Correspondence between Worthington, David Stirling, and Joe Edwards about Stirling's Capricorn Africa Society.

Correspondence with Miss Margaret Cleeve, Research Secretary, Royal Institute of International Affairs, Chatham House, about publication by Commission for Technical Co-operation in Africa south of the Sahara (CCTA) of Worthington's book Science in the Development of Africa, an updated version of Science in Africa published under the auspices of Chatham House in 1938 as a complementary volume to Lord Hailey's An African...

Correspondence between Worthington and Professor J.F.V. Phillips about their respective books on development south of the Sahara, and a memorandum by Phillips on the proposal that there should be a school of tropical agriculture in Britain.

Correspondence with Brigadier M. Hotine, Director of Colonial Surveys, G.W. Helen, Secretary of the Directorate, Miss D.H. Emmett, and Lt-Col. B. St G. Irwin, Ordnance Survey Office, Chessington, Surrey, about the Ordnance Survey Officers' Conference, Cambridge, Aug 1955; with some of the papers presented, and a list of representatives. 17 leaves and eight items.

Correspondence with Guy Hunter, Director of Studies, Sir Harold Hartley, Chairman, and Peter Parker, Conference Secretary, about a background paper by Worthington, entitled 'The use of science in under-developed countries', for the conference in Oxford, Jul 1956, on the human problems of industrial communities within the Commonwealth and Empire. There is a copy of Worthington's paper and an outline programme. 33 leaves and one item.

Letter from Sir Solly Zuckerman, Professor of Anatomy, Birmingham University, inviting Worthington to join the Working Party on the proposed centre, set up by the Biology and Allied Sciences Committee of the Advisory Council on Scientific policy; with the agenda and minutes of meetings and the Working Party's final report. The members of the Working Party were: Worthington Zuckerman...

Letter from W.B.L. Monson, Colonial Office, to Worthington asking him to go to West Africa as a member of a team of experts investigating the future of the institute, with cyclostyled reports by Angus G. Taylor, Director of the Institute (1953-1955) and minutes of meetings of the Managing Committee. Also includes correspondence with W.F. Dawson, Colonial Office.

The merge took place on 1 Jan 1955. Correspondence and printed papers are filed in reverse chronological order.