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- 21 November 1961-2 April 1974 (Creation)
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Comprises correspondence with individuals including: Myra P Gallert on personal news, Bronowski's work and recommending Dr Alma Wittlin to work at the Salk Institute; Arthur Galston (Professor of Biology, Yale University) on subjects including Bronowski visiting Yale and Galston visiting La Jolla and Europe; Dr Frank Garwood (Road Research Laboratory) on road research; Dr T F Gaskell forwarding a letter from Cecil H Green about Bronowski's 'Science and Human Values'; Finley J Gibbs (Gibbs and Bissell, Attorneys at Law) on issues around the philosophy of science; Jo Gladstone [research assistant for 'The Ascent of Man'] on ['The Ascent of Man'] book, family news, attending a lecture by Bronowski at Wellesley College [for a course based on 'The Ascent of Man'] and a party.
Also contains: reprints of 'Education and Science in China' and 'Education and Science in North Vietnam' by Arthur Galston and Ethan Signer; letters from Dorothy Norman inviting Bronowski to meet Madame Indira Gandhi in New York (declined); Road Research Laboratory leaflets (May 1967, Apr & Jun 1968); a paper given to the General Applications Section of the Royal Statistical Society entitled 'Some Conceptual Problems in the Study of Road Accidents' (11 Nov 1969) by Dr Frank Garwood; an invitation to a buffet supper honouring Mr and Mrs Norton S Walbridge and Mr and Mrs Arthur S Johnson at the Fine Arts Gallery in San Diego; and a leaflet on Lorraine Gill (painter).
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'Education and Science in China' and 'Education and Science in North Vietnam' by Arthur Galston and Ethan Signer were published in Science, 7 Jan 1972, Vol. 175 & 22 Oct 1971, Vol. 174.