THE
ROYAL
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HISTORICAL
MANUSCRIPTS
Report on the papers of
3IR
WILFRID
GROS
LE
(1895-1971)
CLARK,
F.R.S.
deposited in The Bodleian Library, Oxford
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No. 74/67
1974,
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CONTEMPORARY SCIENTIFIC ARCHIVES CENTRE
Papers of
SIR WILFRID LE GROS CLARK, F.R.S.
(1895 - 1971)
Deposited in the Bodleian Library, Oxford
Harriot Weiskittel
Listed by
Jeannine Alton
W.L.G.C. C.SeA.C. 15/9/74
Description of the collection
The papers, which cover the years 1890 — 1974, were received
from Lady Violet Le Gros Clark.
Very little manuscript material remains from Sir Wilfrid's long
All attempts to locate additional material in either
career in anatomy.
departments or private hands have been unsuccessful.
15) deal with Sir Wilfrid's
grandfather, Dr. Frederick Le Gros Clark, and with his brother, Cyril
Le Gros Clark, Chief Secretary of Sarawak, who was killed in 1945.
The family papers (Items 10
—
Summary of career
1895
1912
1919
1920
1923
1924
1927
1929
1934
Born in Hemel Hempstead
Entered . St. Thomas's Hospital Medical School
Elected Fellow, Royal College of Surgeons
Principal Medical Officer, Sarawak, Borneo
Married Freida Giddey (d.1963)
Reader in Anatomy, University of London
Professor of Anatomy, St. Bartholomew's Hospital —
Professor of Anatomy, St. Thomas's Hospital
Professor of Anatomy, Oxford
Fellow of Hertford College
1961
1961
1964
1935
1950
1952
1954
1955
1958
Election to Royal Society
President, International Anatomical Congress
President, Anatomical Society
Master of the Salter's Company
Kni ghted
Opening of new Anatomy Department Building, Oxford
President, British Association for Advancement of Science
Royal Medal of Royal Society
Married Violet Browne
Index to correspondents
‘\ Publications
Diaries and journals
Contents of the handlist
Correspondence
Family papers
Biographical
I.
II.
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Biographical
Memoir, Lord Zuckerman, Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the
Royal Society, Vol.
1973, pp. 217-233.
19,
Obituary notices: Nature, Vol. 232, August 6,
Journal, 10 July 1971; The Times, June 29th and July 8th,
The Lancet, July 17,
1971 (incomplete); from 3 unidentified newspapers.
1971; British Medical
1971;
Letters of sympathy to Lady Clark
1971
Miscellaneous articles re Sir Wilfrid's career: dedication of
Volume 97 of the Journal of Anatomy to Sir Wilfrid;'The Advancement
of Science!’ no.
British Association for Advancement of Science; 5 page typescript
of unidentified biographical article; caricature; Nature, Vol 183,
June 6,1959 pp. 1572-1573 describing opening of new Department of
Anatomy Building in Oxford.
67, September 1960 re his election as President of
Lists of honours, appointments and membership in various institutions:
typescript and manuscript.
Certificates and honours: D.Sc. University of London 1928; Royal
Society of Science, Upsala, 1952; Coronation Medal 1953; Hon.D.Sc.
Oxford 1962; Lashley Prize of American Philosophical Society 1971
(includes correspondence and Ms. draft of Sir Wilfrid's reply)
Ls
Family papers
Photographs of Sir Wilfrid and family.
9.
Photographs taken on Sir Wilfrid's journeys to Indonesia
2 letters to Sir Wilfrid on his departure from Sarawak (dated
May 28, 1923 and June 12, 1923); card from non-academic members of
Department of Anatomy staff on occasion of his retirement, September
1962.
Xerox copy of autobiography of Sir Wilfrid's grandfather,
Dr. Frederick Le Gros. Clark (1811-1892), containing pencil sketches,
correspondence etc.
of remembrance service held November, 1961 and photograph.
Xerox copy of pp. 88-118 of Biographical Memoir of Dr. Marshall Hall
describing Dr. F.
nervous reflex arc (sent by Dr. William Knisely of University of Texas
to Lady Clark)
Correspondence re imprisonment of Cyril Le Gros Clark, investigation
into his death, letters of condolence, plans for memorial; programme
2 letters to SirWilfrid from brother, Cyril, dated July 22,1925
and February 6,1940
Le Gros Clark's support of Hall's theories of
10.
ake
12.
136
1925, 1940
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14.
Articles and newspapers re Cyril Le Gros Clark's life and
death, the occupation of Sarawak by the Japanese and the
cession of Sarawak (includes article by Sir Wilfrid ‘Sarawak
Test Case! The New Statesman and Nation, January 5,
and resulting published correspondence )
1946
156
Photographs of memorial and grave in Sarawak, of memorial service.
TII,
Diaries and journals (all are manuscript )
3.
1942 —
51
16.
17.
18%
1937 - 1938
1940 - 1945
(9 volumes)
1946 - 1954
(9 volumes)
1954 - 1962
(8 volumes)
1963 — 1966
(4 volumes )
1967 — 1971
(5 volumes )
Journal of trip to South Africa (see also Item 25, Sir Wilfrid's
letters home)
:
1946 — 47
Journal of trip to Australia, New Zealand and Indonesia
(see also Item 26,
Sir Wilfrid's letters to secretary )
23.
Small notebook of epigraphs collected by Sir Wilfrid
1952
n.d.
1922,
1963
1946 — 47
1952
24.
25.
26.
IV.
_ Correspondence
Miscellaneous correspondence (scientific and personal)
7 manuscript letters from Sir Wilfrid to his family during his
«rip to South Africa (see also his journal of trip, Item 21)
Correspondence between Sir Wilfrid and his wife Freida: 2 letters
dated 1922 and 3 letters dated 1963
Typed copies of letters to Eleanor Woodhouse (secretary)
written from Australia, New Zealand and Sarawak (see also his
jovrnal of trip, Item 22)
1973 - 74
Correspondence in response to Lady
whereabouts of additional manuscript papers and correspondence
(including material sent by Professor Tobias: typescript of
citation when Sir Wilfrid received Hon.D.Sc. at Witwatersrand )
Correspondence re article ‘Man (origin and races)' to be written
for Encyclopaedia of the Twentieth Century (see Item 36 for Ms.
draft of paper)
Correspondence re Darwinian Symposium of Accademia Nazionale dei
Lincei, Rome
was never delivered)
(see also Item 37 for Ms. draft of speech which
Clark's enquiries regarding
1960 - 71
1970: = 7"
1971
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Xerox copies of correspondence between Lord Zuckerman and
Anthony Storr re Storr's review of Beyond the Ivory Tower
4.
1970 — 71
Publications
Ms. draft of ‘Human Races*
‘A hundred years of the Ashmolean Club! (privately printed):
related correspondence and notes
'The Evolution of Mant
typescript with Ms. corrections
Elsevier's animal encyclopaedia:
"Bishop McDougall of Borneo' Hertford College Magazine, no.57,
pe 717: typescript with Ms. corrections, offprint
'Man (Origin-and Races)' article prepared for Ineyclopaedia
of the Twentieth Century: Ms. draft
related correspondence )
(see also Item 28 for
' "Descent of Man" validated in the Fossil Record! speech
prepared for Darwinian Symposium, Accademia Nazionale dei
Lincei: Ms draft
also Item 29)
(see
Ms notes on others work, including 'Calamities and Quarrels
of Authors! by Isaac Disraeli; ‘observations made by a curious
and learned person, sailing for England to the Caribe—Islands';
notes on lymphocytes; miscellaneous Ms. notes and lists
Wid «
H.
1947 - 55
1956 — 70
1970) on
1961,
1970
Miscellaneous offprints
Miscellaneous offprints
Index to principal correspondents (numbers refer to Items )
Article appearing inNature (vol. 228, November 21,
British Association for Advancement of Science, Sir Wilfrid's
Ms. reply to Hditor dated 26.xi.70 (probably not sent).
File
includes material (programme, photographs, newspaper cuttings
etc) re 123rd meeting of the British Association, August—Sept.
1961 with Sir Wilfrid as President
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BOWDEN, Professor Ruth Elizabeth Mary
APLIN, A.
ASHTON, E.
CAPPELLETTI, Vincenzo
BARIGOZZI, Professor C.
CALVER, D.
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CLARK ,Cyril Drummond Le Gros
CLARK, F. (Bill) Le Gros
CLARK, Freida (Lady Clark)
CORNER, Dr. George Washington
DART, Professor Raymond Arthur
ECKE, Gustav
FAY,
Michael H.
HALSEY, Jean
HARRISSON, Tom
HAY, Professor Richard L.
CLARK, Wilfrid Le Gros v1
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