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Report on correspondence and papers of
JOHN WILLIAM SUTTON PRINGLE
(1912-1982)
zoologist
deposited in the
Bodleian Library, Oxford
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by
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under the guidance of the Royal Society’s
Catalogue of the papers and correspondence of
JOHN WILLIAM SUTTON PRINGLE FRS
(1912 - 1982)
Compiled by: Jeannine Alton
Peter Harper
Margaret Erskine
Deposited in the Bodleian Library, Oxford
All rights reserved
1986
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production of this catalogue, are made possible by the support of the following
societies and institutions:
The Biochemical Society
The Charles Babbage Foundation for the History of Information
Processing
The Institute of Physics
The Institution of Electrical Engineers
The Nuffield Foundation
The Rhodes Trustees
The Royal Society of London
The Institution of Mechanical Engineers
The Wolfson Foundation
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NOT ALL THE MATER IAL IN THE COLLECTION IS YET
AVAILABLE FOR CONSULTATION.
ENQUIRIES
SHOULD BE ADDRESSED IN THE FIRST INSTANCE TO:
THE KEEPER OF WESTERN MANUSCRIPTS,
BODLEIAN LIBRARY,
OXFORD.
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LIST OF CONTENTS
GENERAL INTRODUCTION
SECTION A
BIOGRAPHICAL & PERSONAL
A.1-A.17
SECTION B
CAMBRIDGE .
SECTION C
OXFORD
B.1-B.32
G.t-Coie
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Lectures & teaching material
With an introductory note
C.27-C.50
ARC Unit of Muscle Biophysics
and Insect Physiology
With an introductory note
SECTION E
E.1 -E.97
Lectures
031-B.57
E.1-E.144
SECTION D
RESEARCH
With an introductory note
C.51-C.184
New Zoology Laboratory
With an introductory note
LECTURES & PUBLICATIONS
and editors
Correspondence with publishers
E.98-E.127
Publ ications
E.128-E.131
Book reviews
E.132-E.144
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SECTION F
SCIENCE IN THE THIRD WORLD
F.1-F.262
Introduction to Section F
Items
F.1
-F.239A International Centre for Insect
Physiology & Ecology (ICIPE)
E 6G-960 * Sérencett Resedrclalbitute
(SRI)
SECTION G
SOCIETIES & ORGANISATIONS
G.1-G.28
SECTION H
VISITS & CONFERENCES
Hit-H.16
SECTION J
CORRESPONDENCE
J.1-J.148
BIBLIOGRAPHY .
Introduction to Section J
INDEX OF CORRESPONDENTS, SOCIETIES & ORGANISATIONS
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GENERAL INTRODUCTION
PROVENANCE
Most of the material was received from the Department of Zoology, Oxford,
by courtesy of Professor Sir Richard Southwood and Mr. K. Marsland.
The obituary by Nigel Pringle (nephew) from Sailplane and Gliding included
in A.1 was received from Mrs. Beatrice Pringle.
Pringle's work included at C.43 were made available by Dr. R.H. Abbott.
correspondence on research specimens at C.45-C.47 was given by Dr. Belinda Bullard.
Published papers relating to
The
The material relating to the Oxford Department of Zoology referred to in
the
Memoir of Pringle by V.B. Wigglesworth (Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the
Royal Society, 29, 1983, 532) as 'deposited in the University Archives’ was with-
drawn and is now incorporated in the present collection at C.51-C.184.
His
Zoology 1937-38 and Fellow of King's 1938-44.
with the Telecommunications Research Establishment (T.R.E.) and later with the
After war service on airborne radar
Ministry of Transport, Pringle returned to Cambridge as lecturer in the Department of
Much of his most important research, on the physio-
OUTLINE OF THE CAREER OF J.W.S. PRINGLE
Pringle was a scholar of Winchester and later of King's College, Cambridge,
where he took first-class degrees in both parts of the
research career began in Cambridge in 1934 and he was University Demonstrator in
Natural Sciences Tripos.
Zoology and Fellow of Peterhouse.
loay of cicada song, proprioception in insects, and insect flight muscle was conducted
To this period also belong Pringle's marriage (1946),
His period at Oxford, though not always smooth, was marked by notable
in the Cambridge years to 1961.
his many college duties at Peterhouse, his election to the Fellowship of the Royal
Society (1954) and his appointment as Reader in Experimental Cytology (1959).
In June 1961 Pringle accepted the Linacre Chair of Zoology which had been
offered to him in December 1960, and moved to Oxford where he remained for the rest
of his life.
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achievements such as the building of a large new laboratory housing the Departments
of Zoology and Experimental Psychology and the subdepartment of Molecular Biophysics,
a major contribution to the founding in 1970 of the new Honour School of Human
Sciences and the establishment of his own ARC unit for research in muscle biophysics
and insect physiology.
From the late 1960s he also developed an active interest in
the problems of science in developing countries, and he was especially involved with
various research institutes and universities in East Africa.
Pringle retired as Linacre Professor in 1979 and died in 1982.
A fuller account of Pringle's career and research can be found in the Memoir
by V.B. Wigglesworth in the Royal Society series, 1983, which has been drawn upon
in compiling some of the entries and is referred to in the form (Memoir, p...).
DESCRIPTION OF THE COLLECTION
The material is presented in the order shown in the List of Contents.
Additional
explanatory notes accompany many of the Sections, sub-sections and individual entries
matters of particular substance or interest.
awareness of the historical interest of the documents.
There is also material here
career, and includes almost no documentation for his unusually wide range
of outside
interests.
His university teaching and administration at Cambridge and Oxford are
well documented in Sections B and C respectively.
Section C is particularly rich in
in the body of the catalogue.
The following paragraphs aim only to draw attention to
The surviving collection is almost exclusively concerned with Pringle's scientific
its full account of the protracted struggles over the siting and design of the new Zoology
department; many of the files were prepared by Pringle himself and reflect his own
of the multi-disciplinary Honour School of Human Sciences at Oxford.
relating to the ARC unit of which Pringle was Honorary Director and which was the focus
of his principal research interest on insect flight muscle, including research notes,
there is no surviving material here for Pringle's active contribution to the establishment
ideas for seminars, and the ‘internal memoranda’ circulated by the team.
Regrettably,
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The development of Pringle's research is well illustrated by the notebooks,
notes and correspondence assembled in Section D, covering the long span 1934-82
(as well as an even earlier school exercise-book of 1928).
They include his early 1934
expedition to the Atlas Mountains, his important 1953 expedition to Ceylon to study
cicada song, drafts for lectures and publications, notes of discussions with colleagues,
talks at conferences and the like.
Section E brings together drafts and scripts for lectures and publications
covering a period of over thirty years, 1949-82, and also including a talk given as
an undergraduate to the Cambridge University Natural Science Club.
Section F, Science in the Third World, is of interest for its full record of
Pringle's involvement with the International Centre for Insect Physiology and Ecology
(ICIPE) at Nairobi, especially as a member of the Governing Board from 1972 (Chairman
1973) to 1978, and a director of research on a major project from 1973.
Here too
Pringle's sense of history prompted him to assemble his own file of ‘early history’ as
well as a full general record.
Sections G and H are relatively slight and probably do not reflect Pringle’s
the ARC unit at Oxford.
Drafts for published work found in all Sections of the collection have been
permission on pp.119-121.
and appear in the form (Bibliog. ...).
A copy of the Bibliography is reproduced with
participation in leamed societies or symposia.
Similarly, Section J, Correspondence,
is chiefly of interest for its documentation of the careers of many of the members of
linked wherever possible to the Bibliography compiled for the Royal Society Memoir
publication which is not listed in the Bibliography.
ltems ‘at E.101, E.110, E.111 represent material published or intended for
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
We are grateful to all those who helped to assemble material for the collection,
and especially to Dr. Belinda Bullard for advice, information and encouragement over
a period of several years.
We are grateful to Dr. C.E. Phelps and Dr. R.H. Abbott for help in identi-
fying some of the material.
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SECTION A
BIOGRAPHICAL AND PERSONAL A.1 - A.17
BIOGRAPHICAL AND BIBLIOGRAPHICAL
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Obituaries: The Times, Sailplane & Gliding.
Memoir, by V.B. Wigglesworth, Biographical Memoirs of Fellows
of the Royal Society, 29, 1983.
Miscellaneous lists of publications and lectures.
Lectures by Pringle of special interest tohim.
Some of these are
additional copies of material included in the manuscript collection
or the published works, brought together for ease of consultation.
'First-year biology courses at the university’.
Lecture to Biology
Section of the Association of Technical Colleges and Departments
of Education, September 1964.
Another copy is at E.17.
Lecture at
Offprint, with an attached
| suggest, of
'Can there be a scientific study of man and society?'
Oxford, October 1964, describing the initial discussions for the
study of 'Human Sciences’ and Pringle's interest in this inter-
disciplinary course, which was officially initiated in October 1970
(Memoir, 533-534, 547).
‘Effects of World War II on the development of knowledge in the
biological sciences' (Bibliog. 1975c).
note by Pringle beginning 'The attached article is,
more than historical interest because the problem of world food
supplies presents us with a crisis as great as that of the Second World
War’.
Possible research post in Ghana (declined), 1981.
Election as corresponding member, American Society of Zoologists,
1965.
Brief correspondence on career.
‘Oxford Zoology 1961-79".
This is the 'Master Copy' of Pringle's valedictory lecture, May
1979.
Another copy is at C.183.
Included here is a signed copy of P.B. Medawar's lecture on
‘Oxford Zoology’ (Biology, 1944).
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WAR SERVICE
Biographical and persenal
Pringle served with the Telecommunications Research Establishment (TRE) at °
various locations, working on airborne radar.
Two of the devices developed by his
group, ‘Eureka’ and 'Rebecca' were used in North Africa and the Normandy landings
(Memoir, pp.527-528).
Rae
S$.O. Notebook.
betical index (includes Eureka, Rebecca and other devices).
Aft rear of book, alpha-
Few pages used.
"The work of T.R.E. in the invasion of Europe’.
3lpp. duplicated typescript signed JWSP, +1p. Bibliography
and 2pp. 'Catalogue of equipments’, with a ms. note on cover
‘Compiled and largely written by JWSP'.
Normandy landings.
n.d. but shortly after
2 copies.
Later reports, on information theory.
TRE (later RRE) reports by A.M. Uttley, 1952, 1954,
A.8-A.12
1955.
A.13
1960.
Burden Neurological Institute report by W. Ross Ashby,
A.7
September 1950 and published by Ministry of Supply.
"Symposium on Information Theory’ held at Royal Society
1977, 1979 (Memoir, pp.545-547)..
Programs and charts for simulated 'cross-country flying’ with
variables for wind-speed, thermals, cloudbase and other factors,
Pringle had a remarkably wide range of outside interests and talents and it
unfortunate that almost no documentation of them survives.
A.14
Gliding: 'Thermal Dice'
OTHER INTERESTS
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Biographical and personal
Des ign
Programs and data devised by Pringle to generate patterns similar
to mosaics;
8 patterns 'for Merida design’.
;
Poetry
'The Temptation'.
There is another of Pringle's poems at C.81.
PHOTOGRAPHS
A.17
Group photograph of Cambridge Zoology Department, with
hand-drawn key by Pringle, n.d., 1930s.
Passport photograph of Pringle.
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SECTION B
CAMBRIDGE B.1 -B.32
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Teaching material (dated)
B.14-B.21
Teaching material (undated)
B.22-8 25
Research notes and ideas
B.26-B .32
Correspondence on supplies and specimens
The material, which is
in typescript unless otherwise indicated, relates mainly
to lectures and experiments for undergraduate teaching in the Department of Zoology.
Pringle's own research notes and notebooks are in Section D (but see B.22-
B.25).
TEACHING MATERIAL (dated)
B.1
'Gamete secretions’, inscribed 'V. Rothschild 29-10-47'.
Ip. table.
2pp. timetable for demonstrations and practical work.
2pp. timetable for demonstrations and practical work.
"Techniques for the study of the microscopic, ultramicroscopic &
molecular structure of cell-components, cells, & multicellular &
extracellular fibres', 8-30 November 1955.
‘Optical and other Techniques in the Study of (a) the Micro- and
Ulira-miscroscopic Structure, and (b) the Mechanical and other
Properties, of Cell-Parts, Cells, and Multicellular and Extraceilular
Structures', 9 November-] December 1954.
13pp. ms. and typescript draft.
‘Comparative Physiology', introduction to lecture course and advice
on experimental method, inscribed 'new beginning 1956'.
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‘Part Il Zoology: Comparative Physiology’, originally a course
of 24 lectures, variously dated 1958 and 1959.
Extensive ms. and typescript notes and drafts, originally found tied
The original order
together and inscribed 'remains of old notes'.
has been preserved but the material has been divided between
2 folders for ease of reference.
material for lectures 2,
15,
B.5 includes reading lists and
B.6 material for lectures 13,
22 and 24.
3, 6and 7,
11,
"Lectures on Experimental Embryology for Part II Lent 1958
S. Smith’.
2pp. synopsis and reading list for course of 5 lectures.
"The mechanical properties of natural and synthetic plastics and
their basis in molecular morphology.
properties of cell parts, cells, and multicellular and extracellular
structures'.
Practicals. 1959'.
Contents of a folder inscribed 'Dr. Pringle.
Their bearing on the mechanical
Cytology
Outline syllabuses; reading lists.
The original order has been preserved
29pp. instructions for practical work.
Folder includes 3pp. draft of part of the above.
"Cytology and Cell Physiology’, Michaelmas Term 1960 and 1961.
Extensive sequence of ms. and typescript lecture notes, and related
material, found tied together.
but the material has been divided into four folders for ease of reference.
Lent 1959, incorporated into the later course.
Course outline; reading list;
many originally used for lectures given in Michaelmas 1958 and
notes with ms. corrections and addenda,
"Part | Zoology', Lent Term 1961.
Lectures 8-13, 18,
19, 23.
Miscellaneous ms. notes.
Lectures 1-3, 5.
B.9
B.10
B.11
B.12
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TEACHING MATERIAL (undated)
Most of this is duplicated typescript for class use.
B.14
"Cell Physiology’.
2pp. outline of a course of 8 lectures.
"Investigation of the function of sense organs by observation of
impulses in the nerves supplying them’.
App. notes on procedures for experiments.
'Cytology'.
llpp. notes with ms. corrections on procedures for experiments,
headed Cytology I-IV.
Miscellaneous instructions for experiments on various laboratory
animals.
"Behaviour mechanisms = frog’.
"Electrical Properties of Membranes’.
App. notes with ms. corrections, including suggestions for experiments.
| 'Auteur.
Gip.'
14pp. notes on procedures for experiments, with ms. note from
G.P. Wells: Enclosed with Hommage de
| perused
in haste and with awe rather than understanding your Psychological
thing (as expounded over the Pint Pots at Grantchester) and should
welcome a copy for more serious perusal some time.
3pp. notes, including instructions for experiments.
"Surface -interactions of cells & their significance for the structure
of the cell-surface’.
"Factors Influencing the Cohesion of Tissue-cells'.
Ip. notes on procedures for experiments.
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RESEARCH NOTES AND IDEAS
Cambridge
B.22
"Miscellaneous Ideas.
6 November 1945.
The Institute for Synthetic Behaviour’,
2pp. ms. notes on the aims, staff, programme, etc. of the
proposed institute.
"Summary of work on Bombus control system; June 1956’.
2pp. draft, with a diagram inscribed 'not required’.
‘Macromolecules. Thoughts and speculations as a result of reading
"What is Life?" by Erwin Schroedinger' (published 1944).
3pp. notes with ms. addenda.
"Preliminary
n.d.
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ideas for some experiments in Animal Physiology’,
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2pp. list.
CORRESPONDENCE ON SUPPLIES AND SPECIMENS
For similar material during the Oxford period, see C.37-C.40.
This sequence of correspondence, 1957-59, concerns the supply of rhinoceros,
dung~- and other beetles from Africa and India, and various specimens including stag
beetles, from Britain.
For similar material during Oxford period, see C.45-C.47.
B.30
1958 June,
July
B.31
1958 September, October
1957 August =November
B.S2)
1959
1958 March-May
1957 June
1957 July
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SECTION C
OXFORD C.1 -C.184
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LECTURES AND TEACHING MATERIAL
With an introductory note.
C272C..50
ARC UNIT OF MUSCLE BIOPHYSICS AND INSECT
PHYSIOLOGY
With an introductory note.
C.27-C.35 —_ History and administration
C.36-C.49
Research
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Internal memoranda
C.51-C. 184
NEW ZOOLOGY LABORATORY
With an introductory note
LECTURES AND TEACHING MATERIAL
Nearly all this material consists of drafts, notes and related material for lectures,
and instructions for demonstrations and practical work for the Honour School of Zoology,
Unless otherwise stated, notes and drafts are in typescript.
C.11 and C.20).
His non-university teaching is represented at C.6, a course on intro~
particularly the biology preliminary courses 1962-80.
Pringle sometimes gave a collabora-
tive course with colleagues (see C.5) and teaching by others is also represented (see C.7,
ductory biology for the British Biophysical Society's summer school in molecular biology
Ms. and typescript notes, list of topics, reading list.
Third year seminars, Trinity Term 1963, on 'Comparative Physiology
of Excitable Tissues' and giant fibres.
"Second half of lecture.
excitation’, 1962.
The vector concepts of central
6pp. incomplete draft with ms. corrections.
and biophysics, September 1966.
Pringle often added to, rejected and rewrote his teaching material to update it,
e.g., C.18, where material has been gathered over a period of years.
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‘Comparative Physiology’, course of 8 lectures, Michaelmas Term
1963.
Extensive sequence of ms. and typescript notes and drafts, including
material from lectures given in 1959.
"Molecular Biology
Phillips & North.
Trinity Term 1964’.
Spp. ms. notes taken by Pringle at a course of lectures given by
D.C. Phillips and A.C.T. North, with 3pp. table 'Chemical
sequences of human haemoglobin and sperm whale myoglobin’.
"Biology prelim. physiology course 1964/5".
Incomplete sequence of notes and drafts of course of lectures given
by Pringle and others, including reading lists and Pringle's notes
on others' lectures.
British Biophysical Society's summer school in molecular biology
and biophysics, September 1966.
"Physiology of animal behaviour’, Michaelmas Term 1966.
notes for course of 8 lectures (Lecture 5 missing) with
Includes material from 1964 course and for a course
lecture in 'Topics
synopses of lecture courses;
Four lectures for 'Introductory biology’ course;
in Molecular Biophysics’ course;
Ip. ms. notes on another's lecture.
Syllabus;
reading lists.
on ‘Physiology of the nerve axon', by D.J. Aidley.
Bundle of notes, including some material from 'Physiology of
Excitable Tissues' course, Michaelmas Term 1967 and 1968, and
quizzes.
course on 'The Organisation of Biology’, n.d.
Bundle of notes for general lectures on biology, 1967, 1968 and
n.d.
'Research and Teaching at Universities (new notes:
Term 1967)';
'Information Lecture 1968'; extensive notes for
Hilary
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Lecture material, 1968.
Material 'for Julian Jack's lectures', Michaelmas Term 1968; -
"Old muscle lecture notes (put away 1968 Dec)', including
material from 1963-69; draft of a lecture on physiology, 8th of
a course.
Group of notes for course of lectures by D.C.S. White on 'Comparative
Physiology of .Excitable Tissues’, Michaelmas Term 1969, with
related and updated material (1970).
'Trigonometrical functions and polar diagrams: applications’,
lecture for the Biology Preliminary course Applied Mathematics
Option, 21 October 1970.
Draft, with related material.
'Excitable Tissues old notes', with various ms. dates in 1971 and
1973.
8pp. draft with ms. corrections;
reading list re-dated 1972.
‘Biology prelim physiology course’, Hilary and Trinity Terms 1973.
Instructions for course of 15 practicals, with programme; lecture
programme; reading list.
"Information Theory', lecture for 'Invertebrate nervous systems and
behaviour’ series, Trinity Term 1971.
Instructions for course of 8 practicals.
‘Comparative physiology.
Practical course in the physiology of
circulation, respiration and excitable tissues', Michaelmas Term
1974.
Instructions for course of 15 practicals, with programme, reading
list, etc.
"Biology prelim. physiology course’, 1973-74.
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Notes, drafts and other material for lecture course for the Biology
Preliminary Physiology Course, Hilary Term 1975.
"Membrane and nerve impulse lectures', including material dated
1969 and 1971.
"Active Transport’ lecture, including material dated 1967-1974.
Lecture and teaching material, Hilary Term 1976.
Drafts, lists of references, etc. for lecture on 'The Origin of Life',
including material dated 1970 and 1975.
‘Demonstration of Nerve and Muscle Physiology’.
for eight experiments in Cell Biology Course (updated from 1973-74).
Class handouts
‘Demonstration of nerve and muscle physiology’, for the Biology
Preliminary Cell Biology Course, 10 March 1977.
‘Practical course in the physiology of circulation; respiration and
excitable tissues'; Michaelmas Term 1977.
Class handouts for course of eight experiments.
Class handouts for seven experiments; list of references; back-
ground material;
2pp. ms. notes by Pringle on research by others.
Binder inscribed 'Excitable Tissues’, containing lecture notes,
quizzes, etc., variously dated 1968-77, probably last used for
undergraduate teaching in Michaelmas Term 1977.
Drafts, reading lists, etc., for lectures 1 and 2 of course.
Binder inscribed 'Physiology of Muscular Contraction’, containing
lecture notes, etc., variously dated 1967-78, probably last used
for undergraduate teaching in Hilary Term 1978.
"Analysis of biological regulatory mechanisms', Trinity Term 1978.
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"A.
K. topics
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flight', Hilary Term 1980.
7pp. draft with ms. corrections, references, background material.
Undated material.
Instructions for 2 practicals on 'The physiology of animal behaviour;
summaries of 8 lectures on 'Cell Physiology’.
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C.2/ 6,35
History and administration
C.36-C.49
Research
Honorary Director.
Pringle gives short
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lecture as Linacre Professor (C.183).
reséarch and careers of the Unit's personnel.
two zoologists, a physicist and an engineer’ (Memoir, p.543).
He 'recruited a team of biochemists, a physiologist, a chemist,
Much of the corres pondence in Section J
is concerned with the appointment,
The Unit was the main focus of Pringle's research into muscular contractility.
accounts of the work in his papers for the ARC (C.28, C.33) and in his veledictory
He first sought ARC support in 1963 and the Unit was formed in 1966 with Pringle as
Continued
who have correspondence files in Section J is appended :
Mercola, D.A.;
Newsholme, E.A.;
Coombs, R.W.;
Craig, R.W.;
Cuminetti, R.;
Neville, A.C.;
Rajulu, G.S.;
Bullard, B.;
Cage, P.E.;
Clarke, M.L.;
Abbott, R.H.;
Allen, A.J.;
Ashe, J.;
Ashhurst, D.L.;
A list of those associated with the Unit
Morris, E.;
Pimm, J.E.;
Lebacq, J.;
Lehman, W.J.;
Loveridge, J.H.;
Luke, B.M.;
Matthews, D.C.;
Ogata, M.;
Pau, R.;
Connolly, C.M.P.A.;
Dodd, C.W.H.;
Bell, J.L.;
Bennett, R.M.;
Coffman, D.;
Conn, D.L.T.;
Miles, M.;.
Morris, D.J.;
Rodger, C.;
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Riegg, J.C.;
Savage, A.F.W.;
Spence, A.R.H.;
Squire, J.M.;
Steiger, G.J.;
Tregear, R.T.;
Waters, L.;
Whitehead, D.L.;
Winkelman, H.C.;
Wollmer, A. .
History and administration
C.27-C.31
‘End of the Unit".
Contents of a folder so inscribed.
Principally correspondence
and papers re ARC visitation, November 1976, to consider the
future of the unit.
C.27
Correspondence, February- November 1976
C.28
and on staff.
C.29
C.30
C.3!
Staff and equipment lists, 1976.
Pringle's statements on 'The work of the Unit and its future’,
ARC Unit report for April 1973-March 1974.
ARC Unit report for April 1975-March 1976.
Correspondence with ARC re closure of Unit, arrangements to
transfer or retain equipment, 1978-79.
some equipment for retirement research on the hive bee.
Pringle proposed to retain
Photograph (with key) of ARC Unit staff, n.d.
Correspondence with ARC re final report on the Unit's work, 1980,
typescript draft of the report, list of publications by members of
the Unit, 2 photographs of insect specimens.
Miscellaneous items re ARC Unit and Oxford Zoology Department.
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Research
C.36
Hardback notebook with record of meetings of the Insect Muscle
Research Group (precursor of ARC Unit), 2 December 1963-
10 February 1964.
script note inside the front cover sets out membership of group and
times, location and purpose of meetings.
The record'was kept by B.R. Jewell.
A type-
Ms. and typescript notes by Pringle and others of talks, seminars
and demonstrations, research reports and ideas, 1964-78.
2 folders.
Miscellaneous ms. and typescript notes by Pringle and others of
ideas for research at Oxford.
1978.
Some dated 1969, 1970, 1977 and
:
Folder includes letter from Pringle toR.T. Tregear, 29 September
1978, on research discussions at University of Guelph where Pringle
was Visiting Professor (E.63-E.76);
'Alpbach Notes', March 1977
(Pringle's ms. record of contributions from conference participants);
6pp. comments (not by Pringle) on a paper by C.W.F. McClare.
Includes
-
"1962.
Attempts to model Nyquist plots’.
Miscellaneous retirement research notes, c.1979-81.
extended ms. statement on 'New hypothesis for mechanism of trans=
duction’.
Ip. of this draft was written on the back of the first page
of a letter from R.V. Jones, 20 March 1980, re ICUS and in particu~
lar whether the Unification Church tried to persuade students to give
up their studies.
See also J.1-J.4.
Material, 1977-78, for R.H. Abbott's computer model for pre-
dicting mechanical response of insect flight, including Pringle's
ms. notes;
also Abbott's 1974 paper (ARC internal memorandum
no.44) on use of plotter (used for program).
Contents of a folder so inscribed.
colleagues in Oxford Engineering Laboratory and Cambridge Zoology
Department.
Includes correspondence with
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Papers by R.H. Abbott and collaborators (1977, 1981 and 1984) with
ms. note by Abbott explaining their relation to Pringle's work.
The 1984 paper was dedicated to Pringle's memory.
(Material
made available by R.H. Abbott 1986.)
C.44
Not used.
C.45-C.47
Correspondence re supplies and specimens, especially bugs and
beetles.
This material was made available by B. Bullard.
C.45
1965, 1968
C.46
1970-79
1980-81.
C.47
technician with the ARC Unit, who moved to Kenya to establish
Bioken 'suppliers of educational biological material’.
Includes correspondence with J. Ashe, a
ae
Internal memoranda
Brief research correspondence.
List of ARC Unit publications, 1965-67.
Muscle Group current literature bulletins for May-October 1974
and November 1974.
1 box.
Sequence of duplicated papers, of varied content, including ideas
and reports on research in hand, notes on lectures and papers at
colloquia or conferences in UK and abroad, notes of articles, papers
and research findings by colleagues.
Some are in note or letter form,
others with diagrams and figures prepared for publication;
authors are Pringle and other members of the Unit, and occasionally
colleagues working elsewhere.
The papers are in numerical order which does not always correspond
to chronological order.
numbering runs 1,
Papers by Pringle, alone or in collaboration, are 1,
(draft for Bibliog. 1967c), 17,
2a; 30,39, 43, 46,
21 (draft for Bibliog. 1968d), 22, 31,
the
The period covered is 1966-75.
The
5,
6, 8-17, 19-46, 49.
5,
6,
8,
16
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NEW ZOOLOGY LABORATORY
The material was received from the Oxford University Archives after the rest
"of the papers relating to Pringle's Oxford period had been catalogued.
It relates ex-
clusively to the planning and building of the new Zoology Laboratory and related
controversies.
Pringle was offered the Linacre Chair of Zoology in December 1960;
he accepted
in June 196] after prolonged negotiations with the University Registrar.
He did so on
the understanding that the building of a new Zoology Laboratory would begin in 1964
and that Professor Sir Alister Hardy was retiring early so that his successor might plan
new developments, from the outset.
Difficulties arose over the site (half an acre in the
Parks) and the design of the laboratory (a twenty-seven storey tower) and these came to
a head in Congregation in June 1962 when the decree confirming the site was lost;
a second
decree approving the building could not therefore be put to the vote.
Pringle responded
three days later by presenting to the Vice-Chancellor (A.L.P. Norrington) and the
tories.
In August Pringle, a Fellow of Merton, persuaded the Governing Body that
The University agreed to this but Holford was not able to report quickly and Pringle
ingly, Pringle, with the assistance of A.L.P. Norrington (now retired from the Vice-
by Sir William Holford and he recommended the use of the houses along the south of
South Parks Road and the playing fields, then the College would sell them to the University’.
gradually became comvinced during the Michaelmas Term that there was a lack of deter-
Registrar a plan for the University to purchase Merton playing fields as a site for labora-
mination in the University to act in respect of the new Zoological Laboratory.
Accord-
'if the University would commission an independent investigation of the needs for science
The design of the new laboratory
Chancellorship), prepared a long letter to Council in which he sought public confirmation
his recommendation that the Science Area should expand across South Parks Road onto
of the University's intentions.
At the same time he prepared an account of the affair
for the national press and let it be known that he was leaving for the United States of
America on 4 December 1962.
It was on this day that the new Vice-Chancellor
(W.F. Oakeshott) made a statement in Congregation along the lines requested by Pringle.
Sir William Holford presented his report in the following May and on 18 June
the Merton land, was accepted by Congregation.
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began again from scratch with a new architect (Sir Leslie Martin).
By October 1970
the laboratory was ready for staff to move in and the official opening took place the
_ following July.
The material has been presented in the following way.
C.51-C.154 are
a chronological sequence of committees, some university, for example
the Committee
on Requirements and Sites, and some departmental, for example
the Zoology Depart-
ment Building and Services Sub-committee. | They cover in total the period 1960-72
and are interspersed with several of Pringle’s 'historical' files,
for example
'J.W.S.P.
New Building Campaign’ (C.77-C.91) and 'New Laboratory (third attempt)’ (C.92-
C.98).
C.155-C.181 form an alphabetical sequence (by topic) relating to equipment,
laboratory design, the move to new premises, and soon.
C.182-C.184 are miscellaneous
items.
Committee on Requirements and Sites
The Requirements and
1960 February;
196] February, May.
1961 November (1)
1961 November (2).
of 18 November.
Correspondence and committee papers.
Sites Committee was an ad hoc body reporting to the Building
and Development Committee which in turn reported to the
Hebdomodal Council.
northern boundary of the Science Area.
1961 December (1).
of 2 December, including letter from Pringle on revision of
1961 November (3).
of 25 November, including letter from Pringle on Zoology building.
Agenda and committee papers for meeting
Agenda and committee papers for meeting
Agenda and committee papers for meeting
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1961 December (2).
including map of northern boundary of Science Area.
Committee papers for meeting of 19 December,
1962 January (1).
of development for Zoology; committee papers for meeting of
16 January.
Map of Science Area showing suggested site
1962 January:(2).
the Zoology building at the eastern end of the Science Area.
Includes draft report to Council re siting of
1962 January (3).
27 January, including memorandum from Pringle and G.C. Varley
on entomology.
Agenda and committee papers for meeting of
1962 January (4).
Includes drafts of report to Council re siting
of the Zoology building immediately north of the Dunn School of
Pathology.
1962 February (1).
3 February.
Agenda and committee papers for meeting of
1962 February (2).
meeting of 24 February.
Includes agenda and committee papers for
1962 March (1).
3. and 17 March.
museum.
Agendas and committee papers for meetings of
Includes memorandum by Pringle on the university
papers and minutes of meeting of 5 May.
1962 May (1).
Minutes of meeting of 1 May; agenda, committee
1962 March (2).
of meeting of 17 March.
Architect's brief for Zoology building; minutes
1962 April.
Zoology Department.
Includes architect's drawings of possible sitings for
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1962 ‘May (2).
of meeting of 19 May; papers re meeting of 24 May.
Includes agenda, committee papers and minutes
1962 May (3).
departments 1962-82.
Papers re space requirements of the science
1962 June (1).
of science departments and revised schedule of space requirements
1962-82.
Includes revised draft of report on requirements
1962 June (2).
on requirements;
new Zoology building.
Includes amendments and corrections to report
press~cuttings re Congregation decision to reject
1962 July.
meeting of 16 July.
Includes agenda, committee papers and minutes of
Science Area Planning
Committee
1962 September, October.
for meeting of 26 September.
Includes agenda and committee papers
C.74
Includes papers re meeting of 11 December
Memorandum by W.D.M. Paton and report on accommoda-
N.d.
tion of collections in the university museum.
1961 December.
prepared by W.F. Oakeshott.
2 April.
1962 January, February.
‘Statement of requirements for new Zoology Laboratory’.
Includes notes of meetings and 10pp.
1962 March, April.
prepared for meeting of
Includes agenda and committee papers
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'J.W.S.P. New Building Campaign!
Oxford
C77,
Autobiographical account dated 18 March 1962 and beginning
‘if my biography is ever written'. Outlines Pringle's reasons for
accepting Oxford chair and subsequent frustrations in respect of
the new Zoology Laboratory.
Letters from colleagues written shortly before the vote in Congre-
gation on 19 June 1962.
"Letters of condolence’ (Pringle's designation).
of sympathy and commiseration from colleagues written shortly
after the vote in Congregation, with a small number of Pringle's
carbon replies.
These are letters
cy
Ce= iL
C.80
O- Zand first names only.
C.82-G a
1962 June.
1962 July.
Poem by Pringle entitled 'Encaenia 1962';
by Pringle as ‘unfinished article written in June 1962 in expectation
of approval of site for new laboratory’.
Ip. draft identified
Correspondence with colleagues, officers of the university and
others re efforts to revive the Zoology building prograrnme,
June 1962-October 1963.
C a2
Vice-Chancellor of 20, 23 and 25 June, and letter from the Warden
of Merton (G.R.G. Mure) of 21 June.
Includes carbons of Pringle's letters to the
Continued
Includes correspondence with J.S. Huxley
C.83
leading up to Huxley's letter of 20 July to the Vice-Chancellor,
a copy of which is enclosed.
Kept with this correspondence is an
earlier (February 1962) letter from Huxley to Pringle about Oxford
Zoology.
C.86
about the new Zoology laboratory for the Vice-Chancellor and
Hebdomadal Council, and the letter as sent, 31 October.
A.L.P. Norrington assisted in the drafting of the letter.
C.84
Oakeshott and the Registrar.
1962 August.
1962 October.
Includes drafts of Pringle's formal letter
Principally correspondence with W.F.
C.85
1962 September.
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C.87
Chancellor arising from Pringle's letter of 31 October.
1962 November.
Includes correspondence with the Vice-
1962 December.
C.88
O.U. Gazette with A.L.P. Norrington's statement in Congregation
on behalf of the Hebdomadal Council re the new Zoology building,
6 December.
Includes photocopied extract from
1963 January.
Ca
J. Jewkes re Historical Buildings Fund appeal and with J.R. Baker
and W.D.M. Paton re committee of Heads of Science Departments
on the future of biology in Oxford.
Correspondence with Lord Franks and
C.90
1963 February~April, June, October.
C.91
statement to the Times’.
N.d.
Includes draft speech in Congregation and 'draft
"New Laboratory (third attempt)!
C.92
Schedule for Zoology Laboratory and
1963 June.
Correspondence with University Surveyor.
1962 February, April.
related correspondence.
1963 July (1).
and minutes of Building and Development Committee meeting of
13 July.
Includes correspondence with University Surveyor
Grants Committee re schedules for Zoology and Psychology.
1963 July (2).
Includes papers of Committee on Elevations and
Choice of Architects, revised schedule for Zoology Laboratory,
correspondence with P. Chamberlin FRIBA.
1963 October, November.
Martin FRIBA and papers re meeting of the Working Party on the
South Parks area, 26 November.
1963 December.
schedule for Zoology and copy of draft letter to the University
Includes memorandum by Pringle on the revised
Includes corres pondence with Sir Leslie
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1964 February, March.
pondence arising.
Reply from UGC and brief corres-
Building and Development Committee
C.99
1962 May.
. 100
Agenda and committee papers for meeting of
1962 November.
24 November, including Pringle's proposals for interim improve-
ments in Zoology Department and statement of requirements for
outside accommodation.
1963 June, November, December.
on the report of the Committee on the Relationship of Council
and the Chest.
Includes Pringle's ms. notes
Includes report of the Building and Development
Includes copy of letter from Sir Harold Himsworth
1964 June.
to the Registrar re possible Medical Research Council support for
Phillips if he moved to Oxford.
1964 March, May.
Includes letter from D.C. Phillips of 25 May
re possibilities for a Department of Molecular Biophysics in Oxford
(7pp. + appendix).
1964 July.
Committee on the South Parks Road development and applications
to the MRC and the Nuffield Foundation for assistance in connection
with the development of Biophysics.
meeting of 13 July.
1965 June, July.
Includes agenda and committee papers for
1964 December.
on the new Zoology building.
Includes report by the Committee for Works
1965 February, March.
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1962 June, October, November.
Registrar and Vice-Chancellor.
Carbons of Pringle's letters to
Correspondence with Registrar, including Pringle's
1963 January.
representations on the university's administrative procedures.
Folder also includes copies of earlier correspondence between
Registrar and architect, P. Chamberlin.
Continuing corres pondence with Registrar,
on 'Planning for Science’, 7 May, and W.D.M.
1963 March-May.
Pringle's note
Paton's note on meeting of Planning Subcommittee of Heads of
Science Department, 18 May.
Correspondence with the Vice-Chancellor, notes for
1963 June.
discussion at Building and Development Committee meeting,
8 June, minutes of the meeting, etc.
N.d.
Press-cuttings.
Cult?
Cd 14
Includes draft and copy of letter from
‘South Parks Road Area: Working Party 1963/4'
1963 July, November.
W.D.M. Paton (Chairman, Heads of Science Planning Subcommittee)
to Vice-Chancellor on the general problem of future planning.
South Parks Road, Oxford’ (Press release).
1964 April, May.
Notes for discussion at meeting of 30 April;
"Outline Proposals for the Development of a New Science Area,
1964 February.
Committee papers for meeting of 18 February.
1963 July.
Committee papers and minutes of meeting of 30 July.
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1963 December;
with U.G.C, on 23 April.
1964 March, April.
Includes note of meeting
1964 May, July, October.
"Key papers giving history'
G.120
GutZl
Miscellaneous correspondence, 1964 and n.d.
Schedule for Zoology Laboratory, February 1962.
Proposed Buildings for the Departments of Zoology and Psychology,
South Parks Road, Oxford.
n.d. but after May 1963.
Statement of requirements for new Zoology Laboratory, 30 January
1964.
early sketch of appearance
Draft Schedule | for new Zoology Laboratory.
requirements, May 1964.
Restatement of
Plans of levels A-F, 12 May 1964;
of entrance hall, n.d.
Proposed layout for the Science Area, South Parks Road, February
1964.
design', n.d.
Memoranda for Building Committee, miscellaneous notes on aspects
of new laboratory, August-December 1964;
also undated ms. notes
on layout and services.
‘Plans for New Laboratory' with ms. note ‘original schedule,
incl. Hope Dept.',
14 September 1964.
'Biophysics - Schedule A',
14 September 1964.
'Re-statement of Schedule I for Zoology, with notes on functional
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'1965-6.
Services, mainly water including marine installation’.
Contents of a folder so inscribed.
"Some thoughts on furniture', 10 March 1965;
and letter re the tropical room, 1965, 1966.
notes of discussions
Architect's drawings, 1966, 1967 and n.d.
Equipment allocation for Zoology Department, 1968-72 (bound
volume).
2 loose items re supplementary application, May 1969.
"Building sub-comm. (OUSO/Dept.)!
Contents of a folder so inscribed.
CATs!
1967
C.186.)
190
C.138
Building Committee
C.134
1969 February -July
C.133
1968 April-August
C.132
1968 January-March
C.135
1969 September-December
Correspondence, notes for discussion, minutes of meetings with
Oxford University Surveyor's Office, members of Zoology Depart-
ment, architects, consultants, contractors; also lists of equip-
ment, space allocations, costs.
1969 January, November
Minutes only of meetings of Building Committee.
was composed of members of the Zoology Department and the
architects and met in the Department.
C.137
1967 October-December C.139
1968 January, February C.140
The committee
1968 March, April, November
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Correspondence, committee papers and minutes.
C.141
= =1968 March
C.143
1969
C.142
1968 May, December
C€.144
1970
Department of Zoology Building and Services Committee
Committee papers and minutes.
C.145
1971 February
C.149°
1971 Joly
C.146
1971 March
C.150
1971 August
C.147
=—-1971 April, May
C.151
September, October
C.148
1971 June
C.152
1971 November,
December
C.154
Committee papers and minutes, 1972
C.153 = 1972 January-March
EQUIPMENT, LABORATORY DESIGN, etc.
In alphabetical order by topic.
Zoology/Psychology Building: Building and Services Sub-committee
1968 and manufacturers’ catalogues.
Architect's drawings, May and December 1970, re television
installation.
Printed material:
University Television Newsletter, no.2, January
Correspondence and papers re the installation of a system of closed
CCTV
C.155
«156
chor.
circuit television, 1967-74.
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Enzym e Laborat ory ,
C159
General
C.160
Correspondence, etc. re aquarium and ‘vivarium display, 1970.
Brief correspondence, note of a meeting with D.C. Phillips and
others re proposals for Enzyme Group, architect's drawing, etc.,
e711.
Correspondence with Surveyor's Office, note of points for dis-
cussion with architects, departmental circulars, etc., 1970-71.
Lecture Rooms
C.16]
Correspondence, equipment list, Pringle's ms. notes, 1971 and n.d.
Equipment lists, minutes of meetings to discuss lecture theatre
design, letter from A.C.T. North, February 1970.
Equipment list, minutes of meetings to discuss lecture theatre
design, correspondence, Pringle's ms. notes, March-August 1970.
Architect's drawings, June 1970 and n.d.
Architect's drawing, January 1967.
Architect's drawings, February 1970.
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Oxford
The contents of this folder were divided into three by Pringle and
this arrangement is respected below.
Prof. Ewart Jones 21.i.76' (included in C.167) apparently applied
to the entire contents of the original folder and not to any one of
the three subdivisions of the material.
Pringle's note ‘All sent to
"Planting along N and E of Z-XpPsy Building’.
Correspondence with Acting Curator of the Parks and Surveyor's
Office re planting round new Zoology/Psychology Building, March~
June 1971.
‘Planting to S of Zoology’.
Brief correspondence, June 1971.
"Access to Merton Playing Field’.
Minor Works
7170
The Move
4
Correspondence with the Warden of Merton (R.E. Richards) and
the University Surveyor, June, July 1971.
One letter only, from Pringle to University Surveyor, 12 January
1972.
typescript notes, n.d.
Departmental circulars, August, September 1970.
Letter from D.C. Phillips, 26 October 1970;
Pringle's ms. and
Lan
cigs
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Architect's drawing, August 1970.
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Official Opening, 12 July 1971
Oxford
The building was opened by A.L. Hodgkin, President of the Royal
Society.
Correspondence re arrangements, February~July 1971.
Programme of events, explanatory notes on demonstrations, lists
of teaching and research staff, current research interests.
Drafts on Departments of Zoology and Experimental Psychology
for printed booklet, copy of printed booklet.
Miscellaneous ms. and typescript notes;
proof invitation card.
Photographs.
C.180
Cale!
ms. note of meeting,
X
Teaching Laboratories
Roofs and cultivation areas
Duplicated and printed background material.
Correspondence, 1971, 1972, 1976;
architect's drawings.
Circular only re Goodrich Laboratory, 13 November 1970.
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MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS
C.182
Preliminary report by Chamberlin, Powell & Bon, architects
on the University of Oxford new Zoology Building, May 1962;
also (as loose item) letter from University Surveyor to Pringle,
1 August 1979.
‘Oxford Zoology 1961-79', lecture given in the Department of
Zoology, 28 May 1979.
20pp. typescript.
The 'master copy' is at A.3.
'Dreaming Spires and Teeming Towers.
Thomas Sharp,
P,
Character of Cambridge’ (reprint from Town Planning Review
1963).
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RESEARCH
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D.30-D.53
Theses
Notebooks
Cicadas
Bees
Drawings and diagrams
THESES
D.1
‘Co-ordination of movement in insects', December 1936.
Typescript with a few ms. corrections.
Bound.
'A physiological analysis of insect movement', December 1937.
Typescript, incorporating Bibliog. 1938a.
Bound.
some with
re
At rear
NOTEBOOKS
D.3
School notebook of notes and exercises on chemistry,
teacher's corrections, some dated 1928.
Journal of expedition to Atlas Mountains to study ecology of fresh- —
water springs, with A.L. Hodgkin, P.T. Cotton and K.H. Chapman.
Entries run 5 July-18 September 1934 (Memoir, p.526).
of book, a few later notes and draft for publication:
With a ms. note by Pringle 'Thesis by P. Ulliott'.
‘The mechanism of photophobotaxis in Dendrocoelum lacteum', n.d.
Soft-backed notebook with some loose pages and diagrams inter-
calated.
8 October (no year given).
Experimental nofes and results.
Entries run 13 February~
"Insects 1936-7".
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Soft-backed notebook of miscellaneous notes and diagrams on animal
nervous system and response, latest reference 1938.
prepared for or related to Pringle's intended year as a Rockefeller
Fellow in Philadelphia, cut short by outbreak of war in 1939
(Memoir, pp.526-27).
Possibly
Soft backed notebook of work on the halteres of Diptera, begun
in 1938 (Bibliog. 1938d) and resumed on Pringle's return from war
service in 1945}
was undertaken from September 1947 and led toa fuller publication
(Bibliog. 1948).
pp .539-40 where the 1948 paper is described as 'a classic of
beautifully detailed work’.
An account of the research is given in Memoir,
a systematic re-examination of the earlier data
At front of book, entries run from 26 May 1938;
25 August 1945 ‘Evening 11.45 pm' begins 'Re-reading my motor
paper in the light of Gasser's theory ...' and includes three new
experiments todo.
and circuits, 16 December on Vector theory, 12 September 1947
'Examination of old haltere records’ (continues to 8 July 1948).
Entries continue 15 October 1945 on solenoids
later, entry headed
Notebook of notes, results, calculations, diagrams, with some loose
pages intercalated.
continue to August 1951.
Entries begin 2 May 1946 (work on halteres), and
Included as loose pages are letter and comment from R.A. Lyttelton,
August 1947.
Includes notes and
Notebook of miscellaneous dates and content.
results, July-October 1948;
July 13 'Résumé of British Association
paper' (on synapses); draft for lecture on ‘Zoological physiology'
n.d., given at Physiology Laboratory, Cambridge; March-May
1950 work on myofibrils;
Continued
Includes 'Essay on the applicability to human society of the "laws
of noture"', n.d.; notes, narratives and diagrams on ‘Biological
Servo Mechanisms', n.d. latest reference 1946;
visit 7/1/48'; extensive notes on muscle
drafts on 'The Evolution of the Nerve Impulse', Theory of Excitation’
some dated November 1949, perhaps related to Bibliog. 1949;
‘Outline of paper' on 'Electron microscopy studies on the my ofibrils
Notebook of miscellaneous dates and content;
out.
Only a few pages or items dated.
notes on chemoreception in Limulus 1954.
several pages torn
‘Report on London
excitation by stretching;
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D.11 (Cont'd.)
of insect flight muscle 23/ii/50';
'Notes for Shrivenham lecture'
on 'Automatic control problems in animal movement'; 'The wing
movement of the bee 18.14.57’.
At rear of book, Ip. entry on ‘Scientific Laws'.
Notebook of stimulation experiments, results, diagrams, calcu-
lations, begun by V.J. Wilson (visiting collaborator) with comments
by Pringle, continuation by Pringle.
August 1950.
Perhaps related to Bibliog. 1952.
Includes letter from Wilson,
Notebook inscribed 'Dec. 1951' of miscellaneous dates and content,
with some
loose pages intercalated.
Includes 'Research Notes', December 1951-July 1952; 'Colombo
Physiology Lab.' various dates 18 February-10 May 1953, recording
work during visit to Ceylon; miscellaneous notes and calculations
May, July 1954
of Arachnids' (Bibliog. 1955a); analyses of cicada song, various
dates October, November 1954;
(Bibliog. 19560);
Vacation and Michaelmas term, n.d.
draft paper on 'The function of the lyriferm organs
organisation of lectures and teaching Long
‘Outline of article for Endeavour’
;
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Mainly circuits, diagrams
Includes Ip. dated
At rear of book, miscellaneous lists of species, bibliographical
references.
Loose leaf binder, with a few loose pages.
and notes on equipment; also lists of apparatus and packages, to
be taken to Ceylon for 1953 visit.
script, etc., and a few research notes.
Notebook of miscellaneous dates, on cicadas.
September 1951, miscellaneous notes and drawings from August 1952
on 'Platypleura capitata from Colombo', but mainly notes, observa-
tions and drawings made in Colombo on various cicada species,
14 March-30 April 1953.
for ‘Physiology of song in cicadas' (Bibliog. 1953b).
Small format notebook with thumb~index.
addresses of colleagues or contacts in Ceylon.
At rear of book, vocabulary items, useful phrases, examples of
Also included as loose item is ms. draft
Mainly names and
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Notebook, May 1953-September 1954.
tions, calculations on cicadas in Colombo 4 May~-29 June 1953,
notes and plans for papers to be written up on results (Bibliog. 1954b,
1954c), notes on cicada collections at Colombo and British Museum
August 1953, continuing notes and analyses September 1953-September
1954.
Continuing notes, observa-
Notebook, many pages torn out.
for 'Proprioception in Limulus' (Bibliog. 1956c).
Surviving pages mainly ms. draft
All the remaining notebooks deal with insect flight muscle which became Pringle's
principal research interest.
They begin in Cambridge in 1957, continuing through the
move to Oxford and a change of format to loosé-leaf binders.
Further related materiol
can be found in Section C, A.R.C. Unit.
D.18
Similar, inscribed 'Fibrillar Muscle II', March 1958.
Similar, inscribed 'Fibrillar Muscle III', several pages torn out.
Work by Pringle and K.E. Machin, April-July 1958, March 1959,
some pages with a note 'paper'’, perhaps Bibliog. 1959b.
Similar, inscribed 'IV'.
Hard ~backed notebook of work on 'Flight muscle’.
calculations, 31 May 1957-February 1958 and many undated pages.
Work on rhino beetles.
Notes, diagrams,
‘paper’ or 'film', perhaps Bibliog. 1960a.
Work by Pringle and Machin, and another; experiments, diagrams,
results, with several annotations, ideas and comments, 6 April 1959-
19 January 1961 (continuation of D.20).
July-October 1958; at rear of book 'Catalogue of useful experi-
ments to date', 16 July 1957-3 June 1961, almost all on rhino
beetle.
Similar, inscribed 'Fibrillar Muscle V'.
Some pages with a note
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Similar, inscribed 'Fibrillar Muscle VI', several pages torn out.
Continuation of D.22, pages numbered 1-40, 19 January-2 February
1961.
Similar, inscribed 'Fibrillar muscle VII', not all
in Pringle's hand.
Continuation of D.23, various dates 17 February-June 1961,
December 1962-June 1963;
April 1963.
a few pages used at rear of book,
Similar, no inscription.
Inside, work headed 'Oxford', not all
in Pringle's hand, experiments,
diagrams, calculations, notes on apparatus, etc., 29 December 1961-
28 June 1963.
A little similar material at rear of book.
Enclosed as loose items, 4pp. 'Notes on experiments August 1962!
by Machin and Pringle.
Notebook of work on Fibrils, kept by V. Petts, July 1963-January
1964.
Few pages used.
Pages taken from a loose~-leaf binder similar to D.29 and regularly
used in the Oxford Department and therefore included among 'note-
books'.
are not in chronological order; dated pages run April 1964-July 1965.
The pages were tied together with string by Pringle and
The material includes notes on the literature, discussions with colleagues,
notes for lectures, of lectures and papers by others, for discussions
and research talks, experimental results, hypotheses and experiments
to be tried.
meeting.
Pages from a loose-leaf binder, similar in date and content to D.27.
Dated entries (not in chronological order) run from July 1964-
November 1965.
Research ideas, drafts for lectures and papers given or attended.
Includes 'draft programme of lectures in Japan: September 1965!
with drafts, notes of comments or papers given by others at Japan
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Looseleaf binder, page format similar to D.27, D.28.
a 2pp. index dated April 1967 at front of book linking the material
to the alphabetical thumb-index.
March 1978 but are mainly 1966-70.
Dated entries run April 1964-
There is
Some of the material in items D.27-D.29 is similar in content and sornetimes in format to
that presented at ARC research seminars at C.37-C.39.
CICADAS
Pringle used the cicada as an experimental animal for his research on insect song
and on insect flight muscles.
His visit to Ceylon in January to June 1953 was important
in enabling him to record many species of cicada and assemble data on their songs and habits
(D.14-D.16 above ond D.30).
He continued to work and publish on the subject, though
D.30
Aidley, D.J.
Boulard, M.
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uv
M. Boulard,
at D.33)
t
is dated 10 August 1982;
!
uv
His last letter on the subject (to
his interest was focussing increasingly on flight muscle.
He intended to concentrate on
of 1980-1982, but his illness and death supervened.
active research on cicadas in his retirement, as can be seen from the correspondence below
Included here is Pringle's report on his first visit to Ceylon, January~
June 1953.
Miscellaneous shorter correspondence relating to Ceylon expedition
and publications arising, mainly from colleagues sending specimens,
recordings and information, 1953-55, 1962.
of cicadas is wrong'..
Includes some printed matter.
Pringle's letters discuss his interest
in taxonomy and belief that 'the classification of the whole group
Insect sounds in America.
Alexander, R.D.
1980
1955, 1960
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Broughton, W.B.
Terminology.
Burke, W.
1963-66
Includes photographs, prints of recordings.
China, W.E. -
1954-55, 1962-63
Taxonomy of cicadas, including new species from Ceylon.
Fleming, C.A.
New Zealand cicadas.
1967, 1969, 1970
Grant, J.A.
and others
1963-65
Mainly on proposed recording of Melampsalta montana.
Hudson, R.C.L.
1964-69
Josephson, R.K.
1978, 1980
Correspondence and notes re cicadas and other findings of
Copy of 'Preliminary Report’ by Hudson on Madagascar
D.39
University of Edinburgh Expedition to Madagascar, 1963 (Hudson
was Secretary, Pringle and M.M. Swann were Sponsors).
Includes Hudson's field~notes lent to Pringle.
generation of the rhythm of pulses’.
Correspondence 1975 includes paper on cicadas by A.V. P opov.
Pringle's letter of February 1980 refers to his plans for retirement
research on
distribution of the synchronous and asynchronous mechanisms for
'a catalogue of song-patterns' and 'the taxonomic
Michelson, A.
1973, 1975
D.40
expedition.
Moore, T.E.
various dates 1957-66, 1980
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Ragge, D.R.
re tapes and recordings.
Schremmer, F.
SirUbing
g;
’
H .
Wagner, W.
White, D.C.S.
n.d.
Paper and photographs of cicadetia montana.
Wohlers, D.
1980
Paper on timbal nerve.
Young, D.
Zahlan, A.
1956-80
Paper on cicada song in Beirut.
Miscellaneous shorter correspondence.
Miscellaneous data.
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This was another long-standing interest of Pringle, which he intended to take up
ive retirement research.
Correspondence with International Bee Research Association ong
with colleagues on various topics of research and nomenclatur
1979-80.
ee G.1-G.11 for further IBRA material.
RAWINGS AND DIAGRAMS
Examples only.
te
is gratefully acknowledged.
Examples of figures Sr drawings and diagrams of all topics of
1 bundle.
r@leouch: made by
him for papers and lectures.
The advice of Dr. Belinda Bullard in selecting this material
Design for stimulator apparatus, with Pringle's indication of layout
ready for labelling by wor kshop.
Glass slide of locust thorax.
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SECTION E
LECTURES AND PUBLICATIONS E.1 -E.144
Pel
E297
Lectures
with an introductory note
E298 - E127
Publications
E.128-E.131
Book reviews
E.132-E.144
Correspondence with publishers and editors
LECTURES
The material presented here covers a period of over thirty years, 1949-80.
There is one significantly earlier item:
the draft of a lecture which Pringle gave to the
Cambridge University Natural Science Club during his time as an undergraduate 1931~34
(E.1, perhaps also E.91, E.92).
Pringle lectured to a wide variety of academic and non-academic audiences
are indicated in the catalogue entries.
For lectures and other teaching material at Cambridge and Oxford, see Sections
to the Ratio Club (E.94).
Unfortunately no material survives of Pringle'’s Croonian
Lecture at the Royal Society in 1978 (Memoir, pp.544, 545).
Pringle usually typed his lecture scripts himself, sometimes adding notes or
as Linacre Professor at Oxford (E.15) or 'Limits of scientific knowledge', also to an
corrections in manuscript.
There are a few drafts or notes in manuscript only and these
Oxford audience (E.34).
Of interest also is his undated speculative talk on evolution
his exploring more general topics such as 'The two biologies' in his inaugural lecture
in Britain and overseas, principally.on insect flight, although there are examples of
See Memoir, p.526.
'The Illusion of Consciousness'
l4pp. heavily~corrected, with a ms. note on verso of last page
'Drafi of talk given to Cambridge University Natural Science Club
while an undergraduate’.
Band C.
For further material on some of the conferences where Pringle gave lectures
or talks, see Section H.
See also Section D for Pringle's drafts for lectures and papers
incorporated in his research notebooks.
Bel
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"Proletariat Biology’, c.1949.
7pp., with ms. corrections.
‘Random events in the nervous system
16 February 1951.
Tea Party Talk’,
7pp., With ms. corrections and addenda.
'The Origin of Life', talk for 'The frontiers of knowledge’ series,
BBC European
14 August 195
Service, first broadcast on the English Service,
6 and published as Bibliog. 1956d.
Script as broadcast.
'The Comparative Physiology of Striated Muscle’, 1957.
10pp., with ms. corrections.
3pR., with ms. corrections.
3pp., with ms. corrections.
‘Insect fibrillar muscle', Hardy Club, 22 May 19
A4pp., with ms. corrections.
Talk on ‘insect fibrillar muscle', Foster Club, 24 November 1960.
Drafts in English and French, all with ms. corrections.
‘The peculiarities of flight in insects', Rennes, May 1961.
'The flight mechanism of the bee', Dublin, 27 April 1961.
Ip. notes only.
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'Proprioceptive reflexes’, Anatomy Laboratory, Oxford, 12 March
1962.
2pp. typescript and ms. notes.
"Insect flight muscle', Lecture to 'BIOS', 12 November 1962.
3pp. typescript and ms. notes.
'The control of power in insect flight', Society for Experimental
Biology, Exeter, 5 April 1963.
Spp., with ms. corrections.
‘Dynamic mechanisms of insect flight', Services summer school,
September 1963.
2pp., with ms. corrections.
Seminar on work of H.E. Huxley, 28 January 1964.
2pp. ms. notes only.
18pp., with ms. corrections; conference programme.
'The two biologies', Oxford University inaugural lecture, 24
October 1963, published as Bibliog. 1963b.
l4pp. ms. and typescript ‘Notes used in preparing Inaugural
lecture'.
See Memoir, pp.532, 533.
‘First-year biology courses at the University’, Biological Sciences
Section, Association of Technical Colleges and Department of
Education coference, Jesus College, Oxford, 25 September 1964.
7pp., with ms. corrections.
'The Nature of Explanation in Biology', Sixth Form Conference on
'Truth & Error’, Jesus College, Oxford, 7 July 1965.
"Cicada Song',
Aberystwyth, 8 December 1964.
Brief notes only, including some on same topic dated November
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‘Models of learning', Biological Organisation Group, Middlesex
Hospital Medical School, 18 January 1966.
7pp., with ms. corrections.
Not used.
'The Contractile Mechanism of Insect Fibrillar Muscle', Cambridge,
4 November 1966.
2pp. notes with ms. addenda.
Lecture on the 'nature of the mechanisms which covert chemical
to mechanical energy', Biophysics Laboratory, Harvard, 6 December
1966.
3pp., with ms. corrections.
5pp., with ms. corrections.
"Insect flight', Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford, 17 March 1967.
2pp., with ms. corrections.
Talk on insect flight muscle, Hull, 31 October 1967.
2pp. ms. notes.
'The Biophysics of Muscle Contraction’, Nuffield Department of
Orthopaedics, Oxford, 21 April 1967.
Ip. ms. notes only.
3pp., with ms. corrections; table of 'The nine pairs of flight muscles
in
‘Power and Control in Insect Flight', Reading, 14 November 1967.
insects’.
Lecture on insect flight, Marlborough, 7 February 1968.
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‘Stability and Control in Insect Flight’, Oxford Entomological
Society, 8 March 1968.
2pp. notes with ms. corrections.
‘Molecular machinery', Cambridge University Natural Science Club,
23 May 1968.
Spp., with ms. corrections and diagrams.
'Mechanochemical coupling in striated muscle', Glasgow,
18 June 1968.
Ip. ms. notes only.
‘Oscillatory activity of the isolated contractile system of insect
fibrillar muscle', Royal Society, 6 March 1969.
6épp. and Ypp. notes and drafts.
2pp. ms. notes.
Ip. ms. notes only.
Socratic Club,
Oxford
f
f
Z
2pp. ms. draft;
Ip.
list of slides.
Lecture at the Weizmann Institute, 19 March 1969.
Seminar at the Weizmann Institute, 23 March 1969.
"The Limits of Scientific Knowledge',
2 May 1969.
uo
Miscellaneous notes and drafts; background material; brief
correspondence.
5pp., with ms. corrections.
Talk on the embryology of the chick, 26 November 1969.
"Taxonomy of muscle cells',
1969.
Leeds Biological Society, 11 December
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Seminar on insect.muscle fibre,
11 March 1970.
7pp. notes, with ms. corrections.
‘Lecture on Information Theory translated into French for Professor
Pringle',
Marseilles, 23 May 1970.
lépp., with ms. corrections.
‘Structure and composition of the Z-line in striated muscles',
Paris, 28 May 1970.
7pp., with ms. corrections.
'The Physiology of Insect Flight Muscle’, Dijon, 29? May 1970.
Ip. draft;
Muscles of Insects', probably used for this lecture.
2pp. draft with ms. corrections entitled 'The Flight
‘Insect Singers of Ceylon', Malvern, January 1971.
6pp., with ms. corrections;
Ip. ms, notes;
Ip.
list of insect songs.
Ip. ‘Supplementary notes for B.R.A.
'The Flight of Insects', extra-mural lecture, 19 February 1971.
esl
5pp. with ms. corrections; also includes ms. notes for lecture at
Bochum given during visit to West Germany (see J.111).
"Structural and biochemical peculiarities of insect fibrillar muscle’,
Zoological Institute, Frankfurt, January 1971.
See also H.1.
‘Physiology and biochemistry of oscillatory muscles’, 25th Inter~
national Congress of Physiological Sciences, Munich, July 1971.
8pp., with ms. corrections;
lecture, 8th May 1971' found with it.
6pp., with ms. corrections;
Ip.
list of insect songs.
"Insect Song’, extramural lecture, 19 March 1971.
8pp., with ms. corrections; abstract.
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"Muscular contraction’, Clarendon Laboratory seminar, Oxford,
28 January 1972.
App., with ms. corrections.
‘Physiological Techniques’, first of three lectures given at Erice,
Sicily,
4 April 1972.
6pp., with ms. corrections; synopsis;
ground material.
list of references; back-
‘Oscillatory Contraction of Insect Flight Muscle', Erice,
11 April 1972.
Probably second in series (see E.47).
Spp., with ms. corrections; synopsis;
includes Pringle’s letter of thanks.
list of references.
Folder
"Muscular contraction’, for 'Extramural Studies', 8 February 1974.
Spp., with ms. corrections.
f
"Insect fibrillar muscle and the problem of contractility’, Second
International Conference on Comparative Physiology, Ascona,
June 1974.
7pp., with ms. corrections; correspondence, September 1973-
July 1974, including provisional programme for conference.
'The Contractile System in Insect Muscle’, 50th anniversary meeting
of the Society for Experimental Biology, Cambridge, July 1974.
App. draft.
Miscellaneous shorter drafts.
Also included here are programme
and abstracts with Pringle's ms. comments, and letter of thanks to
organiser.
"Insect Flight', Scientific Society, Haileybury School, 3 October
1974,
App. and 6pp. drafts; background material.
"The Resting Elasticity of Insect Flight Muscle', Third European
Continental Muscle Meeting, Budapest, September 1974.
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"International Biological Research’, Oxford Graduates Club,
22 November 1974.
7pp., With ms. corrections.
"Insect Flight Muscle’, British Biophysical Society, 18 December
1974.
Spp., with ms. corrections.
"Insect Flight', Dar es Salaam, January 1975.
3pp., with ms. corrections.
pondence and background material re Dar es Salaam Zoology
Department.
Also included here are brief corres
A
Lectures given during visit to Poland, 1-9 October 1975.
Pringle was the guest of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
related material see H.8.
c
For
7pp., with ms. corrections;
list of references.
8pp., with ms. corrections.
E.58
dated September 1975.
‘Recent researches on insect fibrillar flight muscle’, Torun,
E.59
‘Recent research on insect flight', Cracow, October 1975.
‘The Mechanical Properties of insect fibrillar muscle and
E.57
their biochemical basis', Warsaw, dated September 1975.
e lecture and re its publication.
'The flight of the bee', Gooding Memorial Lecture of the
Association of Bee-Keepers, 5 November 1976, published as Bibliog.
1976c, and republished in 1982 in
lectures.
'Third World Science’, for 'History of Science Group’, 5 May 1976.
Correspondence, May 1975-July 1982, including invitation
19pp.
A further copy of this talk is included at F.6.
Central
a volume of the Association's
E.61
Ilpp. photocopy.
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E.63-E 76
Lectures given at the University of Guelph, Ontario, 10 September-
16 October
1978.
Pringle, who had visited Guelph in 1970 (see E.76), ape the offer of a
Visiting Professorship of a month's duration.
The surviving material consists largely of
drafts for lectures and seminars,
and background material, indicating the considerable
amount of teaching Pring
There is also correspondence, 1977, 1978, wh
includes the invitation, discussions re topics for lectures, both for individual departments
and the university as a whole, requests by Pringle for information about 'human sciences'
courses in British universities in relation to his lectures at Guelph, and re travelling and
financial arrangements.
4
The Pringles
spent a month's holiday in British Columbia before the visit to Guelph,
5
and also visited the Environmental Sciences Centre (Kananaskis), University of Calgary.
E.73 includes correspondence re a proposal to put Pringle's name forward as a Visitin
Killam Scholar at Calgary after his retirement in-1979.
Lectures and teaching
épp., with ms. corrections; transparencies.
Spp., with ms. corrections;
transparencies.
of Muscle', for seminar at the
18 September 1978.
'lIs there a Science of Man and Society ?', lecture, 2 October
.
.
'
E.63
‘Comparative eae
Department of Human Kinetics,
'A Statement in Human Sciences; concepts in biology’,
E.64
lecture at the Department of Human Kinetics, 29 September 1978.
Continued
E.65
1978, probably open to the whole university (see letter of 13 March
1978).
13pp., with ms. corrections and photocopied additions to the text;
booklet on the Human Sciences degree course at the University of
Oxford, probably used as background material.
‘The Mechanics of Insect Flight', for seminar at the Department
App., with ms. corrections; transparencies.
E.66
f Physics, 10 October 1978
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E.67
(first missing), n.d.
‘The physiology of insect senses', series of three lectures
6épp., with ms. corrections entitled 'Lecture 2.
Chemoreception'
Spp., with ms. corrections entitled 'Lecture 3. Photoreception'.
List of references.
E.68
university
‘Insect oe ',
lecture, n.d., probably open to the whole
th
(see. Pr
ple s eter of 17 March and 6 July 1978).
7pp., with ms. corrections; background material.
E.69
ni. Ge
‘Undergraduate lecture.
Insect mechanical sense organs',
Spp., with ms. corrections.
E.70
‘Bird Flight’, n.d.
7pp.,
with ms. corrections; background material.
Correspondence
E.74
staff.
'I.C.I.P.E.', n.d.
J
Bac :kground material
App., with ms. corrections.
‘Fundamentals of Human Biology', course outline; list of
E.71
This talk may have been given at the
Kananaskis Environmental Sciences Centre, University of Calgary
(see Pringle's letter of 31 July 1978).
in 1970.
E.75
Drafts of 2 papers, by M. Locke and K.E. Boulding.
ESO
ingle's report on PhD Graduate Programme at Guelph,
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‘Insect Flight Muscle’, Rockefeller University, 21 November 1978.
6pp., with ms. corrections; correspondence October-November 1978.
"A Review of Arthropod Muscle’, seminar at the Society of
Experimental Biology conference, Belfast, 6 July 1979.
Spp., with ms.
annotated by Pringle.
corrections;
abstract; conference programme
Lectures given at the University of Liége, October, November 1979.
Pringle was appointed 'Titulaire de la Chaire d'Actualités Scientifique
1979-80, and proposed to give a course of 12 lectures on Conte fie
tissues’, with one general lecture in French 'Le vol des insectes'
later published as ee 1979.
chiefly of drafts of lectures,
correspondence.
a little background material, and some
The surviving material consists
E.79
'Li€ge lectures 1979'.
2, 4-10 of a course entitled
This lecture was removed from the rest of the course
‘Lecture 3.
Insect fibrillar muscle.
X-ray and optical
E.80
diffraction’.
(see E.79) and was used by Pringle during his visit to Australia in
1980448 .13:--H. 14):
Binder so inser en containing drafts with ms. corrections of 'Le
vol des insectes', and lectures 1,
‘Muscle and other contractile risus! , with synopsis, ms. notes,
lists of references, illustrations, etc.
For lecture 3 see E.80.
The lecture on 'Le vol des insectes' appears to have been written
directly in French on the typewriter by Pringle.
in Belgium.
Correspondence, June 1979-February 1980, re programme of
Background material and note on fossils collected by Pringle
‘Lecture in Liége, October 1979.
French summaries’.
y of French summaries of Pringle's lectures and
Ps
T
3pp., with ms. corrections.
E.81
vv
Contents of a folder so inscribed.
E.83
. Pringle
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°
'The Songs of Cicadas', Singapore Natural History Society,
December 1979.
App., with ms. corrections;
list of references.
‘Recent work on insect flight muscle', La Jolla,
December 1979.
f
7pp., with ms. corrections.
‘The evolution of fibrillar muscle in
Lecture, given at the Society of Experime
Oxford,
17 December 1980, publis shed
E.86
8pp., with ms. corrections.
lp. photocopy of draft with lis
E.87
for reece.
E.88
Material for illustrations.
Correspondence,
December 1980-June 1981.
t
f
"Insect muscle and the problem of contractility’, ¢.1980.
4pp. photocopy, with ms. corrections; Ip. ms. notes; transparency.
3pp.
Untitled slide lecture, on 'stimulation of the C.N.S. with direct
current’, with a ms. note 'British Assoc. Brighton’,
o lectures for the Cambridge University Natural Science Club,
E.91
‘The Basis of Pharmacology’, 4pp.
opp.
Undated lectures
Eel, ve
mt haps 1930s.
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Untitled talk to the Ratio Club; a speculative paper on geochemical
and equilibrium conditions for evolution.
Heavily -yorrected draft with, at end, 2pp- ms. notes of contri-
butions to discussion made ia other members of the club.
include W. Ross Ashby, J.A.V. Bates (secretary), T. Gold,
D. Mackay, Cae Je
Pantin, A.M. Turing.
Names
The Ratio Club, an informal cybernetics dis
in London, had beén started in July 1949, fo
K. Lorenz at Cambridge on animal i Be "Gold and Pringle
were founder members and Pringle put forward Turing's name at the
first meeting.
) on ‘Educating ‘9
a digital computer’ and in February 1952 another on morphogenesis,
of which A.V. Hodges (Alc
Turing : the Enigma, 1983, p.4 466)
writes that 'John Pringle took up the idea as a basis for ite dis-
cussion of the origin of life in the primordial chemical soup, in
lecture later in 1952'.
1953a.
The 1952 lecture was published as Bibliog.
Turing gave a talk on December 1950
a
f
12pp. ms.
'Balance'
'The Capacity for Flight in Insects
25.vii.78'.
63-E.76 for
‘Entropy and problem of evolution’
7pp-, with ms. corrections, with note that pp.5 and 6 'removed for
Guelph lecture - Insect Flight.
gnt.
lectures given at University of Guelph.
6pp. ms.
Pon $2 rinale
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Lectures and publica
E,95~E 7100
‘Insect Flight’ (Bibliog. 1957c).
E.98
'The control of movement in the air’.
2 versions for chapter 6 of book, one with ms. note 'nof finally
included in Insect Flight’.
E.99
Correspondence, 1961-68, chiefly Pringle's queries re
publication of Russian edition, made without his prior consent.
E.100
Pringle eventually decided not to proceed with it.
Correspondence, 1971-77, re second edition of the book.
"The physiology of fibrillar mus
Paper given at XVth International Congress of Zoology, London,
16-23 “Joly 1958, and published in the Proceedings, London 1959,
pp.464-65.
Pringle was Chairman of the session on 'Comparative
Physiology of Striated Muscle’ at which the paper was presented.
(Not listed in Bibliog.)
Proof only.
'The flight of the bumble bee (Bibliog. 1961d).
‘Physiologie du muscle de vol chez les insectes' (Bibliog. 1963d).
l7pp. typescript (carbon), with ms. corrections;
and legends.
Brief correspondence only, April 1963, re Pringle's French transla~
tion of his lecture, prepared for publication.
were divided among the authors.
Correspondence only, 1959-68, chiefly with publishers and editor
of Acoustic Behaviour of Animals, to which Pringle and Leston had
re publication and use of royalties to fund
contributed the chapter,
Eventually, the royalties
scholarships for young research workers.
"Input and output elements of behavioural models’
Neural theory and modelling (Bibliog. 1964c).
°
‘Acoustical behaviour of Hemiptera’, wit
1964a).
pips ae
°;
°
Brief correspondence only.
f
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Y
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h D.
Leston (Bib
illustrations
, contribution to
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Lectures and pub slications
°
"Sound in Animals' and 'Insect Flight’, 2 articles for Chambers's
Encyclopa rae dia,
1964.
3pp. and 2pp. gore copies of drafts with ms. corrections;
corre spon :eNCcE
[- cvclonaed
Encyc!opaé Oo}
re revision of artic eo
'Essays on physiological evolution’ (Bib
Pringle was the editor of the English edition of the book published
in Moscow in 1961 in memory of K.S. Koshtoyants, and contri-
buted an essay on 'The evolution of muscle’.
nREnse only, 1962-70, including
morary Editor’.
'The Contraction of Muscles', article for Pears Cyclopedia, 1967.
'
“
,
E. 108; E.109
E.108
E.109
‘Comparative physiology of
the flight motor' (B
eer
36pp. with ms. corrections.
ez]
teak
a
Sie
Tables of figures, graphs, etc.
6pp. carbon copy of draft
1966, 1967, including
with ms. corrections; correspondence,
tation to write article.
‘Anomalous electrical conductivity with relaxed myofibrils’, with
M. Ogata, 1969.
in Bibliog.
This is a later version of ARC Internal Memorandum no.35, September
1969 (C.50), prepared for publication but not listed in Bibliog.
"Extraction of rabbit and insect myofibrils at low fonic sire
with D. Busby, ¢.1970.
12pp., with ms. corrections by both authors;
abstract;
title page ye
llpp. text and references prepared for publication but not listed
list of references;
.
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E.112-E.114
"Insect Flight’ (Bibliog. 1975a)
E.112
Text as published, with ms. corrections.
18pp. carbon copy of draft (different from published
E.113
text).
vorrespondence,
Poe
Biology Reader °
draft for second e
1976-7 /8, with new publishers of Oxford
rT
2s,
including photocopy of Pringle's revised
'The availability of insect fibri Ilar muscle’, ¢.1976
6pp. photocopy with ms. corrections, lists ¢
legends for figures, probably for Bibliog. 1977; me
f re
erences and
ms. notes.
E.Li6, Bia
"Flight
ee Honey Bee’, article for International E Encyclopedia
2”
ee er ee
wore eae
eemne eee
E.116
Miscellaneous drafts and material for illustrations.
pest:
\
E.118
)
t the
E.117
Text; references;
illustrations.
Editorial correspondence, 1979-81.
research on the African armyworm ai
This was Pringle's contribution to a present
biology in the future, for Sir Vincen t Wig mid
of his eight jeth | birthday.
‘Science of a
national Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology, Nairobi’
(Bibliog. 1980).
ro
E.119
and list of contributors.
Correspondence, 1979.
Ineludes invitation to contribute
presentation to Wiggles
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Bete Le ken
Lectures and publications
.
This was Pringle'
of muscle, one o
Biology.
$
£2
i
contribution to De evelopment
and apecia alisation
eatune series! of the Society for Experimental
E.121
14pp. photocopy, with lists of refe
E.122
reproduce maierial
Correspondence, 1979.
Includes Pri
E.123
about his proofs and t
Correspondence,
1980, 1981.
Includes Pringle's complaints
uo
E.124
corrections, 3lpp. and 26pp., both in French.
Photocopies
2
of
different typescript drafis, with ms.
se
‘
25
Ee
for illustrations.
p
and 7pp. ‘Supplement! to article;
I
t
material
9
including initial request for
6pp. photocopy of typescript draft.
ight Muscle of Insects', possibly an early version
ons to French version.
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BOOK REVIEWS
Donald R. Griffin, Echoes of Bats and Men, 1959.
Draft only.
Morton Beckner,
'
2
r
2
a
The
3°
Biological Way of Thought, 1959.
ay
°
Draft only.
J.W.L. Beament, J.E. Treherne and V.B. Wigglesworth (editors),
Advances in Insect Physiology, Volume 1,
1963.
for Science Progr
Draft;
i
¥
proof.
Proof only.
Pringle also reviewed thi
R.F. Chapman,
1969.
The insects - structure and function
E. Wilson et al, Life/cells, organisms, populations, n.d.
Draft only.
S.
Pringle
J.
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and public ications
CORRESPONDENCE WITH PUBLISHERS AND EDITORS
E.132
Academic Press, 1961,
Correspondence re Pringle's chapter in The physiology of insects
(listed as Bibliog. 1965b).
1962
Pi iblishing Limited, 1968
s:
1969
‘
Correspondence re repr oduction of Pringle's diagram illustrating
the song pattern of cicadas, including Pringle's complaints of
inaccuracy in the drawings made from it.
E.133, £.134
Cambridge | University Press,
Correspon
1972.
1968,
E.133
The evolution of
to write and, 1972, re editors dy
Experimenta i
ys iegoiget Syste art
§
Bi bleeis » which Prit sate accepted.
1968, re proposed book
nao
Prin ingle declined
Cambridge Monographs in
E.134
1978, 1981.
Comments on proposed publications.
wl
t
‘
3
1979-82
|
m
e |'Abeille;
November 1963,
re the
, ne
scomotion but withdrew.
Pr ingle had undertaken to write
Brief correspondenc sgt fd R. Chauvin,
Journal of Muscle Research and Cell Moti ility,
This was a new journal edited by R.T. Tregear ana C.C. eae
g
The i
Pringle was a member of the editor ial board.
published in February 1980 and a copy is held at E.13
for meeting at the Royal Society, 24 March 1982.
ing, 7 January, copy of first issue and Pringle's
Includes book review by Pringle, agenda and
E.139
minutes of editorial meeting, 11 December 1981, and arrangements
1982.
1981,
of proposed contents of first issue.
E.138
editorial meet whe
bere es agenda and minutes of
and some publicity material.
Includes minutes a editorial
1980 January-March.
acember.
\pril,
E.136
1979.
Includes list
report on
s
+
Si
Was
E.
ee:
paper s
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and publications
ence
Journal of Theor tic al
Biology, 1980, 1981
Pr ingle wv os an adviser to the a urnal.
revision of
list
an article (dec
of fields
‘ol
Brief correspondence re
on which he advised, and request to write
Nature, 1963~7
Beta
(Bibliog. 1974c).
1974
1977.
Correspondence,
ore ‘Fon ee
'News and Views' on su
ostum in mer
Ae
1975-77.
Refereei:
including a
ii
little correspond
Book reviews, 1963-7
Requests to write books and articles, contribute chapters, etc.
declined by Pringle.
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SECTION F
SCIENCE IN THE THIRD WORLD F.1
- F.262
INTRODUCTION TO SECTION F
International Centre for Insect Physiology and Ecology
(ICIPE)
\ical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal ae 23, 1983,
Pringle spoke and wrote about his involvement in science in the Third World on
eer T
a number of occasions, e.g. to a history
of
science
group (probably at Oxford) in 1976
(E.160, F.6), during his stay as visiting
professor at the University of Guelph, Ontario
in 1978
(E.71)
and in his contribution to Insect Bi ology of the Future 1980),
Pod Sena aaa —s a ie a a
f
a volume
2
prepared as an eightieth birthday tribute to V.B. Wigglesworth (E.
These accounts, and the Memoir, have been drawn upon here.
Presidential
..
vw
“~
Pringle
Although Pringle had
visited the tropics i
increasingly involved.
had been especially interested
n connection with his own research
scientific research in developing
Address to the British Association in Dublin and then in 1967 when Pringle
P.M.S. Blackett with arousing his interest in Third World science, through the 1955
attended the conference of Commonwealth scientists which Blackett organised.
particularly his visits to Ceylon (Sri Lanka) in 1953 and later to Trinidad - he credited
of the University of Zambia on the difficulties of pursuing
countries, and it was with Africa, and particularly East Africa, that Pringle became
Continued
talk and a small amount of correspondence, committee papers and reports illustrative
Oxford University Department of Zoology becoming ex officio a member
Pringle's first contact with science in East Africa was The Serengeti Research
Research Council and Pringle represented the Deleon
of this connection is listed at F.240-F.262.
An association between the SRl and N.
Institute, Tanzania.
svelopments at the SRI are outlined
!
Sh pe et
we
!
!
i
2
4
é
January 1970.
1O7
-
Subsequent de
nay oe
se
J
at a meeting o
Oi
in Pringle's
Jaen
—e
Teo
19
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PORT ett
ee ee
The most important of Pringle's East African involvements, however, was with
the International Centre for Insect Physiology and Ecology at Nairobi and ICIPE material
¢
represents by far the greater part of the documentation of Third World science in the
collection.
In his accounts, Pringle pays tribute to the independent and simultaneous
initiatives in 1969 of C.
f Stanford University and T.R. Odhiambo of the Uni-
18
irobi which led
has
i
ve
1G
ae.
$i
international centre
ee
See
si
PAF ineart
for
inseci
research at Nairobi with Odhiambo as
irst Director.
Pringle, who had been enthusias~
tically in favour of the project from the outset, joined the Governing Board in 1972,
eS
becoming Chairman the next year - a position he retained until 1978.
One of the distinguishing features of the organisation of research at
IC
its early years was the appointment of honorary directors of research.
These directors
were usually professors of biology or chemistry in western countries charged with directing
5
parts of the research programme; they undertook to visit Kenya once or twice a year.
Prine le
ringle was asked to become a director of research and assumed responsibility
sarch an 1
gecerrmed
ethil it
come
as
ea
t
1,
>
>
for work
f row re
1
e
.
\
°
rc
A
diversity.
Pringle
and population
maintained an interest
In his review of armyworm research in Insect
ic problems that arise from the study of an insect pest'.
ed by noting that the research work was 'an example of the
investigating such matters as flight capability and orientation, reproductive
on the African armyworm (Spodoptera exempta), a plague insect like the locust.
and salaries and research started in 1973 and continued under Pringle's direction for six
project grant was provided by the British Ministry of Overseas Development for equipment
in ICIPE affairs until his final illness.
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Piet 209
INTER NATIONAL CENTRE FOR INSECT PHYSIOLOGY AND
ECOLOGY (ICIPE)
Pot
HES 7
Early History
F.8
-F.158
Organisation and Committees
F. ter k,234
Research Projects
F200 5207
Miscellaneous
EARLY HISTORY
Raa
er
'ICIPE:
Early History'
Contents of a folder so inscribed.
rel
ment', Science, November 1967.
Thomas R. Odhiambo, 'East Africa: Science for Develop-
F.4.
7 April 1970.
Photocopy of published article.
Report to the Council of the Royal Society on ICIPE by
Memorandum and Articles of Association of ICIPE, incorporated
Photocopies of letters from V.B. Wigglesworth and J.S.
Fg2
Kennedy to the Royal Society, July 1969, re proposal for an inter~
national centre for insect research in East Africa.
F.3
V.B. Wigglesworth and R.W.J. Keay, February 1970, and report
by Wigglesworth (the Royal Society's repr esentative) on a meeting
of the International Committee for ICIPE held 21 September 1970.
Continued
19pp. typescript of talk by Pringle which he describes in an intro-
ductory paragraph as a personal narrative of his involvement in
three East African scientific organisations.
talk is included at E.60 where it
Science Group’.
"East African "Center of Excellence": The International
E25
Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology’, American Academy of
Arts and Sciences Bulletin,
March 1972.
is described as for 'History of
A further copy of this
Geatbiasnaiaecacac
Eo
'Third World Science',
5 May
Y
1
1976.
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°
F.7 — Pringle's ms. and typescript notes (July 1979 or later)
re early history of ICIPE.
ORGANISATIONS AND COMMITTEES
Fier
=. 12
Annual General Meetings
eto
Governing Board Meetings
Executive Committee of the Governing Board
Programme Committee of the Governing Board
Nominating Committee of the Governing Board
P98
= 147
Annual Resdeich Conferences
Research and Training Council
cret
Strategic Work Plan
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETINGS
Minutes of fifth AGM, Nairobi, 10 June 1975.
F.8
Minutes of first AGM, Nairobi, 28 May 1971.
F.148-F.158
British National Committee for ICIPE
byl 22-F. 147
International Committee of ICIPE/ICIPE Foundation
Minutes of fourth AGM, Nairobi, 22 April 1974 (2 versions)
Royal Society).
Agenda and minutes of ninth AGM, Nairobi, 12 June 1979;
Pringle's 4pp. 'Report on ICIPE meetings June 1979! (perhaps for
tatement explaining background of extraordinary AGM and
Agenda and minutes of eighth AGM, Nairobi, 12 June 1978.
minutes of the meeting held at Nairobi, 11 January 1977.
Minutes of seventh AGM, 14 June 1977.
_
also
Science in the Third World
.
Agenda and minutes, (lack first page) of tenth AGM, Nairobi,
29 March 1980.
Minutes of eleventh AGM, Nairobi, 20 March 1981.
Minutes of extraor dinary AGM,
Nair obi l,
31 March 1982.
Agenda and minutes of twelfth AGM, 29 April 1982.
GOVERNING
BOA \D
MEETINGS
Eris
Minutes of the 29th meeting, Washington D.C., 17-19 Augu
1976.
Minutes of
the
30th
meeting,
wv
Nairobi,
f
25 and 26 March 1977.
Minutes of
the 3lst meeting, Nairobi, 13 June 1977.
1978.
airobi,
£ IQ
F.2]
Peseeroeo
p
and minutes of 36t
&
MN Meer tt
of
33rd
meeting,
Extracts of minutes
*
Minutes
of 35th
me
14-19 January 1979.
Nairobi, 6 and 7 January
Agenda, committee
Gand 11 J
Agenda and minutes of 37th meeting, Nairobi,,12 June 1979.
Agendas and minutes of 40th meeting, Natfrobi, 20 March 1981.
Agenda, committee papers and minutes of 38th meeting, Nairobi,
25-28 March 1980
Agenda, committee paper and minutes of 39th meeting,
29 March 1980.
4 folders.
7 folders.
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Ag enda r
20 March 1981.
committee paper and minutes of 41st meeting
Nairobi,
vr
Miscellaneous governing board papers unattributed as to meeting.
F392"
T1978
1978
F.40.
1981 (2)
one letter only)
d minutes of 7th meeting, Washington
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE GOVERNING BOARD
3 folders.
Agenda, committee papers and minutes of 8th meeting, Nairobi,
24 Morch 1980.
Agenda, committee papers and minute
16 and 17 June 1980.
'
Ons
L
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Committee papers and minutes of 10th meeting, Manila, 1 and 2
November 1980,
3 folders.
Agenda, committee papers and minutes of 11th m
18 March 1981.
2 folders.
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE OF THE GOVERNING BOARD
557
Minutes of Ist meeting g, Nairobi, 12 and 13 June 1979;
ms. notes (3pp.).
Pringle's
Minutes of 2nd meeting,
i,
Nairobi,
l,
11-13 September 1979.
|
"Research pentey Teots
Committee Paper GBP/283/79).
in 1979 and work plans for 1980-81! (Programme
Pp
_
~
,
{
vr
3 folders.
4 folders.
Nairobi
r
sis
eeting, Nairobi,.
Nef oo
8
a
ae
F.60-F.62
Agenda,
24-29 March 1980
committee papers and minutes of 3rd meeting,
Minutes of 6th meeting, Nairob
Report submitted to the Director and circulated to members of the
committee, 20 August 1980.
Agenda, commiitee papers and minutes of 5th meeting, Naircbi,
16 March 19 31.
'Research review of the medical vectors research programme’
4 folders.
t
t
J.W.S. Pringle
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in the Third World
NOMINATING COMMITTE 3 OF THE GOVERNING BOAR
Pre
Agenda and minutes of 2nd meeting of the committee, Nairobi,
18 March 1981.
ANNUAL RESEARCH CONFERENCES
F.74-F.78
Agenda, minutes, correspondence, etc. re 3rd annual conference
of directors of research, Naircbi, 19 and 20 July 1973.
5 folders.
Agee? minutes, etc. re 4th annual conference of directo
research, Nairok Bt, 15-17 April 1974,
Agendas, list of participants, correspondence, etc. re annual
research Eoreehcs. Nairobi, June 1975.
oo ‘Report on a visit
1974
for A Ala study workshop, January 1975.
»E, A. Newsholme and programme and I lis st of participants
ae Higbee, 17pp.
to ICIPE', 28 Sep
2 October
P
,
f
t
F.80-F.83
4 folders.
A folders.
F.88, F.89
Programmes, list of participants, correspondence, etc. re annual
research conference, Nairobi, June 1976.
Programmes, abstracts, etc. for annual research conference, Nairobi,
June 1977.
3 folde
Programme,
Nairobi, June 1978.
abstracts, ms. notes re annual research conference,
2 folders.
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Programme, abstracts, correspondence, etc. re annual research
conference, Ritrobt,: June 1979.
t
2 folders.
Programme, abstracts, Pringle's ms. notes re annual research con-
ference, Nairobi, June 1980.
Programme only re annual research conference, Nairobi, June 1981.
Research directors’ circular letters, 1973-78.
2 folders.
ARCH AND TRAINING COUNCIL (RTC)
F.99-F .113
I. C.LPLE.
Includes terms of reference and agenda
The
original file cover is preserved at F.113
1977 July (1).
Includes minutes of Sth annual meeting of the
Poe.
and minutes of first meeting, 8 and 11 June.
ter 2 Pavia ies June.
Commi ittees, Boards Outside COPR - ODM. 6.
Research & Training Council Affairs (Apart From Recruitment)’.
F.100
UNDP CUnited Nations Development Programme J/ICIPE Policy
Advisory Committee, 8 and 10 June.
Contents of a Foreign and Commonwealth Office Overseas Devel c
ment Administration Centre for Overseas Pest Research file entitle
'8.
11.
The contents of this very bulky file have been subdivided for ease
of reference.
Continued
F.102
course on insect development.
1977 July (3).
1977 September.
Includes correspondence re staff appoint-
1977 August.
Includes correspondence and papers re staff
F.103
appointments.
F.104
ments.
F.101
1977 July (2).
Includes correspondence re propose
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F.105
executive committee, 27 October and papers re staff appointments.
Includes minutes of Ist meeting of RTC
1977 October.
1977 November, December.
F.106
by W.A. Sands on RTC executive committee meeting with annotated
agenda; also agenda for 2nd meeting of executive committee to be
held 9 January 1978.
Includes ‘informal report’
1978 January.
F.107
on visit to ICIPE, 4-19 January, and minutes of 2nd meeting of
RTC executive committee.
Includes W.A. Sands's 'informal report'
F.108
1978 February.
1978 March.
F.109
of visiting directors of research and programme leaders at the ICIPE'
with comments by T.R. Odhiambo, agenda and minutes re 3rd
Includes W.A. Sands's paper on 'The role
Ap
1978
Py tr
committee meeting;
7 June;
papers on
at
3 from 3rd RTC executive
of RTC to be held
y
1978 June.
srocedur
PIC TRE:
F.111
9391978 May.
Annotated agenda
Original COPR file cover.
for 7 June meeting of RT
facts on appoiniments of
F.112
annotated governing board paper ‘Leading
scientific staff at the ICIPE research centre during the period January
1976 up to 3lst May 1978 inclusive’.
meetings of RTC Executive Commiitee.
Contents of a Foreign and Commonwealth Office Overseas Develop-
ment Administration Centre for Overseas Pest Research file entitled
'8.
13. POST-RTC APPOINTMENTS - CVs, CORRESPONDENCE’,
F.116
meeting of RTC, 4th meeting of RTC Executive Committee and 6th
annual meeting of the Policy Advisory Committee.
Committees, Boards Outside COPR - ODM.
Contents of Pringle's RTC files, 1978-79.
1978 June, July, September.
Includes minutes of 5th and 6th
Includes minutes of 2nd
1979 January -June.
1978 April, May
6.
I.C.I.P.E.
ee
5°
re
es.
¢
Bee
Birsoce.ti/
F.113.
F.115
F.117
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STRATEGIC WORK PLAN
F.118-F.120
Correspondence 1978-7
1978 July, August and November.
9 January.
1979 February ~April.
oj
‘oO
"ICIPE Strate
Objectives ’
5 February 1979 (Bound).
9
ic Research Plans:
An Outline of Long-Ter
9~-1985) and Work Plans for 1979 and 19
INTER NZ
YNAL COMMITTEE OF ICIPE/ICIPE FOUNDATION
Ata
meeting of the International Committee in Washington D.C., Aug
:
|
.
v
ooaF
uv
np
8)
rc,
Pleo
ate
et
Ss
aed
Bales
executive body.
community
arena.
and ICIP
m
objectives;
(3)
fund raising.
tion defined fis
o'
bjecti
1976 June-August.
meeting, etc.;
Correspondence re arrangements for Washington
ves as (1) acting as a link between the internation
A Genera! Assembly which met once a year served as the
2) giving when requested advice on scientific activity and training
*nG
sas Ze ont eae
Sd he
Society, resolved te establish an international foundation to support ICIPE
seven national academies, including the National Academy of Sciences and
decision-makin g body of the Foundation while a Council of three members acted as the
Governing Board.
1976 December.
General Assemt bly of the ICIPE Foundation, Washington, 19 August,
statutes of the Foundation and agenda for meeting of the Council,
London, 17 December.
lists of those att tending and of directors of research.
Includes minutes of constitutive meeting of the
Includes material re membership of the
1977 January-April.
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1977 May-August.
First General Assembly of the ICIPE E Foundation, Oslo, 11 and
Includes correspondence re arrangements for
IZ September.
1977 Se ptember (2).
Miscellaneous papers found
1978 January-April.
2pp. statement of ICIPE Foundation policy.
Includes minutes of Council meetings and
mips er (1
Agenda ana papers
Second General Assembly,
1978 September %
and Captcil me
ncludes
minutes
of
Stockholm General Assembly
gla:
Vine
COhEs
io
Includes summar
tot
m Gener
Jenerat
Includes Pringle
1979 May, June.
26 April.
1979 March, April.
April 1979".
Includes minutes of Counci! meeting, Stockholm,
1978 October-December.
IC JPE Fotis, nove
Cire researcn given ai Stockholm
Ge
Programme.
1980 February, March.
London, 21 March, and statement on ICIPE Foundation Fellowship
1979 October op Deeereet
and Pringle's draft report for Royal Society.
1979 September.
Aictattchn, 27 and 38 S September.
L
da and papers for Third General Assem
Includes minutes of Amsterdam meeting
Includes agenda for Council meeting,
dite
b
ITF
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Science in the Third World
PR ots
\Afize
“aa
cil
Js
si
A
1980 April.
establishment of a biometric unit at ICIPE.
Includes report by M.G. Bulmer on the proposed
1980 September (1).
Assembly, ZUrich,
Agenda and — for Fourth General
14 and 15 September 1980.
nber (2).
oup for the 1.C.1.P.E.
1980" and minutes of Zurich Assembly.
Wak a minutes of Royal Society 'Ad Hoc
Foundation oe Zurich,
.
1980 October.
and s
ee on future of the Saunders.
Includes bibliography of ICIPE research 1972-80
1980 November.
of the Foundation.
a letter of 24 November thai
he has to 'fade out of' ICIPE affairs because of an incurable medical
condition.
Includes correspondence and papers on future
Pringle e »xplains in
pi
t
tenes ional
gt
1980 December.
Agenda and papers for Fifth General Assembly,
8l September.
|
Paris, 28 and 29 September
Includ les material re ICIPE Foundation Fellow-
CGIAR ‘Ns
1981 Januvary-May.
ship Programme and ICIPE's application for membership of the C
Agricultural Research J.
L Consultative Group on
Vienna, 29 and 30 June.
1981 September-December.
meeting, London, 14 December.
1982 January-May.
and deativents t for Counci
Agenda and papers for the Sixth General Assembly,
Includes material re Foundation Council
es of
fondon, 16 Meat
Fifth General Assembly —
1982 June.
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ence in in the Third World
CIPE
F.14
1978 September.
Royal Society, 23 October;
on Administration and Finance.
Agenda and papers for meeting to be held at
report on the ICIPE Visiting Group
1979 March, May.
held at Royal Society, 21 March.
Includes agenda and papers for meeting to be
1979 June~August.
held at Royal Society, 22 June.
Includes agenda and papers for meeting to be
Agenda, papers and minutes
j
1979 November, December.
Royal Socie ied, 1: 5 November.
of the Royal Society that the British National Committee ee
dissolved and
the Centre for Overseas Pest Research for the briefing ¢ of R hal
Society ein to future meetings of the ICIPE Foundation.
that ad hoc arrangements be made in coop
f
The meeting recommended to Counci
Id
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pier mber.
Documents
1981 June,
held 8 September.
August.
Includes minutes of meeting of Foundation
1980 S
for he T CIPE Foundation, 4 Septe
1980 February-June.
Council, Royal Society, 21 March.
Includes note of ad hoc meeting, 23 June.
Documents re meeting of ad hoc Group to be
Includes note of 8 September meeting.
1981 September.
1982 May-July.
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1980.
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RES
EARC
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F159-F 216!
Acoustics
161A
el GgeF
hie
Aestivation
Army Aw Orm
Crop Borers
Electrophysiology
Fine Siructure
Insect/Hostplant relations
Isolation Mechanisms
Mosquitos
224
1971 <76
220—F3
234
Termites
Orientation
ACOUSTIC
5
Fos
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Sorghum Shoot Fly
Salivary Gland Physiology
Correspondence and papers re project for 'Studies on the acoustic
component of the communication in the tsetse fly'.
Principally
correspondence between Pringle and Research Director, A.R. Méller
(in Sweden) and copies of correspondence between Méller and
Nairobi.
1975-76 and n.d.
Includes grant application (phot
F.160e
1974
1971-73.
v
P a
F.161
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F.161A
ARMYWORM
Science in the Third World
Copies of correspondence between J. de Wilde and Nairobi;
exchange between de Wilde and Pringle.
1974.
August 1973-September
F.162-F.194
Personne}
F.195, F.196
Funding
Forecasting
Service
Miscellaneous
See also unde
r ORIENTATION.
Personnel
1978-81
ye
oy
F.162
1978-80.
F.163
1981.
den Boer, M.
Clark, J.V.
F.162, F.163
Includes Clark's annual report for 1978.
Includes Clark's final report on his work at ICIPE.
Clark worked in the Sensory
Physiology Laboratory at ICIPE where
he undertook research on the sensory and behavioural basis of the
selectivity of larval feeding of the armyworm.
Continued
Khasimuddin worked at ICIPE under Pringle's guidance from December
1973.
He investigated two main aspects of the biology of the army-
worm: mating behaviour and the importance of resident populations.
1977, 1979.
brief unrelated correspondence.
F.165
of the armyworm and bioassays for the female sex pheromone.
1974 February-August.
Includes report on mating behaviour
Typescript of untitled paper on armyworm research;
Khasimuddin,
S.
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1974 October, November andn.d.
F.166
armyworm field research (2 versions) and report on mating behaviour
(some differences from version at F.165).
Includes report on
Includes statement of procedure
F.167
to be followed in making observations on the armyworm populations.
1975 January-September.
F.168
975 October-December.
28 October (iranscript from tape).
Includes report from armyworm gr
F.169
F.170
=1977 January-May.
Includes references and recommendations.
1977 July- December.
Fot/ie2-
ment, outline of future armyworm research and report on eco! logical
studies on the armyworm.
Includes material re S Tesnans equip-
F.172
1978.
Includes outline of research programme.
B.175SE. 181
Ma, W-C.
1972-80
id Fe ebruary -August.
uddin's
F.174
at ICIPE.
1980, 1982.
Includes list of Khasimuddin's publications
Feive
conference attended at pete
conference os the movement of selected species of
the Southeastern USA.
Includes Khasi
North Caer, The
le
Ma, a scientist of Chinese descent but Dutch nationality, worked
at ICIPE on the sensory physiology of the armyworm caterpillar,
1972-75.
Continued
F.178
Includes material re appointments
as ARC visiting scientist in Oxford and research fellow, Universit
of Queensland.
F.177
tions and transcript of tape dated 14 May.
Includes curriculum vitae and progress report,
974.
Includes internal ICIPE memos on armyworm research.
1975 February-June.
Includes references and recommenda-
F.175
October 1973.
1972-73.
1975 July-December.
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F.179
at annual research conference in Nairobi and patent application.
1976 January-June.
F.180
re patent application.
1976 July-November.
Includes continuing correspondence
F.182-F.184
Otindo, B.L. -
1975-78
Otindo was an East African scientist working on the armyworm
programme. Much of the material relates to proposals for post-
graduate training in England and Kenya.
F.182
1975 June-September.
F.183
1975 October, November.
F.184
1976, 1978.
Correspondence and papers re
1975-80
Persson, B.I.P.
1977, 1978
F.188-F.194
Rose, D.J.W.
F.185
1977 February-May.
Persson's appointment at ICIPE.
Includes research report and related correspondence.
F.186
research plans and budget.
1977 July-December.
Persson was a Swedish scientist who worked at ICIPE on the army~-
worm population dynamics programme.
Continued
Rose, a zoologist at the University of Rhodesia, was appointed
Honorary Programme Leader (African Armyworm Programme) from
1
F.189
annual research conference.
1976.
Principally re arrangements for Rose to attend
F.188
workshop, Jan vary.
1975.
Includes list of participants at Armyworm study
F.187
1978.
July
1977.
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.
1977.
F.190
and draft of research flow chart for armyworm investigations with
the names of those involved in each investigation.
Includes letter of appointment as programme leader
Ft.
for an ouibreak strategy’, ICIPE, 14 April.
1978 January June:
Includes 5pp. typescript ‘Suggestions
F.192
from Rose,
1978 July-December.
Includes transcript of tape re celved
6 October and report on armyworm réaearch f from 19
oct.
re
with staff
T t and publications lists.
1979.
Includes
armyworm research work plan for
1980-81.
1980.
Funding
raryvo
Correspondence
P
re
P
possible EEC funding, Februa
g
Forecasting service
F.. 1977-64204
F.197
F.198
F.201
981
January -A; pri
F.199
1980 May~August
1980 January-April
1979 (2 forecasts only)
A sequence of weekly forecasts for Kenya and East Africa.
Correspondence re application to Overseas
August 1980.
ee research at ICIPE to Insect
Miscellaneous printed material 1974-80.
i he $ contributor nN on
1981 May~-August, November
1980 October-December
1982 January-April
Includes 3
pl
tocopy of
F.204
1982 May-July
F.202
F.203
Miscellan:
F.204A
F.200
J.W.S. Pringle
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F.205
Science in the Third World
1979
Circular on af re programme leader of Borers Rese
18 April 197!
ELECTROPHYSIOLOC
1973-79
F206, F, 20,
Contents of a folder inscribed 'Prof. F. Huber
Electrophysiol ogy’.
F.206
to ICIPE, 10-26 November.
1973 October-December.
Includes report of Huber's visit
F.207
Unit,
1974-76.
Includes report on the Electrophysiology Research
19 October 1974.
EF. 208 cE.
Contents of a folder inscribed 'Schneider, Prof. Dietric
Electrophysiology'
Staff appointment; se
F.210
1976.
Staff appointment; general ICIPE matters
F.208
equipment.
1973 November, December.
Principally re budget and
F.209
physiology research unit work plan for 1976.
1974 (one letter
yy 1975.
Staff appointment; sensory physiology research
F.211
unit annual report; general ICIPE matters.
S
ief correspondence re electron microscope
vi cing, etc., January -May 1974,
1974, 1978
1977.
P2919.
1978, 1979;
s
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Science in the Third World
F.214
Letter and abstract re rice brown planthopper,
June 1979.
February,
SOLATION MECHANISMS
-
F216
es
Corresp pondence and papers
with respect to the control of 1
ic for project on tsolc
ation mechanisms
eo Ae
1973, 1974 (one letter only).
1975, 1976.
-Research proposals and funding.
MOSQUITO
A
V7ar78
Bceld; Fegis
Correspondence and papers for various mosquito research projects.
F.218
)
t
re
F.219
Pepi?
1973
1974-78
Piezie-ti zee
1973-76, 1980
ORIENTATION
Correspondence and papers re project to inve ee
behaviour and phys ology of the armyworm in
ability to orient itself during night fl ights .
i
1973 (one letter only), 1974
F222
sossibly prepared for inclusion in ICIPE annual research report.
Includes Ip. note on flight capability and orier tation
1980.
ele
F.aezZ0
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B22)...
1976
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1974-76
Science in the Third \ Vorld
F223
Correspondence with T.R. Odhiambo principally on budget and
funding for tsetse salivary gland programme, October 1974-
June 1976.
Correspondence and papers re sorghum shoot fly programme, July
ai
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1974 ry
Ju ib and Se; eter 1975.
TE RMITE ES
Put2o-F, 204
Correspondence and papers for various propos
termites.
F.225
pheromones, 15 January.
1972.
Proposal for a research programme in termites'
se
five
1
F.228
Includes lett
1973 May-August.
Vo
1974 May, September.
Includes report by Sands on a visit
F.229
funding of termite research.
1974 October, December.
F.227
to ICIPE in connection with termite research.
1973 October-December.
Principally re staff appointment and
etter appointing W.A. Sands Director of
ele
IO
F.226
laboratory space.
Research with special responsibility for the termite research programme.
i
F.230
visits to ICIPE in connection with termite research.
1975 May-December.
‘ation and ICIPE on a research ee gramme in
and behaviour; staff appointment.
F.23
years from January 1977.
1976.
Includes work-programme and budget for the
Includes report on termite ecology
Includes report by Sands on two
Includes agreement between Swiss
Principally re long-range
Fezo2;
and staff ap
1979. April, May.
978 June-S
po
intments
tember.
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MISCELLANEOUS
F.235
reese
F.237
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1979 and n.d.
'
Includes
$3
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Miscellaneous printed material including broct
‘objectives, activities, and governance! « of pr
nationa
1970).
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uding Pringle's re
Miscellaneous duplicc
ge affairs inc
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(Late
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Seeds committee papers on
port on visit to East
addition ofter ae of ICIPE material
had bee
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-,240-F.262
SERENGETI RESEARCH INSTITUTE
Minutes of meeting of Scientific Council, 9 January 1969.
Annual report
ent to 1969 annual report.
1 circulation only.)
(Financial statements for
of meeting of Scientific Council, 8 and 9 January 1970,
re
Brief correspondence, February-May 1970; annual report 1970.
? January 1971 ,
ce, May-September 1971.
Minutes of m neetir ig of Scientific Council,
~
‘Proposals for Research on the Ecology of Acridids in the Serengeti
National Park, Tanzania’, n.d.
I
inutes for mee
ir
©
ana ifs €xecurive comm!
Financial s
in the Serenget
September and Augi ie December 1972.
, 1971 IB; repay on large mammals kille
onal Park 1962-72; quarterly reports,
Annual report, January-June 1972 (printed).
Brief correspondence, August, December 1972.
neil, 7 and 8 January 1972.
of Scientific Council
toe
Oe ee
tee, JANUG
Agendas,
v
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syeriitt
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papers and m
A
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Brief correspondence, January-March 1973;
committee meetings, March, May and October
nos
Agenda and minutes of meetin
14
nek a
es Or >
nin sehr
cutive comminree
E PAB ts Ar
te
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deco
erly report, t, July-September
Minutes of executive committee meeting, Octobs
report, October-December 1974.
Annual report,
i
1973-74 (printed).
f
/
Agenda and minutes of meeting of Scientific Council and minutes
of executive crue meetings, January 1975
«
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Se
Sir
brief correspondence, April, November, December
Correspondence, January~May
A.R.E.
ncludes bee
ne ign
Quarterly report, January-March 1975; minutes of executive
committee meeting, April 1975.
Brief correspondence, 1976; minutes of executive committee meeting
February 1977;
197d
f
Mi
ARE . Sinclair or thie conservation of the Se erengeti Ecosyst
notes of Pringle's interview with Tanzanian
ee
! Resources ond Tourism and statement b;
Correspondence, 1978;
of the Serengeti National Park.
report (by A.R.E. Sinclair) on the status
er
of
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SECTION G
SOCIETIES AND ORGANISATIONS G.1 - G.28
G.1 -G.11
‘International Bee Research Association
G.12-G.20
International Conference on the Unit y
G.21-G.24
National Research Development Corpor
G.25-G.238
The Royal Societ
INTERNATIONAL BEE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION, 1976-82
Pringle became a member of the Association in 1979 and was elected to the
Council in the same year.
In 1982 he accepted an
invitation to join the Steering Com-
mittee for the Third International Conference on Apiculture in Tropical Climates, to be
held in Nairobi in 1984 (see G.11).
Asa member of the Finance Committee Pringle
was concerned with funding for
t}
the association a:
s research projects.
committee papers.
e,
I
The correspondence is
with
Eva
Pringle's letter of 12 May
Includes agendas and minutes
sequence of correspondence and
Crane,
the
e
Director, and colleagues
'
1976-78.
Information about the association.
The material is presented as a chronolog
©
interested in the work of the association and research on bees.
1979 February-July.
letters re Pringle's membership and electi on to ae é
the association.
1980 March~May.
meetings; brief correspondence.
relates to the funding of
1980 January, Februory.
of meetings; brief correspondence NaS eo
1979 August-December.
of meetings.
Agendas, committee papers and minutes
we sndas, committee papers and minutes of
Agendas, committee papers and minutes
QL
Qo
Societies and organisations
ee
OOQ/f}
ot ve &
1980 June-August.
meen ace Sn ere
meetings; corresponaence re at
and
Agendas
funding
Wer
£
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Aric
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ynmittee LP
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s and mir
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2
of information
1980 September-December.
minutes of meetings
a
Agendas, committ
orrespondence re wae Pring
i
seclal meeting
sonsider
the long-
association.
1981 Janua
Q
;
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arr:
of meet tr
Agendas, committee papers and minutes
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1981 March-May.
Agendas, committee papers and minutes
of meet-
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