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- 1971-1972 (Creation)
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Correspondence and papers, including a typescript copy of 'Comments by Lord Rothschild, F. R. S., on statements in letters to the Press about his report, and at his request circulated to Fellows attending meeting on Tuesday 11 Jan. 1972’, with annotations (summaries of opinions of others) by Synge on the versos. Correspondence includes copies of letters from Synge to Alan Hodgkin, President of the Royal Society, and to Henry Barcroft about his father's work, and letters from Frederick C. Bawden, Henry Barcroft, and R. W. J. Keay of the Royal Society.
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Framework for Government Research and Development by Lord Rothschild, Cmnd 4814, 1971.
This Green Paper (known as the Rothschild Report) on research and development carried out by government departments and other institutions attracted much comment. Synge prepared a memorandum on the implications of the report for agricultural research.
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- Rothschild, Nathaniel Mayer Victor (1910-1990), 3rd Baron Rothschild, zoologist and public servant (Subject)
- Bawden, Sir Frederick Charles (1908-1972), knight, virologist and plant pathologist (Subject)
- Hodgkin, Sir Alan Lloyd (1914-1998), knight, physiologist (Subject)
- Barcroft, Henry (1904-1998), circulatory physiologist (Subject)
- Keay, Ronald William John (1920-1998), botanist (Subject)
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- Barcroft, Sir Joseph (1872–1947), Knight, physiologist (Subject)