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.
McLaren: Notebook on animal ecology and biological oceanography
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Notebook with lecture notes on animal ecology, biological oceanography, and geographical distribution with a loose insert 'Zoogeography References to Lectures 1-8'. Additional material includes loose typed reading lists for animal ecology and biological oceanography lectures and two notes.
McLaren: Notebook with reading lists and essay topics
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Notebook with notes recording reading lists for various topics. Additional loose material contains further reading lists, an essay on the Pituitary Body, notes recording work progress and essays written as well as notes on index cards.
McLaren: Notebook with an essay on variation in bacteria
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Notebook containing a literature review on 'Directed vatiation in bacteria under the influence of products of metabolism of other forms of microorganisms'.
Undated correspondence, including reprints of various papers sent by correspondents and drafts of papers sent for review or publication. Subjects include McLaren's early career, vegetative hybridization, human primordial germ cells, holiday cards, research methods and results, RNA mediated inhib...
McLaren: Notebook on histology and histochemistry experiment methods and techniques
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Notebook with notes on microscopical technique and histology and histochemistry. Additional loose material contains typed and handwritten pages on experimental methods such as staining mitochondria.