Strip of negatives from the 100th Meeting of the Genetical Society, Cambridge, 30th June
- Date:
- Jun 1949
- Reference:
- UGC 198/10/3/3/1
- Part of:
- Papers of Guido Pellegrino Arrigo Pontecorvo, geneticist, Professor of Genetics, University of Glasgow, Scotland
- Archives and manuscripts
Collection contents
About this work
Description
Negative was wrapped in a strip of paper with the following information. "No. 3: Ephrussi and Sonneborn; No. 4: Callan (Secretary GS?) & EB Ford, President; No. 5: Medawar et al; No. 6: Punnett & EB Ford et al."
No. 2 seems to be a group shot and a copy of this is in the Science photograph album at UGC 198/10/1/1/4.
Then a note in Pontecorvo's handwriting: "I believe I was senior secretary at that time. The meeting was a shamble of organization thanks to me."
Publication/Creation
Jun 1949
Physical description
1 strip of negatives (5 images)
Related material
UGC 198/10/1/1/4-5, photographs of the 100th Genetical Society meeting in Cambridge on 30 June 1949 and of staff at the Institute of Animal Genetics at the University of Edinburgh
Terms of use
Open and available at Glasgow University Archives Service.
Where to find it
Location of original
The original material is held at Glasgow University Archive Services. This catalogue is held by the Wellcome Library as part of Codebreakers: Makers of Modern Genetics.