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Needham/NRI2/SCC2/146 contains:
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7 Letter from Liu Zuwei of the Shanghai Hao Tong University, China, about firearms from Rum [?? / Lu Mi], mentioned during a Joseph Needham lecture in Shanghai, and related letter to Lu Gwei-Djen
8 Joseph Needham's notes on the serpentine from a lecture by Yoshida Mitsukumi, given at a Symposium in Kyoto, Japan, and related draft paragraph for 'Science and Civilisation in China'
9 Joseph Needham letter to The Oriental Librarian, New York Public Library, New York City, U.S.A., about a Japanese treatise on musketry dating from 1595, and other Japanese works, and related documents
10 Letter from Bernard Foley of Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, U.S.A., about muskets and serpentines, and related documents
11 Letter from Howard L. Blackmore in Caterham, Surrey, congratulating Joseph Needham for being awarded 'China's highest prize for natural sciences' and looking forward to the publication of 'Science and Civilisation in China, Volume 5, Part 7'
12 Booksellers leaflet advertising Hara Tomio 'The Muskets of Tanegashima Island', (Tokyo, 1958)
13 Letter from Kanehira Maruo of Gothenburg University, Sweden, providing references to Japanese works
14 Photocopy of an illustration from «???» [Wu Pei Chih / Wu Bei Zhi], (1628), showing a musket rest, and related notes by Joseph Needham
15 Annotated typescript and manuscript draft sections intended for the chapter of 'Science and Civilisation in China, Volume 5, Part 7' entitled 'Later developments in hand-guns; the arquebus and the musket'
16 Related notes and bibliographical references
17 Joseph Needham's original file title
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Papers of Joseph Needham as a historian of Chinese science, technology and medicine

Title Joseph Needham's original file title
Reference SCC2/146/17
Covering Dates 1980–1985 (Undated, [Early 1980s?].)
Extent and Medium 1 document; Paper
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