Add MS 86686

Some items are undated.

Folder marked 'Bacillus March 1993 (+Ergsiphe)'

• Letter from J.K.M. Brown (Cambridge Laboratory) to Maynard Smith; 18 Feb 1993.
• Letter from Maynard Smith to J.K.M. Brown; 3 Mar 1993?
• Letter to Fred M.Cohan from Maynard Smith including typewritten and handwritten notes; 5 Jun 1996? (The following correspondence between Maynard Smith, Frederick M. Cohan and Michael S. Roberts relates to an enclosed article by Michael S. Roberts and Frederick M.Cohan, 'Recombination and migration rates in natural populations of bacillus subtitles and bacillus mojavensis', Evolution, 49 (1995), 1081-1094.
• Letter to Maynard Smith from Michael S Roberts and Frederick M. Cohan (Wesleyan University); 2 Aug 1996 (two copies including one facsimile).
• Fax to Fred Cohan (Wesleyan University) from Maynard Smith; 7 Aug 1996?
• Letter from Maynard Smith to Paul Sharp (Department of Genetics, Trinity College, Dublin); 20 Jul 1993. Includes notes from Maynard Smith.
• Letter to Maynard Smith from Paul Sharp dated 13 Jan 1997 (Department of Genetics, University of Nottingham), enclosing the following reprints: Denis S. Shields and Paul M.Sharp, 'Synonymous codon usage in Bacillus subtitles reflects both transitional selection and mutational biases', Nucleic Acids Research, 15 (1987), 8023-8040; P. M.Sharp, D. G. Higgins, D. C. Shields, K. M. Devine and J. A. Hoch, 'Bacillus subtitles gene sequences', in Genetics and Biotechnology of Bacilli , ed. by M.M. Zukowski, A.T. Ganesan and J.A. Hoch (San Diego: Academic Press, 1990), pp. 89-98; Paul M. Sharp et al., Molecular biological methods for bacillus ed. by Harwood, Colin R. and Cutting, Simon M. (Chichester: John Wiley, 1990); Paul M. Sharp et al. ‘DNA sequence variability at the rplX locus of Bacillus subtilis’, Journal of Theoretical Biology, 138 (1992), 39-45; Paul M. Sharp, Niamh C. Nolan and Kevin M. Devine, 'Evolution of gene sequences between and within species of bacillus', in Population Genetics of Bacteria, ed. by S. Baumberg, J.P.W. Young, E.M.H. Wellington and J.R. Saunders (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995), pp. 111-126.
• Email from Nancy Ferguson to Noel Smith; undated.
• Computer printouts for whole data set, listing of 'progs.data' and runs on 'eco2.bad'.
• Richard R. Hudson and Norman L.Kaplan, 'Statistical properties of the number of recombination events in the history of a sample of DNA sequences', Genetics, 111 (1985), 147-164. Attached to computer printouts.

Folder marked 'B. subtilis from Cohan & Roberts'

• Letter to Michael Roberts and Fred Cohan from Maynard Smith. Including notes on restriction site data (Roberts and Cohan); 17 Dec undated.
• Letter to Maynard Smith from Michael Roberts; undated.
• Handwritten notes relating to bacillus data, summary; 12 Dec undated.
• Handwritten notes relating to Roberts and Cohan.
• Handwritten notes and computer printouts relating to b subtitles and W23.

Folder marked 'Haldane mtg'

• Letter to Maynard Smith from Timothy Boon (Science Museum) dated 13 Sep 1991 enclosing guidelines for contributions to the Haldane meeting 1992 from the Royal Society, information for speakers about the Haldane centenary meeting and the programme and agenda for the Haldane centenary meeting.
• Letters to Maynard Smith from Patricia H. Clarke (Science Progress) with draft information on Haldane meeting; 19 Mar 1991.
• Letter to Richard Lewontin (Harvard University) from Maynard Smith; 25 Mar 1991.
• Letter to Maynard Smith from Cedric A.B. Smith (Department of Genetics and Biometry, UCL); 24 Oct 1991.