| Description | Correspondence of Pillinger and Eglinton with individuals concerned with the separation, allocation and distribution of the UK's Luna 16 and 20 moon samples. Topics covered include: requests for and offers of samples for investigation, handling requirements, avoiding contamination, sample vessels and logistics of distribution, the separation of samples (including a printed copy of the separation scheme and a photocopy of a hand drawn version), SRC and NERC funding of Luna investigations, establishment of a Luna curatorial facility at University of Bristol run by Pillinger and funded by the Royal Society. Also includes a copy of a NASA memo dated June 19 1972 concerning 'Luna 20 Allocation'. It details the characteristics of the NASA sample and lists the names and investigations of the USA prinicipal investigators. Appended is a paper by A P Vinogradov, USSR: 'Preliminary Data on the Lunar Samples Returned by the Automatic Station, Luna 20'.
The majority of the correspondence dates to 1972-1973. There is one letter dated 5 August 1976 in which Pilinger agrees to continue as curator for Luna samples when he transfers from the University of Bristol to Cambridge at the end of August 1976.
The correspondents are as follows:
Dr Michael B Duke, Lunar Sample Curator, Manned Spacecraft Centre, NASA
Philip Wigley, The Royal Society
Sir David C Martin, Executive Secretary, The Royal Society
Professor S K Runcorn
Jeremy Smith, Senior Principal Scientific Officer, Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)
Brian Jamieson, Natural Environment Research Council
Stuart, Department of Mineralogy and Petrology, University of Cambridge
D W Collinson, department of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
Saeed Durrani, Deaprtment of Physics, University of Birmingham
A A Smales, Atomic Energy Research Establishment
Sir Kingsley Dunham, Institute of Geological Science
S H U Bowie, Institute of Geological Science
A P Vinogradov, Moscow
Dr K Gopalan, Physical Research Laboratory, India
Dr J E Geake, The University f Manchester Institute of Science and Technology
Mr B Scarlett, University of Technology, Loughborough
Ann P Gowar
Professor Norman N Greenwood, School of Chemistry, University of Leeds
J H Fremlin, Department of Physics, University of Birmingham
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