This sub-series includes theses (and papers produced from thesis research) authored by Sir Anthony, along with theses and publications by members of Sir Anthony's lab produced under his supervision (E/1/3–E/1/12). E/1/1 contains materials related to practical details of Sir Anthony's publications, such as publication/lecture/presentation lists, and CVs. E/1/2 is a notebook of expenses related to the publication of papers.
This is a set of collected reprints of Sir Anthony's publications.
This sub-series includes a school photograph from Sir Anthony's childhood, images of a gathering with friends, and other memorabilia.
This series contains materials commemorating the discovery of the Epstein-Barr virus by Sir Anthony, Dr Yvonne Barr, and Dr Bert Achong in 1964. These include laboratory notebooks, initial publications on the Epstein-Barr virus, publications on the 25th, 30th, and 50th anniversaries of the discovery, and various records of Sir Anthony's lectures, talks, and medial appearances.
This sub-series contains Sir Anthony's professional and formal correspondence from his career as a researcher and academic.
This sub-series contains some of Sir Anthony's personal correspondences with collaborators and fellow academics, including his applications for scholarships, fellowships, and academic positions. See series A: personal Material for other types of personal material such as photographs, newspaper cuttings, memorabilia, audio recordings, and certificates.
Requests made to Sir Anthony to peer review and appraise academic papers for publication in scientific journals. These documents include Sir Anthony's comments and suggestions.
Book reviews authored by Sir Anthony and contributions of chapters to books and publications.
See series E for other relevant papers.
This sub-series contains some of Sir Anthony's book contributions, as well as his various appearances in radio and television broadcasts.
See A/3 for recordings of broadcasts and interviews described in D/14/1, and see series E for publications and book chapters.
Sir Anthony was a founding editor of the International Review of Experimental Pathology, alongside Dr G.W. Richter, a researcher at the Department of Pathology at Cornell University Medical College. The journal was produced by the Academic Press, and its first issue was published in 1960. Volume XXVII is missing.
Sir Anthony served on the editorial boards of these international journals.
This series contains dismissed invitations for Sir Anthony's attendance at conferences and to give keynote addresses, talks, seminar, and lectures.
These materials deal with Sir Anthony's laboratory members and staff at the Middlesex Hospital Bland-Sutton Institute of Pathology and the University of Bristol Department of Pathology. These papers also include details of long-term visitors, collaborators, and research fellows who spent time in Sir Anthony's laboratories. [See D/1/1/2 and D/1/1/3 for visitors' books.]
Contents include administrative matters, job descriptions, and professional correspondences. However, some of these documents are more personal in nature, concerning the efforts by former staff to establish their own laboratories, seeking Sir Anthony's support and advice in doing so.
This series contains files relating to Sir Anthony's travels throughout his lifetime. All files included involve professional visits by Sir Anthony for conferences, academic/research society meetings, and laboratory tours. Also included are travels in his capacity as Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society and Chairman for the Committee on Science in Central and Eastern Europe (COMSCEE) for the International Council of Scientific Unions (ICSU). Most of Sir Anthony's visits to the United States concerned, in part, his role on the Scientific Advisory Committee of the New England Regional primate Research Center at Harvard Medical School.
Contents include travel arrangements, programmes, financial arrangements, agendas, minutes, notes from laboratory visits, reports, paper abstracts, conference proceedings, and letters of appreciation. Most files also include photographs and memorabilia. D/19/155 contains additional photographs from Sir Anthony's travels and professional portraits.
With the exception of E1/2/1, this series is formed by files arising out of the planning of various seminars and congresses
Cuttings and excepts from newspapers, magazines, and academic journals dealing with Sir Anthony's work. Includes: press reports about the Epstein-Barr virus; viruses causing cancer; electron microscopy; development of cancer vaccine; some academic journal articles by Sir Anthony. Some material in French and German.
Correspondence dealing with requests for Sir Anthony to act as a referee for grant applications and professional appointments
This is an alphabetized list of of all individuals requesting paper reprints of each of Sir Anthony's publications. This list indicates which publications each individual requested, and when they made the request. Each index card lists contact details, information about the requester, and the number of the requested publication.
This material comprises preliminary working material, original work, and data. Contents include: reprints, prints of electron micrographs (mainly used as plates for illustrations), annotated manuscript and typescript drafts, write-ups of experimental results, tables, figures, and proofs.
Also included is correspondence with: editors, reviewers, and referees, including George Palade, Werner Henle, Denis Burkitt; conference organizers about the submissions, content, and drafts of papers, arrangements, programmes, and other related matters; copies of published proceedings.
There are also requests by others for the loan of electron micrographs for use in their papers. Some content is on a more personal level in letters. Prints in envelopes labelled 'spares' and 'spare figs' are usually spares of those used in the final publication. Conference papers were mostly published. These documents show the process of preparation of scientific papers, from draft to publication.
The original order by papers, chronologically, was retained. In most cases, original file descriptions were transcribed exactly.
The Royal Society is the United Kingdom's national academy of scientists. Sir Anthony was elected a fellow in 1979. He also served on the Royal Society Council from 1986–1991, as the Foreign Secretary and Vice President, simultaneously. Sir Anthony also served on the other Royal Society committees listed at D/21/2–D/21/5.
The Medical Research Council (MRC) is one of the United Kingdom's central funding bodies for medical research, originally founded in 1913 and re-established by a royal charter in 1920. Sir Anthony was appointed as a member of the Medical Research Council (MRC) in 1982 for four years, serving both on the Council and as Chairman of the Cell Biology Board for the first two years. Thereafter her served as chairman of the Tropical Medicine Board from 1 September 1985–August 1988.
Sir Anthony was a member of the Board and Executive Committee (EXCO) of the European Science Foundation (ESF).
Sir Anthony served as a member of the Executive Board and as Chairman of the Committee on Science in Central and Eastern Europe (COMSCEE), the latter established to assist with the problems, needs, and opportunities of the scientific community in the former Soviet Union.
Sir Anthony was a member of various electron microscopy (EM) societies towards the beginning of his scientific career. The Epstein-Barr virus was the first virus discovered through EM techniques alone.
The China Key Studies Development Project was a World Bank initiative which directed funding to bolster scientific research in China. The Project designated 75 Key Laboratories and 58 Special laboratories for World Bank ad United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) financial support. Sir Anthony was an International Member of the Project's Programme Advisory Group (PAG), a group of Chinese and foreign experts whose role was to monitor progress in the designated laboratories.