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Needham/NRI2/SCC2/229 contains:
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6 Letter from Mrs Charles Singer [Dorothea Waley Singer] of Par, Cornwall to Dorothy Needham, about a worker at the Warburg Institute with a knowledge of Chinese alchemy, and other matters
7 Part of a letter from Dorothea Waley Singer of Par, Cornwall, about her explorations into the origins of Chinese alchemy and other matters
8 Letter from V. A. Petrow of the Society for the Study of Alchemy and Early Chemistry, inviting Joseph Needham to become a member, and related document
9 Letter from Tenny L. Davis of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, U.S.A., about his work on 'Early Chinese Military Pyrotechnics' and other matters, and copy of Joseph Needham's reply
10 Letter from J. R. Partington of Cambridge, about Greek works dealing with stones and other matters
11 Letter from H. B. Collier of the Department of Biochemistry, University of Alberta, Canada, commenting on Joseph Needham's 'Nature' paper on the 'History of Chinese Science' and related matters
12 Letter from F. Sherwood Taylor of the Science Museum, London, inviting Joseph Needham to the Museum
13 Letter from D. Geoghegan of the Society for the Study of Alchemy and Early Chemistry, inviting Joseph Needham to contribute to the journal 'Ambix', and copy of Joseph Needham's reply
14 Letter from F. W. Gibbs of the Society for the Study of Alchemy and Early Chemistry, about subscriptions for the journal 'Ambix'
15 Letter from Dr. Lin Chao-Feng ??? [Lin Zhaofeng] of United Industrial Research Institute, Taiwan, about Li Chhiao-Ping's [??? / Li Qiaoping] 'The History of Chemistry in China', (Commercial Press, Taiwan, 1955)
16 Letter from J. R. Partington of Cambridge, about the date of brass in China and other matters
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Papers of Joseph Needham as a historian of Chinese science, technology and medicine

Title Letter from H. B. Collier of the Department of Biochemistry, University of Alberta, Canada, commenting on Joseph Needham's 'Nature' paper on the 'History of Chinese Science' and related matters
Reference SCC2/229/11
Creator Collier, H. B.
Covering Dates 16 Aug. 1952
Extent and Medium 1 document; Paper
Content and context

Other matters discussed include Homer H. Dubs' suggestion that Chinese alchemy may have come from Babylonia; activities of some of the Westerners who spent World War II in China.

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