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Correspondence regarding plans for Pontecorvo's Mongolia trip in June/July 1992 and its subsequent cancellation

<p>Includes correspondence between Pontecorvo and members of the Mongolian Embassy, the Royal Society, the Medical Research Council and the State Committee for Environment Control of the Mongolian People's Republic. Pontecorvo had to cancel his trip due to developing pneumonia in June 1992. </p>

Papers of Guido Pellegrino Arrigo Pontecorvo, geneticist, Professor of Genetics, University of Glasgow, Scotland

Papers of Guido Pellegrino Arrigo Pontecorvo, material relating to Pontecorvo's research trips abroad

Correspondence relating to Pontecorvo's planned research trips to Mongolia in June/July 1991 and June/July 1992

Bundle of correspondence between Pontecorvo and Dr Nadmidyn Ulziykhutag, Director of the Institute of Botany at the Mongolian People's Republic Academy of Science, regarding arrangements for his trip to Mongolia

Pontecorvo's list of letters written to colleagues to prepare for his trip to Mongolia

Bundle of correspondence between Pontecorvo and the Royal Society concerning his trip to Mongolia

Copy of a letter from Pontecorvo to Jonathan Walters of the Foreign Commonwealth Office asking for support in organising his trip to Mongolia

Document outlining suggestions for cooperation with the Insitute of Botany in Mongolia

Correspondence between Pontecorvo and the Royal Society including Pontecorvo's application for his research trip to Mongolia in June-July 1991

Copy of a letter from Pontecorvo to Robert Maxwell regarding Cashmir wool in Mongolia and his visit to Mongolia in June/July 1991

Correspondence between Pontecorvo and the Royal Society regarding their failure to find him a research contact in Mongolia

Copy of letters from Pontecorvo to Mrs Balchigiin Bazarkhand of the Mongolian Embassy in London regarding her assistance in helping to arrange his trip to Mongolia

Bundle of correspondence between Pontecorvo and the Royal Society regarding the postponement of the trip to Mongolia until June/July 1992 due to communication problems

Correspondence between Pontecorvo and Professor Nadmidyn Ulziykhutag relating to a possible trip to Mongolia in 1993

Correspondence regarding plans for Pontecorvo's Mongolia trip in June/July 1992 and its subsequent cancellation

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