Bundle of correspondence between Pontecorvo, Sir Hector Hetherington, and others, regarding finding a suitable candidate to be the Director of a new plant breeding station in Barbados

Date:: Feb 1954-Jun 1954

Reference:: UGC 198/2/2/3/5

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

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Papers of Guido Pellegrino Arrigo Pontecorvo, geneticist, Professor of Genetics, University of Glasgow, ScotlandUGC 198
- Papers of Guido Pellegrino Arrigo Pontecorvo, career and appointmentsUGC 198/2
  - Correspondence relating to posts held by Pontecorvo, and readerships and other appointments he applied for throughout his career in various UK and international instutionsUGC 198/2/2
    - Department of Genetics, University of GlasgowUGC 198/2/2/3
      - Bundle of correspondence between Pontecorvo, Sir Hector Hetherington, and others, regarding finding a suitable candidate to be the Director of a new plant breeding station in BarbadosUGC 198/2/2/3/5

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Bundle of correspondence between Pontecorvo, Sir Hector Hetherington, and others, regarding finding a suitable candidate to be the Director of a new plant breeding station in Barbados. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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In Pontecorvo's draft letter to the Principal he explains that he might be interested in the position himself. He again mentions his dismay at the lack of support for a new Chair of Genetics at the University and explains how "I shall have from now onwards to be actively on the look out for posts which will give me a prospect of not starving when I retire. This of course, unless the University acts soon and adequately". Also includes letters from R F Innes of the Sugar Manufacturer Association in Jamaica.

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Feb 1954-Jun 1954

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8 letters (9 pages)

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A digitised copy is held by the Wellcome Library as part of Codebreakers: Makers of Modern Genetics.

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Open and available at Glasgow University Archives Service.

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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.

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