Correspondence: analysis of samples of rumen contents. Shaw was based at the Evans Biological Institute, Runcorn, Cheshire.
"The statue of Lord Byron placed in the Library Oct 17th 1845
Master Wm Whwell DD
Senior Bursar Rev J Merton MA
Junior Bursar A Thacker Esq MA
Under Librarian Edward Cranwell"
Includes correspondence re the death of W.W. Rouse-Ball, a Tutor at Trinity College, April 1925.
(Headed ‘No. 10107.’)
C/54 includes correspondence from Newnham College Cambridge inviting Thomson to deliver the Sidgwick Memorial Lecture.
Includes letters of application for Fellowships at Trinity College.
Includes 8pp offprint of lecture by Sir J.G. Frazer titled 'The Scope and Method of Mental Anthropology', Science Progress, April 1922.
Correspondence and research.
J/224: 1938, 1941-1942
J/225: 1943-1945. Includes manuscript notes headed 'Forces of interaction between large molecules, especially proteins, and their constituent parts' and typescript note 'Points that should be discussed in a Macro-molecular conference'
J/226: 1947-1949
J/227: Undated, perhaps 1940s
J/228: 1950-1951
J/229: 1952-1953
J/230: 1954-1955
J/231: 1956-1957. Includes duplicated typescript note by Pirie `The future development of research on the manufacture of leaf protein', August 1956.
J/232: 1958-1959 and undated. Includes duplicated typescript note by Pirie 'Some suggestions on the initiation of work on the use of leaf protein as a human food' sent to Synge, 22 July 1959, as the most suitable thing for him to take with him to China and undated duplicated form letter introducing Science for Peace organisation.
J/233: 1960-1961
J/234: 1962-1963. Includes Pirie's draft programme for a symposium on 'The health hazards arising from different methods of generating power' sent to Synge, 5 March 1963.
J/235: 1964-1965. Includes duplicated typescript by Pirie 'Note on a visit to New Guinea and Papua and some suggestions for organising work there on the production and use of leaf protein', 16 March 1965.
J/236: 1966-1969
J/237: 1970-1977, 1979. Includes photocopy of programme of visit of Pirie to the University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore, India, 3 February 1970.
J/238: 1980-1981, 1983, 1985-1986. Includes photocopies of articles by Pirie on leaf protein etc.
Correspondence re analyses of substances
The festschrift appeared as a supplement volume to Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics.
1974, 1976–1977 and undated.
J/284: 1974-1975
J/285: 1976
J/286: 1977-1978
Van Sumere was based at the Laboratory for Plant Biochemistry at the University of Ghent, Belgium. Synge attended a Phytochemical Society symposium on 'The Chemistry and Biochemistry of Plant Proteins', University of Ghent, 4-6 September 1973, arranged by Van Sumere in September 1973. This was the first of a number of visits by Synge to Ghent and by Van Sumere to the Food Research Institute, Norwich.
Includes conference programme, list of participants, short papers and Synge's report to the Agricultural Research Council..
Pierpoint was a member of the Biochemistry Department, Rothamsted Experimental Station, Harpenden, Hertfordshire.
J/218: Correspondence, 1970, 1975, 1978–1981 and undated
J/219-J/220: Papers sent to Synge for comment, including draft on phenols and leaf proteins by Pierpoint c 1980.
Martin and Synge shared the 1952 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for their invention of partition chromatography.
J/186-J/187: Letters from Martin in Leeds where he was based at the Wool Industries Research Association, 1936-1946. Almost all the letters are undated.
J/188: 1947–1948, 1951-1953, 1955-1956, 1965, 1970, 1973, and undated
Khouw came to Britain from Indonesia to work for a period at the Rowett Research Institute, the National Institute for Medical Research, Mill Hill and the Rothamsted Experimental Station, Harpenden. Khouw also used his Indonesian name Komanto in later correspondence.
J/155: 1959–1963, 1966, 1981, 1983
J/155A: Miscellaneous biographical material including Khouw's interest in the analysis of sinograms.
Correspondence re research, publications, personal news.
J/151: 1963-1965. Includes recommendation.
J/152: 1966–1968, 1972, 1977.
Correspondence. Jakobsen was based at the Royal Veterinary and Agricultural College, Copenhagen, Denmark. He worked with Synge at the Rowett Research Institute for a period from November 1955 and made a second short visit to the Rowett in June 1956.
Correspondence re personal news, career and research.
J//141: 1933–1939. Includes two letters from Humphrey to Synge's mother and two letters from Janet Rumney, daughter of A.V.Hill, whom Humphrey married in November 1939.
J/142: 1940-1941. Includes letter from Janet Humphrey.
J/143: 1944-1949
J/144: 1950–1953, 1955, 1957-1958
J/145: 1960, 1964–1965, 1971
J/146: 1985, 1988–1990. Includes the Times obituary of Humphrey (1987), order of memorial service at Trinity College Cambridge, and Synge's 'Recollections of John Humphrey as Schoolboy and Student (1929-1939)' written to aid Royal Society memorialists.
Hughes was based at the Rowett Research Institute and studied for the Research Diploma of the Royal Institute of Chemistry under the supervision of Synge. He subsequently emigrated to Australia.
J/139: 1967–1969
J/140: 1970–1971, and undated; includes recommendations.
Correspondence re research, including gramicidin S.
J/129: 1943-1945
J/130: 1946-1949
J/131: 1950–1956, 1959
J/132: 1968, 1975, 1978
J/133: Undated.
Correspondence, 1936, 1942-1944, 1953, 1962. Harington was Director of the National Institute for Medical Research, 1942-1962; papers from 1962 relate to presentation to Harington on his retirement.