Hodgkin attended the Conference as a representative of the Royal Society, giving a special lecture entitled 'John Bernal and the structure of water'. She and Thomas Hodgkin had spent ten days in Romania prior to the Conference, combining a holiday with scientific visits. Letter re arrangements; programme of conference; programme of concert; itinerary; correspondence arising.

The Symposium was held in honour of J.M. Robertson's 80th birthday. Programme; reprint of article on Robertson.

Hodgkin and T.L. Blundell were invited to China by the Institute of Biophysics, Peking, to give a series of lectures there on the structural chemistry of bio-macromolecules. This was followed by visits to Shanghai and Canton. Correspondence re arrangements, Apr.-Nov. 1980. Includes correspondence re visit of the Japanese scientists, N. and K. Sakabe, to China.

Information for visitors to China; information re translation of lectures; correspondence arising; brief report on visit.