| Title |
Notebooks |
| Reference |
GCPP Needham 3
(former reference: C) |
| Creator |
Needham, Dorothy |
| Covering Dates |
1913–1973 |
| Extent and Medium |
11 boxes; Paper |
|
| Content and context |
The material listed here encompasses the whole of Dorothy Needham's research career. It includes undergraduate notebooks used by D N for lectures and practical work for the Cambridge Natural Sciences Tripos, 1915-19, and notes on all aspects of her research work: from postgraduate and postdoctoral research under F G Hopkins and work in the 1930s on ATP (adenosinetriphosphate), to wartime research on chemical defence and post-war research on enzyme biochemistry. Consists of lecture notes and drafts, bibliographical references, notes on lectures by others, research data etc, and a set of 60 notebooks containing bibliographical references for Machina Carnis. There are several series of notebooks whose dates overlap. Among the loose items found enclosed within the larger notebooks were drafts for lectures delivered in China during the war. Also relating to D N's work in China is a small hand-drawn map. |
| Girton/GCPP Needham 3 contains: |
|
1
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Botany and chemistry notes. Hardback notebook inscribed on first page 'Dorothy M Moyle, 79, Beech Road, Stockport. Botany'. Used from the front for notes on and pencil sketches of plants found growing wild, 3 June - 13 August [?1914] and 4 September 1920, and at the back for chemistry notes (some loose). Loose inserts include a 1913 Christmas card.
Creator: Moyle, Dorothy.
1 volume; Paper. |
1913–1920 |
|
2
|
Undergraduate notebooks.
Creator: Moyle, Dorothy.
35 volumes; Paper. |
1915–1923 |
|
3
|
Notes on Experiments.
Creator: Needham, Dorothy.
9 volumes; Paper. |
1921–1952 |
|
4
|
Lecture notes. Hardback notebook inscribed on first page 'D M Needham Biochemical Lab. Cambridge'. Used from the front for notes on a series of three lectures on enzymes by M Dixon, October and November 1939; notes on lectures by J F Danielli (April 1941), T R R Mann (1941), W S Feldberg (17 October 1942), S J Bach and M Dixon; and notes on proceedings of Society for Experimental Biology Conference on Wound Healing 22 September 1943. Pasted onto three pages near the front is a collection of humorous wartime press-cuttings.
Creator: Needham, Dorothy.
1 volume; Paper. |
1939–1943 |
|
5
|
Lecture notes etc. Notes originally contained in hardback looseleaf notebook labelled on front cover 'Old Part II lectures (1st lot)' and on spine 'III'. Contains manuscript lecture notes on muscle contraction (latest bibliographical reference 1940). Loose manuscript notes are enclosed at front of book. At back, an untitled 14pp and typescript draft beginning 'During the last 100 years, there has been an enormous amount of work on the biochemistry of muscle', January 1954, annotated 'Manchester'.
Creator: Needham, Dorothy.
1 file; Paper. |
circa 1940–1954 |
|
6
|
Experiments, calculations, jottings, rough notes.
Creator: Needham, Dorothy.
21 volumes; Paper. |
1942–1957 |
|
7
|
Notes on lectures.
Creator: Needham, Dorothy.
2 volumes; Paper. |
1946–1953 |
|
8
|
Experimental data.
Creator: Needham, Dorothy.
5 volumes; Paper. |
1953–1964 |
|
9
|
Notes on the literature. Typescript and manuscript.
Creator: Needham, Dorothy.
1 file; Paper. |
circa 1951 |
|
10
|
Studies in the Effect of Adrenal Cortical Hormones on Aspects of Liver Metabolism'. Typescript copy of University of Cambridge PhD thesis of June D Bell. The flyleaf of the original notebook in which the thesis was held was signed 'June D Cross UCHMS [University College Hospital Medical School] Jan 1946' and 'June D Bell Edinburgh 1955'.
Creator: Bell, June.
1 file; Paper. |
June 1955 |
|
11
|
Lecture Notes.
Creator: Needham, Dorothy.
5 files; Paper. |
circa 1941-circa 1961 |
|
12
|
Machina Carnis.
Creator: Needham, Dorothy.
60 files; Paper. |
1963–1971 |
|
13
|
Chiefly notes on the literature. From 7 notebooks originally housed in brown plastic coverings.
Creator: Needham, Dorothy.
7 files in 1 bundle; Paper. |
circa 1963-circa 1969 |
|
14
|
Notes. Leather-bound pocket notebook inscribed on inside cover 'D M Needham Master's Lodge Caius College'. Used from the front for notes 18 October and 3 December on a planned 1972 Royal Society Symposium, and notes on talks by H Huxley 24 January and A G Szent-Györgyi 29 January 1973. At the back are miscellaneous notes on the literature etc. Volume largely blank. Photograph found enclosed in pocket at front of book.
Creator: Needham, Dorothy.
1 volume; Paper. |
1972–1973 |
|
15
|
Plan. Hand-drawn plan, possibly of wartime journey made between Chungking (Chongqing), and Baochi (Baoji) and Sian (Xi'an). Original plan together with 2 photocopies - one is actual size, the other enlarged. Found in pocket at front of GCPP Needham 3/14.
Creator: Needham, Dorothy.
1 item; Paper; Very fragile.. |
circa 1945 |
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