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CONTEMPORARY SCIENTIFIC ARCHIVES CENTRE
British National Committee for the History of Science, Medicine and Technology
under the guidance of the Royal Society’s
Catalogue of the papers and correspondence of
SIR GORDON BRIMS BLACK McIVOR SUTHERLAND, FRS
(1907 - 1980)
Deposited in Cambridge University Library
All rights reserved
1982
Compiled by: Jeannine Alton
Julia Latham- Jackson
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NOT ALL THE MATERIAL IN THE COLLECTION
IS YET AVAILABLE FOR CONSULTATION.
ENQUIRIES SHOULD BE ADDRESSED IN THE
FIRST INSTANCE TO:
THE LIBRARIAN,
UNIVERSITY LIBRARY,
CAMBRIDGE.
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LIST OF CONTENTS
GENERAL INTRODUCTION
SECTION A
BIO GRAPHICAL AND PERSONAL
SECTION B
EARLY INFRARED RESEARCH
SECTION C
THE NATIONAL PHYSICAL
LABORATORY
SECTION D
COMMITTEES, SOCIETIES,
ORGANISATIONS
D.1. =.D.58
SECTION E
SECTION H
H.1 -H.45
SECTION F
VISITS AND CONFERENCES
F.1 - F.48
SECTION G
DRAFTS, LECTURES, PUBLICATIONS
G.1 - G.65
GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE
EDUCATION AND SCIENCE POLICY E.1 - E.47
INDEX OF CORRESPONDENTS
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GENERAL INTRODUCTION
PROVENANCE
The material was received from Lady Sutherland and from Professor N. Sheppard
FRS who contributed some additional material, mainly correspondence received in con-
nection with his Memoir of Sutherland for the Royal Society.
SUMMARY OF THE CAREER OF SIR GORDON SUTHERLAND
Gordon Brims Black Mclvor Sutherland was born in Caithness, Scotland, in 1907.
He was educated at Morgan Academy, Dundee, and St. Andrews University
from which
he graduated with an M.A. in mathematics and B.Sc. in physics in 1929.
The follow-
ing two years were spent in Cambridge where he decided to abandon theoretical physics
in favour of experimental work on infrared spectra, an interest which continued through-
out his research career.
During his second year at Cambridge Sutherland met D.M. Dennison and this
Cambridge in autumn 1933.
After obtaining his Ph.D. degree in 1934 Sutherland remained in Cambridge
working first with W.G. Penney on the problem of the structure of the hydrogen
peroxide molecule, and then with various research students including G.K.T. Conn,
the study of infrared spectroscopy.
He spent two years at Michigan, returning to
M.M. Davies, E. Lee and C.K. Wu.
During the Second World War he began by
working for the Ministry of Supply on unexploded bombs but in 1941 he returned to
the University of Michigan which was then the most advanced centre in the world for
prompted him to apply for a Commonwealth Fund Fellowship to work under Dennison at
The pressures of administrative
Laboratory in succession to Sir Edward Bullard, where he remained until 1964 when he
Cambridge to develop the use of infrared spectroscopy in the analysis of 'enemy' fuels
on biophysical studies.
In 1956 he was appointed as Director of the National Physical
In 1949 Sutherland returned to the University of Michigan as Professor of
Physics where he built up a successful infrared research group with a strong emphasis
which his team undertook in collaboration with H.W. Thompson at Oxford.
became Master of Emmanuel College, Cambridge.
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work at the NPL allowed little time for Sutherland to pursue his personal research
interests, but his position as head of a large government laboratory and then of a
Cambridge College encouraged a growing interest in the wider issues of science policy
and education on which he wrote, lectured and chaired committees throughout the
1960s.
He died in 1980, three years after his retirement from Emmanuel .
DESCRIPTION OF THE COLLECTION
The surviving papers provide some documentation for most aspects of Sutherland's
career, apart from his two periods at the University of Michigan for which there is
virtually nothing.
For the 1930s there is extensive correspondence but no
laboratory
records, and the wartime period is enriched by a very full sequence of letters exchanged
with H.W. Thompson, 1937 - 47.
Section C contains some interesting papers relating
to the NPL, and Section D, which documents Sutherland's involvement with various
societies and organisations, has considerable material on the formation of the Inter-
national Organisation for Pure and Applied Biophysics in which Sutherland played a
major part.
Section E contains correspondence on issues of science policy as well as
Sutherland's own drafts and reports.
|The correspondence in Section H dates mainly
28, 1982).
in the form Bibliog ...
.
This refers to the list of publications included in the Memoir
from Sutherland's period at the NPL, all earlier letters being in Section B.
Some of Sutherland's ms. and typescript drafts are identified with a reference
of Sutherland by N. Sheppard (Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society,
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LOCATIONS OF FURTHER MATERIAL
Specimens and correspondence relating to Sutherland's work on diamond
are held at the Institute of Geological Sciences (Geological Museum), South
Kensington, London.
Material relating to Sutherland's service on two Cambridge University
Committees (Joint Committee on Student Numbers and Committee of the General
Board on Long-Term Development) has been deposited in the University Archives,
Cambridge .
A little personal material is held by Lady Sutherland.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
We are grateful to Lady Sutherland for making the papers available, and
to Professor N. Sheppard FRS and Professor D.E. Blackwell for help and advice.
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SECTION A
BIO GRAPHICAL AND PERSONAL _A.1
- A.53
A.1
-~A.6
BIO GRAPHICAL AND AUTOBIO GRAPHICAL
A.7 -A.4l
CAREER AND APPOINTMENTS
A.42-A.53
MATERIAL RELATING TO ROYAL SOCIETY
MEMOIR OF SUTHERLAND
BIO GRAPHICAL AND AUTOBIO GRAPHICAL
Obituaries and tributes.
Obituary published in The Times, 28 June 1980.
Copy of Emmanuel College Magazine containing tributes
to Sutherland by 'D.G.T.WEilliamsJ' and 'B.A.TEhrushJ’'.
Article by N. Kurti published in CODATA Newsletter, 22,
June 1981.
Notice of Memorial Service, 11 October 1980.
Uncorrected proof of Royal Society Memoir by N. Sheppard
(Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, 28,
1982).
Correspondence assembled by Sheppard during the
preparation of the Memoir is at A.42-A. 53.
8 pp. typescript draft of obituary by N. Sheppard for
publication in European Spectroscopy News, with brief
correspondence.
graphical entries up to 1924 only.
Sutherland's own ms. notes (16 pp.) describing his family
background, education and research up to his move to the
University of Michigan in 1949.
in pencil and
bears notes and annotations in pencil and red ink by
N. Sheppard who quotes extensively from this account in
his Memoir of Sutherland.
Sutherland's Royal Society 'Green Book' containing bio-
'Notes for Autobiography for Royal Society’.
The ms. is
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Biographical and personal
Correspondence re award of Leverhulme Research Fellow-
ship for visit to American laboratories specialising in
infrared research, April-September 1939.
For Sutherland's report on his tenure of the Leverhulme
Fellowship see B.2.
See also B.47.
Correspondence with the Department of Scientific and
Industrial Research, mainly re grant for the employment
of an assistant to enable Sutherland to continue researches
on molecular structure by infrared spectra after his return
from U.S.A. in October 1939.
A.19
Correspondence re offers of various wartime posts.
A.20-A. 27
Election to Fellowship of the Royal Society, 1949.
Letters of congratulation, in alphabetical order.
A-B
C-D
E-G
T-W
IIlegible and first name signatures; menu for
celebration dinner, 22 March 1949.
Correspondence re arrangements, letters of congratulation.
2 letters (both Sutherland's carbons) written in July 1956
on the eve of Sutherland's departure from the University
of Michigan to become Director of the National Physical
Laboratory.
Award of honorary degree by the University of St. Andrews,
1958.
For material relating to his appointment and resignation
at the NPL see Section C.
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Biographical and personal
Knighthood, 1960.
Brief correspondence re ceremony, grant of arms, etc.
Miscellaneous awards and appointments, 1957-79.
Governor of the London School of Economics, 1957-65.
Corresponding Member of the Société Royale des Sciences
de Liége, 1960.
Trustee of University College (later Wolfson College),
Cambridge, 1965.
Member of Lawes Agricultural Trust Committee, 1965-79
(see A.47, A.48).
Fellow of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of
Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, 1968.
Foreign Honorary Member, American Academy of Arts
and Sciences, 1968.
Trustee of the National Gallery, 1971.
(He was a Fellow for 6 months in 1972 - see
Reunion in Honour of Sir Gordon and Lady Sutherland,
held at Emmanuel College, 30 June 1977.
Honorary Fellow, Wolfson College, Cambridge, 1977.
Foreign Member, American Philosophical Society, 1977.
President, Cambridge Philosophical Society, 1980.
Member of the Advisory Committee for the Wolfson Cambridge
Industrial Unit (letter of thanks on retirement, 1977).
Correspondence with the Director of the Center for Advanced
Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, California,
re possibility of Sutherland spending a further period of
study there.
Introduction to Section E).
SP VT
Correspondence with D.A. Ramsay, November 1975-November
1976.
event he was unable to attend.
Ramsay suggested the idea of a reunion but in the
The occasion was organised by D.M. Agar and N. Sheppard
and much of the correspondence is conducted with them.
Correspondence with N. Sheppard and D.M. Agar, January-
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Biographical and personal
Correspondence with former students and colleagues re
arrangements for the Reunion, May 1976-May 1977.
Similar correspondence including letters of thanks,
June-December 1977.
Guest lists, table plans, circulars, etc.
Drafts for speeches by Sutherland and N. Sheppard,
photographs, signed menu.
Letters received during illness, January-February 1979.
Miscellaneous press-cuttings and memorabilia.
A.42-A.53
MATERIAL RELATING TO ROYAL SOCIETY MEMOIR OF
SUTHERLAND
Correspondence with Lady Sutherland and with Sutherland's
sister, Marjorie.
Correspondence assembled by N. Sheppard during the
preparation of his Memoir of Sutherland for the Royal
Society.
There is a copy of Sheppard's Memoir at A.2.
Early typescript draft of part of the Memoir with a note
by Sheppard 'contains some passages later deleted for lack
of space’.
Continued
Correspondence with friends and colleagues in response
to requests for reminiscences and information.
betical order.
Reminiscences of wartime work on hydrocarbons.
Agar, D.
M.
Booth, G.
He
Campion, P.
re NPL.
In alpha-
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A.45
(cont'd.)
Biographical and personal
Cass 6G,
re Sutherland's membership of the Cambridge University
Press Syndicate, 1965-78.
Crane, H.R.
Dainton, F.
S2
Includes reminiscences of several periods of Sutherland's
life.
Darmon; 9.
E.
re wartime work on penicillin.
Davies, M.
M.
Includes extensive reminiscences.
Dennison, H.
J.
(Widow of D.M. Dennison).
De Ramsay, Lord
Pelloatt, fF...
B:
Fowden, L.
Ditchburn, R.
W.
re multiplex spectroscopy .
re Sutherland's work on diamond.
re Sutherland's membership of the Lawes Agricultural
Trust Committee.
re work at NPL.
re Sutherland's associations with Rothamsted Experi-
mental Station.
Freeman, R.
Gebbie, H.
A.
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Biographical and personal
Hurst, R.
re Sutherland's work at the Ministry of Supply,
1939-42.
Krimm, S.
re Sutherland's second period at the University of
Michigan.
Kurti, N.
Lee, E.
Includes photocopies of 1939 letters and telegram
from Sutherland to Lee;
G. MacFarlane and C.K. Wu written after Sutherland's
death.
also of letters from
Murray, R.
re Sutherland's involvement with Cambridge University
planning of student numbers.
Mainly re NPL.
Simpson, O.
Thrush, B.
= A.
Pople, J. <: As
re NPL.
Pricé; We
Go
Pankhurst, R. = C.
Mainly re wartime work on hydrocarbons.
Uhlenbeck, G.
re Sutherland's activities as Trustee of the National
re Mastership of Emmanuel College.
re University of Michigan and NPL.
Thomson, G.
Gallery.
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Biographical and personal
West, A.
R.
te wartime work on hydrocarbons.
of wartime reports.
Includes copies
Whiffen, D.
-H.
Includes extensive notes on Sutherland's career,
1944-49, and at the NPL.
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SECTION B
EARLY INFRARED RESEARCH
B.1
- B.92
at
8.9
INFRARED RESEARCH IN THE 1930s
Be = 8513
WARTIME WORK ON HYDROCARBONS
B.14 - B.29
WARTIME WORK ON PENICILLIN
Boe =-B.72
CORRESPONDENCE WITH FRIENDS AND
COLLEAGUES, 1933 - 47
0.73 ~B.91
CORRESPONDENCE WITH INDUSTRIAL
FIRMS, 1932 - 42
8.72
POSTWAR WORK AT THE UNIVERSITY
OF MICHIGAN
This Section consists chiefly of correspondence and research material
c.1931 - 48.
Most of the correspondence was originally kept by Sutherland
in 4 alphabetical box files and although it
is not all 'scientific correspondence'
in the strictest sense, it provides an interesting overall picture of Sutherland's
career and research during this period.
hydrocarbons and penicillin.
in 1956.
With the exception of Sutherland's Ph.D. thesis (B.1) there are no working
Item B.92 is almost the only surviving material from Sutherland's second
period at the University of Michigan after the Second World War.
cf. A.28
papers or laboratory notes until the war time period.
B.4 - B.29 contain working
which contains carbon copies of 2 letters written immediately before his departure
papers and reports by Sutherland and others documenting infrared investigations of
tions during this period has been transferred to Section A.
Correspondence documenting Sutherland's research grant and job applica-
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INFRARED RESEARCH IN THE 1930s
'The structure of simple polyatomic molecules from a
study of their infra-red absorption and Raman spectra’.
Sutherland's Cambridge Ph.D. thesis, 1934.
Ms. and typescript drafts of research reports as follows:
‘Carnegie Report 1930-31'
'Final Report to Carnegie Trust October 1934!
‘Report on Tenure of Leverhulme Fellowship ...
from Ist April 1939 to 30th September 1939!
2 pp. ms. ‘Notes on Heitler's Lecture May 18th' (n.d.
but originally kept with 1934-35 correspondence) is
also included in the folder.
For correspondence re award of Carnegie and Leverhulme
Fellowships see A.13, A.17.
WARTIME WORK ON HYDROCARBONS
The original drawn-out hydrocarbon spectra
The original
Envelope containing 'Card Index of Runs on Substances
for Report I'.
Correspondence re research grants for the purchase of
materials and apparatus from the Chemical Society
(1937) and the Van T'Hoff Fund (1938-39).
Contents of a very delapidated folder labelled by
N. Sheppard 'Wartime Enemy-Fuel Analysis by
IR
infrared].
measured by point by point recording’.
folder is at B.7.
See B.9 below.
Bundle of records of hydrocarbon spectra with ms. note
‘Curves corresponding to some of those in Report no.X.
M.A. [D.M. Agar] 15.8.77.'.
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Bundle of similar material with note in the same hand
'This lot isa misc. collection of curves | found later’.
Some printed matter is also included here.
Further records of hydrocarbon spectra, many dated
c.1941-43 in original folder.
Spring-back binder with ms. note by N. Sheppard
‘Wartime Enemy-Fuel Analysis by Infrared. Some drawn
out point-by-point spectra and early single beam
continuously recorded spectra’.
"Infra-red spectra of some pure hydrocarbons' by G.B.B.M.
Sutherland and H.W. Thompson.
Institute of Petroleum Research Committee, Hydrocarbon
Research Group, Report No.X, January 1945.
"Infra-red spectra of some pure hydrocarbons’ by
Sutherland and others.
Report No.II, February 1946.
‘Tabulation of the Physical Properties of Nineteen Classes
of Hydrocarbons', by D.H. Peel.
1.C.1, Research Report, 18 March 1939.
‘Report ona Mission to the United States carried out for
Ministry of Aircraft Production during August and
September 1943 by G.B.B.M. Sutherland ... and H.W.
Thompson ...'.
Committee, Report VII.
Copy no.92, allocated to D.M. Simpson (later D.M. Agar),
one of Sutherland's main collaborators in the work on
hydrocarbons.
'Pure Hydrocarbons for Spectrographic Problems', by
D.H. Peel.
Technical Advisory Committee, Spectrographic Sub-
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B.14-B.29
WARTIME WORK ON PENICILLIN
B.14
Bundle of notes, diagrams, records of meetings and dis-
cussions, all relating to work on penicillin, a few dated
1944, 1945.
Similar bundle of papers relating to collaborative work
with A.R. Todd, 1944-45.
Miscellaneous smaller bundles and loose pages of similar
material.
3 reports on penicillin work by A.R. Todd and others,
1945.
The reports are numbered C.P.S. [Committee for Penicillin
Synthesis] 389, 526, 544.
Notes on reports on penicillin work from other labora-
tories, 1944.
'Spectroscopic Measurements on the Structure of Penicillin
carried out in Great Britain 1944-45', by H.W. Thompson.
35 pp. typescript.
Cilio aes
Earlier typescript drafts of C.P.S. 551.
"Infra-red studies on penicillin and related compounds',
by G.B.B.M. Sutherland and $.E. Darmon.
10 pp. duplicated typescript with 8 figures, 4 July 1945.
2 copies.
7 pp. ms. notes of discussions.
Correspondence with firms and colleagues re supplies of
penicillin and related compounds, June-August 1945,
some conducted during Sutherland's visit to U.S.A.
Some of the letters have ms. notes clipped to them and
these have been left in place.
‘Meeting on Penicillin at Cornell Instit. 30th July 1945'.
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"Infra-red studies on penicillin and related compounds.
Final report', by G.B.B.M. Sutherland and S.E. Darmon.
AO pp. typescript with 10 figures, 27 April 1946.
CPS, 694.
"Infra-red studies on penicillin and related compounds.
Appendix to final report', by G.B.B.M. Sutherland
and S.E. Darmon.
Typescript
24 June 1946.
draft and duplicated typescript final version,
CP 6. 697.
Contents of an envelope labelled ‘Penicillin.
and Jottings’.
Notes
Ms. notes, data and diagrams, not all in Sutherland's
hand.
See also B.27.
Reports and press-cuttings on penicillin, c. 1945-46.
Miscellaneous material re penicillin including 1
p. ms.
notes labelled 'Cook's Talk' and brief correspondence.
CORRESPONDENCE WITH FRIENDS AND COLLEAGUES,
1933-47
Ms. draft of C.P.S. 694, originally kept in the envelope
at B.26
T.
Personal and scientific correspondence including
news of other St. Andrews, graduates and comments
on the progress of Sutherland's career.
Angus, W.
R.
1933-34, 1939
B.30
Allen, H.
3.
1934-37
B.30-B.72
1939 correspondence is on mandelic acid.
Astbury, W.
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Barnes, R.
B.
Barnes, W.
H.
1944
1933
Comments on paper by Sutherland on Raman effect
at very low temperatures.
Bartholome, E.
Bauer, E.
1934
1938
Invitation to collaborate in the preparation of
a definitive table of vibration frequencies.
Bennett, G.
M.
Bowen, E.
J.
re proposed book on molecular spectroscopy .
Bragg, W._
HH.
Includes letter from W.H.J. Childs.
Braga, ‘W..
1.
Cartwright, E.
H.
Ciaslé, A:
Be.
Brockway, L.
O.
Personal and scientific correspondence.
1940 correspondence is on experiments to investi-
gate the ultra-violet absorption of wool and includes
a note by W.C. Price.
Personal and scientific correspondence.
Chapman, F.
Cont, a.
RK,
eke
1934-40
1942
1940, 1942
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B.37, B.38
Corin, C.
1936-38
B.37
1936-37
Mainly arrangements for Corin to work with
Sutherland in Cambridge, 1937.
discussion of experiments to be conducted.
Includes detailed
1938
Curtis; Wi>)
£.
Davies, M.
M.
On research planned and in progress, joint
publications, etc.
De Hemptinne, M.
Dennison, D.
M.
1938
Mostly undated,
me Paeoe
1937, 1938
1933-34
On research in progress, drafts for publications,
etc.
1938, 1940-41
Eucken, A.
Ganj de
le
1936, 1940
1937-44
1938
1933-34
1938
Fowler, R.
H.
Emeleus, H.
J.
Emeleus, K.
G.
On experimental methods and results, meetings,
publications, etc.
1944 is re proposed work on diamond.
1935
Sutherland's letter of 21 August
1936, 1940, 1944
Hardy, J.-D,
Fraser, R.
Herzberg, G.
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Hettner, G.
Sutherland's ms. draft only.
matics Gok.
(Sutherland's carbon only).
Jacquer, F.
M.
Jahn, H.
A.
Jones; Rix.
Vi
Jungers, J.
C.
Lederer, E.
. L.
Lee, E.
1936
1939
1934-35
1938
1937
1939-40
Mainly letters to Sutherland during his visit to
U.S.A. in 1939 with extensive news of research
and colleagues in Cambridge and comments on
the international situation.
There area few
replies from Sutherland with news of his American
visit.
1938
1936
1933
Lowery, H.
Lowry, T.
M.
Mannebach, C.
W.
Linnett, J.
W.
Comments on draft papers by Sutherland and dis-
cussion of future research plans.
others in U.K.
Arrangements to work with Sutherland - eventually
curtailed to a brief visit to his laboratory and
Migeotte, M.
V.
Menzies, A.
C.
n.d., 1938
1934
1937-38
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Millikan, G.
Mullikan, R.
S.
Nielsen,
(Sutherland's carbon only).
Partington, J.
R.
Penney, W.
G.
1934
1942, 1943
1934, 1937-38,
n.d.
Extensive correspondence arising from paper by
C.R. Bailey, published in the Transactions of the
Faraday Society.
and arrangements with the Editor of the Transactions
to publish a reply to Bailey's paper.
Includes letter from Bailey,
1937, 1938, n.d.
Philpot, A.
J.
1939
1938
1936-37
n.d.
c.1944
Price; W.
= C.
Pirenne, M._
#H.
Randall, J.T.
Letter to W.L. Bragg re process of depositing non-
reflecting films on glass.
On fluorescence spectra. Includes 5 pp. ms. notes
by Sutherland on points raised by Randall.
1934
Letters from Roy only, written from the University of
Michigan following Sutherland's return to Cambridge,
with news of friends and colleagues, research in
progress, etc.
6.56), 8.57
Roy, A.
Rawlins, F.
1933
1934-35
1944
1933-34
Reo,ila.
Rees, A.
1933
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Semmens, E.
G.
SIA Nes
1944
1931, n.d., 1943
Letters from Snow (Sutherland's replies have not
survived) with detailed comments on his own and
Sutherland's research.
Includes Snow's draft for
letter to be sent by Sutherland for publication in
Nature on 'Raman Lines of Simple Polyatomic Mole-
cules'.
Taylor, M.
Teller, E.
B.61-B.66
Thompson, H.
W.
1937
n.d.
1937-47
Extensive correspondence mainly documenting the
wartime collaboration between Thompson at Oxford
and Sutherland at Cambridge in the use of infrared
spectroscopy to investigate the structure of 'enemy'
|The exchanges include comments on draft
fuels.
reports, arrangements for meetings, Comparison of
experimental results, etc.
1937-39, 1941
The wartime correspondence was originally contained
in a single folder in reverse chronological order.
It
has now been split into several smaller units for ease
of reference but the original folder with a summary
by N. Sheppard of the main points of most of the
letters is at B.61.
1934
Trivedi, S.A.
Urey, eC.
1942
1943
1944
1945
Tolansky, S.
1937-42
1942
1937
1946-47
Vegard, L.
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West, W.
(Sutherland's carbon only).
Williams, G.
Wie Oe
ae.
Long letter written on his return to China and
describing conditions at Tsinghua University.
Wu, T-Y
1933, n.d., 1936
Includes draft typescript for submission to the
Physical Review and 3 pp. ms. calculations.
Shorter correspondence, mainly re exchanges of reprints
but including some brief personal letters.
Letters from research students and others seeking advice
and information on careers, jobs, research grants, etc.
Not indexed.
Ilegible and first-name signatures.
In alphabetical order, not indexed.
B.73-B.91
CORRESPONDENCE WITH INDUSTRIAL FIRMS, 1932-42
te equipment and materials for Sutherland's infrared
work.
Many of the sequences include brochures and
detailed quotations for items to be supplied.
1933-34
Automatic Coil Winder & Electrical Equipment
Co, Ltd,
(brochure only)
1934
1934, 1937
Baird & Tatlock (London) Ltd.
R. & J. Beck Ltd., London
F.E. Becker & Co., London
Aldis Bros., Birmingham
Edgar Allen & Co. Ltd., Sheffield
G.B.B.M. Sutherland
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Bellingham & Stanley Ltd., London
1933-37
British Oxygen Co. Ltd., Wembley
British Resistor Co. Ltd., Manchester
British Thomson-Houston Co. Ltd., Rugby
Corning Glass Works, New York
Cambridge Instrument Co. Ltd., London
Chance Brothers and Co. Ltd., Birmingham
Continental Express Ltd., London
Coulson & Son Ltd., Cambridge
Electric Wiring & Repair Co., Cambridge
Ferranti Ltd., Hollinwood
1937
1938
1936
1939
1938
1936
1936-37
1934
1937
1936
W.G. Flaig & Sons Ltd., London
Gregory, Bottley & Co., London
Bernhard Halle Nachfl., Berlin
1934
1936, 1937
1936-38
1937-38
Glasco-Lampen- Gesellschaft, Berlin
General Electric Co. Ltd., Wembley
Thos. Firth & John Brown Ltd., Sheffield
1935, 1937
Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd., London
Hanovia
Chemical & Manufacturing Co.,
Igranic Electric Co. Ltd., Bedford
1938
1938
1937
1932
1939-42
1934, 1937
George lbberson & Co., Sheffield
Gowllands Ltd., Croydon
New Jersey
Adam Hilger Ltd., London
1936
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Import Duties Advisory Committee (includes
correspondence with Customs and Excise)
1936-39
On importing of apparatus, etc. from abroad.
India Rubber, Gutta Percha and Telegraph Works
Co. Ltd., London
James A. Jobling Ltd.
Johnson & Phillips Ltd.
A. Charles King Ltd., London
P.J. Kipp & Zonen, Delft
Kodak Ltd.
G. Mainzer, London
Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co. Ltd.,
Manchester
1936
1937
1936
1940
1934
1934
1936-37
1935, 1937
1936
1934
1935
1936-37
Solus Electrical Co. Ltd., London
National Glass Industry, London
Quickfit & Quartz Ltd., Birmingham
H.H. Sharland, H. Kemp, London
1934
United Kingdom Optical Co. Ltd., London
Vereinigung Guttinger Werke, Gdttingen
Unicam Instrument Co. Ltd., Cambridge
Thermal Syndicate Ltd., London
1937
1942
1937
1937
1936
1942
1935
1936
James Swift & Son Ltd., London
Townson & Mercer Ltd., London
W.G. Pye & Co., Cambridge
Rich & Bundy Ltd.
Carl Zeiss (London) Ltd.
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Miscellaneous ms. notes found with 1934-35 corres-
pondence.
Mainly notes of references, addresses of
firms, etc.
POSTWAR WORK AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
List of classified reports from Willow Run Research
Center received by Sutherland, October 1953.
In original folder.
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SECTION C
THE NATIONAL PHYSICAL LABORATORY
C.1
- C.52
C.1
-C.10
APPOINTMENT AND RESIGNATION
Att eho
INTERNAL ADMINISTRATION
C.36-C.52
RELATIONS WITH THE ROYAL SOCIETY
AND DSIR
Sutherland was appointed as Director of the National Physical Laboratory
(NPL) in succession to E.C. Bullard in January 1956.
He took up his appoint-
ment in September of that year and remained in office until 1964 when he resigned
in order to become Master of Emmanuel College, Cambridge.
During Sutherland's Directorship the NPL underwent a period of growth
and change.
An increase in both staff and facilities was accompanied by the
reorganisation of the Electricity, Metrology and Physics Divisions of the laboratory
into Standards, Applied Physics and Basic Physics, by which he hoped to raise the
calibre of fundamental research work at the NPL and attract staff of a higher
quality than had previously been possible.
and of the daily life of the NPL during this period.
APPOINTMENT AND RESIGNATION
The following papers illustrate some aspects of these administrative changes
to discuss the appointment.
Correspondence with the Secretary, Royal Society (D. Brunt),
November-December 1955.
with a letter from Brunt,
Sutherland would like to be considered as a possible successor
to E.C. Bullard as Director of the NPL.
Correspondence with B. Lockspeiser (Secretary) and other
members of the Department of Scientific and Industrial
Research (DSIR), November-December 1955.
Includes
arrangements for Sutherland to make a brief visit to England
The correspondence opens
11 November, enquiring whether
Letters from Bullard and his wife, November-December 1955.
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Further correspondence with DSIR, January-March 1956,
re salary, conditions of appointment, etc.
official letter of appointment, 27 January 1956.
Includes
Correspondence with H.W. Melville (Lockspeiser's
successor as Secretary, DSIR), February-August 1956.
Correspondence with Secretary, Royal Society, and others,
February-October 1956, mainly re arrangements for
furnishings, maintenance, etc. of the Director's house
(Bushy House) and garden at NPL.
Correspondence with DSIR and Ministry of Works re
Bushy House (rent, maintenance, etc.), 1957-64.
Official letter of resignation in order to take up appoint-
ment as Master of Emmanuel College, Cambridge,
20 May 1964.
Brief correspondence arising, mainly re arrangements for
various farewell parties, but including letter from B.F.J.
Schonland re arrangements for appointment of Sutherland's
successor .
Special supplement of NPL News, November 1964,
issued as a ‘Salute to Sir Gordon Sutherland’ on his
departure from NPL.
Correspondence with the Royal Society, DSIR and Ministry
of Works, June 1964-May 1965, re arrangements for leaving
Bushy House, etc.
Establishments’ (see also C.23).
correspondence from the Secretary and Superintendents of
Divisions on various aspects of internal policy. C.23-C.28
contains material re conferences and symposia held at NPL
during Sutherland's directorship, and this is followed by
some more general administrative material.
Correspondence with E.S. Hiscocks (Secretary, NPL),
February-August 1956.
for forthcoming symposium on 'The Direction of Research
Includes discussion of arrangements
INTERNAL ADMINISTRATION
The following papers consist mainly of memoranda and
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Ms. and typescript drafts for Report of the NPL Executive
Committee for 1956, some in hand of E.S. Hiscocks.
Sutherland's ms. notes for 'Superintendents Meeting
Sept. 19th'L1956] with some additional notes and jottings
on research, staff, etc.
Memoranda sent to Sutherland by Superintendents of Divisions
and the Secretary (E.S. Hiscocks), October-November 1956,
outlining their problems and frustrations and setting out
views on the future development of the NPL.
Correspondence and ms. drafts re staff, grading of posts,
etc., 1956-57 and n.d.
of previous Directors re grading of senior posts in NPL.
Includes copies of correspondence
Further memoranda on staff complements, grading, etc.,
¢.1957=58, 1963.
Memoranda from Superintendents of Divisions, July-
August 1957, commenting on proposal to create new post
of Deputy Director of NPL.
'The Second Five Year Plan of the National Physical
Laboratory (1959-64).
The Director's Proposals’.
Duplicated typescript, 4 November 1957, with 2 pp.
background information.
Memorandum by L.A. Sayce on the relationship of NRDC
to research development in Light Division NPL, and brief
correspondence on same subject with P.M.S. Blackett.
American laboratories | have visited recently’.
Contains correspondence with DSIR, NRDC and others,
July-November 1961, re proposal to move a research
team from Hinxton Hall (Tube Investments Research
Laboratories) to NPL.
8 pp. letter from J. Pople, September 1962, beginning
"You invited me to write about the conditions at NPL
which I find unsatisfactory when compared with some of the
Memoranda from Superintendents of Divisions and the
Secretary (H.J. Hadow), December 1959, updating com-
ments on problems and frustrations made in October 1956.
Contents of folder labelled 'Two Phase Filamentary
Materials' with note by N. Sheppard 'A significant
historical file’.
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Conferences and symposia held at NPL, 1956-64.
Symposium on 'The Direction of Research Eastablishments',
26-29 September 1956.
Drafts and final version of programme, lists of participants,
typescript of Sutherland's Opening Address, brief corres-
pondence.
Correspondence with E.S. Hiscocks on the organisation
of the symposium is at C.11.
Symposium on Vision, 23 September 1957.
Typescript of Sutherland's opening remarks.
Conference on 'The Control of Noise’, 26 June 1961.
Typescript of opening speeches by Sutherland and the
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Science (D. Freeth).
Machine Translation Conference, 5 September 1961.
Ms. and typescript of Sutherland's opening remarks.
Typescript of opening remarks by Sutherland and D. Freeth.
Conference on 'Fundamental Problems of Low Pressure
Measurements', 23-25 September 1964.
International Conference on 'Wind Effects on Building
and Structures', 26 June 1963.
Typescript draft of opening speech by D. Freeth.
Conference on 'The Accuracy of Industrial Measurements
of Length and Diameter', 17 and 18 April 1962.
Not indexed.
Provisional programme, typescript of Sutherland's opening
remarks.
General administrative correspondence, 1957-61.
In chronological order.
Correspondence with colleagues re arrangements to visit
NPL, 1957-61.
Not indexed.
Invitations to attend lectures, dinners, meetings, cere-
monial and social occasions, 1957-61.
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Correspondence arising from requests by various scientific
societies for Sutherland to lecture on the work of the
NPL, 1957-58.
Miscellaneous reports and circulars including report on
visit by Sutherland to Post Office Engineering Research
Station, Dollis Hill, 27 September 1957, and NPL Training
Committee report to Director for year ending December 1959.
Assorted issues of NPL News, 1958-64 and 1970, com-
memorating various important events (Sutherland's knight-
hood, award of FRS to J.A. Pople, etc.)
Reports and memoranda by Superintendents and Secretary
on various administrative matters, March-July 1964, and
letter from J.V. Dunworth with news of the laboratory since
Sutherland's departure, November 1964.
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C.36-C. 52
RELATIONS WITH THE ROYAL SOCIETY AND DSIR
The question of the division of responsibility for the
NPL between the Royal Society and DSIR was current through-
out Sutherland's Directorship following the passing of the
DSIR Act in August 1956 which eventually resulted in changes
in the organisational structure of the NPL.
Negotiations
between DSIR and the Royal Society continued until 1963
when the report of the Committee of Enquiry into the Organisa-
tion of Civil Science (the Trend Committee) suggested more
far-reaching changes stemming from the proposed abolition of
DSIR (see C.45 ff.).
The following material includes reports, committee
papers and correspondence documenting negotiations between
the Royal Society, DSIR and others, 1956-64.
C.36-C.42
Correspondence and papers on the relationship between DSIR,
the Royal Society and the NPL, 1956-63.
1956
Duplicated typescript and printed version of report of
Committee of Enquiry into the organisation and functioning
of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research.
Includes further drafts of
Brief correspondence and |
probably made during the negotiations leading to his appoint-
ment as Director, NPL, are also included in the folder.
p. ms. notes by Sutherland,
Includes discussion of proposal made at Special Meeting
of DSIR Research Council, January 1957, to set up an ad hoc
Committee to review the organisation and programme of work
of the NPL, draft 'Note on the relation between the Royal
Society and the National Physical Laboratory and D.S.I.R.'
with additional comments by E.S. Hiscocks,and correspondence
with H.W. Melville and W.G. Penney.
revisions by others.
Mainly papers for or arising from meeting held at the Royal
Society, 30 October 1958.
Sutherland's 'Note on the relation between the Royal Society,
the National Physical Laboratory, and D.S.1.R.'
Includes draft by Sutherland on 'The Scheme of Organisation
of the National Physical Laboratory’ with comments and
1957
1958
1959
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1962
January-July 1963
'The Future Development of the National Physical Laboratory
by the Director’.
14 pp. typescript draft with 2 appendices, 20 August 1963.
Notes, drafts and correspondence assembled as background
material to C.43.
Correspondence and papers arising from the report of the
Committee of Enquiry into the Organisation of Civil
Science (the Trend report).
Among other things the Trend Committee recommended the
establishment of an Industrial Research and Development
Authority to assume responsibility for research stations
managed by DSIR, including the NPL.
Includes 2 memoranda from
Further correspondence and papers on the implications of the
A copy of the Trend report with a few ms. notes and under-
linings by Sutherland is also included in the folder.
Comments on the Trend report from the Secretary, Superin-
tendents and others within NPL.
for meetings of committee set up to prepare Royal
Papers
Society's written evidence to the Trend Committee,
November 1963- January 1964.
Correspondence and comments on the Trend report exchanged
with colleagues outside NPL.
Sutherland, one for H.W. Melville (13 November 1963) and
the other for the Secretary, Royal Society (sent 3 December
1963).
Trend report, January-August 1964.
Memorandum by the Council for Scientific and Industrial
Research on the Trend report, sent to Sutherland, 16
December 1963.
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C.50-C.52 Correspondence and papers relating to Royal Society Panel
appointed to draft a paper on the future of the NPL, July-
October 1964.
July
Includes drafts of government statements on the Trend report,
papers for meeting at the Royal Society on 29 July, and
ms. notes by Sutherland on conversations with M. Dean
(Under-Secretary of State, Department of Education and
Science).
August-September
Includes minutes and Sutherland's ms. notes of the meeting
at the Royal Society on 29 July and a further meeting on
20 August.
October
Includes drafts and final version of paper on the future
of the NPL sent to M. Dean by the President of the Royal
Society on 22 October 1964.
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SECTION D
COMMITTEES, SOCIETIES, ORGANISATIONS
_D.1 - D.58
The material is presented in alphabetical order and ranges from one or two
letters about membership, meetings, etc. to correspondence and papers ranging
over several years such as those relating to the foundation of the International
Organisation for Pure and Applied Biophysics (IOPAB) in which Sutherland played
an active part.
He was also involved in the early days of the British Biophysical
Society as a member of the steering committee and chaired the Royal Society
exploratory committee leading to the formation of the British Acoustical Society.
For material on work done by Sutherland for UNESCO, see F.36 - F.38,
F.39 - F.43, F.44.
ADVISORY BOARD ON RELATIONS WITH
UNIVERSITIES
2 letters only re suitable dates for meetings.
AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY
BRITISH BIOPHYSICAL SOCIETY
1959-62
BRITISH ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY
see D.50-D.54
The first moves towards the formation of a Bio-
physical Society in Great Britain were made
following an informal meeting convened by J.T.
Randall in J.C. Kendrew's rooms in Peterhouse,
Cambridge, 8 July 1959.
Sutherland attended
this initial meeting and took an active part in the
foundation of the society, first as a member of a
small Working Party set up by the Faraday Society
and then as a member of the Steering Committee
of the British Biophysical Society.
1960.
The material consists mainly of committee papers
documenting the formation of the Society, with some
correspondence.
Includes report
on Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry and papers
for meetings of the Steering Committee to December
of Faraday Society Working Party
1959-60
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1961-62
Includes papers for meetings of the Steering Committee
to 12 December 1961 (13th and last meeting) and
letter of thanks to Sutherland for his service on the
committee.
CAMBRIDGE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY
1934
Announcement of Sutherland's election as a Fellow.
CHEMICAL SOCIETY
1936, 1937, 1941
Mainly re membership.
COUNCIL FOR SCIENTIFIC POLICY
See also G.31, H.3.
Letters of appointment to membership of the Council
for Scientific Policy from January 1965;
with list of members;
of membership in December 1967;
of meetings.
press notice
letter of thanks on termination
circulars re dates
THE FARADAY SOCIETY
1934-45
1934, 1937-39
1940-45
Correspondence with members of CSP and other
colleagues, 1966-68.
Correspondence with the Secretary and Editor
of the Transactions (G.S.W. Marlow), re papers
submitted for publication by Sutherland and others,
arrangements for meetings, etc.
1934
letter from H.W. Thompson re proposed
Includes.
meeting on Optical Methods of determining Molecular
Structure, 1941.
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D.10-D.12
INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL OF SCIENTIFIC UNIONS.
Committee on Data for Science and Technology [CODATA].
Memoranda and correspondence exchanged between
members of CODATA, 1968-80.
Sutherland was a member of the Bureau 1968-72 and
U.K. Delegate 1978-80.
1968-70
1972-76
Includes ms. by Sutherland on the future of CODATA
prepared for a discussion at Boulder, Colorado,
1 July 1976.
1978-80.
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D.13-D.48
INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR PURE AND
APPLIED BIOPHYSICS (IOPAB).
1959-62, 1964
At a meeting of the International Union of Pure and
Applied Physics (IUPAP) in Rome in September 1957
an ad hoc committee consisting of Sutherland, R.H.
Bolt and A. Joffe was appointed to look into the
desirability of setting up a Commission on Biophysics.
The committee recommended the holding of a small
international conference on biophysics in order to
bring together a representative selection of physicists
and biologists and so allow a wider discussion of the
necessity for an international organisation in bio-
physics and the form it might take.
Chairman of the Organising Committee of this conference
which was held in Cambridge, July 1959.
Sutherland was
The plan-
IOPAB was formed at the Stockholm conference on
The following papers document the
D.13-D.26
D,13
As a result of the Cambridge conference it was
decided to hold an open international congress in
Stockholm in 1961, to be preceded by a planning
meeting attended by representatives of interested
countries and international organisations.
ning meeting was held in Amsterdam in July 1960, and
it was decided to set up a small committee, with Sutherland
as convenor, whose task would be to draw up a proposed
constitution for an international organisation for bio-
physics and investigate the relationship it should have
with other international organisations.
2 August 1961 and Sutherland was elected Honorary
Vice-President.
events described above from the Cambridge conference
to the end of 1962.
national organisation for biophysics.
Typescript copy of report of the Ad hoc Committee on
Biophysics (Sutherland, Bolt and A. Joffe) to the
Executive Committee of IUPAP, June 1958.
Among
other recommendations the report calls for IUPAP to
sponsor an international conference on biophysics in
1959 or 1960.
"Interim Conclusions on the Proposal to form a Biophysics
Commission’.
R.H. Bolt,
to A.V. Hill.
19 May 1958, with letter from Sutherland
2 pp. typescript by Sutherland and
International Biophysics Conference on 'Recent Contribu-
tions of Physics to Biology', Cambridge, 6-9 July 1959.
Correspondence with A. Engstrom, August-October 1958,
re arrangements for conference and formation of inter-
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Minutes of meetings of the Organising Committee
for the conference, November 1958-April 1959.
(Sutherland was Chairman.)
Correspondence re preliminary arrangements for the
conference, November 1958-June 1959.
D.16
D.17-D.20
Correspondence with the National Science Foundation
re finance.
Correspondence with participants, mainly re administra-
tive arrangements, but including some scientific ex-
changes.
In alphabetical order.
A-B
C-G
H-K
L-W
Correspondence with other international organisa-
tions, May-July 1959.
Ms. notes re financial and other arrangements, drafts
of conference programme, lists of possible participants,
etc.
Ms. notes for Sutherland's address on 8 July, opening
the 'General Discussion on whether there is need for
an international organisation in Biophysics and, if so,
what form it should take.'
publication in both journals.
Duplicated typescript of Sutherland's report on the
conference to the Executive Committee of IUPAP,
August 1959.
Final version of programme and list of participants
is also included in the folder.
Correspondence with the Editors of Nature and Science.
Includes 2 drafts of report on the conference for
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Correspondence re possible arrangements for publish-
ing papers given at the conference.
abandoned as impractical .
(The idea was
)
D.27-D.31
D.27
Requests from journals, information services, etc.
for reports of proceedings or reprints of papers given.
Not indexed.
International Planning Meeting of Biophysicists at
Amsterdam, 14-17 July 1960.
Correspondence with A.K. Solomon, July 1959-July
1960, mainly re arrangements for the meeting in
Amsterdam.
Correspondence with J.A.V. Butler, J.C. Kendrew
and J.T. Randall, re attendance at the Amsterdam
meeting.
Includes some correspondence with the
Royal Society re travel grants.
Correspondence with A.J.H. Vendrick (Secretary,
Amsterdam Meeting), January-June 1960.
Programme and list of participants; notes and drafts
made during the meeting; photograph of delegates.
Drafts of the Secretary's Report on the Meeting with
correspondence arising.
Correspondence, August 1960-July 1961, with members
of committee appointed at the Amsterdam Meeting to
draw up a constitution for an International Organisa-
tion in Biophysics.
(Sutherland was Convenor of the
committee. )
K.
Circulars from Sutherland to all members of the com-
mittee and 2 drafts of the committee's 'Terms of
Reference' are also included here.
Rosenblith, W.
A.
Hercik, F.
Lamerton, L.
F.
Rajewsky, B.
Solomon, A.
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Several drafts of 'Proposed Statutes of an International
Organisation for Pure and Applied Biophysics’ .
Several drafts of 'Enabling Resolutions for Inter-
national Organization for Pure and Applied Biophysics’ .
Correspondence from colleagues (non-committee members)
commenting on the draft 'Statutes' and ‘Enabling Resolutions’
(in alphabetical order).
Correspondence with representatives of the following
international scientific unions, committees, etc. re
the possibility of forming an international organisation
for biophysics, August 1960-September 1961:
International Council of Scientific Unions
International Liaison Committee of Medical Physics
International Union of Biochemistry
International Union of Crystallography
International Union of History and Philosophy of the
Sciences
International Union of Physiological Sciences
International Biophysics Congress, Stockholm, 31 July-
4 August 1961.
Folder also includes material re a visit by Sutherland
to the ASEA Laboratories in Stockholm the day before
the meeting.
Correspondence re arrangements for Sutherland to attend
a meeting of the Steering Committee for the Congress
held in Stockholm, 28 October 1960.
October 1960-June 1961.
Correspondence with authors and others re papers to be
presented at the Congress during the session chaired by
Sutherland (on 'Emerging Techniques in Biology').
alphabetical order.
Further correspondence re arrangements for the Congress,
C-K
L-T
D.40, D.41
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D.44
D.45-D.48
Committees, societies, organisations
Conference programmes, circulars, ms. notes taken
by Sutherland during the meeting.
Correspondence re arrangements for publication of
papers presented at the Congress.
Correspondence with A.K. Solomon, Secretary-General
of the International Organisation for Pure and Applied
Biophysics, September 1961-October 1962 and 1964,
documenting the final stages in the founding of IOPAB.
Copies of correspondence exchanged between Solomon
and others, sent to Sutherland for information, are also
included in the sequence.
September-December 1961
Includes correspondence with J.A.V. Butler on the
formation of a (British) National Committee on Biophysics.
January-February 1962
Includes draft article for Nature on the [OPAB and
proofs of Sutherland's introduction to the published
proceedings of the Swedish conference.
March-May 1962
June-October 1962, 1964
Mainly re meeting of the Council of IOPAB in Vienna,
13 and 14 April 1962.
Includes Sutherland's ms. notes
taken at the meeting and draft report to the Royal Society.
Mainly re IOPAB's relationship with other international
organisations including the International Council of
Scientific Unions (ICSU).
letter of thanks from Solomon to Sutherland on Sutherland's
retirement as Hon. Vice-President of IOPAB.
Announcement of election as Fellow.
Also included here is typescript of President's report to
IOPAB council, June 1964.
NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR CIVIL LIBERTIES
JUNIOR MOUNTAINEERING CLUB OF SCOTLAND 1933-34
Notices of meetings.
from the Scottish Ski Club is also included here.
A letter and application form
1964 correspondence is a
OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA
1938
1959
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D.50-D.57
ROYAL SOCIETY
See also C.1-C.10 passim, C.36-C.52 passim, E.1,
6.24
Ad hoc exploratory committee on the formation of a
British Acoustical Society.
Sutherland was Chairman.
Correspondence with A.J. King, E.J. Richards and
others, August-December 1963, re preliminary moves
towards the formation of a British Acoustical Society.
Meeting to consider the formation of an acoustical
society in the U.K. held in the Royal Society, 26 February
1964, with Sutherland in the Chair.
Correspondence, Sutherland's ms. notes, draft minutes
of meeting.
Correspondence and papers, March 1964-January 1965.
Includes arrangements for meeting at the Royal Society,
20 April 1964, and report of the steering committee set
up to draft a constitution and By-Laws for the proposed
new society.
Correspondence and papers, April-November 1965, 1966.
Correspondence and papers, December 1964-March 1965.
Includes arrangements for 2 meetings of the ad hoc com-
mittee and letter of thanks to Sutherland from the Chairman
of the newly-formed British Acoustical Society, 26 March
1965.
September 1979.
Ad hoc working group to consider the Royal Society's
future contributions to the Jungfraujoch and Gornergrat
High Alpine Research Stations.
Sutherland was a member.
Brief correspondence and committee papers, typescript
report by Sutherland on visit to Jungfraujoch and
Gornergrat to attend Board Meeting on 14 and 15
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British National Committee on Data for
Science and Technology
1966-78
This committee was set up in 1966 to liaise with
the ICSU Committee on Data for Science and
Technology (CODATA) (q.v.).
Sutherland was
the first Chairman and also served as the official
U.K. delegate to CODATA.
The material consists of brief correspondence and
committee papers with ms. notes by Sutherland.
Arrangements for visit to Cambridge of Chinese delega-
tion visiting U.K. at the invitation of the Royal
Society, October 1972.
ROYAL SOCIETY CLUB
1958
Brief correspondence re election to membership.
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EDUCATION AND SCIENCE POLICY _ E.1 - E.47
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THE BRAIN DRAIN
E.17- E.34
ROYAL SOCIETY FOR TECHNOLOGISTS
E.35- E.42
UNIVERSITY EXPANSION AND RELATED
TOPICS
E.43 - E.47
GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE
In 1962 Sutherland was appointed as Chairman of an ad hoc Committee of
the Royal Society to collect information on the emigration of scientists from the
United Kingdom.
The Committee published its report in 1963 (see E.1) but
Sutherland retained a keen interest in the problem throughout the 1960s, lecturing,
publishing (e.g. Bibliog. 149) and corresponding with colleagues (see E.12 - E.16).
In 1963 a letter from Sutherland to The Guardian advocating the foundation of
Esar,.b.o0),
After his move to Cambridge Sutherland became directly involved in problems
of university expansion with particular reference to university science departments.
He served on two major Cambridge University committees (Joint Committee on Student
'A Royal Society for Technologists! provoked a considerable correspondence and
contributed to the Royal Society's decision to increase the number of Fellows
elected each year in an attempt to broaden the basis of the Fellowship.
Sutherland's preoccupation with the status of the engineer or 'technologist' was
shared by many colleagues, notably Sir Harold Hartley and M.W. Thring with
whom he corresponded extensively on the subject for several years.
(See E.25,
related correspondence is preserved at E.39 - E.42.
The results of this investigation were published in Minerva (Bibliog. 160) and the
papers for which have been passed to Cambridge University Archives (but see G.45).
and in 1972 he spent six months at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral
He also wrote a review of the Deer report on Cambridge University science (E.35)
Numbers and Committee of the General Board on Long-Term development) the
Sciences, Stanford, conducting an investigation into the optimum size for a university.
G.B.B.M. Sutherland
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THE BRAIN DRAIN
‘Emigration of Scientists from the United Kingdom. Report
of a Committee appointed by the Council of the Royal
Society', February 1963.
Printed copy (Bibliog. 137).
Sutherland was Chairman of the Committee.
See also H.33.
'The Brain Drain'.
Migration of the Committee on Manpower Resources for
Science and Technology, October 1967.
Report of the Working Group on
Printed copy.
Sutherland was a Member of the Working Group.
'The Brain Drain'.
1967 (Bibliog. 149).
Article published in Political Quarterly,
Ms. notes, typescript draft, correspondence with the Editor
and others.
Correspondence re arrangements, press-cuttings.
"Some Aspects of the U.S.A. Today'.
the Royal Society of Arts, 30 January 1967 (Bibliog. 150).
Cantor Lecture to
Programme, list of participants, correspondence with
organisers, ms. notes and typescript summary of Sutherland's
paper, notes taken during the Symposium, printed report.
'The Brain Drain. Magnitude and Causes'.
Contribution
to Symposium on ‘Aspects of the Brain Drain’ organised by
the Association of Scientific Workers, Birkbeck College,
10 May 1967.
'The Brain Drain Problem.
Counter-measures'.
ence (see F.34, F.35) and scheduled for publication in
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists but in the event they were
unable to find space for it.
Correspondence with J. Rotblat and editorial staff of Bulletin
of the Atomic Scientists;
typescript of paper.
Causes, Magnitude and Possible
Paper presented at 17th Pugwash Confer-
Script of B.B.C. interview on the Brain Drain,
10 May 1967.
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Conference on the International Migration of Talent,
Ditchley Park, Oxon., 16-19 February 1968.
List of participants, reports of Discussion Groups, printed
account of the conference.
'The Migration of Scientists’.
Association Meeting, Dundee, August 1968 (Bibliog. 153).
Paper given at British
Offprint of Sutherland's paper, press reports of the Meeting.
E.10
E.T]
Miscellaneous reports and printed matter, mostly with
annotations by Sutherland.
Miscellaneous press-cuttings on the brain drain assembled
by Sutherland.
Ev t2-€.16
Correspondence, in alphabetical order.
Ewt2
Bowden, B.
V.
1967
Enclosing information on brain drain problem in
countries other than Britain.
Edwards, A.
Lonsdale, K.
Williams, S.
Payne, G.
L.
Nierenberg, W.
A.
re ways of reducing the brain drain.
re proposed B.B.C. 'Horizon' programme.
Enclosing OECD reports on the international move-
ment of scientific and technical manpower.
indexed.
Includes proposal for establishment of a Science
and Technology Register to encourage liaison
between industry and Ph.D. students.
Letters from members of the public, 1967-68.
Not
Ward, W.
H.
1968
1965
1964
1968
G.B.B.M. Sutherland
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ROYAL SOCIETY FOR TECHNOLOGISTS
Drafts and offprint of letter from Sutherland published
in The Guardian, 30 November 1963, advocating the
foundation of a 'Royal Society for Technologists’.
Brief correspondence with the Science Correspondent
of The Guardian is also included in the folder.
Press-cuttings of reactions to Sutherland's suggestions.
‘Memorandum on a Proposal to form the Duke of Edinburgh
Society’.
Drafts dated 9 and 14 December 1963 with a ‘Further Note’
dated 16 December, and suggestions for possible initial
membership of the Society.
Miscellaneous background material to E.19.
Includes 4 pp. typescript by Sutherland on the 'Case for
increasing the number of Fellows elected annually to the
Royal Society', 7 December 1960.
E.21-E.32
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Allen, F.
Allibone, T.
E.
corer; ve.
an...
RB.
Aldersley, G.
N.
Bowden, B.
V.
Correspondence, in alphabetical order.
R.
(Sutherland's ms. (photocopy) only).
Coitiss, BH. .
iE.
Feilden, G.
B.
Coie, = J.-B.
KOldr, A.
Rk.
Clausen, H.
Cockburn, R.
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Fleck, A.
1963-64
Includes papers for meeting of Royal Society
ad hoc Committee on Technology, 14 February 1964.
Florey, H.
W.
Gabor, D.
Gegen Pc
Bi
Hague, K.
Hall, A.
A.
Hartley, H.
B.
1963-64
1963
1964
1963
1963
1963-66
Includes 5 pp. typescript by Hartley on the
future of the Council of Engineering Institutions,
13 July 1966.
Hinton, C.
1963
Hogg, Q.
1963
1963
1963
1963
Lighthill, M.
J.
Holder, D.
W.
mutton, kK...
S.
(Sutherland's carbon only).
and KVA.
Includes letter from RUdberg, 13 November 1963,
describing relationship between the Swedish IVA
Ratcliffe, J.
A.
Menzies, A.
C.
Miller, A.
;
1963
1963
1963
1963
Ljungberg, G.
1964
1963
1963-64
Howorth, M.
Jackson, W.
Rudberg, E.
G.B.B.M. Sutherland
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Safier, A.
S.
1963
Enclosing draft of letter to The Guardian in reply
to Sutherland's.
Semper, E.
Also enclosing draft letter to The Guardian.
Short, A.
(Sutherland's carbon only).
Stobart, A.
F.
1963
1963
Enclosing typescript of talk given in Birmingham.
Stratton, J.
A.
1964
re proposed National Academy of Engineering
ins “STAG
Laity Si,
Copy of draft letter to The Guardian.
1963-64
1965-66
Todd, A.
..R.