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Synge visited Australia between 28 April - 8 July 1967 in connection with his Royal Society memoir of H.R. Marston [see J/182-J/185]. He attended the Australian Biochemical Society Annual Meeting in Sydney, 22-25 May, and visited colleagues in Australia, Ceylon, New Zealand and India.

Correspondence re arrangements, 1966-1967.

Correspondence re arrangements, 1966-1967.

Marston was Chief of Division, CSIRO Division of Biochemistry and General Nutrition, University of Adelaide, Australia, 1945-1965.

J/178: 1938–1939, 1942, 1946, 1948-1949
J/179: 1950, 1955, 1958–1959
J/180: 1961, 1964–1965
J/181: Undated.

Synge wrote the biographical memoir of Marston (who died in 1965) for the Royal Society (Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, 13, 267). Synge visited Australia in 1967 in connexion with his preparation of the memoir.

J/182-J/183: Correspondence with Royal Society, correspondence with colleagues and others re information, recollections, 1965–1967.
J/184: Miscellaneous background material including copies of letters from M.L.E. Oliphant to Marston, 1964
J/185: List of names and addresses for presentation of reprints of memoir, letters of appreciation from recipients and other readers of memoir, some with further information and recollections, 1967–1968, 1983.

Correspondence, 1967-1970, 1980. Underwood was Director of the Institute of Agriculture, University of Western Australia, Perth. Synge declined an invitation to write the Royal Society memoir of Underwood.

Correspondence 1967-1969 relates to Synge's Royal Society memoir of H.R. Marston [see J/182-J/185].

Draft letter 1980 from Synge to K. L. Blaxter, the Royal Society memorialist of Underwood, discusses Marston and the 'cobalt story' and the New Zealand facial eczema project.

Correspondence, 1950, 1955, 1958, 1960. Weiss was attached to the CSIRO Division of Industrial Chemistry, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. He visited Synge in 1950 with an introduction from H. R. Marston. He was interested in the possibilities of contra-flow partition chromatography.