Janus: The Papers of Frederick Gowland Hopkins

Manuscripts/MS Add.7620 contains:
1	Material generated or accumulated as an academic post holder
2	Notebooks and loose notes
3	Material relating to consultancies
4	Material generated by honorific positions and associated activities
5	Biographical studies, obituaries, and memorial publications
6	Material generated by personal and family matters
7	Miscellaneous newspaper cutting of a letter to the editor of an unspecified paper from A[rthur] H[eygate] Mackmurdo re Professor Elliot Smith and natural selection
8 (N)	Photographs and ephemera

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The Papers of Frederick Gowland Hopkins

Title	Material generated by honorific positions and associated activities
Reference	MS Add.7620/4
Covering Dates	1905–1947
Extent and Medium	1.5 boxes; paper; photograph

Content and context

This material includes papers re society or other organisational memberships, prizes, medals, degrees, Frederick Gowland Hopkins' knighthood and the award of the Order of Merit.

The material in these subsections is arranged in chronological sequences.

Further information

See also section MS Add.7620/ (8) N2 or MS Add.7620/N2 which contains photographs of various public events.

Manuscripts/MS Add.7620/4 contains:

The British Monarchy and Government. The material largely comprises ephemera from Royal events such as coronations, funerals and surveying of the fleet. . Items /2 and /3 : refer to the Knighthood of Frederick Gowland Hopkins, while. /10, /11 and /12: relate to the award of the Order of Merit. As of 19 January 2011 there are no further detailed descriptions for the items in these folders.
4 folders; paper.

1911–1937

The Nobel Foundation. This material mainly consists of invitations, newspaper cuttings and letters of congratulation. There is also a letter (/7.) from the Stockholms Enskilda Bank re the transfer of prize money and a photograph of [?the prize winners or even the Fellows of the Royal Society] at dinner (/6.) . As of 19 January 2011 there are no further detailed descriptions for the items in these folders.
3 folders and 1 photographic print on a mount board (print: 244x 462mm); paper; photograph.

1929

The Royal Society.
3 folders; paper.

1905–1936

The British Association. The material comprises four letters; a centenary meeting reception programme; and a newspaper cutting. As of 19 January 2011 there are no further detailed descriptions for the items in this folder.
6 items in 1 folder; paper.

1912–1946

Various Universities.
1 folder containing 25 items; paper.

1922–1945

Talks, addresses and lectures; with related correspondence, posters and lecture programme cards. The organisations and societies the lectures were delivered to include:. /1-3, /6: the Royal Institution,. /4: the Royal College of Physicians,. /5, /8, /10-11, /18: various Universities,. /21: the Nutrition Society, and. /26: the Faraday Society. A number of the talks have been marked by Joseph Needham as being from particular or unknown occasions and have been numbered for inclusion in the publication Joseph Needham et al ''Hopkins and biochemistry'' (Cambridge: W. Heffer, 1949). As of 19 January 2011 there are no further detailed descriptions for the items in these folders.
5 folders containing 26 items; paper.

1909–1944

General. This material mainly comprises correspondence, newspaper cuttings and ephemera. Organisations, societies and institutes represented include for example:. /2: the Royal Institution, . /4: Kungliga Fysiografiska Sallskapet I Lund (The Royal Physiographic Society of Lund),. /9: the Cambridge Philosophical Society,. /15: the Royal Society of Medicine,. /30: the Kaiser Wilhelm-Institut fur Biochemie,. /37: the Royal Society of Arts,. /42: the Royal Institute of Public Health, and. /46: the Harvard-Yenching Institute. There are also two photographs (/30A) of Frederick Gowland Hopkins with groups of gentlemen all wearing an unidentified lapel badge. The background of one shot is a gateway, the other a rowing boat and lake. Some names are given. As of 19 January 2011 there are no further detailed descriptions for the items in these folders.
8 folders; paper; photograph.

1905–1947