Material for talks by Walter Bodmer to meetings of the BAAS and the Association for Science Education. Includes press cuttings, manuscript notes and school educational literature.

Background and publicity material on public understanding of science, including press cuttings.

Minutes of meetings of Council and associated papers including those relating to Council elections and appointments. File also contains Special Lectures nomination forms, financial statements, annual report and papers relating to the contract for the Royal Society/British Association Millennium Awards Scheme.

Minutes of meetings with related correspondence and other papers, publicity material, draft paper entitled Final Report on Science and Public Affairs for the Royal Society and The British Association for the Advancement of Science, and spiral bound report entitled Review of the British Association for the Advancement of Science on behalf of The Wellcome Trust: Final Report (March 1998).

Subjects include (although not limited to): visits to the Society; Review Lecture given by Walter Bodmer entitled 'The HLA System Gene Clusters and the Human Genome' (includes annotated typescript of the paper); Royal Society delegation visit to Cuba; joint projects between scientific organisations in the UK and USSR; response to the Government's Committee of Inquiry re human fertilization and embryology; visit to Moscow; the use of recombinant DNA techniques; service held at Westminster...

Subjects include (although not limited to): seminar organised by the BBC for the European Broadcasting Union and television science programme makers; Marco Polo Expedition; Powell Bill on embryo experimentation; Soviet Union and Dr. Jospeh Irlin; report on a visit to China by Professor Kendall; discussion meeting on the evolution of DNA.

Subjects include (although not limited to): meeting re Society's attitude to taking part in discussions on the scientific aspects of international security and arms control; Case for Basic Science; USSR Academy of Sciences delegation to the UK; nominations for medallists; science and public affairs; Society study on the migration of scientists and engineers to and from the UK. Also contains a Royal Society corporate plan.

Subjects include (although not limited to): Royal Society's opposition to patenting of genetic material; European Community setting up aid programme for Russian science; delegation from Czechoslovakia; future of UK science policy; Jenner Lecture; nominations for medals and Council; Royal Society Science Inquiry.

Includes meetings of Science Governance Working Group, 2001 with a Governmental response to the Report of the BSE Inquiry and Darwin Centre meetings.

Material from various meetings including press cuttings and other ephemera. Comprises: Folder 1: Annual Meeting, Swansea, August 1990 Folder 2: Annual Meeting, Plymouth, August 1991 Folder 3: Officers of BAAS and Royal Society meetings Folder 4: Annual Meeting, Keele, August 1993

Comprises: Folder 1: 'Ad hoc Group on Human Fertilization and Embryology'. Minutes of meetings and associated papers, including material relating to the Unborn Children (Protection) Bill and responses on the Warnock Report, 1982-1991 Folder 2: Correspondence and other papers relating to the Royal Society Discussion meeting on Oncogenes: their role in normal and malignant growth, 5-6...

Comprises: Folder 1: British Association/Royal Society Officers meetings, correspondence relating to establishing a Magnus Pyke Fellowship and BAAS promotional booklet with foreward by Sir David Attenborough, Feb-Mar 1993 Folder 2: 'President's File'. Papers chiefly relating to the appointment of officers and the Presidency for 1991/2, 1987-1990 Folder 3: 'British...

Papers relating to: Royal Society, 20 April 1983; University of Bonn, West Germany, 16-18 March 1988; Luchon, France, 5-7 April 1993.

Minutes of a committee appointed to arrange for the visit of the Royal Society to Oxford

Copy of a nomination of John Pye Smith for admission into the Royal Society dated 20 Nov 1839, 23 Jan 1840.

Comprises papers relating to: Folder 1: Royal Society delegation of Oncologists to China, 17 July-2 August 1978 (delegation was Walter Bodmer, Richard Doll, Cyril Clarke and Avrion Mitchison and was led by Michael Stoker). Includes accounts of visit and black and white photographs, 1978-1979 Folder 2: Royal Society Club, 1976 Folder 3: Various organisations, including...

Papers relating to dinner meetings held by the Club. Includes draft minutes, many of them annotated by Walter Bodmer.

Records of dinners and discussions. Includes minutes of the Club Anniversary meetings.

Comprises: Papers of the Ad hoc Committee on the 'Strategy for the Science Base', mostly being correspondence re response to the ABRC Report, 1987 Small bundle of papers on the Royal Society Discussion Meeting on Immune Recognition of Protein Antigens held 6 July 1988 Large bundle of minutes and associated papers of the Publications Management Committee, 1988-1991 ...

Large bundle of formal communications relating to a range of activities.