Record

RefNoEJD/6
LevelSeries
TitleNotebooks and slides of E J Denton
Date1949-1980
DescriptionList of contents of Box 6 as received at Royal Society;

1. Notebook marked on front 'Eye lens FWJ' 19/7/67 to 22/8/67 Pages divided into numbered sections, note on front page states 'Numbers refer to Plate Numbers'. Filled in 70, though go on to 80 as blanks. Back of book has listed test exposures
2. Postcard of University College London from 'AVH' to Denton. Postmarked as 21 May 1952
3. Preprint of 'EN 1967 The molecular basis of visual excitation' by George Wald. Endorsed 'With all affection and good wishes George Wald'
4. Offprint Article 'Cephalods and Fish: the limits of convergence' from Biological Review (1972) 47, pp241-307. Endorsed 'Eric, with affectionate greeting, form Andrew - let me know what you think of the diagram on p. 257'
5. Pamphlet 'The Growth of the Experimental Sciences; an experiment in general education.' (1949) Harvard University Press Marked on front cover 'E J Denton'
6. Pamphlet 'Reflections on Doom; The third David Owen Memorial Lecture', given on 14 February 1974 at University College Cardiff by Lord Ashby FRS, Master of Clare College Cambridge
7. Reprint from the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, Volume 155, pp455-477 entitled 'The Croonian Lecture. The transmission of impulses form nerve to muscle, and the sebcellular unit of synaptic action. By B. Katz, FRS, Department of Biophysics, University College london, Delivered 18 May 1961 - Received 15 August 1961'
8. Reprint from Folia Morphologia (Warszawa) 1971, XXX. 3 by Michal Reicher entitled 'Jerzy Stanislaw Alexandrowicz Reminiscences and Letters' Address delivered on 27 january 1971 during a meeting at the Central library of the Medical Academy in Gdansk.
9. Reprint from Proceedings of the Royal Society A, Volume 294, pp 123-137, 1966 entitled 'Recollections of Lord Rutherford. A lecture by academician P L Kapitza, FRS, Delivered and MS received 17 May 1966
10. Offprint form Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society, Volume 7, November 1950. Being the Biographical Memoir of August Schack Styeenberg Krogh, 1874-1949
11. Offprint from the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 169, 1-16 (1967) entitled 'The Wilkins Lecture 1967. Bacon, Harvey and the originators of the Royal Society. By Sir Geoffrey Keynes (Delivered 8 June 1967 - Received 12 June 1967)
12. Offprint from Medical History, 1988, 32: 65-81. Entitled 'Discourses on the human physiology' by Alexander Monro Primus (1697-1767) by Dr D W Taylor
13. Offprint fo biographical memoir of Leslie Hugh Norman cooper, 17 June 1905-19 September 1985
14. Extrait des Annales de Geophysique Tome 10, 1954
15. Offprint entitled 'Introduction a une Etude des Proprietes Diffusantes des Eaux de la Baie de Naples' by Alexandre Ivanoff. Received 6 June 1959
16. Offprint entitled 'Animal Navigation in the Sea' by Talbot H Waterman. From the Gumma Journal of Medical Sciences, Vol VIII, No. 3 September 1959. Last page with notes
17. Offprint entitled 'From the Department of Zoology, Yale University. Interactio of Polarized light and turbidity in the orientation of Daphne and Mysidium' by Talbot H Waterman (received 30 December 1959)
18. Article 'E-Vector and Wavelength discrimination by retinular cells of the crayfish Procambarus' by Talbot H Waterman and Hector R Fernandez. Received 6 March 1970
19. Reprint from 'Perspectives in marine biology'. A symposium held at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California 24 March - 2 April 1956
20. Notebook with title on front 'The Grammar School Doncaster'. Notes inside c1973?
21. Notebook with handwritten title 'MBA' on front, French poetry in first few pages, then followed by work diagrams and notes c. 1980?
22. Offprint title page of 'Illustrated Experiments in Fluid Mechanics' the NCFMF Book of Film Notes. Based on material in films produced under direction of the Natinal Committee for Fluid Mechanics Films
23. Photocopy of article 'Eulerian and Lagrangian descriptions in Fluid Mechanics by John L Lumley
24. Photocopy of article 'Pressure Fields and Fluid Acceleration by Ascher H Shapiro
25. Photocopy of article 'Low-Reynolds-Number Flows' by Sir Geoffrey Taylor
26. Photocopy of article 'Vorticity' by Ascher H Shapiro
27. Photocopy of article 'Fundamentals of Boundary Layers' by Frederick H Abernathy
28. Photocopy of article 'Turbulence' by R W Stewart
29. Photocopy of article 'Boundary-Layer Control by David C Hazen
30. Laboratory Notebook. Inside front cover marked 'J A B Gray and E J Denton. The Laboratory, Citadel Hill, Plymouth 26/10/78 - 19/8/80
31. Laboratory Notebook 5 May 1977 - 11 January 1978
32. Laboratory Notebook 20 January 1978 - 24 October 1978. Label on front cover 'Mechanics of EAM Swimbladder'
33 Offprint from Nature vol 282 No 5736 15 November 1979 with article 'James Clerk Maxwell - 100 years later' by Cyril Domb
34. Offprint from the Journal of Biologicla Chemistry Vol 249, No 13 Issue of July 10 pp 4057-4066 Entitled 'Facilitated Oxygen Diffusion; The role of leghemoglobin in nitrogen fixation by bacteroids isolated from soybean root nodules' by Jonathan B willenberg, Fraser J Bergensen, Cyril A Appleby, and Graham L Turner
35. File of offprints, together with and article entitled ' A shallow subtropical subducting WESTward propagating eddY (SWESTY) that crossed the Eastern basin of the North Atlantic (2000km) in -20 minutes' by R D Pingree. Annotated 'Phil Trans A, submitted'
36. Ringbinder file, entitled ' Discovery Specimen List 1967'
8 containers of slides
1 folder of slides from plasic box - 7 Secol slide holders of 20 slides each, referring to swimbladders, spirula, cranchids
AccessStatusOpen
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA434Denton; Sir; Eric James (1923 - 2007)1923 - 2007
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