Typed and handwritten notes relating to McLaren’s work as a DPhil student. Includes notes on lens antigens and serums and on the testing of antibody content of blood of rabbits treated with adjuvants.
Zoology lecture notes and often with drawings probably from lectures by E. B. Ford. Subjects included are notes on mammals, reptiles, amphibians, histology, embryology and other types of living organisms.
Notebook with pencil botanical and cellular drawings. Inscription on front cover reads 'Oxford 1944/1945'. Includes typed loose pages of practical work hand outs, covering plants, algae seeds, yeast and bacteria.
McLaren: Notebook concerning the features of tomatoes in the course of grafting
Scope & Content:
Autograph draft report and analysis of scientific theories and experiments. Includes introduction and methods description of an experiment about features of tomatoes in the course of grafting. Also includes a table recording results of colour changes of the fruit.
Notes on linguistics. Includes a list of references from a virus multiplication symposium and notes on an article, most of which have been crossed out.
McLaren: Notebook recording an experiment with rabbits
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Notebook with a report of an experiment about the maternal organism's influence on coat colour in rabbits. Dated 28 June 1950. Includes two loose inserts recording colours of rabbits.