Record

RefNoMDA/C/6/7
Previous numbersC.1.15
LevelFile
TitlePapers relating to an award from the Darwin Research Fund to Johanna Westerdijk and Albert Jan Kluyver
DateJune-July 1946
DescriptionPrimarily comprises of correspondence relating to the Royal Society's award from the Darwin Research Fund of £100 to Johanna Westerdijk and Albert Jan Kluyver for the maintenance of fungi collection at Baarn and Delft, Holland.

Correspondents include Harold Munro Fox, Bedford College for Women and Chairman of the National Committee for Biology; Professor P.T. Brooks, Botany School, Cambridge; J.D. Griffiths Davies, Assistant Secretary to the Royal Society

Includes discussion of the grant being awarded by the Council of the Royal Society and the method of transmitting the grant to its recipients; instructions to Westerdijk that £50 of the grant is to be used for the collections under Kluyver's control in Delft.
Extent1 file
FormatTypescript
PhysicalDescriptionOn paper
AccessStatusOpen
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