 1937-9?’ ‘RLMS Dunn Inst. ca. 1938’. ‘W E v[an H[leyningen) Grantchester 1939 (?)’. ARH T[rim] RLM Slynge] E M Crook Inscribed on verso ‘C J Martin [...] - 21946’. Laboratory at Lister Institute, London, 1948. 4 photographs. Inscribed on verso ‘RLMS at Rowett Inst. Jul. 1949’. Staff of Rowett Research Institute, summer 1951. Inscribed on verso ‘Harvesting grass - June 1951 Sunnybrae [...]’ 1st 3 Inscribed on verso ‘Garden Sherry Party, Madingley Rise, Cambridge. Intl. Cong. Biochem - Aug. 1949’. 2 photographs. Synge at 2nd International Congress of Biochemistry, Paris, France, 21-27 July 1952. 1952’. Inscribed on verso ‘Mass spectrometer E | McDougall Rowett Inst. 1952’. photographs. Inscribed on verso ‘Svensson Brattsen Apparatus D L Mould Rowett Inst Inscribed on verso ‘Tiselius Apparatus E photographs. | McDougall Rowett Inst. 1952’. 2 R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Biographical Inscribed on verso ‘Jane, Elizabeth Matthew & Patrick [children] Head End of Oct 1954’. King’s Inscribed 14/10/57’. on verso ‘Supper for H. Jasiorowski, Park Hotel, Aberdeen Inscribed on verso ‘A | Oparin RLMS Dec 1959 Moscow’. Inscribed on verso ‘50-Jahres Loeffler-Institut Insel Riems photographs. Oct 1960’. 4 Inscribed on verso ‘[...] Lindau 1961’. Contents of envelope inscribed ‘Lindau June 1961’: Synge at social dinner. 5 photographs Inscribed on verso ‘Photographed on 6th August 1962’ (not in Synge’s hand) and in ‘Drinking [...] to celebrate X-ray structure of sporidesmium’. Ellfolk, C.C. Hunter, E.I. McDougall, RLMS Synge family, 1963. Inscribed Hofbrihaus, Munich 20/1/63’. verso ‘N. on Staff of Rowett Research Institute at Golden Jubilee Year 1963. With key. Mounted photograph ‘Souvenir of Your Visit to the Home of Guinness’, ca 1963. photographs. Inscribed on verso ‘Lindau 1964 Maikaferbetrackkung’ and ‘Lindau 1964 with Mrs Williams (wife of American attaché) at Bayrisches Frihstuck’. 2 photographs In envelope inscribed ‘Cuthbertson Portrait’, stamps franked Inscribed on verso ‘Lindau 1964’. 1965. 2 R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Biographical Group photograph in envelope inscribed ‘Rowett Research Institute - Protein Chemistry Dept. Sept. 1967’. Inscribed on verso ‘RLMS leaving presentation 29/9/67 Strathcona House’. Inscribed on verso ‘John Peel, Eddy Prescott and workers in “Phase 2” Earlham Lab. Oct. 1967 [...]’ of Mounted group photograph from A.C. Chibnall’s 80th birthday, 1974. others, Synge and in envelope postmarked May 1975. One features a painting of Synge in the background. 3 photographs. Corran, found sent him by H. S. to Group photographs of Nobel laureates, found in envelope postmarked December 1975. 2 photographs. Mounted photograph of honorary graduands, University of East Anglia, 1976. Includes Synge (Honorary D.Sc.). and Ann 1977. Lindau, See A.205. See A.207, A.208. West Germany, June Synge photographs. See G.206, G.207. Synge at Mounted photographs 1980. Probably Honorary D.Sc., University of Uppsala, Sweden, 1980. Inscribed on verso ‘[...] last night of Phytochemical Societies’ Conference at Gent - Sept. 1977’. photographs. Found in envelope inscribed ‘...] from Greenham Common July 1984’. 2 5 R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Biographical Honorary D.Sc., University of Aberdeen, 1987. 3 photographs. See A.210. Group photograph of Stockholm, Sweden. past Nobel laureates from 1991 Nobel Jubilee, Inscribed on verso ‘Lunch [...] Dec. 1991 Uppsala’. A.471-A.489 K.C. SYNGE’S DIARIES 1915-1937 Synge’s mother’s diaries record details of domestic life. A.471-A.474 ‘Midget’ or ‘Dwarf’ diaries 1915-1918. A.471 1915. A.475-A.489 1923-1937. Those for 1923 and 1924 are ‘Poultry Keeper's’ diaries, those from 1925 are ‘R.H.S. [Royal Horticultural Society] Gardener's’ diaries. 1923. R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Biographical R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 SECTION B LISTER INSTITUTE OF PREVENTIVE MEDICINE B.1-B.17 Synge joined the Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine, London in 1943 as he wished to make a greater contribution to the war effort than he felt he was able to do at the Wool Industries Research Association in Leeds. At the Lister Institute he researched on the chemistry of the antibiotic polypeptides of the gramicidin-tyrocidine group. During this period good relations with the USSR meant that samples of the antibiotic gramicidin S were made available for analysis and in 1945 using the technique of partition chromatography Synge established the sequence of the amino acids in gramicidin S. For the period August 1946 - May 1947 Synge worked at the laboratory of Arne Tiselius in the Fysikalisk-Kemiska Institution, Uppsala, Sweden. Synge left the Lister Institute in 1948 in order to work on more immediately practical aspects of biochemistry. He moved to the Rowett Research Institute in Aberdeen (see section C). The material includes correspondence and papers relating to Synge’s appointment at the Lister Institute including his statement of proposed work, inventories of equipment and chemicals, and miscellaneous administrative material. There are also papers relating to Synge’s visit to Tiselius’s laboratory - equipment, chemicals etc required and expenses of the visit. See also Synge’s account of his time at the Lister Institute at A.6. R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine Correspondence, principally with A.N. Drury, Director of Lister Institute re employment. Includes curriculum vitae and ‘Progress Report. Biochemistry Department’ on seven months work up to May 1943 from Wool Industries Research Association. ‘Statement on work proposed to be undertaken at the Lister Institute’ by Synge, 4pp typescript. N.d. but probably ca 1943. Synge sets out three aspects of his planned work on gramicidin. Lister Institute memoranda and notices, 1944-1946. 1p manuscript note on proposed work on gramicidin to be undertaken in Sweden, 12 September 1945. See E.66 for research report 1944-1945. 1946. [List of] the including situation ‘Meeting Demonstrations by members of the Lister Institute’. Pathology January 22nd Section the of of Synge was a member of the Committee. Synge demonstrated on 'Chemistry of gramicidin S’. Papers of sixth meeting of Library Committee, 25 January 1946. ‘List of books recommended by the Library Committee, 1 May 1946; 'Notice from re supply of German scientific journals, ca 1946. Library Committee’, E187; Synge visited Sweden to work at Tiselius’s laboratory at the Fysikalisk- Kemiska Institution in Sweden in order to become familiar with new analytical techniques developed there. While in Sweden Synge visited colleagues at other research establishments and delivered some lectures. Synge returned to the UK via Norway. For an account of work done at the laboratory see 1p typescript entry for Lister Institute Annual Report, 12 March 1946. Visit to Sweden and Norway, 1946-1947. R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine Correspondence with A.N. Drury, Director, and others at the Lister Institute July 1946 - January 1947. Includes report on work achieved, 5 October 1946. Correspondence re travel and salary arrangements 1947. ‘Gramicidin, Society, Stockholm, 27 February 1947. and Gramicidin S’, tyrosine lecture to Swedish Chemical Brief correspondence; 9pp manuscript draft. ‘Chromatography - general principles, with special reference to adsorption chromatography’, lecture, n.d. 6pp manuscript draft + material found attached. Correspondence re purchase and modification of Claesson interferometer for adsorption analysis from Swedish manufacturers, LKB-Produkter, June 1946 - March 1947. visited the Synge acted for manufacturers to discuss modifications to the equipment. Institute Lister while the in Sweden and Correspondence re equipment, chemicals etc taken to Sweden by Synge, 1946. 6pp typescript ‘List of specimens in steel cabinet R.L.M. Synge (taken to Sweden - July 1946)’. annotations by Synge. Typescript lists Institutionen, included consignment to the Lister Institute [...] 28/3/47’. Includes prices in sterling. of 'Goods consigned to R.L.M. Synge, Fysikalisk-Kemiska in ‘Additional ‘Old inventories - Lister Inst.'. typescript lists of apparatus and chemicals. N.d. Contents of Synge's envelope so inscribed: Further typescript manuscript Uppsala, apparatus and chemicals with lists of Sweden' and items R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine Correspondence re requests to work at the Lister Institute, 1946-1947. Programme; table plan and guest list for 75th Anniversary celebrations of the Lister Institute, 9 November 1966. R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 SECTION C ROWETT RESEARCH INSTITUTE C.1-C.103 In October 1948 Synge moved from the Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine (section B) to the Rowett Research Institute (RRI), based in Aberdeen. He headed the Department of Protein and Carbohydrate Chemistry (later the Department of Protein and Lipid Chemistry, then the Department of Protein Chemistry). In 1965 Synge was appointed Deputy Director of the Institute. There is documentation of Synge’s appointment, his headship of the Department of Protein and Carbohydrate Chemistry, including research programmes, equipment and staff, Agricultural Research Council Visiting Groups, and quite extensive administrative material. There is also material relating to the Institute’s Strathcona Club of which Synge was a loyal member, and a little memorabilia. For photographs taken at the Rowett Research Institute during Synge’s period see A.450, A.451, A.452, A.453, A.458, A.459, A.462 and A.463. The material is presented as follows: Cl, ©.2 APPOINTMENT C.3-C.56 C.57-C.63 C.101-C.103 C.64-C.78 RRI ADMINISTRATIVE NOTICES C.79-C.92 RRI ANNUAL REPORTS PROTEIN AND CARBOHYDRATE CHEMISTRY DEPARTMENT AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH COUNCIL VISITING GROUPS MEMORABILIA C.97-C.100 THE STRATHCONA CLUB C.93-C.96 RRI NEWSLETTERS R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Rowett Research Institute APPOINTMENT 1947-1948 Correspondence 1947, chiefly re Synge’s equipment requirements. Includes Synge’s manuscript lists of chemicals and apparatus. Correspondence 1948-1949, chiefly re equipment and co-workers. PROTEIN AND CARBOHYDRATE CHEMISTRY DEPARTMENT 1949-1967 C.3-C.7 C.8-C.20 Research programmes and reports Estimates C.21-C.37 Equipment and supplies C.38-C.45 Staffing 1949-1956 C.46-C.52 Departmental notices C.53-C.56 Miscellaneous Research programmes and reports Research programmes of the Protein and Lipid Chemistry Department 1962- 1964 and 1963-1964 are at C.47 and C.48. 5 May 1950. Manuscript draft of research programme written on back of Director’s note of ‘Academic Year Oct. 1949-1950’, 26 May 1949. Typescript Carbohydrate Chemistry Department. duplicated and ‘Research Programme’, 1950-1951, 16 May 1950. typescript programmes of the Protein and R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Rowett Research Institute ‘Research Programme 1952-53’ (amended version of Programme for 1951- 1952). ‘Subjects of current and intended research’. ‘Research Programme 1953-54’ ‘Research Programme 1954-55’. ‘Research Programme 1955-6’. Contributions of Protein and Carbohydrate Chemistry Department to Annual Reports, by Synge. 1953-1954. 9pp typescript. 1954-1955, 7pp typescript + summary. Estimates 1950-1963 1950-1951. The first folder covered the period 1950-1958 (C.8-C.15), the second 1958- 1963 (C.16-C.20). Contents of Synge’s two folders so inscribed: typescript and manuscript lists of expenditure on staff, apparatus and chemicals, requirements for farm animals, expected promotions, valuations of departmental equipment etc. 1954-1955. 1951-1952. 1952-1953. 1953-1954. R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Rowett Research Institute 1955-1956. 1956-1957. 1957-1958. For this financial year the Department of Agriculture for Scotland requested that applications for funds for 1957-1958 be kept at the same levels as the previous year. 1958-1959. 1959-1960. 1960-1961. 1961-1962. 1951-1953. C.21-C.37 Equipment and supplies 1949-1962 1962-1963. Typescript and printed material. ‘Supplying firms 1948-’. Contents of Synge’s folder so inscribed divided into three for ease of reference: correspondence and papers from suppliers of equipment and chemicals. 1949-1950. R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Rowett Research Institute Correspondence with Shandon Scientific Company re manufacture equipment for paper chromatography, 1949. 2 folders. of ‘Isotopes - AEA’. Contents of Synge’s folder so inscribed divided into four for ease of reference. ‘Introductory Manual on Materials’, Council by the Atomic Energy Research Establishment (AERE), Harwell. the Control of Health Hazards from Radioactive the Medical Research issue 2, January 1949. Prepared for AERE catalogue of ‘Radioactive and Stable Isotopes’, latest bibliographical reference 1947. Atomic Energy Authority (AEA) catalogue of ‘Radioactive products’, 1956. Miscellaneous correspondence and papers from AEA, 1957-1958. 1960-1962. 1950, 1952-1953. re supply of glass and other Correspondence with Quickfit & Quartz Ltd equipment, 1950-1962. ‘Note on the use of Ultra-Sonic Generators’ by G.A. Garton, 2pp typescript, 14 September 1955. folder so inscribed divided into seven for ease of reference Letter to G.N. Haden & Sons Ltd, re replacement of fume-cupboards, with sample drawings of fume-cupboards supplied to Cambridge University by Haden & Sons. C.34-C.37 ‘Instruction sheets etc, concerning Lab. apparatus’. Contents of Synge’s R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Rowett Research Institute C.38-C.45 Staffing 1949-1957 C.38-C.44 Contents of Synge’s folder inscribed ‘Staff and visiting workers 1948-’ divided into seven for ease of reference. General correspondence and papers. C.39-C.44 Members of staff, arranged alphabetically. C.39 Annison, E. F. Arni, P. C. Bywater, S. Chalmers, M. 1951-1952 1949-1952 1949-1950 1951 Hobson, P. 1950-1951 1950; 1952 Warner, A.C. I. Joyce, A. E. McDougall, E. |. Mould, D. L. 1950-1951 1949-1952 Shazly, K. A. S. el- Correspondence and papers re post in Lipid Biochemistry Section, 1957. Correspondence and papers re scholarship student, 1954. 1948-1952 1952-1953 Miscellaneous. R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Rowett Research Institute C.46-C.52 Departmental notices 1960-1967 Contents of Synge’s folder so inscribed: typescript and duplicated typescript papers, 1960-1967. 1960. Includes material re Laboratory Technicians’ course. 1961. Includes departmental programme of research for 1962-1964. 1962. department, and programme of research for 1963-1964. Includes list of apparatus, equipment and chemicals held by the C.53-C.56 Miscellaneous 1949-1966 C.53, C.54 1966-1967. Includes manuscript list of visitors, 1948-1967. ‘Home Office’. Contents of Synge’s folder so inscribed divided into two for ease of reference: correspondence and papers re Home Office licences to perform experiments on living animals, 1949-1966. correspondence and papers chiefly re departmental use of C14, 1962-1965. ‘Radio-active substances in Protein & Lipid Chem Dept. Institute Rules’. Contents of Synge’s folder so inscribed: correspondence and papers re use and regulation of isotopes, 1960. ‘Own radioactive experiments’. Contents of Synge’s folder so inscribed: R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Rowett Research Institute C.57-C.63 AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH COUNCIL VISITING GROUPS 1953, 1964 C.57 1953 Contents of Synge’s envelope. The Agricultural Research Council (ARC) Visiting Group made its quinquennial visitation of the Institute 30 April - 1 May 1953. The group was headed by H.A. Krebs. Memoranda re arrangements for for ARC Quinquennial Visitation’ prepared by Synge; 2pp typescript extract from ARC report on visit; manuscript notes typescript ‘Data visit; 4pp C.58-C.63 1964 Contents of Synge’s folder. The ARC Visiting Group made its sexennial visitation of the Institute 6-8 May 1964. The group was headed by H.A. Krebs. 2pp typescript memorandum prepared by Synge in October 1958, responding to the section of ARC Report on the 1958 visitation commenting on Synge’s department. C.60-C.62 C.60 Material prepared for the Visiting Group. Memoranda and other material re arrangements for visit. Manuscript and typescript notes on equipment etc needs of RRI and of the Protein Chemistry Department; manuscript draft of report of the Protein Chemistry Department for the Visiting Group, not all in Synge’s hand. Duplicated typescript extracts from 1964 Report of Visiting Group. 125pp duplicated typescript information on prepared for the Visiting Group. 2 folders. the RRI and its departments R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Rowett Research Institute C.64-C.78 RRI ADMINISTRATIVE NOTICES 1948-1961 Contents of Synge’s folder inscribed ‘Administrative notices’. typescript equipment, visitors to the Institute etc, 1948-1961. memoranda duplicated typescript and re_ staff, Principally buildings, 1948. 1950 January - May. Includes 4pp and 3pp typescript papers for meeting to discuss ‘Proposed experiment to compare the nutritive value of spring and autumn grass silages’, 27 March. 1950 June - December. May. 1951 January - April. Staff Library Committee’ on Duplicated typescript ‘Report of 1951 procedure and facilities. 1951 June - December. R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Rowett Research Institute 1958-1959. 1960-1961. C.79-C.92 RRI ANNUAL REPORTS 1947-1962 1947-1948. 1948-1949. 1949-1950. 1953-1954. 1954-1955. 1952-1953. 1951-1952. 1950-1951. 1955-1956. R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Rowett Research Institute 1956-1957. 1957-1958. 1958-1959. 1959-1960. 1961-1962. C.93-C.96 RRI NEWSLETTERS 1965-1967 1965. 1966 January-June. 1966 July-December. Institute The Newsletters were initiated aware of scientific and social activities. Not a complete sequence. in 1965 to keep members of the benefactor. The Strathcona Club was a residential Hall and Club built in 1933 to provide accommodation and a social centre for research workers at the Rowett Research Institute. principal THE STRATHCONA CLUB It was named after Lord Strathcona, the C.97-C.100 1948-1965, n.d. R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Rowett Research Institute Rules of the Club, 1948, 1965 and n.d. Papers for AGMs, 1949-1954. Papers for AGMs, 1961, 1963, 1965, 1966. Miscellaneous correspondence and papers, 1949, 1961, 1962. C.101-C.103 MEMORABILIA 1948-ca 1957 Article about the Institute in Aberdeen Weekly Journal, 21 October 1948. Pictures from the Institute in Aberdeen Bon-Accord, 2 November 1950. Song from the Founders’ Dinner, 31 October 1953. Song ‘Ex scientia salus’, for ?Founder’s Dinner, October 1956. Article about the Institute in Aberdeen local newspaper, ca 1957. Manuscript draft of notice for Brechin Advertiser 3 November [?1957] re radioactive fallout. R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 SECTION D FOOD RESEARCH INSTITUTE Synge joined the Agricultural Research Council's Food Research Institute (FRI), Norwich, in 1967. He was attached to the Chemistry Division, working on reactions of polyphenols and quinones and bound forms of amino acids in plants. Synge retired in 1976 but continued research based at the Institute and was appointed to an honorary professorship at the University of East Anglia. The material is not extensive. It includes correspondence and papers relating to Synge’s appointment including his plan of research, comments on Lord Rothschild’s 1971 Green Paper A Framework for Government Research and Development, administrative papers from the Chemistry Division, and project reports on Synge’s research. The material is presented as follows: D.1-D.12 GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE AND PAPERS D.13-D.17 CHEMISTRY DIVISION D.18, D.19 PROJECT REPORTS R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Food Research Institute GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE AND PAPERS 1965-1976, n.d. Correspondence re terms of appointment, equipment required etc, 1965- 1967; letter from K.L. Blaxter re Synge’s ‘inaugural days’, 7 March 1969. General correspondence and papers 1969-1979. Includes exchange with Director re circulation of Annual Confidential Reports, 1975-1976. Manuscript draft beginning ‘This is how | visualise the development of the work of my group [...]’, 19 September 1968, with later manuscript notes found attached. Report of work of Synge’s group for ‘Agricultural Research Council] Visiting Group’, 18 July 1969, 2pp typescript + 2pp typescript notes on work with plant proteins and leaf extracts. Lord papers, including material from meeting Synge much comment. the Rothschild Report) a memorandum on re Library Committee Papers typescript memorandum by Synge on ‘Future policy for Food Research Institute Library about periodicals’, 31 December 1971. 1971-1976. Includes 10pp_ Framework for Government Research and Development by A Rothschild, Cmnd 4814, 1971. on research and This Green Paper (known as development carried out by government departments and other institutions attracted prepared the implications of the report for agricultural research. of potatoes’; Synge’s manuscript draft of introduction to his memorandum. Draft of Synge’s memorandum on the Green Paper. Includes 6pp typescript original, carbon copies annotated by recipients and correspondence. Correspondence and Rothschild with Fellows of the Royal Society, 11 January 1971. 11pp typescript on ‘History of ARC/DSIR investigations into the indoor storage of Lord R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Food Research Institute Programme for FRI ‘At Home’ displays, 13-14 May 1971. 2pp typescript ‘Background to request for T.P.I. extra-mural contract’ by Synge and E. Mbadiwe, May 1974. ‘Memo for ARC Review Committee concerning future development of Food Research Institute’ by Synge, 11 December 1974. Manuscript and typescript drafts; 2pp typescript. Coloured sketch of the FRI, with short note on its location and environment, 29 December 1975. Songs from Food Research Institute Christmas parties, 1970, n.d. ‘Assistant Scientific Officers’, 3pp typescript, ca 1972. D.13-D.17 CHEMISTRY DIVISION 1969-1977 Memoranda by R.F. Curtis, Head of Chemistry Division: Papers 1969-1971. Horticultural Committee noting ‘Points of September meeting’, 1969. Includes 2pp typescript memorandum by Synge to the ‘Future Developments in the Chemistry Division’, 10pp photocopied typescript sent to Synge 14 September 1971. 5 April 1971, 2pp typescript. ‘Memorandum for discussion in typescript, ca 1973. the Chemistry Division’, 4pp duplicated Reports of work in progress for FRI Annual Reports 1 February 1968, 1p typescript. 12 January 1970, 1p typescript. R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Food Research Institute Papers re appointment of temporary organic chemist to assist Synge in study of the reaction of quinones with proteins and amino acids in plants, 1972- 1973. Includes Synge’s drafts of the course of research. ‘Chemistry Division List of Projects 1976-77’. PROJECT REPORTS 1972-1976 ‘Coupling of quinones with proteins’. Reports April 1972 - March 1973; April 1973 - March 1974; April 1974 - March 1975; April 1975 - March 1976; Final report November 1976. ‘Derivatization-GC/MS-Computing for analysis’. Reports April 1972 - March 1973; April 1973 - March 1974; Final report ca March 1975. R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 SECTION E RESEARCH E.1-E.101 Notebooks, papers and correspondence documenting the bulk of Synge’s research work. For his research on facial eczema in sheep undertaken in New Zealand 1958-1959 see G.65-G.81. The material is presented as follows: E.1-E.48 NOTEBOOKS E.49-E.101 RESEARCH NOTES NOTEBOOKS 1936-1993 The notebooks document Synge’s research from postgraduate studies in the mid 1930s, through work for the Wool Industries Research Association in Leeds, Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine, Rowett Research Institute and Food Research Institute, to post-retirement work in the 1990s on electronic storage of chemical information. The bulk of the notebooks are a sequence I- XXVII running from 1938 to ca 1979. There are also notebooks used for references from searches of the Science Citation Index. Used 5 October 1936 - 16 March 1937, paginated 1-186. in envelope inscribed Used from the front 7 July - 5 August Two exercise books, ‘Carbohydrate work | & Il’ and material found therewith. lacking covers, found both Headed on first page ‘...] July 1936’. 1936, paginated 1-54, and at the back for notes on methods. At E.43-E.48 are notebooks used by three collaborators, J.C. Wood 1952- 1954, M.A. Youngson 1958-1962 and S. Matai 1968-1969. typescript notes on ‘Summary of work commencing 7.vii.36’. Loose material found intercalated at the front of the notebook is at E.3 below. Manuscript and typescript material found intercalated in E.2. Includes 8pp R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Research Hardback notebook inscribed on front cover ‘Carbohydrate work 1937’ and inside front cover ‘Ill March 1937’. Used from the front for notes March 1937 - 11 January 1938, paginated 1-102, and at the back for notes October - December 1937. Hardback notebook inscribed on first page ‘...] April 1938 - March 1939 Protein work |’, paginated 1-210. Pasted into back of book is typescript ‘Index to vol. | (April 1938-March 1939)’. - Hardback notebook inscribed on first page ‘[...] March 1939 Protein work II OH amino-acids etc’. Used from the front to ca April 1941, paginated 1-197, and from the back for notes on ‘Draft thesis’, bibliographical references etc. Hardback notebook inscribed on first page {...] March 1939 Protein work Ill analysis etc. paginated 1-104, and at the back for references and calculations. Monoaminoacids’. Used from the - 26 June 1940, front to AH Gordon Used from Not all Partial hydrolysis work II’ with brief list of contents. Hardback notebook inscribed inside front cover ‘[...] Protein work IV - Partial hydrolysis etc’. Used from the front from March 1941, paginated 1-257, and from the back. Not all in Synge’s hand. Hardback notebook inscribed inside front cover ‘Notebook V RLM Synge. the front from ca February 1942, paginated 1-172, and from the back. in Synge’s hand. Hardback notebook labelled on front cover ‘6 Tyrocidine - complete hydrol. Gramicidin (Wallerstein) - Partial hydrol. & Bacterial tests’. Used from the front ca 1942-1943, paginated 1-130, and from the back to September 1943, paginated with Synge’s own Greek and Latin alphabetical system. in Synge’s hand. A little loose intercalated material. Hardback notebook labelled Complete hydrol. serology’. paginated 1-126, and from the back for notes ca December 1943 - 1945, including work on penicillin 1944, paginated with Synge’s own system. (Hotchkiss). & Used from the front for notes September 1943 - October 1944, 1 January Amino-acid [...] “Glycoleucine” “Grami[cidin] S” Paper chromatographs intercalated. Gramicidin Not all on front cover ‘7 Bact. R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Research Hardback notebook labelled on front cover ‘8. Shiga A substance OH amino cpd of grami & mode of linkage Kinetics of hydrol. of grami & peptides Gramicidin S_ Used from the front ca December 1944 - September 1945, paginated 1-57, and from the back 26 September 1944 - April 1945, paginated with Synge’s own system. —_Glycoleucine‘. Material clipped to pages of notebook, including paper chromatographs. Back Grami S. Hardback notebook labelled ‘IX Serological work Att[empted] fr[actionatio]n Derivs’. GRAMI. Used from the front for work ‘Continued from back of notebook VII’ ca January 1945 - 11 June 1946, paginated 1-104, and from the back June 1945 - September 1946, paginated with Synge’s own system. Att. fractionation tyro Part[ia]l hydrol. Loose material intercalated at back and clipped to pages of notebook. Hardback notebook inscribed inside front cover ‘Protein work X Experiments at Fys. Kem. Inst. Upsala Aug 1946-. Mostly expts on intact grami, grami S & absorption propfertie]ls Tyro - other phys props & homogeneity tests. Diffusion expts at end of book’. 6 Used from the front 22 August 1946 - February 1947, paginated 1-110, and at the back for notes on experiments with K. Pedersen, 4 November 1946 - 22 February 1947. Loose material intercalated at back and clipped to pages of notebook. Loose material intercalated at back and clipped to pages of notebook. Softback notebook inscribed inside front cover ‘Nov 1946 at Fys. Kem. Inst. Upsala Protein work XI Chromatography of amino-acids & lower peptides in C. Feb 1948 Lister Inst. cont. p190’. Used from the front 3 December 1946 - 20 March 1947, paginated 1-188, and at the back for notes 25 November 1946’. Not all in Synge’s hand. fabric). Hardback notebook inscribed inside front cover ‘Lister Inst. London Protein work XII Gramicidin’. Used from the front 4 June 1947 - 10 August 1948, paginated 1-95, and from the back for notes, various dates 1947-1963, paginated with Synge’s own system. Hardback notebook inscribed inside front cover ‘XIA Interferometric work at Lister Institute’. Used for notes 26 February - 16 July 1948, paginated 1-100 (used up to p.84). Not all in Synge’s hand. Much loose material intercalated including paper chromatographs (some on R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Research [...] Rowett Hardback notebook inscribed inside front cover ‘Notebook XIII Research Institute’. Used from the front 3 September 1952, paginated 1-302, and from the back 5 November 1948 - 15 May 1952, paginated with Synge’s own system. Not all in Synge’s hand. 11 October 1948 - Hardback notebook inscribed inside front cover ‘Notebook XIV Tissue & Bacterial peptide work [...] Oct 1951’. 1 September 1953, paginated 1-178, and from the back for notes 7 January - 26 February 1953, paginated with Synge’s own system. Not all in Synge’s hand. Used 15 October 1951 - Hardback notebook inscribed inside front cover ‘Notebook XV July 1953’. Used from the front for notes 27 June 1953 - 3 March 1954 and re-examined 1960, paginated 1-161, and at the back for notes on grass protein 13 August 1953 - 6 January 1954. Not all in Synge’s hand. Hardback notebook inscribed inside front cover ‘Nils Research Institute [...] XVI’. paginated. Not all in Synge’s hand. Ellfolk. The Rowett Used 15 January 1954 - 21 February 195[5], Some material has been attached to the pages of the notebook with adhesive tape. Hardback notebook inscribed inside front cover ‘Notebook XVII’. Used 2 February 1955 - 13 July 1956 chiefly for work on membranes, paginated 1-71. Hardback notebook inscribed inside front cover ‘Notebook XVIII’. February 1955 - 23 January 195[6], paginated 1-139. Used 23 Material intercalated loose at front or attached to the pages of the notebook with adhesive tape. adhesive tape. Some material has been attached to the pages of the notebook with adhesive tape. Hardback notebook inscribed inside front cover ‘Notebook XIX’. January - 25 September 1956, paginated 1-139. Used 25 Material intercalated loose or attached to the pages of the notebook with R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Research Hardback notebook inscribed inside front cover ‘Notebook XX’. Used 11 July 1956 - 3 April 1958, paginated 1-128. At the back are notes on preparation of shikimic acid, November-December 1956. Some material has been attached to the pages of the notebook with adhesive tape. Hardback notebook inscribed inside front cover ‘Notebook XXI [...] Broad bean & Isotopic tracer work’. Used 6 December 1957 - 11 September 1958, paginated 1-104. Loose material intercalated. Hardback notebook inscribed inside front cover ‘Notebook XXII [..] Nov. 1958 - July 1959 Facial Eczema Poison - Arabic numerals. Beaker test substance & substance in 242° - small roman numerals at back of book’. Used for notes while front paginated 1-114, and from the back paginated i-xxxiv. in New Zealand studying facial eczema in sheep, from the Intercalated material includes (at front) ‘Annotated contents of Notebook XxXiIl (Arabic numbered pages)’, (roman numbered pages)’, and results of crystallographic analysis provided by D.M.C. Hodgkin, 8 May 1959. ‘Annotated contents back) XXII (at front is ‘Annotated contents of Notebook XXIII Loose at numbers at front of book)’ and on verso ‘Roman numerals at back of book’. Hardback notebook inscribed inside front cover ‘Notebook XxXIll [...] July 1959 - Oct 1959 Sporidesmium Bakeri Facial eczema poison - arabic numerals. Bound amino-acid compounds etc (side fractions) - small roman numerals at back of book’. Used for notes while in New Zealand studying facial eczema in sheep, from the front paginated 1-59, and from the back paginated i-vii. Not all in Synge’s hand. Loose material intercalated including at front list of ‘Contents’ of notebook. Hardback notebook inscribed inside front cover ‘Notebook XXIV [...] March on 1960- electrophoresis in membranes and gel 11 March - 10 October 1960, paginated 1-147, and at the back September 1961’, paginated with Synge’s own system. Not all in Synge’s hand. effects filtration’. Used from the front in non-polar solvents. (Arabic page protein sieve Leaf etc Mol - R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Research Hardback notebook inscribed inside front cover ‘Notebook XXvV [...] Dec. 1962 - Sept 1967 Food Research Institute, Norwich Oct 1967 - Sept 1969’, paginated 1-132. A little loose intercalated material. Hardback notebook inscribed inside back cover (notebook is used from the back) ‘[...] Temp c/o Indian Statistical Institute [...] Notebook XXVI - for work in India’. Used from 23 July - 16 August 1966, paginated 1-7, most pages not used. A little loose intercalated material including letter from S.K. Gupta enclosing results of tests of nitrogen content of rice. Hardback notebook inscribed inside front cover ‘Notebook XXVI [sic] Oct. 1969 - Feb. 1974’. Used from 1 October - 14 February 1974, paginated 1- 134. Loose supplied by E. Pascher. material intercalated including chemical samples, and analyses some other amino-acids employing p-hydroxydiphenyl by LH pages General Interest Loose material intercalated including at front analyses supplied by Pascher. Hardback notebook inscribed inside front cover ‘Notebook XXVII [...] Feb. 1974-’. Used 14 February 1974 - 19 June 1979. Hardback notebook inscribed on first page ‘Examn of Chem. Abs. Oct. 20 1944 - Nov. 20 1948 RH pages Amino acids and their detn and results on proteins’. Used from the front for chemical abstracts, from the back for notes on lectures 15 November 1944 and 5 November 1946, and between for translation of ‘Microdetermination of alanine and A.E. Braunshtein and S.M. Bichkov. 1960-4 inclusive’. Used for miscellaneous jottings. Hardback notebook inscribed inside front cover ‘Reference book 2 1948 - May 1952 (ref Am. Chem. Abs)’. Used for chemical abstracts. Potash Limited pocket notebook inscribed on first page ‘[...] Sci & Lit Notes R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Research Potash Limited pocket notebook inscribed on Citation Index Searching Book 1’. Used for searches ca 1961-1969. first blank page ‘Science Potash Limited pocket notebook inscribed on first page ‘[...] notes Jan 1965-’. Used for miscellaneous jottings. Lit & Scientific Hardback notebook inscribed inside front cover ‘[..] Science citation index book 2’ with list of ‘Visits to SCI’. Used from the front January 1971 - July 1978, paginated 1-106, and from the back for citations 1970-1992. A little loose material is intercalated. Loose material found intercalated at the front of the notebook is at E.40 below. Manuscript material found intercalated in E.39. online search of SCI March 1993’. Includes ‘New refs from Hardback notebook inscribed inside front cover ‘[...] Reference book 45 [...] 1975 Chem Abs 83 103731 - 1976 84 140109’. Data for aliphatization of heterocycles programs’. Relates to material re Crossbow at E.89-E.94. E.43 E.43-E.48 Notebooks of scientific collaborators 1952-1969 Hardback notebook inscribed inside front cover ‘James C. Wood. Rowett Inst [...] Note Book Y’. Used from the front 28 April 1952 - 15 February 1954, paginated 1-124, and from the back 21 May 1952 - 21 February 1954. Hardback notebook inscribed inside front cover ‘R.L.M. Synge CHE, UEA Norwich Nov 1982 _ Used for diagrams of chemical structures, with list of contents at front. Synge’s hand). Hardback notebook inscribed inside front cover ‘Mary A. Youngson Protein Chemistry Book | Y’. Used 1 January 1958 - 25 June 1960, paginated 1-147. Attached to the back of the book by adhesive tape are notes from Wood’s ‘Notebook S’, 7 June - 1 July 1954, paginated 1-20. Loose material intercalated, including at back partial index to notebook (in R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Research Hardback notebook inscribed inside front cover ‘Mary A. Youngson Protein Chemistry Book II Y (June 1960 - May 1961)’. Used 28 June 1960 - 25 May 1961, paginated 1-151. Loose material intercalated, including at back index to notebook (in Synge’s hand). Hardback notebook inscribed inside front cover ‘Mary A. Youngson Protein Chemistry Book III Y’. Used 29 May 1961 - 5 June 1962, paginated 1-147. Loose material intercalated, including at back index to notebook (in Synge’s hand). Hardback notebook inscribed inside front cover ‘Mary A. Youngson Protein Chemistry Book IV Y’. Used 6 June - 26 July 1962, paginated 1-27. Loose material intercalated, including at back index to notebook (in Synge’s hand). 1938-1987, n.d. E.49-E.59 Wool protein research, 1938-1943. E.49 A little intercalated material. E.49-E.101 RESEARCH NOTES Hardback notebook inscribed inside front cover ‘...] Rough book’ and on spine ‘S. Matai’. 7 August 1969 chiefly for notes on experiments but also (towards front) for notes on German grammar. Used October 1968 - The material includes reports on work on proteins for the Wool Industries Research Association 1938-1943, wartime work on grass protein 1939-1943 and gramicidin 1944-1946, studies on the nutritive value of by-products of the herring industry 1949-1951, and papers relating to computer searching for chemical information 1981. 17pp typescript. Report on work on ‘proteins in general and wool keratin in particular’ for International Wool Secretariat, 1938-71939. R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Research ‘Memorandum’ on ‘developing the technique of separating the products of protein hydrolysis’. studentship, ‘26.v.40’. Reports under work work 2pp typescript. ‘Report to the International Wool Secretariat on Second Year’s Work, June 1940’ chiefly on ‘possible method of separating hydroxy-amino-acids’. 6pp typescript. ‘Report Work’ monoamino-acids of wool and hydroxyamino-acids in protein, June 1941. International Secretariat Years Third Wool on to on 11pp manuscript. 8pp typescript. Research Research Control Industries Committee Association 6pp duplicated typescript. 15pp duplicated typescript. Includes report on work carried out by Synge on page 4. Includes report on work carried out by Synge on page 4. ‘Wool Progress Report 9th July 1941’. ‘Wool Industries Research Association Research Control Committee 31st October 1941 Progress Reports’. 11pp duplicated typescript. Research ‘Wool Progress Report April, 1942’. Association Committee Industries Research Control R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Research ‘(Wool Industries Research Association] Progress Reports Research Control Committee 28th October 1942. 10pp duplicated typescript. With manuscript draft of Synge’s progress report for May 1943 on verso of final pages (see E.59 below). ‘Biochemistry Progress Report - October, 1942’, 3pp typescript. ‘Progress Report Biochemistry Department May, 1943’, 3pp typescript (see E.58 above). E.60-E.63 ‘Grass protein divided into four for ease of reference. Correspondence’. Contents of Synge’s envelope so inscribed The material, principally correspondence between A.C. Hulme of the Food Investigation Low in Cambridge, was passed to Synge by Temperature Research Station Hulme, possibly when Synge took up post at the Rowett Research Institute in 1948. Includes results of work on grass protein. and members of Laboratory Malling East the his at 1942-1943. Includes correspondence re obtaining supply of 1939, 1940 January - June. cerophyl. 1940 July - December. Includes correspondence re supply of cerophyl. typescript rough draft and 3pp typescript draft dated 8 February 1945. Correspondence from O. Rosenheim 1944, and A. identity ‘Norleucine inscribed divided into two for ease of reference. P. Martin; ‘The non- and manuscript Contents of Synge’s folder so O. Rosenheim)’. of Thudichum’s See also F.7. (Mss by glycoleucine and norleucine’, J. R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Research Manuscript and typescript notes and pages of drafts, some in Rosenheim’s hand. 2pp typescript, ‘Report for 1944-1945’ by Synge. Records work on gramicidin, gramicidin S, interaction of antibacterial agents, amino-acid analysis. Correspondence with Soviet colleagues and papers re work on gramicidin S, May 1945 - March 1946. Includes correspondence with G.F. Gause (see also F.79) and P.G. Sergiev. ‘Working sheets at Upsala’. Contents of Synge’s folder so inscribed. Letter from A. Tiselius, 2 September 1948, re the Synge family’s visit to Uppsala in the summer; manuscript notes, some in form of rough calendar entries, 1948. Correspondence re cellulose columns for chromatography, 1948. E.69-E.71 ‘Powdered Cellulose for Chromatography’. Contents of Synge’s folder so inscribed divided into three for ease of reference. Correspondence and papers, chiefly with H. Reeve Angel & Co. Ltd re testing cellulose powders, 1949-1950. Correspondence with J.N. Balston of W. & advice on paper and cellulose powder chromatography. chromatograms, 1950-1951. Manuscript notes from jotter, latest reference 1950. R. Balston Ltd re request for Includes sample Miscellaneous manuscript notes, some dated 1946 and 1947. Miscellaneous manuscript notes, 1949. R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Research E.75-E.80 ‘Herring and Fish products’. Contents of Synge’s folder so inscribed divided into six for ease of reference. Synge was involved in studies of the nutritive value for animals of by-products He co-operated with colleagues in Norway, of herring meal and oil industry. visiting the Herring Industry Oil and Meal Industry Research Institute in Bergen in early 1951. Correspondence and papers, 1949. Includes notes on ‘Alkali reduction Herring meal’ prepared for meeting at Agricultural Research Council 12 May. Correspondence and papers, 1950. Includes notes on experiments feeding herring meal to chicks carried out in Norway in the summer and autumn. Correspondence and papers, 1951, chiefly re Synge’s visit connection with the research. to Norway in Correspondence, 1952. Background material. ‘Report on work carried out at the Rowett Institute 1/12/48-25/1/1949. Mathias Klungs6yr)’. (by Includes Synge’s 10pp typescript ‘Report to Agricultural Research Council on current and intended work with herring meal and on visit to [...] Bergen [...] Feb. 26th to March 3rd 1951’. Miscellaneous typescript and printed material. 14pp manuscript draft (in Norwegian); 11pp typescript (in English). R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Research ‘Experiment with lambs to compare palatibility and value for maintenance and growth of lucerne dried as cut or as the fibrous residue resulting from the protein extraction process (Drayton)’ by Synge and M.I. Chalmers, 18 March 1952. 2pp typescript + 2pp table etc. ‘Grassland utilization section (applied nutrition)’ report by J.L. Corbett, 12 May 1953. 4pp typescript. ‘(Notes for inclusion in Mr Bailey’s dissertation)’ by Synge and D.L. Mould, 26 March 1952. 1p typescript + table. E.83-E.85 Grass production. ‘Tomter Fuel production’. for ease of reference. ca 1953. On Moss surface in connection with Power or Contents of Synge’s folder so inscribed divided into three Area - Section Il Report on ‘Tropical Products Institute | Confidential Toxic groundnuts’. Synge’s folder so inscribed. Duplicated typescript Appendices to report on grass production on moss surface. 2 folders. ‘Orkney Reclamation Scheme Holm reconnaissance 15th October - 16th October, 1953’. 11pp typescript + map. D.T. Coxon, 1974-1975. The Director of the Rowett Research Institute was invited to discuss a toxin in certain batches of groundnuts. and Synge went in his place. Institute undertook some research into the subject. ‘Potato Malic Enzyme Inhibitors’. Contents of folder so inscribed divided into two for ease of reference (not in Synge’s hand). a meeting to He was unable to attend Following the meeting the Rowett Research Notes, print-outs, spectrographs etc from work on malic enzyme inhibitor by Contents of Correspondence and papers 1961-1962. E.87, E.88 R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Research E.89-E.94 ‘String searches Formula Book Crossbow documents’. bag so inscribed divided into six for ease of reference. computer searches for chemical information, 1981. Contents of Synge’s Papers relating to See also E.42 above. ‘Crossbow connection tables — Latest description and various examples’. Contents of Synge’s envelope so inscribed. E.90-E.94 Computer print-outs from searches, some annotated. 5 folders. E-95; 1:96 ‘Green Wood & relevant literature’. Contents of envelope so inscribed divided into two for ease of reference. Letter from R. R.H. Thomson re artifical greening of wood, 1985; manuscript notes. to Synge, 5 November 1981; brief correspondence with Hill Sample of ‘Green Wood’, with copy of 1913 Patent relating to greening process. 9pp manuscript notes. 7pp manuscript notes. ‘Velocity distribution and entropy in a perfect gas’. N.d. (Possibly 1930s). ‘Prof. M.F. Lynch & Prof. J.-E. Dubois’ by Synge, 7pp manuscript draft so titled, re connection tables in Chemical Abstracts Service Registry of chemical substances, October 1987. Miscellaneous and typescript notes, n.d. ‘X-ray data on silica gel also BDH product Mrs Preston’. Contents of Synge’s envelope so inscribed: photographic data from samples; manuscript table. ‘Debye Hickel Theory’. N.d. (Possibly 1930s). ppt. fr. waterglass dil 1:3, 1:8 N.d. R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 SECTION F PUBLICATIONS, LECTURES AND BROADCASTS F.1-F.197 The material is presented as follows: F.1-F.118 PUBLICATIONS F.119-F.171 LECTURES F.172-F.176 BROADCASTS F.177-F.192 ‘UNPUBLISHED ETC’ F.193-F.197 OFF-PRINTS R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Publications, lectures and broadcasts F.1-F.118 PUBLICATIONS 1940-1992 F.1-F.70 Drafts F.71-F.90 Translations F.91-F.118 Editorial correspondence Drafts 1940-1992 to the A chronological sequence of material relating intention to publish. Where applicable reference has been made to the bibliography of Synge’s published work in the Royal Society memoir of Synge (A.1) in the form Bibliog. ... to publications, or For Synge’s set of ‘Unpublished’ drafts see F.177-F.192, for drafts of a more political nature see A.413-A.415. ‘Average residue weight of Biological Chemistry, ca 1940. the amino acids of silk fibroin’, Journal of 2pp typescript draft; manuscript draft and calculations. Correspondence with editor, 1943. Brief correspondence with editor, 1942. ‘The amino-acid composition of tyrocidine’, with A.H. Gordon and A.J.P. Martin, Bibliog. 17 (1943). ‘Partition chromatography in the study of protein constituents’, with A.H. Gordon and A.J.P. Martin, Bibliog. 14 (1943). Brief correspondence with editor, 1943. ‘The etherification of hydroxyamino-acid residues in sulphate’, with A.H. Gordon and A.J.P. Martin, Bibliog. 18 (1943). silk fibroin by dimethyl R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Publications, lectures and broadcasts ‘Partial hydrolysis products derived from proteins and their significance for protein structure’, Bibliog. 19 (1942). Brief correspondence from editor, 1941-1942; 79pp typescript draft. folders. 2 ‘Analysis of a partial hydrolysate of gramicidin by partition chromatography with starch’, Bibliog. 21 (1944). Correspondence with editor, 1944. ‘The non-identity of Thudichum’s “glycoleucine” and norleucine’, with Consden et al, Bibliog. 22 (1945). R. Brief correspondence with editor, 1945. See also E.64, E.65. of some _ gramicidin and 15pp typescript + figures. ‘Qualitative analysis of proteins. A partition chromatographic method using paper’, with in Bibliog., latest bibliographical reference 1944. R. Consden, A.H. Gordon, and A.J.P. Martin. Not listed Correspondence with editor, 1945. ‘The hydroxyamino component of gramicidin hydrolysates’, ‘The kinetics of low temperature related dipeptides’, and ‘ “Gramcidin S”: over-all chemical characteristics and amino- acid composition’, Bibliog. 23, 24 and 25 (1945). Correspondence re publication, 1945, 1947. Correspondence with Martin and J.T. Edsall, editor, chiefly re corrections of proofs. ‘Analytical chemistry of proteins’, with A.J.P. Martin, Advances in Protein Chemistry 2 (1946). ‘ “Gramicidin S”: Consden, A.H. Gordon, and A.J.P. Martin, Bibliog. 32 (1947). the sequence of the amino-acids residues’, acid hydrolysis of with R. R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Publications, lectures and broadcasts ‘Synthesis of some dipeptides related to “gramicidin S”’, Bibliog. 33 (1948). Correspondence with editor, 1947. Untitled manuscript draft beginning ‘In the autumn of 1941, shortly after Dr A.J.P. Martin and | had obtained our first successful results with partition chromatography’ describing early work on gramicidin. Latest bibliographical reference 1949. ‘Proteins and Peptides’, Bibliog. 40 (1950). Correspondence re publication, 1947-1949; manuscript notes. Book review of Progress in Chromatography 1938-1947 by L. Zechmeister (1950), for Proceedings of the Physical Society. 2pp typescript; proof. ‘Facts and speculations about proteins’, book review of Chemistry and Biology of Proteins by F. Haurowitz (1950), for Nature. Proof. 4pp manuscript draft; 4pp typescript draft; brief correspondence, 1950. ‘Some observations on the utilization of protein-rich supplements by sheep’ by Synge and M.I. Chalmers, submitted to the British Journal of Nutrition 1950. Correspondence re publication, 1951. ‘Non-protein nitrogenous constituents of rye grass: ionophoretic fractionation and isolation of a “bound amino-acid” fraction’. Bibliog. 44 (1952). ‘Methods for isolating w-amino-acids: y-aminobutyric acid from rye grass’, Bibliog. 43 (1951), 429-435. Correspondence re publication, 1950-1951. R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Publications, lectures and broadcasts ‘Facts and speculations about proteins’, book review of Chemistry and Biology of Proteins by F. Haurowitz, Nature 170, 5 July 1952. ‘Note on the occurrence of diaminopimelic acid in some intestinal micro- organisms from farm animals’, Bibliog. 50 (1953). Correspondence re publication, 1952-1953. Book review of Paper Chromatography: a laboratory manual by R. J. Block, for Laboratory Practice, April 1953. Brief correspondence, 1952-1953; 3pp typescript draft. Draft on M.S. Tsvet for World Student News, 1953. Correspondence re publication, 1953; 2pp typescript. of in electrokinetic ‘Separations ultrafiltration ‘The electrophoretic mobility and fractionation of complexes of hydrolysis products of amylose with iodine and potassium iodide’ (Bibliog. 57, 1954). polysaccharides collodion starch 56, membranes’ by _ 1954) (Bibliog. to and related Correspondence re publication, 1954. Memorandum of Agreement between the Clarendon Press, Oxford, and Synge, A.T. Phillipson and S.R. Elsden for book entitled ‘Ruminant Digestion (or similar title)’, signed 27 January 1953; manuscript and typescript plan for the book; correspondence between co-authors and with publishers 1952- 1953. Correspondence re publication, 1956. ‘The digestion of protein and nitrogenous compounds in ruminants’, Bibliog. 58 (1954). ‘(+) - (S-methyl-L-cysteine S-oxide) in cabbage’, with J.C. Wood, Bibliog. 64 (1956). Correspondence re publication, 1951-1955. 2 folders. R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Publications, lectures and broadcasts ‘Experiments on electrical migration of peptides and proteins inside porous membranes: influences of adsorption diffusion and pore dimensions’, Bibliog. 66 (1956). Correspondence re publication, 1956. Book review of Chromatography by E. and M. Lederer, for Journal of the Royal Institution of Chemistry 1957. 3pp typescript. ‘Filter-paper ionophoresis of cupric complexes of neutral amino acids and oligopeptides’, Bibliog. 77 (1961) and ‘Metabolic incorporation of Lp valine into protein and bound non-protein forms in Italian ryegrass’, 78 (1961). Bibliog. Correspondence re publication, 1960. Book review of Chromatographic Reviews ed. M. Lederer, for Chemistry & Industry, 1962. isolating polypeptides and proteins from into fractions of incorporation of t-[""C] valine Correspondence re publication, 1963. Request to write review; 2pp typescript. ‘Science for the good of your Soul’, Bibliog. 87 (1964). tissues: ‘New procedures for metabolic intermediate molecular weight in broad bean (Vicia faba L.) leaves’ with M. Bagdasarian et al, Bibliog. 84 (1964). paginated 20-25. ‘A search for O-polypeptidyl-ribonucleic acids in rabbit-reticulocyte ribosomes by electrophoresis in phenol-acetic acid-water systems’ with |. Brattsten and W.B. Watt, Bibliog. 90 (1965). Correspondence and papers re publication, 1963-1965. 1965; typescript of ‘Original Discussion’ Correspondence re publication, R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Publications, lectures and broadcasts ‘Nutritional precept and dietary practice’, Bibliog. 91 (1966). Copy of article; correspondence, 1964-1966. ‘Recent advances in electrophoretic techniques’ with E.]. McDougall, Bibliog. 92 (1966). Correspondence re publication, 1964-1966. Foreword to book on US use of napalm in Vietnam. Photocopied manuscript draft; correspondence, 1966. ‘Occurrence in plants of amino acid residues chemically bound otherwise than in proteins’, Bibliog. 97 (1968). Correspondence re publication, 1965. ‘Proteins as human food’, book review of Proceedings of the 16th Easter School in Agricultural Science, ed. by R.A. Lawrie (1969). 3pp typescript. ‘An obstacle in preparing alloisoleucine’ with W. M. Bibliog. 100 (1970). Laird and S. Matai, Correspondence with the Chemical Society and others re publication, 1969; typescript pages of rejected draft. This was initially submitted to the Journal of the Chemical Society but rejected as of insufficient scientific interest. A revised version was accepted by the Biochemical Journal. 32pp photocopied typescript; correspondence re publication, 1970-1971. ‘N-Carbamoyl-2-(p-hydroxyphenyl) glycine from leaves of broad bean (Vicia faba L.)’, Bibliog. 103 (1971). Two slightly different typescript drafts; correspondence with the Biochemical Journal re publication. R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Publications, lectures and broadcasts Book review of Proteins as Human Food ed. R. A. Lawrie, for Experimental Agriculture, ca 1971. Manuscript draft; correspondence re publication, 1970-1971. F.43-F.46 ‘Notes on a deamination method for determining “chemically available” lysine of proteins’, with R.M. Allison and W.M. Laird, Bibliog. 106 (1973). 8pp typescript draft. Correspondence with co-authors and others re drafts of article, 1969-1971. 1969-1970. F.47-F.52 36pp photocopied typescript. F.48 1970. F.48-F.50 Correspondence with co-authors and others re drafts of article, 1970-1972 Correspondence re publication, 1971-1972. ‘Ascorbic acid: an ascorbigen-like plant constituent yielding in hot acid 3-(2- furoyl) alanine’, with R. Couchman et al, Bibliog. 107 (1973). Correspondence re and arising from publication 1972-1973. R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Publications, lectures and broadcasts Manuscript draft pages, notes and calculations. ‘Hydrogenation as an approach to study of reactions of oxidising polyphenols with plant proteins’, with R. Davies and W. M. Laird, Bibliog. 110 (1975). 18pp photocopied typescript. Book review of Food Protein Sources by Agriculture, 1976. N. W. Pirie, for Experimental Brief correspondence, 1976; 1p typescript. ‘Coupling of quinones with proteins and amino-acids’ with R. Davies, Bibliog. 119(a) (1978) 10pp photocopied typescript. ‘Maurice William Rees 1915-1978’, Bibliog. 122 (1978). For related correspondence see J.244. Photocopy of annotated obituary. The annotations record ‘Footnotes omitted in editing’. ‘Free and bound phenolic acids of lucerne (Medicago sativa v Europe)’, with V.K. Newby et a/, Bibliog. 126 (1980). Manuscript draft. ‘Mass-spectrometric evidence for quinonoid-lysine coupling products in cigar protein’, with J. Eagles and J. F. March, Bibliog. 127 (1980). F.58-F.60 F.61 13pp photocopied typescript. 80pp photocopied typescript. 3 folders. F.61-F.67 ‘25 years of Science Citation Index - some experiences’, Bibliog. 131 (1990). R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Publications, lectures and broadcasts ‘Correspondence rel. envelope correspondence, 1986-1990. to inscribed so 1990 paper about SCI’. Contents of Synge’s reference: divided ease into two for of Possible publication of proceedings of Conference on Multi-disciplinary Approaches to Searching for Information about Chemicals’ (see G.215- Gi2225,11:97): Publication of Bibliog. 131. F.64-F.67 Background material: manuscript notes, computer print-outs from Science Citation Index, correspondence 1980s. 4 folders. ‘How the Robinsons nearly invented partition chromatography in Bibliog. 133 (1992). 1934’, photocopied 5pp correspondence, 1991-1992. manuscript; 4pp typescript ‘Amended by Author; N.d., possibly App typescript draft. ‘Draft of section on amino-acids’. N.d. Typescript with manuscript correction. Book review of Science versus Materialism by R.O. Kapp. 1940s. Gramicidin and the treatment of wounds’ (1943). Hardback notebook inscribed inside front cover ‘Translations of Russian papers abstracted’. Used from the front for translations in Synge’s hand of articles from Biokhimiya 5 (1940), and from the back for translation in Ann Synge’s hand of article from Biokhimiya 7 and (in both hands) of ‘Soviet ‘Ed. Sergiev, Contents of envelope so inscribed. G. Pamphlet on Gramicidin S and translation thereof’. ca 1940-1977 &./1-F.75 F.71-F.90 Translations |. R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Publications, lectures and broadcasts 35pp manuscript draft translation in Synge’s hand of ‘Gramicidin and its Properties’ by G.F. Gause and M.G. Brazhnikova. 2 folders. Pages of manuscript draft translations of Russian scientific papers in Synge’s hand ca 1943; letter re translation from F.A. Robinson, 15 May 1944. Off-print of ‘Soviet Gramicidin and the treatment of wounds’, 1943. Translation of ‘Gramicidin “S”: its origin and mode of action’ by G.F. Gause and M.G. Brazhnikova. Latest bibliographical reference 1943. 19pp typescript. ‘On the chemical nature of gramicidin S‘ (in Russian). Latest bibliographical reference 1944. 10pp typescript. Translation (by Synge) of ‘A review of recent work on Gramicidin S’ by G.F. Gause. Translated by Synge for the Lancet 1946. 10pp typescript with manuscript corrections; 9pp corrected typescript. 2pp typescript. Translation (not by Synge) of ‘Preface to the Polish edition’ of book on plant biochemistry. Latest bibliographical reference 1950. Correspondence with Gause and publishers, 1946. R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Publications, lectures and broadcasts Translation (by Ann Synge) of The Origin of Life on the Earth by A.1. Oparin. 1958. Correspondence re publication of possible follow-up book ‘The Nature of Life’, 1958-1960. The Origin of Life on the Earth and F.82-F.90 ‘Mikhail Semenovich Tsvet 1872-1919’ by E.M. Senchenkova. Synge was approached by Senchenkova in 1975. She asked Synge to comment on her biography of Tsvet which had been published (in Russian) by Nauka, Moscow, in 1973. Synge was impressed by the work and suggested an English-language translation, offering to translate it himself. F.82-F.84 Correspondence with Senchenkova, publishers and others 1975-1977. 3 folders. Correspondence from Senchenkova is in Russian. Manuscript and typescript lists typescript ‘specimen translations of passages’. of contents of Senchenkova’s book; 12pp Off-prints (in Russian) found with preceding. Unbound copy of ‘Mikhail Semenovich Tsvet 1872-1919’ (in Russian) with manuscript alterations. 2 folders. Typescript draft of ‘Mikhail Semenovich Tsvet 1872-1919’ (in Russian) with manuscript corrections, sent to Synge 4 April 1978. 2 folders book on Proteins (declined). 1950 material is invitation from K. Bailey to contribute to Academic Press Academic Press 1950, 1953, 1969, 1970 F.91-F.118 Editorial correspondence 1940-1992 Arranged alphabetically by publisher or journal title. R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Publications, lectures and broadcasts The Analyst 1952, 1954-1955, 1991 1954-1955 material is request to write book review (declined); 1991 material includes correspondence re possible translation of E.M. Senchenkova’s biography of M.S. Tsvet (see F.82-F.90). Analytical Biochemistry Invitation to join advisory board (declined). Analytical Chemistry Editorial policy. Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics Refereeing. Biochimia/Biokhimiya Invitation to submit paper (declined). Biochimica et Biophysica Acta Butterworths Biological Reviews Invitation to write review article (declined). Letter from Synge re journal’s editorial policy Reprinting papers by Synge. British Council 1943, 1945 R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Publications, lectures and broadcasts Chemical Abstracts 1943-1972 Chiefly correspondence re inadequate or inaccurate abstracts. Chemical and Engineering News Chemistry and Industry Refereeing. Chemistry in Britain 1952 1952, 1955 Invitation to write obituary of Raphael Consden (declined). CRC Press Invitation to write section for CRC Handbook of Nutrition and Food. Crosby Lockwood & Son Ltd Invitation to write monograph for series on nutrition (declined). Deutsche Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin Elsevier Publishing Company 1957, 1959 Invitation to contribute to festschrift volume for K. Mothes (declined). Invitation to write monograph (declined), request to publish 1958 Lindau lecture (granted). Invitation from G.M. Burnett to co-edit book (declined). Faraday Society Request to review book for Transactions (declined). Interscience Publishers R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Publications, lectures and broadcasts Interdisciplinary Science Reviews Book review. Irish Journal of Agricultural Research Refereeing. Journal of Chemical Research Refereeing Journal of Dairy Research Refereeing. Journal of Endocrinology Refereeing. Refereeing. Article by Synge. Leicester University Press Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture 1951, 1953, 1976 Journal of the Society of Chemical Industry Possible translations of books on the history of science. Invitation to write book review. Macmillan Education Ltd Reproducing photographs. Modern Quarterly R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Publications, lectures and broadcasts Nature 1945, 1949-1965 1949 item is typescript report of Synge and M. Klungséyr (see also E.75- E.80); refereeing. Nutrition Abstracts and Reviews Invitation to write review article. Oliver & Boyd 1957-1962 Requests to comment on books. Phytochemistry Refereeing. Plenum Publishing Corporation 1970-1974 Re translating book from Russian. Reinhold Publishing Corporation Proceedings of the Physical Society Request to write book review. Request to write on partition chromatography for book (declined). Editorial policy. Invitation to write article on P.C. Mahalanobis. Royal Society of Chemistry Refereeing. Samvadadhvam Science R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Publications, lectures and broadcasts Shueisha Incorporated Request to write article. Gal lOpmeile Springer-Verlag 1952-1961 Correspondence re contribution to book on Modern Methods of Plant Analysis. 1952-1954. 1955-1956, 1961. Space Life Sciences Invitation to join editorial board (declined). Talanta Refereeing. Urania Trends in Biochemical Sciences Request to write article (declined). World Review of Nutrition and Dietetics Requests to write articles (declined). 1964 1957, 1963 R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Publications, lectures and broadcasts F.119-F.171 LECTURES 1942-1984, n.d. ‘How do proteins work?’, Leeds Medical School, 13 May 1942. 4pp manuscript. ‘Recent progress in protein analysis’, ca 1942. 5pp manuscript + 1p manuscript note. ‘The arrangement of amino-acid residues in Gelatin’, ca 1943. 5pp manuscript. ‘Paper for discussion on chromatography - Nov. 7’. preceding. N.d. but found with 6pp manuscript. See also G.1. 9pp typescript of lecture (in French). 13pp manuscript of English version. Raledbal22 ‘Les moyens chimiques d’approche de la structure des protéines’, meeting of Société de Chimie Biologique, Paris, France, 10 July 1945. Invitation and letter re arrangements, April 1950. Correspondence and papers re arrangements, 1947; manuscript notes for Synge’s lectures. Lecture at Department of Chemistry Colloquium, University of Aberdeen, 24 May 1950. ‘The biochemistry of proteins’, lecture course at Department of Chemistry, Chelsea Polytechnic, London, 17 February - 23 March 1947. R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Publications, lectures and broadcasts and of at ‘Structure Department of Biological Chemistry, University of Aberdeen, 15 February - 8 March 1951. Significance Biological Proteins’, course lecture Synge gave four lectures on ‘The less well-known natural amino-acids’, ‘Natural living organisms’ and ‘The in biochemistry of separations depending on electrical transport’. and breakdown of peptides’, synthesis protein ‘The use in Invitation; correspondence re arrangements, 1950-1951; manuscript notes. Ral2Z6uR ter, ‘Biological aspects of proteins in the light of recent chemical studies’, Royal Institute of Chemistry second P.F. Frankland Memorial Lecture, Birmingham, 18 May, and at the Institution of Electrical Engineers, London, 20 July 1951. Correspondence re arrangements for lecture in Birmingham, 1951. Correspondence re arrangements for lecture, and Fellowship of the Royal Institute of Chemistry, 1951-1952. in London, publication lecture of Correspondence re arrangements, 1951-1952. Annotated invitation only, September 1951. ‘El. transport methods’, Department of Biochemistry, Dundee University, 21 November 1951. ‘Chromatographic methods of separating substances’, Glasgow University Alchemists’ Club, 30 January 1952. Correspondence re arrangements, 1951-1952. ‘Chromatography’, Society of Chemical Industry, Aberdeen and North of Scotland branch, Aberdeen, 28 March 1952. ‘Chromatography’, Bristol University Student Chemical Society, 31 January 1952. Correspondence re arrangements, 1950-1952. R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Publications, lectures and broadcasts ‘Impressions of December 1952. a visit to Poland’, Polish Cultural Institute, London, 3 Letter re arrangements, 17 November 1952. ‘Chromatography’, St Andrews University Chemical Society, 1953. 23 January Correspondence re arrangements, 1952-1953. ‘Protein requirements of ruminant animals’, Society of Chemical Industry, Liverpool section, Bangor, 12 February 1953. Correspondence re arrangements, 1952-1953. Invitation College, Glasgow on 13 March 1953 (declined). to Andersonian Chemical Society, lecture to Royal Technical Synge gave three lectures on Chromatography. Correspondence and papers re arrangements, 1953. List of WEA lectures; letter of thanks, October 1953. Postgraduate course in Chemistry, Robert Gordon’s Technical College, Aberdeen, 21 October - 5 November 1953. ‘Proteins’, Aberdeen branch, Worker’s Educational Association (WEA), 23 October 1953. Correspondence re arrangements, 1953. ‘Principles of Chromatography’, North of England section, Society of Public Analysts and other Analytical Chemists, Liverpool, 23 November 1953. ‘Chromatography’, British Postgraduate Medical Federation, London, 12 November 1953. Correspondence and papers re arrangements, 1953. R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Publications, lectures and broadcasts ‘Principles of Chromatography’, Joint meeting of Society of Public Analysts, Royal Institute of Chemistry and Society of Chemical Industry, Falkirk, 16 December 1953. Correspondence re arrangements, 1953. Invitation to lecture to Aberdeen University Chemologists’ Club, November or December 1953 (declined). ‘Principles Technical College, Glasgow, 8 January 1954. Chromatography’, Andersonian of Chemical Society, Royal Correspondence re arrangements, 1953-1954. Invitation to lecture to University of St Andrews Scientific Society, Dundee, on 21 January 1954. District branch, Royal Correspondence re arrangements, 1955-1956. ‘Principles Institute of Chemistry, Seascale, Cumberland, 6 January 1956. of Chromatography’, Cumberland and Invitation to lecture on chromatography, Royal Technical College, Salford, Lancashire, in September 1954 (declined). Invitation to lecture to Cumberland and District branch, Royal Institute of Chemistry, in September or October 1954 (declined). Technical College, Surrey, on 11 November 1958 (declined). Correspondence re arrangements and publication, 1957. ‘Principles Meeting, Leeds, 11 July 1957. Chromatography’, on methods of analysis for amino acids, Invitation to lecture Society of Chemical Kingston of Industry Annual R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Publications, lectures and broadcasts ‘Some recent developments in methods for separating larger molecules’, Biological Chemistry Colloquium, University of Bristol, 20 May 1960. Correspondence re arrangements, 1958-1960. ‘Molecular-sieve University Natural Science Club, 10 November 1960. separating efforts larger for molecules’, Cambridge Correspondence re arrangements, 1959-1960. Invitation to lecture on ‘Determination of amino-acid sequences in protein molecules’, 18 November 1960 (declined). of Technology, Bradford Institute on use of molecular-sieve effects ‘The molecular weight’, Royal Society of Edinburgh, 5 December 1960. for separating substances of high Correspondence re arrangements, 1960. Correspondence re arrangements, 1960-1961. Correspondence re arrangements, 1960-1961. ‘Use of molecular-sieve effects for separating substances of high molecular weight’, University of Aberdeen Chemistry Society, 26 January 1961. ‘Proteins - what they are and what they do’, Aberdeen Schools Scientific Society, 20 January 1961. Aberdeen, in 1961 (accepted). ‘Use molecules’, Research and Development Department, Distillers Epsom, Surrey, 21 June 1961. to Biochemistry Department, University of Correspondence re arrangements, 1961. deliver lectures molecular-sieve of Co. larger Ltd, Invitation to substances of effects for separating R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Publications, lectures and broadcasts ‘The non-protein nitrogen of University of Reading, 21 February 1962. plants’, Department of Agricultural Botany, Correspondence re arrangements, 1961-1962. ‘Chemistry Department of Chemistry, University College Dublin, Ireland, 10 April 1963. metabolism peptide-like substances and leaves’, of in_ Correspondence re arrangements, 1962-1963. British Council course on Ruminant metabolism, Aberdeen, 26 May - 7 June 1963. Synge lectured on the chemistry of foodstuffs. Papers re arrangements, 1962-1963. ‘Paper chromatography’, University of Manchester Chemical Society, March 1965. 9 Correspondence and papers re arrangements, 1964-1965. plant material’, Unilever Research approaches to fractionating Correspondence re arrangements, 1966. Papers re arrangements; course programme. 1965. ‘New Laboratory, Bedford, September 1966. British Council course on Ruminant metabolism, Aberdeen, 9-22 May 1965. Synge lectured on the chemistry of foodstuffs. diagrams. ‘Proteins - nutritional potential and nutritional performance’, Food Group, Society of Chemical Industry, Food Research Institute, Norwich, 5 March 1969. ‘Non-protein National Research in Dairying, University of Reading, 5 February 1969. amino-acid compounds in Letter from Synge re arrangements, 19 June 1968; 7pp manuscript + Correspondence re arrangements, 1968-1969. leaves’, Institute for R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Publications, lectures and broadcasts ‘Acyl amino acids and related compounds in higher plants and algae’, lecture to Phytochemical Society meeting, 11-12 September 1969 and to Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore, India, 4 February 1970. Rough correction. manuscript draft paginated 1-11, with extensive addition and ‘Polyphenol-protein reactions and their significance for agricultural practices’, Department of Food Science, University of Leeds, 13 February 1980. Correspondence re arrangements, 1979-1980. F.164, F.165 ‘The chemist’s work and the literature of chemistry’, annotated ‘As given at Lindau Lecture 1980’. 20pp manuscript. Rough manuscript draft and notes. 6pp photocopied manuscript; correspondence re the papers, 1982-1983. ‘Working chemists and the quality of the primary literature’. 11pp photocopied manuscript. 166, F167 Two lectures delivered at Chemical Structure Association meeting, Exeter, 1982. ‘Some good and bad experiences with the “secondary” and “tertiary” services - also a few suggestions for improvements’. Manuscript notes; course outline; memoranda re course material. ‘Methods and Techniques [in Chromatography]’, lecture course at University of East Anglia, November - December 1984. R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Publications, lectures and broadcasts ‘History of the concept of energy’. N.d. 6pp typescript. ‘The search for intermediates in protein biosynthesis’. N.d. Manuscript draft. ‘Peptides in the study of the biological function of proteins’. N.d. Manuscript draft. Untitled draft beginning: ‘E’ campo cosi complesso come la biocimica dell proteine’. molto facile, particolarmente per chi studia un ’ 10pp typescript (in Italian). F.172-F.176 BROADCASTS 1947-1961 See also A.183, A.184. G. ie, mato ‘New methods of protein analysis’, BBC Russian service, 22 August 1947. Correspondence with BBC re arrangements, June-August 1947. Synge wrote the script for the talk for the BBC which was then translated into Russian. 2pp typescript. Untitled draft on partition chromatography annotated ‘BBC Swedish service. Broadcast 7/12/53’. 5pp typescript R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Publications, lectures and broadcasts ‘The origin recorded 5 February 1958. life on of Earth’, BBC Radio Third Programme discussion, The discussion was led by J.D. Bernal and other participants included N.W. Pirie, L.E. Orgel and P.D. Mitchell. Correspondence re arrangements. Brief correspondence from Associated Television (ATV) Ltd re contribution to television programme on ‘Freedom from Want’, 1961. F.177-F.192 ‘UNPUBLISHED ETC’ ca 1938-1979, n.d. Contents of Synge’s two folders so inscribed. The second folder was found inside the first. Chiefly drafts by Synge, including book-reviews. F.177-F.184 First folder. F.177 1p (incomplete). Book reviews of The Social Function of Science by J.D. Bernal (1939). ‘The social function of science’, 2pp typescript; ‘Scientific research from the inside’, 5pp typescript. ‘Protection from poison gas’, book review of On Guard against Gas by H.A. Sisson and Breathe freely! The truth about poison gas by James Kendall (1938). 12pp manuscript + references. ‘The unmysterious universe’, book review of Modern Science: a study of physical science in the world today by Hyman Levy (1939). ‘Proteins and evolutionary theory’, latest bibliographical reference 1943. 3pp typescript. R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Publications, lectures and broadcasts Book review of Paper chromatography: a laboratory manual by R.J. Block et al (1952), for Laboratory Practice. 3pp typescript. ‘Diffusible peptide-like and glycosidic constituents of Synge and J.C. Wood ‘Read Biochem. Soc. 12/12/53’. Italian rye-grass’ by 3pp typescript. ‘Suggested syllabus’ for course on history and development of science, n.d. 6pp typescript. ‘History of Science’, outline for two volume book, n.d. 1p typescript. Manuscript notes on development of science, n.d. F.185-F.192 F.185 Second folder. Typescript and manuscript notes on anthocyanin pigments, ?1930s. Duplicated typescript notes on Proline, annotated ‘N.W. Pirie’s class Oct. 1935’. 6pp typescript. ‘Summarized data on adsorption experiments with amino-acids and lower peptides on charcoal’. the Fysikalisk-Kemiska Account of Sweden, November 1946-March 1947 (see B.7-B.13). done work at Institution, Uppsala, R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 F.189, F.190 Publications, lectures and broadcasts Reading list on ‘Relations of phenolic with nitrogenous compounds in plants’, September 1971. Probably prepared for a course at the Food Research Institute, Norwich. ‘Partial-Structure searching - some phytochemical desiderata’, lecture to Information of Warwick, Coventry, September 1978. the Chemical Society, University Division of 16pp photocopied typescript. Manuscript notes. ‘Chromatographic Chromatographic and Allied Methods ed. by O. Mike (1979). methods’, review book of Laboratory Handbook of Corrected proof copy. F.193-F.195 F.193 F.193-F.197 OFF-PRINTS ‘1-48 1937-1952’. Bound volumes of Synge’s ‘Scientific publications’. Manuscript list of chemicals, with prices from suppliers compared, n.d. Off-prints of unnumbered publications. Off-prints of later publications, 1969-1992. Numbered 95-130. ‘49-76 1953-1961’. ‘77-94 1961-1968’. R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 SECTION G VISITS, CONFERENCES AND TRAVEL G.1-G.249 The material is presented chronologically 1945-1992. Material relating either to invitations declined or for which there is no evidence of acceptance has been placed at the end of the section (G.232- G.249). For papers relating to Synge’s visit to Sweden 1946-1947 see B.7-B.13. 1945 Société de Chimie Biologique meeting, Paris, France, 10 July 1945. Synge spoke on ‘Les moyens chimiques d’approche de la structure des protéines’. Notice; correspondence re arrangements, 1945. See also F.121, F.122 for text of lecture. 1948 1949 Society symposium on Biochemical Application Tropical Medicine, 30 October 1948. to Biochemical Problems, London School Partition Chromatography and _ its of Hygiene and Synge chaired the afternoon session and gave a ‘General Review of the Applicability of the Method and Summing Up’. Correspondence re arrangements, 1948; programme; abstract of Synge’s contribution. January - April. Synge was planning to attend a meeting on ‘Proteins and amino acids’, Coldspring Harbor, New York, USA, but was denied a visa by the US government. Correspondence re US visa; invitations to visit research institutes in the US, 1949. Planned visit to USA, June 1949. R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Visits, conferences and travel May - June. First International Congress of Biochemistry, Cambridge, 19-25 August 1949. Provisional programme; invitations; etc. Faraday Society Discussion meeting on Adsorption Analysis, University of Reading, 22-24 September 1949. Synge was a member of the Organising Committee. He introduced the session of the meeting on ‘Physicochemical Principles and their Utilisation’. Correspondence re arrangements, 1949. Annotated draft programmes; manuscript notes. 1950 Visit to Scandinavia, July, August 1950. Society of Chemical Industry Food Group Symposium on Amino Acids and Protein Hydrolysates, 28-30 September 1949. Synge spoke on ‘Chromatographic methods in amino-acid analysis’. 8pp typescript; programme; correspondence re arrangements, 1949. on the visit, July and August 1950. Synge attended the International Physiological Congress, Copenhagen, 15- 18 August at which he presented a paper on ‘Degradation of proteins and amino-acids in the rumen’ with K.A.S. el-Shazly and went on to visit research institutes in Denmark and Norway. Brief correspondence re arrangements, 1950; typescript and manuscript notes of planned visits; 4pp typescript ‘Report to the Agricultural Research Council on visit to Sweden, Norway and Denmark, August 1950’. Softback pocket notebook used from the front and from the back for notes R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Visits, conferences and travel 1951 Second Interlaboratory Conference on Protein Chemistry, Torry Research Station, Aberdeen, 21-22 June 1951. Synge chaired the second session. Brief correspondence re arrangements, 1951; programme; etc. Protein meeting, ?Cambridge, 17-18 July 1951. Letter re confirming intention to attend, 1 May 1951. 1952 Second International Congress of Biochemistry, Paris, France, July 1952. Invitation; 3pp typescript report on visit. For photograph taken at the Congress see A.451. Correspondence re arrangements, 1952. gave a paper on ‘Electrokinetic ultrafiltration analysis Visit to Poland, 20 September-4 October 1952. International Congress on Analytical Chemistry, Oxford, 4-9 September 1952. Synge of polysaccharides. A new approach to the chromatography of large molecules’ jointly with D.L. Mould. Polish botanist M.S. Tsvet, 1953; etc. During his visit the award of the 1952 Nobel prize for Chemistry to Synge and A.J.P. Martin was announced. Correspondence re arrangements, 1952; manuscript rough draft of lecture on ‘Principles of chromatography’, Warsaw, 26 September 1952. Correspondence arising, 1952-1954; 2pp typescript note on work of the Synge’s visit was supported by the Polish Cultural Institute. R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Visits, conferences and travel CIBA Foundation Symposium on London, 1-3 December 1952. the Chemical Structure of Proteins, Synge spoke on ‘Peptides of ordinary tissues’. Correspondence contribution. re arrangements, 1952-1953; abstract of Synge’s Programme; abstracts. 1953 Institut Proteins, Brussels, Belgium, 9-11 April 1953. de Chimie Solvay Ninth International Triennial Council on the Synge was a rapporteur on Chromatography. Correspondence re arrangements, 1952-1953. 1954 Visit to Sweden and Norway, April-May 1954. Britain Synge stayed on Itinerary; duplicated typescript papers for meeting; etc. Synge went to Sweden and Norway on a family skiing holiday in April. After the family returned to and may have visited Copenhagen. Memorabilia. Correspondence re arrangements (some in Norwegian and Swedish), 1953- 1954. Letters from family, 1954. R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Visits, conferences and travel Visit to Italy and Switzerland, October 1954. Synge visited colleagues and gave lectures at the universities of Bologna, Berne and Padua. Correspondence re arrangements, 1954. 1955 Visit to the Deutsche Akademie der Landwirtschaftswissenschaften zu Berlin, East Germany, 20-31 July 1955. Synge visited Berlin with J. Duckworth and N.W. Pirie. Correspondence re arrangements, 1954-1955. Visit to Shell Laboratory, Amsterdam, Netherlands, August 1955. Letter re arrangements, July 1955. Textile Research Conference, Australia, August, G.27-G.34 International September 1955. Wool For Synge’s detailed letters home see A.323-A.325. On the journey out, Synge visited colleagues in Egypt and returned via Ceylon and India where he made a number of to colleagues and research institutes. visits This Conference ran at a number of centres during August and September. Synge gave the joint Wool Textile Research Conference/Royal Australian Chemical Institute (RACI) guest lecture on ‘Principles of Chromatography’ at He went on to deliver this lecture in Adelaide, Hobart, Melbourne Sydney. and Perth. He also lectured on ‘Ruminant Metabolism’ and ‘Naturally- occurring peptides and their biological significance’ Itineraries. Correspondence re arrangements for RACI lectures; correspondence re arrangements for visits to Ceylon and India, 1955. Correspondence re general travel and Conference arrangements, 1955- 1956. 2 folders. R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Visits, conferences and travel Report to the Agricultural Research Council on visit, 22 November 1955. G.32-G.34 Memorabilia. 3 folders. 1956 Society for Analytical Chemistry Congress on Modern Analytical Chemistry in Industry, University of St Andrew’s, 24-28 June 1956. Synge spoke on ‘Chromatography’. Correspondence re arrangements and arising, 1956-1957. List of participants; programme; etc. 1957 During his visit a number of research Synge was accompanied by overland. his family and they travelled to Moscow International Symposium on the Origins of the Earth, Moscow, USSR, 19-24 August 1957. Synge spoke on ‘The occurrence of amino acids in nature’. to the Soviet Union Synge visited colleagues at centres. On the return journey he visited Poland. The conference was organised by the biochemist Professor A.I. Oparin of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. His book, The Origin of Life on the Earth, was being translated into English by Ann Synge and much of the correspondence refers to this. 1958, 1959. Correspondence re symposium arrangements, translation of The Origin of Life on the Earth, publication of Synge’s contribution. G.37, G.38 1956, 1957. R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Visits, conferences and travel Provisional programme; programme; lists of participants; etc. 15pp manuscript and 12pp typescript drafts of Synge’s lecture; 1p typescript abstract. Printed contribution for publication, both with manuscript corrections. correction copy ‘Rough copy and corrected’ ‘As of Synge’s Letters home from Synge to his parents, August - September 1957. The letters are principally domestic, recounting travel experiences etc. ‘A 20th-Century Look at Life’, Sunday Times, 25 August 1957, annotated ‘Based on report telephoned by RLMS’; manuscript drafts of report by Synge on the Symposium; questionnaire given to Synge ‘For Saturday afternoon Moscow News’ (not filled out). 1958 Peptides with G.44, G.45 Foundation Symposium Duplicated typescript papers by others. 2 folders. Correspondence re arrangements for visit to Poland; miscellaneous notes. CIBA Antimetabolic and Cytotoxic Properties, London, 18-20 March 1958. Brief correspondence re meeting with F. Turba in Munich, April, May 1958. Synge attended the last day of the symposium. Visit to West Germany, June 1958. Invitation; programme; abstracts. on Amino Acids and R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Visits, conferences and travel 1958-1960 G.49-G.106 Visit to New Zealand, 1958-1959. Synge was invited to New Zealand by the New Zealand Department of Agriculture to help in investigating the cause and a possible cure for facial eczema in sheep. He arrived in New Zealand in November 1958 and worked for a year at the Ruakura Animal Research Station, Hamilton, with E.P. White. They isolated and studied the poisonous fungus Sporidesmium bakeri (sporidesmin) which they believed to be the cause of the eczema. Synge’s whole family travelled out to New Zealand with him. widely in New Zealand and Australia and Synge delivered lectures to number of institutions and meetings. They toured a They returned to Britain in 1959, via the Philippines, China and the Soviet Union, travelling from Peking to Moscow, spending Christmas in Norway. G.49-G.56 Correspondence re arrangements G.57-G.63 Correspondence with relatives G.64 Diary Research work on facial eczema Other engagements G.49-G.56 G.49 1957. G.92 Newspaper cuttings G.93-G.99 Background material G.65-G.81 G.82-G.91 G.100-G.106 Return journey Correspondence re arrangements etc, 1957-1960 1958 January-September. Arrangements for visit to New Zealand. Synge was sounded out about the possibility of going to New Zealand in April 1957. He agreed in principle and a formal invitation was issued. Much of the correspondence relates to obtaining permission, terms, travel etc. R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Visits, conferences and travel 1958 January-May. (Plant), Biochemistry and Experimental Pathology in New Zealand. Correspondence re Fellowships in Organic Chemistry In view of his forthcoming visit to New Zealand Synge was asked to assist in examining candidates studying hepatogenous photosensitization diseases of ruminant animals, including facial eczema. Fellowships would these who for be 1958 October-December. Correspondence on arrival in Australia and New Zealand. 1959 January - analysis of crystal samples. April. Includes correspondence with Dorothy Hodgkin re 1959 May - September. 1959 October - December. Chiefly re general arrangements for travel back to Britain. individual respect of G.57-G.63 Correspondence with relatives 1958-1960 Correspondence and re arrangements in countries visited on the return trip is at G.100-G.106. papers The Synge family travelled back via China, the Soviet Union (using the Trans-Siberian railway) and Scandinavia. 1958. The letters met, observations on life in New Zealand etc. The folder is also inscribed with an itinerary and has been retained (G.57). Synge’s folders of correspondence with relatives in Britain during travel and stay in New Zealand. ‘New Zealand 1958-9 [...]’. into four for ease of reference. Synge’s letters home to his parents. Contents of Synge’s folder so inscribed divided include accounts of are very full and travel, people R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Visits, conferences and travel 1959 January - April. 1959 May - September. 1959 October - December. G.61-G.63 ‘Corresp. received in NZ’. into three for ease of reference. Chiefly letters from Synge’s parents. Contents of Synge’s folder so inscribed divided 1958. 1959 January - March. 1959 April - November, 1960. Diary 1959 diary. Entries are rather short. research activities. They are principally brief notes on Research work on facial eczema, 1958-1959. 2pp typescript paper on ‘Taxonomy of Sporidesmium bakeri’ by J.M. Dingley for ‘Facial Eczema Meeting - December 16th, 1958’. Papers of facial eczema meeting, Ruakura, 11-12 February 1959. 2 folders. 2pp typescript notes by Synge on ‘Work on “Beaker-test Substance” approx. 2 g. isolated by EPW [...]’, 11 February 1959; manuscript notes. G.67, G.68 R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Visits, conferences and travel Papers of facial eczema meeting, Ruakura, 23 April 1959. Includes 3pp typescript of ‘Extraction of poison work’ by Synge and E. White. P. ‘Research into the facial eczema disease of sheep. on the completion of the first year’s work, September 1958 - August 1959’ by P. J. Brook. Report [...] ‘Results of the first year’s work on facial eczema. Year ending September 1959. M. Dingley. Taxonomy and strains of Sporidesmium bakeri Sydow’ by J. G.72, G.73 Papers of facial eczema meeting, Palmerston North, 5-6 October 1959. folders. 2 G.72 includes reports on work by Synge and E.P. White. Manuscript draft; 5pp typescript. the production of a concentrate of a Miscellaneous typescript and duplicated material ca 1959. ‘Report to the Minister of Agriculture on research on facial eczema and related matters’ by Synge, 20 October 1959. Includes note on ‘Hazards to workers handling toxin from S. bakeri’, 14 July; ‘Notes on further observations on beaker test compound’ by E.P. White; ‘Process for toxin produced by Sporidesmium bakeri’ by White and W. Crawley; ‘Relative toxicity of fungal felts and media’. of the Ruakura Station on facial eczema research. Duplicated typescript extracts from the 1955-56 and 1956-57 Annual Reports G.76-G.81 Background material. Papers on facial eczema and related phenomena. R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Visits, conferences and travel Typescript papers on ‘Photosensitivity Diseases in New Zealand’, 1956. ‘X. The Guinea Pig as an experimental animal in the investigation of facial eczema’. ‘XI - Concentration of the facial eczema poison’. ‘XII - Concentration of the facial eczema poison’. ‘Xlll - Substances isolated from concentrates of facial eczema grass’. ‘Facial eczema poison extraction work’ by E.P. White, 8 December 1957. 8pp typescript. Duplicated typescript report on ‘Facial eczema investigations’, n.d. ‘Report on Facial Eczema in New Zealand’ by C. Rimington, ca 1958. 23pp typescript. Synge gave the Opening Address. G.82-G.91 Other engagements Printed material on facial eczema and photosensitivity diseases. Correspondence and papers re lectures and conferences to which Synge was invited in New Zealand and Australia. Invitation; programme; letter of thanks. Annual Conference of the New Zealand Veterinary Association, January - February 1959. R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Visits, conferences and travel Nineteenth Conference of the New Zealand Society of Animal Production, Ruakura, 9-11 February 1959. Synge spoke on ‘Sources of protein for milk production’. Invitation; information and programme; note re publication of proceedings. Lecture to Auckland branch New Zealand Institute of Chemistry, 10 March 1959. Correspondence re arrangements. Lecture to Waikato branch, New Zealand Institute of Chemistry, 12 March 1959. Synge spoke on ‘Molecular sieves’. Notice of lecture. Lecture to Waikato Scientific Association, 21 May 1968. Synge spoke on ‘Present day views of the origin of life’. Notice of lecture; letter of thanks. Synge spoke on ‘Proteins and life’. Correspondence re arrangements. Ruakura Farmers’ Conference, 16-19 June 1959. Synge spoke on ‘Using molecular sieve effects for separating substances’. Lecture to Wellington branch, New Zealand Institute of Chemistry, 3 June 1959. Correspondence re arrangements. Lecture Chemistry, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, 29 June 1959 (rearranged from 17 August). Synge spoke on ‘Using molecular sieve effects for separating substances’. Programme; Synge’s Synge’s contribution. to Christchurch branch, New Zealand Institute of manuscript notes; duplicated typescript copy of R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Visits, conferences and travel Conversazione on opening of Easterfield Building, Wellington, 1-3 July 1959. Victoria University of Letter; programme. Address to Hamilton Junior Chamber of Commerce on August 1959. visit to Russia, Letter of thanks only. Invitation to address Huntly Junior Chamber of Commerce, 25 August 1959 (declined). G.88, G.89 Annual Conference of New Zealand Institute of Chemistry, 25-28 August 1959. Synge gave the Guest Lecture on ‘Naturally occurring peptides and their biological the copper complexes of glycine, glycylglycine and diglycylglycine’ (with P. R. Carnegie). significance’ and a paper on ‘Electrophoresis of Correspondence re arrangements, 1959; notice; programme; abstracts. Parkville Symposium on Proteins, Melbourne, Australia, 10-11 September 1959. Manuscript drafts of abstract of ‘Naturally occurring peptides’; manuscript notes for lecture on ‘Naturally occurring peptides’. Synge gave the Symposium Lecture on ‘Naturally occurring peptides and their biological significance’ and a paper on ‘Electrophoretic behaviour of cupric complexes of oligopeptides’ (with P.R. Carnegie). Brief correspondence re arrangements, 1959. Correspondence arrangements, programme and summaries of papers. Synge spoke on ‘Protein nutrition of ruminants’. Lecture Palmerston North, 7 October 1959. Animal Husbandry Seminar, to Massey Agricultural College, handbook of re 1959; symposium R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Visits, conferences and travel Invitation Association, Palmerston North, October 1959. to address Central Branch of the New Zealand Veterinary Invitation to address New Zealand Grassland Association, Gisborne, 1-4 December (declined). Newspaper cuttings re Synge’s visit to New Zealand and work undertaken. Includes ‘Isolation of “Sporisdesmin” gives real hope of defeating facial eczema. Dr R.L.M. Synge and Dr E.P. White responsible’, New Zealand Dairy Exporter, 10 November 1959. G.93-G.99 Background material Printed and duplicated typescript principally re research organisations in New Zealand and Australia. G.93, G.94 G.97, G.98 New Zealand Wool Board. Ruakura Animal Research Station. 2 folders. New Zealand Department of Agriculture. Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (Australia). 2 folders. Entry visas. Papers on radioactive iodine in thyroids of grazing animals as a result of atom bomb tests in Australia. G.100-G.106 Return journey G.100 Philippines. R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Visits, conferences and travel G.101, G.102 People’s Republic of China. Synge visited China at the invitation of the Academia Sinica. Correspondence re travel arrangements etc, 1959-1960; manuscript notes on institutions visited. Travel documents. G.103-G.105 Soviet Union. For photograph of Synge with A.I. Oparin see A.455. G.103, G.104 Trans-Siberian Railway. The Synges travelled from Peking to Moscow on the Trans-Siberian railway. An account of the journey by Synge, illustrated with pictures taken by his daughter Elizabeth, appeared in the Railway Magazine, August 1960, pp.574-579. Visas; memorabilia. Scandinavia. The Synges stayed in Norway for Christmas 1959. Softback notebook used as detailed diary of journey. Letter re publication; 9pp typescript draft; off-print of article from the Railway Magazine. Letters re arrangements. R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Visits, conferences and travel 1961 Nobel Prize Winners Conference, Lindau, West Germany, 26-29 June 1961. Synge spoke on ‘The use of molecular-sieve effects for separating large molecules’. Correspondence manuscript notes. re arrangements, 1960-1961; abstract; programme; For photographs taken during the conference see A.457. Fifth International Congress of Biochemistry, Moscow, USSR, 8-18 August 1961. Correspondence and papers re travel arrangements, 1961. Scottish Union of Students Conference, Aberdeen, 5-6 May 1961. Annotated invitation only. 1962 Visit to Sweden and Germany, August 1962. Manuscript draft of report to the Agricultural Research Council; typescript report with covering letter. Synge visited colleagues in Gothenburg, Uddevalla, Stockholm and Uppsala in Sweden and Munich in Germany. participants; manuscript notes. Symposium on Electrophoresis in Stabilised Media, Arthur D. Little Research Institute, Inveresk, Midlothian, 17 October 1962. Synge gave an ‘Introductory review of electrophoresis in stabilised media’. 1962; programme; Brief correspondence re arrangements, list of R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 G.112-G.114 Visits, conferences and travel UNESCO-sponsored Cell University of New York, Buffalo, USA, 22-27 October 1962. Amplification Technique in Biology, State Synge spoke on ‘Chromatography’. Correspondence re arrangements, 1962. Provisional programme; programme; information. Manuscript notes. 1963 G.115-G.119 125th Annual Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Aberdeen, 28 August - 4 September 1963. Synge was Vice-President of Sections B (Chemistry) and | (Physiology and Biochemistry). He introduced the session of Section B on ‘Chromatography’. Programme. Programme of excursions. Papers re visits to the Rowett Research Institute during the Meetings. Invitations to serve as Vice-President; papers for meetings of General Committee and Sections preceding the Annual Meeting. peptides’. Synge spoke on ‘Stages in understanding of secondary valence interaction of Conference on Michigan, USA, 6-9 October 1963. Miscellaneous material. G.120-G.122 Proteins and Polypeptides, Brook Lodge, Kalamazoo, R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Visits, conferences and travel Correspondence re arrangements, 1962-1964. Proposed and final programmes. Notebook used by Synge for notes on proceedings; manuscript notes. 1964 G.123, G.124 Visit to Sweden and Norway, May 1964. Synge visited Sweden to attend a joint meeting of the British and Swedish biochemical societies on Recent Advances in Separation and Structural Analysis, Stockholm, 14-15 May and gave a paper. He visited Norway after the meeting. Correspondence re arrangements for the meeting, 1963; note of itinerary; Brewing Industry Synge contributed a paper. Correspondence re arrangements, 1963-1964. Photographs from ‘Norway May 1964’. Biochemical Research Foundation, Redhill, Surrey, 5 June 1964. Society Colloquium Nucleo-peptides, on Nobel Prize Winners Meeting on Chemistry, Lindau, West Germany, 22-26 June 1964. Brief correspondence, 1964; manuscript note of expenditure. Synge was invited to Poland as a guest of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Visit to Poland and Sweden, November-December 1964. Correspondence re arrangements, 1963-1964. R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Visits, conferences and travel Nobel Prize ceremonies, Stockholm, 10 December 1964. Synge travelled to Stockholm after his visit to Poland (G.127). Correspondence re arrangements, 1964; programme. 1965 G.129-G.132 Visit to India, 19 April - 8 May 1965. Synge visited India as a guest of the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Calcutta, for discussions on various aspects of tropical agriculture. He also lectured at the University of Delhi on ‘New methods for extracting and fractionating constituents of leaves’ and visited colleagues in Darjeeling and at the Indian Institute of Science, Bombay. He returned to India the following year for a longer visit (see G.135-G.159). Invitation; correspondence re arrangements, 1965; itinerary. Family correspondence, 1965. Manuscript notes; memorabilia Correspondence re visits in India and arising, 1965. Symposium on Recent Developments in Chromatography’, Liverpool, 13-14 May 1965. Correspondence re arrangements, 1965. Evening Party in honour of Sir Lawrence Bragg, Royal Institution, London, 15 October 1965. Synge spoke on ‘Molecular sieve effects separations’. Correspondence participants; manuscript notes. re in chromatographic and other arrangements, 1964-1965; programme; list of R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Visits, conferences and travel 1966 Altrex Automatic Laboratory Techniques Exhibition, London, 1-3 February 1966. Synge chaired a advances in continuous electrophoresis in a free buffer film’ on 3 February. lecture meeting addressed by K. Hannig on ‘Recent Correspondence re arrangements, 1965-1966; programme; manuscript note for Synge’s introductory remarks. G.135-G.159 Visit to India, July - September 1966. In 1965 Synge had visited India as a guest of the Indian Statistical Institute See G.130-G.132. He returned to the ISI in July-September 1966, to (ISI). work on chemical problems of He also advised on the structure of the ISI for a government review of the Institute. While in India he visited colleagues at a number of other research centres. rice cultivation. Correspondence re arrangements for visit, 1965-1966. G.137-G.140 Correspondence and papers re visits to other research institutions. G.137 Rice Research Station, Cuttack, 17 or 18 August. Correspondence and papers re appointments at ISI. It was proposed that Synge should return to the ISI, Calcutta in 1966 as the next in a series of repeated visits over a number of years to help with both research and teaching there. Synge was on an interview panel to select an Organic Chemist/Biochemist for the ISI. He also advised on other appointments. Central Food Technological Research Institute, Mysore, 19 or 20 August. Itineraries; travel and accommodation arrangements. R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Visits, conferences and travel Agricultural College and Research Institute, Coimbatore, 22-24 August. ‘S.Q.C. Unit’, ISI, Kerala, 24 August. Centre of Advanced Study in the Chemistry of Natural Proteins, University of Delhi, 30 August - 2 September. At Delhi Synge lectured to the Royal Institute of Chemistry (North India Section) on ‘Purification of leaf protein: its interactions with aromatic leaf constituents’ on 31 August and led a seminar on ‘Plant Polyphenolics’ on 1 September. Other invitations. Miscellaneous correspondence in India; letters to his mother. 1966. G.143-G.150 Government Review Committee on the Indian Statistical Institute Correspondence re review and Synge’s comments. subjects’, 12pp, 10 September; ‘Research and The Committee, chaired by Sri Humayun Kabir MP, had been established in February 1966 to evaluate the work done by the ISI and advise on particular aspects of its activities. As a distinguished foreign visitor Synge was asked in September to give his comments on the ISI. The Committee submitted its report in December 1966. Typescript reports for the Review Committee by P.C. Mahalanobis, Calcutta: ‘Research Units in Natural Sciences’, 3pp, 10 September; Research units in non-statistical Training School. Research units in non-statistical subjects’, earlier draft of preceding, n.d. oversee the implementation of the Review Committee’s recommendations. Copy of Report of the Indian Statistical Institute Review Committee (New Delhi, 1966). This Committee was established in January 1967, to advise the ISI and Brief correspondence re Deskmukh Committee. R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Visits, conferences and travel Provisional copy of Deskmukh report /ndian Statistical Institute. Review and Reappraisal (Calcutta, 1967). G.148-G.150 Printed background material re the ISI. 3 folders. G.151-G.155 Correspondence arising from Synge’s visit to India, 1966-1970. G.151-G.153 S. Matai. Matai applied for a Colombo Plan Fellowship to study with Synge at the Food Research Institute, Norwich. He was notified of the award in December 1967 but delays thereafter meant he was unable to take up the post until October 1968. He returned to India in August 1970. See E.48 for notebook used by Matai, see J.190 for further correspondence with Matai. 1966-1967. Re Matai’s application. 1969-1970. J. Uden. ISI under Voluntary Service Overseas Correspondence re Uden joining scheme, 1967. folders. Miscellaneous correspondence, 1966-1968. G.156-G.159 Miscellaneous printed material on Indian science and research centres. 4 R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Visits, conferences and travel 1967 G.160, G.161 Visit to Australia, 28 April - 8 July 1967. Synge visited Australia in connection with his Royal Society memoir of H.R. Marston (see J.182-J.185). He attended the Australian Biochemical Society Annual Meeting in Sydney, 22-25 May and visited colleagues in Australia. Synge also visited colleagues in Ceylon, New Zealand and India. Correspondence re arrangements, 1966-1967. 2 folders. 1968 Visit to Munich, 2-6 September 1968. typescript 1p November 1968. report to the Agricultural Research Council on visit, 21 He stayed on after the congress to Institute Correspondence re arrangements, 1969. 1969 G.163-G.178 Visit to Cuba, 5-21 May 1969. Synge visited Cuba to attend the First Annual Congress of the Institute of Animal Science, Havana, 10-13 May. Synge gave a lecture on ‘Food proteins from plants and microorganisms’ and gave a closing speech at the end of the meeting. learn about agricultural conditions in Cuba at the of Animal Science. The Director of the Institute, T. R. Preston, was a former member of staff of the Rowett Research Institute. typescript ‘edited version’ sent to T.R. Preston 8 September 1969. 9pp typescript of Synge’s contribution with manuscript corrections; 11pp Conference programme in Spanish; English translation. Summaries of papers; programme of activities. R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Visits, conferences and travel Manuscript draft of Synge’s closing speech. G.168-G.176 Press coverage of the Congress. G.168 UK coverage. Includes cutting from Farmer’s Weekly 23 May 1969 reporting on Castro’s criticisms of T.R. Preston. Cuttings from Cuban newspapers. G.170-G.173 Black and white press photographs of the Congress, most featuring Synge and many featuring Castro. Conference proceedings. Other photographs featuring Synge. Miscellaneous photographs. Synge, Castro and others visiting the ?Institute of Animal Science. Issues of Cuban newspapers with coverage of the Congress or agriculture in Cuba in general, May 1969. Juventud Rebelde, 12-14 May. In Spanish G.174-G.176 Gramma, 7, 10, 12-16, 21 May. In Spanish. Gramma Weekly, 11, 18 May. In English. R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Visits, conferences and travel Background information on Cuban agricultural research etc. Duplicated typescript minutes of Committee meeting of the Britain-Cuba Association, 12 May 1969. Britain-Cuba Association bulletins October and November 1969. Include information re symposium on ‘The New Man in Cuba’, 22 November 1969, at which Synge spoke on ‘Some problems and possibilities of food production in Cuba’. See also A.379. 1970 Visit to India, ca January-February 1970. returned Synge the Convocation of the Institute at which he gave the Address on ‘Poisons in plants. Some biological and human implications’. Statistical attended Institute. Indian the He to 1971 G.182-G.186 Invitation, 3 April 1970; programme; group photograph of participants. Correspondence re arrangements, 1969-1970; off-print of Synge’s lecture. Fourth Gregynog Natural Products Symposium on Peptides and Related Compounds, Gregynog, Montgomeryshire, Wales, 29 May-1 June 1970. and Centenary, 1 July 1971. Invitation; brief correspondence re arrangements, 1970-1971; programmes; letter to Mrs Synge (?Synge’s mother) from S. LeBrocquy re family history Synge was invited to Ireland by the Synge Centenary Committee John Millington Synge Centenary, Ireland, 27 April - 1 May 1971. R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Visits, conferences and travel Invitations to social and cultural events in Dublin found in envelope inscribed ‘Ref[use]d [...] 14th April’. Press photograph of audience at unidentified event during Synge Centenary, inscribed ‘Kate’ on verso, possibly identifying one of those in the front row as Synge’s mother. G.184-G.186 Miscellaneous memorabilia from Synge Centenary events. 3 folders. G.187, G.188 Tasting and Exhibition of Unorthodox Foods, Portmeirion, Wales, 19-21 May 1971. This meeting was organised by Mrs A. Williams-Ellis and intended to introduce to a wider public the idea of using unusual sources of protein to lessen the world’s food problems. It was chaired by N.W. Pirie and saw scientists and chefs each preparing dishes using new sources of protein. Synge prepared a ‘demonstration of Chinese confections of vegetable origin and of high protein content’. Correspondence re arrangements, 1970-1971. G.189-G.191 Invitation and programme; list of participants; information on ADA. Handbook of abstracts, annotated by Synge. List of participants; draft notice; duplicated typescript information on ‘Protein Content’ of unorthodox foods; report on the meeting from Nature; etc. Agricultural Development Association (ADA) Conference on New Protein Foods, University of Reading, 13-15 July 1971. Duplicated typescript material from participants. R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Visits, conferences and travel 1974 Phytochemical Society meeting, Swansea, September 1974. Synge spoke on ‘Reactions of plant proteins with oxidation products of polyphenols’. Brief correspondence re arrangements, 1974. Meeting in Lindau, West Germany, summer 1974. Correspondence arising, 1974. Wadenswil (see G.195). Includes references to 1975 Congress in 1975 Potato Marketing Board Symposium on Utilisation of Waste and Surplus Potatoes, 1975. Correspondence re arrangements, 1975; copy of the summing up by N. W. Simmonds. Includes references Research Conference, Aachen, West Correspondence, chiefly re Synge’s paper, 1974-1975. to 1974 Lindau meeting (see G.193). Congress on Nutritional Value of Plant Food, Wadenswil, Switzerland, 7-9 October 1975. Synge spoke on ’Damage to nutritional value of plant proteins by chemical reactions during storage and processing’. Institute of Biochemistry at the University of Uppsala. 75th Anniversary of the Nobel Foundation, Stockholm, Sweden, December 1975. International Fifth Germany, 1-11 September 1975. Wool Textile Synge attended events of the Anniversary and also visited colleagues at the Synge chaired a session on the chemical structure of wool proteins. Correspondence re arrangements, 1974-1975. G.197-G.201 R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Visits, conferences and travel Correspondence re arrangements, 1975. Social and scientific programmes; list of participants. Papers from 1975 Nobel prize ceremony. Invitations, programmes, menus, table-plans etc for various events during Anniversary. 1975 ‘The Declaration Disarmament’. Synge was a signatory. Stockholm of Twelve Nobel Laureates on 1977 G.202, G.203 Visit to Canada, January 1977. G.204, G.205 ‘75 years of the Fischer-Hofmeister and nutritional aspects’), McGill University and Correspondence re arrangements, 1976-1977. Manuscript notes, some identifiable as for lecture at University of Alberta. Synge visited colleagues at the University of Saskatchewan, University of Alberta (lecture on ‘Reactions of polyphenols and quinonoids with proteins: some chemical other research centres. Programme; list of participants; press release. Synge gave the Jubilee Lecture on theory of protein structure’. 25th Anniversary of Germany, 1-2 April 1977. the Deutsche Wollforschungsinstitut, Aachen, West Correspondence re arrangements, 1976-1977. R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Visits, conferences and travel G.206, G.207 Nobel Prize Winners Meeting on Chemistry, Lindau, West Germany, 27 June - 1 July 1977. Synge spoke on ‘ “Wasteful” research in pure and applied science’, a lecture first given by him at the J.D. Bernal Peace Library, 25 May 1977. After the lecture in Lindau, both Bild der Wissenschaft and Interdisciplinary Science Reviews expressed interest in reproducing the lecture. Synge had assigned copyright to the Bernal Library and fairly extensive negotiations followed. For photographs taken during the meeting see A.467. Invitation and programme; list contributions of Synge and Sir Derek Barton. of participants; abstracts (in German) of Correspondence re publication of lecture, 1977-1978. Joint European and North American phytochemical societies’ Symposium on the Biochemistry of Plant Phenolics, Ghent, Belgium, August, 1977. Visit to Australia, October 1977. Synge lectured on ‘Polyphenol-protein reactions and their significance for agricultural practices’ at the University of Adelaide. Brief correspondence re arrangements at Adelaide, 1977. 1978 Newspaper cutting only (includes picture featuring Synge). Correspondence re arrangements, 1977-1979; manuscript notes. Synge lectured on ‘Polyphenol-protein reactions and their significance for agricultural practices’. Groupe Polyphénols annual assembly, Nancy, France, 18-20 May 1978. R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Visits, conferences and travel Symposium on ‘Of Timeliness and Promise’ - Sterile and Fruitful Approaches in the Development of Biochemistry, Cambridge, 4 December 1978. Synge spoke on ‘Proteins: some physio-chemical, organic-chemical and nutritional aspects’. Rough manuscript draft; correspondence re arrangements, 1978-1979; programme; photographs of participants; photocopy of article re Symposium in TIBS March 1979. Visit to Nigeria, 1978. Brief correspondence re possible Visiting Professorship at University of Nairobi, Kenya only, 1977-1978. Synge stated that he could not go on to Kenya after his visit to Nigeria. 1980 Meeting on Agropine Aggregation, Food Research Institute, Norwich, 12 May 1980. 30 1983 1986 Nobel Laureates, Swedish Embassy, London, Invitation (accepted). Meeting November 1983. of British Agenda; manuscript note. See also F.62, H.97. Joint Conference of the Chemical Information Group of the Royal Society of Chemistry, the Institute of Information Scientists and the Institute of Biology on to about Scientists, Oxford, 25-26 March 1986. Synge was chairman of the Organising Committee and convenor of the conference. He also gave a paper on ‘25 years of Science Citation Index - some experiences’, subsequently published. Multidisciplinary Approaches G.215-G.222 Information Searching for R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Visits, conferences and travel G.215, G.216 ‘Oxford Conf. 25-6/3/86 Documents worth keeping’. Contents of Synge’s envelope so inscribed divided into two for ease of reference. Minutes correspondence re arrangements and arising, 1985-1987. committee, organising meeting 28 of of March 1985; brief Revised programme; conference information; manuscript list speakers. of possible G.217-G.222 ‘Chemical Information & Oxford paper’. Contents of Synge’s envelope so inscribed divided into six for ease of reference: material re ‘25 years of Science Citation Index - some experiences’. 12pp photocopied manuscript draft + figures. Transparencies. 1987 notes on located in manuscript G.220-G.222 G.223, G.224 Chemical Abstracts; Background material: print-outs. 3 folders. Brief correspondence with P. Rhodes, Royal Society of Chemistry, re papers not ‘SCl-derived documents still requiring examination 28/11/85’; miscellaneous manuscript notes. Printed information collected by Synge at the conference. Programme and abstracts; corrections to list of participants; invoice. Conference Chemistry, Noordwijkerhout, Netherlands, 31 May - 4 June 1987. International Structures: Language on Chemical the of R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 G.226-G.229 Visits, conferences and travel 1988 Eco-Danube Conference, held on board ship ‘Rousse’ (travelling between Bulgaria and West Germany), 27 October - 8 November 1988. Synge spoke on ‘Interplay of chemical science with social pressures’. 4 of February Invitation, Conference; correspondence with C. Birch, editor of Scientific World, re publication of Synge’s contribution, 1989; 7pp photocopied manuscript rough draft sent to Birch by Synge. document 1988; final the 1990 Edinburgh New Environmental Survival, Edinburgh, 2-4 April 1990. Conversations The on Politics and Economics of The New Edinburgh Conversations were established as annual meetings between Scottish 1990 concerned environmental issues rather than defence and disarmament as in previous years. Synge attended at the invitation of the Edinburgh Science Festival. specialists. Those for Soviet and Final Communiqué. Papers by D. Gee, D. Smith and K. Y. Kondratyev. Correspondence re arrangements, 1990; programme; press-release. Synge’s manuscript notes of proceedings and for his own contribution; black and white photograph of participants. For photographs taken at the Jubilee see A.470. Brief correspondence re arrangements, 1991; Guide to Jubilee events; miscellaneous material. 6pp and 5pp (annotated) typescript drafts; published version. Nobel Jubilee, Stockholm, Sweden, December 1991. 1991 R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Visits, conferences and travel Miscellaneous and undated Naturwissenschaftliche Nobelpreistragertagung in Lindau’ with photographs of Synge. Rundschau (1980). Article 6 on ‘30. of participants for meeting on Chemical Information - List research, featuring Synge. a catalyst for G.232-G.249 Invitations 1947-1992 Society of Chemical Industry Food Group meeting, London, 20 March 1946. 17th International Physiological Congress, Oxford, 22-25 July 1947. Meeting on the Comparative Merits of Animal and Vegetable Foods in Nutrition’, London School of Hygiene, 20 January 1950. European Association for Animal Production International Meeting, Ghent, Belgium, 12-14 October 1950. Buckland House Conference on lon Exchange, Faringdon, Berkshire, 24-25 September 1951. Symposium of carbohydrate chemists, University College Galway, Ireland, 19 April 1952. Society of Chemical Industry meeting on the Quality of Cereals and their Industrial Uses’, Edinburgh, 8-10 May 1952. 6th International Congress of Microbiology, Rome, Italy, 6-12 September 1953. 1 September 1954. Society for Experimental Biology Symposium on Fibrous Proteins and their Biological Functions, summer 1954. Midland Symposium for Analytical Chemistry Symposium on Chemistry, ?Birmingham, 25 August - Analytical R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Visits, conferences and travel Visit to Purdue University, USA, 1954-1955. Meeting of Deutsche Akademie der Landwirtschaftswissenschaften zu Berlin, East Germany, 17-19 October 1955. Society for Experimental Biology Conference, Edinburgh, 11-12 April 1956. 7th International Grassland Conference, New Zealand, November 1956. British Gelatine and Glue Research Association Conference on Recent Advances in Gelatin and Glue Research, Cambridge, 1-5 July 1957. 14th Annual Nobel Dinner, New York, USA, 11th January 1958 (Synge wished to attend but was unable to obtain an entry visa for the USA). Study Group on Quantitative Paper Chromatography of Steroids, London, 1 July 1958. Meeting Ascherleben, Berlin, Germany, 23-24 June 1960. Anniversary Fortieth the on of Institut flr Phytopathologie Institute of Biology Conversazione, London, 30 June 1960. on 10th Eighth International Grassland Congress, Reading, ?July 1960. Colloquium on Protides of Biological Fluids, Bruges,Belgium, 4-6 May 1962. Meeting Fakultat, Universitat Greifswald, Germany, 5-7 October 1961. Anniversary of Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Symposium on Chemistry in Medicine, Brookhaven National Laboratory, New York, USA, 28-29 March 1963. on the Yield and Nutrient Content of Plants, Reading, 17 July 1965. International Symposium on the Physiology, Ecology and Biochemistry of Germination, Greifswald, Germany, 8-14 September 1963. Nutrition Society Symposium on Effect of Soils, Fertilisers and Environment Symposium on Separations in Solid Media, Edinburgh, 8 October 1964. Correspondence, August-September 1963, re visas for entry into USA. R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Visits, conferences and travel 15th Colloquium on Protides of the Biological Fluids, Bruges, Belgium, 3-7 May 1967. Nobel Prize Winners Meeting on Chemistry, Lindau, West Germany, 3-7 July 1967. Symposium on The Use of Isotopes in Studies of Nitrogen Metabolism in the Soil-Plant-Animal System’, Sofia, Bulgaria, 28 August - 1 September 1967. National British Manufacturers’ November 1967. Export Council Israel Committee/Scientific Association Symposium, Technion, Haifa, Instrument 5-12 Israel, 500th Meeting of the Biochemical Society, University College London, 17 December 1969. Seminar in Animal and Plant Science, Institute of Animal Science, Havana, Cuba, 8-14 December 1970. Visiting Professorship, University of Nairobi, Kenya, 1974-1975. 15th International Congress of the History of Science, Edinburgh, 10-19 August 1977. 2nd International Conference of Leaf Protein Research, Nagoya and Kyoto, Indian Statistical Institute Golden Jubilee, November 1981. Nobel Prize Winners Meeting on Chemistry, Lindau, West Germany, 27 June - 1 July 1983. 500th Anniversary of the University of Uppsala, Sweden, 28-30 September 1977. Japan, 1985. International Foundation of Scientists for Peace and Liberty of Conscience World Forum on Science and Society, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 29 May - 3 June 1985. International Union for Pure and Applied Chemistry Symposium on Physical Chemistry of Colloids and Macromolecules, Uppsala, Sweden, 22-24 August 1984. R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 Visits, conferences and travel Nobel Prize Winners Meeting on Chemistry, Lindau, West Germany, 30 June - 4 July 1986. Symposia on Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of California Los Angeles, USA, January - May 1987. 2nd Leningrad Nobel Prize Winners Symposium, USSR, 18-22 October 1991. 5th World Congress Alternatives and Environment, Prague, Czechoslovakia and Vienna, Austria, 1991. 21st meeting of the Federation of European Biochemical Societies, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, 9-14 August 1992. R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 (Appendix) APPENDIX OF ADDITIONAL PAPERS AND CORRESPONDENCE OF RICHARD LAURENCE MILLINGTON SYNGE FRS (1914-1994), BIOCHEMIST This additional material was received from Dr Charlotte Synge, daughter of R.LM. Synge, in November 2004. Placed in Trinity College Cambridge Library February 2005. The material is numbered to follow on consecutively from the sections of the main catalogue NCUACS 73/2/98. There is additional material for sections A, Biographical; E, Research; F, Publications, lectures and broadcasts; G, Visits, conferences and travel; and J, Correspondence. There is a short index of correspondents. Large mounted group photograph of Research Institute, Aberdeen staff at ?Rowett With key (detached from photograph). Synge is centre. in the Incomplete spiral bound notebook used for miscellaneous jottings ca 1980 Tsvet 1872-1919 by E.M. F.198-F.201 Semenovich See F.82-F.90. inscribed by the Mikhail Senchenkova Photocopy typescript translations of passages. Copy of Russian paperback edition, author. This book credits Tsvet as the founder of chromatography. The Chromatography by E.M. Senchenkova Copy of Russian paperback edition. Manuscript pages of translation. Birth of the Idea and Method of Adsorption R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 (Appendix) ‘Polyphenol-protein reactions agricultural France, 17-19 May 1978 practices’, lecture and their signficance for Nancy, conference, at Photocopy of corrected typescript. As published. ‘Conversion of heterocyclic to aliphatic structures. Scope and limitations of programs’ Manuscript draft. Letter from Trends in Biochemical Sciences asking Synge to write an appreciation of Stanford Moore, with Synge’s reply drafted on verso press-release announcing the With August 1982. death of Moore, ‘“Wasteful” research in pure and applied science’ Manuscript draft of introduction to work of M.S. Tsvet. on suggested contribution ‘Aliphatization Chemical Notation Association Seminar on The Future of Chemical Documentation, Exeter, 6-10 September, 1982 Notice, correspondence, abstracts of Synge’s suggested contribution and of his paper given, manuscript notes including draft FORTRAN progam. Synge’s of heterocycles for substructure searching’ was not thought suitable. Instead he spoke on ‘The chemist’s work and the literature of chemistry’. 1981-1982 In 1987 he opened the Library and Guest House at the Centre. Synge was an Adviser to the Haldane Research Centre, see H.72. to Visit December 1987 Haldane G.251-G.253 Research Centre, Nagercoil, India, R.L.M. Synge NCUACS 73/2/98 (Appendix) Album of photographs of R.L.M. and Ann Synge at the Haldane Research Centre Identified on verso. Letter from T.A. Davis, Director, Haldane Research Centre arising from visit ‘Inauguration of Library and Guest House Buildings of JBS Haldane Research Centre at Nagercoil’ by T.A. Davis Printed copy of speech. Correspondence to Synge from Rose Scott-Moncrieff 1981-1982 Two letters, 1981 and 1982, enclosing Scott-Moncrieff’s correspondence with of biochemical genetics. others on history Brief correspondence, March ANSTEY, Paddy ERDTMAN, Holger DAVIS, T. Antony GLASS, Bentley BEARN, Alexander G. J.445 J.444 J.444 INDEX OF CORRESPONDENTS Letter from P. Anstey re FORTRAN problem; draft of letter to ‘Prof M.’ on Ibsen. J.444 MONCRIEFF, Rose SCOTT- (Mrs Meares) TRENDS IN BIOCHEMICAL SCIENCES STIEBER, Michael T. LEDERBERG, Joshua MOORE, Stanford G.252 J.444 J.444 J.444 J.444 F.203 WALKER, James See F.203