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Memorandum of Agreement between the Clarendon Press, Oxford, and Synge, A.T. Phillipson and S.R. Elsden for book entitled 'Ruminant Digestion (or similar title)', signed 27 January 1953; manuscript and typescript plan for the book; correspondence between co-authors and with publishers 1952-1953.

Correspondence.

J/241: 1962–1963
J/242: 1964, 1968–1976. Includes 'A report on the 6th international congress of biochemistry', 3pp typescript by Pusztai, 18 August 1964 and copy of letter from Pusztai to S.R. Elsden, 3 September 1976, in answer to enquiry from Elsden about the effects of germination on seed proteins from a nutritional point of view.

Pusztai came to Britain from Hungary as a refugee in 1956. After working for a time with W.J.T. Morgan at the Lister Institute, London he moved to the Rowett Research Institute in 1963.

H/73: Re JCO Food Science and Technology Board's Second Report on Protein Feeds for Farm Livestock in the UK, 1975. Correspondence and papers re Food Research Institute response to the Report. Synge and S.R. Elsden drafted a reply on behalf of the Institute.

H/74: Working Party of the Board investigating research requirements on proteins for human consumption, 1976-1977. Includes invitation to Synge to join the Working Party and 5pp manuscript draft report of the Working Party by Synge.

Correspondence re research, personal news.

J/93: Letters written by Elsden from Physiology Department, Edinburgh, 1941-1942.
J/94: Letters and cards written by Elsden from the School of Biochemistry and Emmanuel College, Cambridge, 1944-1946; Letters from the University of California at Berkeley, 1946-1948.
J/95-J/96: Letters written by Elsden from Sheffield, 1951–1953, 1958, 1960, 1965.
J/97: Letters and grant application from Food Research Institute, Norwich. 1967, 1971 and n.d.