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Bill for the last BA and MA commencement. 5s paid to Thomas Johnson, Senate House Keeper. Signed by Thomas Johnson.

Comprises a draft memorandum on the formation of the Salk Institute Seminar Committee (with Bronowski as the chairman), memoranda to the Committee on meetings and related papers.

Comprises a spiral bound volume containing details of a seminar organised by the Council for Biology in Human Affairs for the National Commission on Marijuana and Drug Abuse (Massachusetts, 22-24 Nov 1971).

Also includes loose pages: notes for an "essay on Central Influences" (Nov 1972 and Jan 1973); and a carbon copy of a letter from Bronowski to Jacques Barzun and Harry Boardman thanking them for their work on the seminar and suggesting future topics for discussion.

Consists of a spiral bound volume containing details of a seminar organised by the Council for Biology in Human Affairs for the National Commission on Marijuana and Drug Abuse (Massachusetts, 22-24 Nov 1971). Includes: a memorandum from Harry Boardman (Secretary General of the Council for Biology in Human Affairs) about the summary and narrative report; an agenda and list of suggested topics for the seminar; and a list of participants.

Consists of a spiral bound volume containing transcripts of the 5 sessions of a seminar organised by the Council for Biology in Human Affairs for the National Commission on Marijuana and Drug Abuse (Massachusetts, 22-24 Nov 1971). The volume is inscribed "J Bronowski, December 1971" and has handwritten notes by Bronowski on the back cover.

As well as transcripts the volume contains a letter from Harry Boardman (Secretary General of the Council) about the transcript, an agenda and list of suggested topics for the seminar, and a list of participants.

Comprises a letter from Bronowski to Sylvia [Fitzgerald] with a list of essays for a volume of 'Selected Essays' with reprints and photocopies of the essays listed. Also includes a list of publications (Sep 1971), an annotated list of "essays for an anchor book" (1957) and handwritten notes on essays by Bronowski.

Contains copies of: 'The Creative Process' (reprint, 1970); 'The Disestablishment of Science' (photocopied proof); 'Protest and Prospect' (annotated typescript, May 1970); 'Technology and Culture in Evolution' (photocopied from Cambridge Review, 8 May 1970); 'Science as Foresight' (photocopied chapter from 'What is Science?' by James Newman); 'The Discovery of Form' (annotated photocopy, from volume by [Gyorgy] Kepes); 'The Reach of the Imagination' (reprint, Blashfield address, 1966); 'Unbelief and Science' (photocopied chapter from volume on 'Victorian Religious Belief and Controversy'); 'The Logic of Experiment' (photocopied from publication in 'The Advancement of Science', 1952); 'On Being an Intellectual'' (photocopied from publication in 'Smith Alumnae Quarterly, Aug 1967); 'A Sense of the Future' (photocopied from publication in 'The Listener' BBC magazine, 3 Jun 1948); 'The Discovery of Self' (photocopy of a reprint, 1967); 'New Concepts in the Evolution of Complexity' (reprint, 1970); 'Human and Animal Languages' (reprint, 1967); 'Humanism and the Growth of Knowledge' (photocopy of annotated typescript, 1967); 'Architecture as a Science and Architecture as an Art' (photocopy of publication in Royal Institute of British Architects journal, Mar 1955); 'Leonardo da Vinci' (photocopy); 'Albert Einstein' (photocopy from publication in 'Nobel Prize Winners'); 'Order and Disorder' (photocopy from conference papers); 'The Effects of the Atomic Bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki' (photocopy of report, 1946); and 'The Fulfilment of Man' (photocopy of publication).

Part 1 contains the articles listed up to 'A Sense of the Future'.

Part 2 contains the articles listed from 'The Discovery of Self'.

Comprises draft contents pages for chapters 4 - 6 in a volume of selected essays by Bronowski, and annotated copies of the essays.

Chapter 4 "Art and Literature in a Scientific Age" contains: 'Order Among Disorder' (copy of conference address on 'Order and Disorder'); 'Monsters and Supermen' (from 'John O'London's Weekly' 4 Aug 1950); 'The Nature of Art' (preface to 1966 edition of 'The Poet's Defence'); 'Invention and Imagination' (made up of 'The Mystical Quest of William Blake', 'The Tragedy of Humphry Davy' first broadcast in the BBC Third Programme 5 Nov 1946, 'The Dignified Revolutionary' on Thomas Jefferson and 'Prophetic Justice'); 'The Shape of Things' (from 'Industrial Design' and 'Arts and Architecture' both Feb 1957); and 'The Discovery of Form' [from 'Structure in Art and in Science' edited by Gyorgy Kepes].

Chapter 5 "The Search for Truth", part 1 "On Being an Intellectual" contains: 'The Search for Truth' (from 'Educational Review' Feb 1959); 'Knowledge and Education' (Presidential Address from Harrogate conference of the Library Association, Sep 1957); 'Darwinism' (introduction from 'Darwinism & The Study of Society' edited by Michael Banton); 'The Educated Man in 1984' (from 'Science' Apr 1956); 'The Place of Science' (from 'The Bennington Review', 1965); and 'On Being an Intellectual' (address at opening of the Clark Science Center at Smith College, May 1967).

Chapter 5 "The Search for Truth", part 2 "As a Matter of Fact" contains: 'Mathematics is a Language' (combination from 'The Observer, 25 Jan 1959 and 'The New Statesman and Nation' 24 Dec 1949): 'Sizes of Infinity' (unpublished, Dec 1953); 'Operations Research' ('Operations Research as an example of the contemporary evolution of science' book review of 'Methods of Operations Research' by Philip Morse and George Kimball); 'Can Machines "Think"?' (review of 'Design for a Brain' by W Ross Ashby in 'The Observer' 30 Nov 1952); 'The Concept of Cybernetics' ('Has the concept of cybernetics lived up to its early promise?' book review of 'Brains, Machines and Mathematics' by Michael Arbib in 'Scientific American' Jul 1964); 'The Birth of the Universe' ('The Birth of Matter' in 'The Observer' 5 Dec 1954); 'The Expanding Universe' ('The unusual and seductive universe of the late cosmologist E A Milne' book review of 'Modern Cosmology and the Christian idea of God' by E A Milne); 'The Clock Paradox' (from 'Scientific American' Feb 1963), 'Dr Einstein's Unities' (from 'The Observer' 14 Jun 1953); 'One-sided Atoms' (1957); 'The ABC of the Atom'; and 'The Effects of the Atomic Bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki' (report, 1946).

Chapter 5 "The Search for Truth", part 3 "A Sense of the Future" contains: 'A Sense of the Future' (from 'The Listener' BBC magazine 3 Jun 1948); 'Science and Survival' (from 'The Thinker's Digest' Spring 1949); 'Mankind at the Crossroads' (from 'The Listener' BBC magazine, 4 Jul 1949); 'A Proposal for Atomic Peace' (from 'Discovery, Mar 1951); 'East is West, Take Over the Future' (from 'Punch' 7 May 1958); 'The Shape of the Future' (from the 'Royal Society of Health Journal' May-Jun 1962); and 'Learning of Live in the Year 2000' (from 'Reynolds News, 21 Sep 1958).

Chapter 6 "Living Through an Intellectual Revolution", part 1 "The Values of Science" contains: 'The Dilemma of the Scientist' (from 'The Listener' 1 Jul 1954); 'A Moral for an Age of Plenty' (from 'Adventures of the Mind'); 'Responsibilities of Scientist and Public' (from the 'Atomic Scientists' Journal' Sep 1955); 'The Conscience of a Scientist' (from 'Eleven Scientists Speak', New York Academy of Scientists); and 'The Values of Science' (from 'The Rationalist Annual, 1960).

Chapter 6 "Living Through an Intellectual Revolution", part 2 "The Fulfilment of Man" contains: 'Living Through an Intellectual Revolution' (from 'The Listener' 1952 and the Journal of the American Association of University Women, May 1963); 'The Discovery of Self' (keynote address from National Convention of the American Personnel and Guidance Association, 12 Apr 1965); 'Science is Human' (from 'The Humanist Frame' [book]); 'The Human Values' (part of 'What can we believe?'); 'Where Do We Go From Here?' (review of 'Continuities in Cultural Evolution' by Margaret Mead and 'The Future of Man' by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin in 'The New York Review of Books' 25 Feb 1965); and 'The Fulfilment of Man' (45th Conway Memorial Lecture).

Part 1 covers up to Chapter 5, part 2.

Part 2 covers from Chapter 5, part 3.

Selections from Augustine: M. R. James's no. 49. Contains: 1) Augustinus super Genesim ad literam libri xii (ff. 1-99); 2) Augustinus de gratia novi testamenti (ff. 100-123; at f. 100 an initial has been cut out); 3) Prologus ex libro primo retractatus S. Augustini (f. 124); 4) Liber S. Augustini ad Honoratum de utilitate credendi (ff. 125-140); 5) Sermo S. Augustini de laude karitatis, incipit: Divinarum scripturarum mulitplicem (ff. 141-42); 6) An untitled tract, incipit: (O)mnis diuina scriptura circa triplicem intellectum, ends imperfectly (ff. 143-47).

Includes notes, report and correspondence relating to the automation and security of the College Library which coincides with the implementation of a new copmuterised system, 1992;

Parties: (1) Mr Thomas Henry Holdsworth to (2) The Trustees of the Cambridgeshire Permanent Benefit Building Society.

Parties: (1) Mr Joseph Henry Masters to (2) The Trustees of the Cambridgeshire Permanent Benefit Building Society. Additionally Security dated 11 June 1884

Parties: (1) Mr J. P. Gray, (2) The Trustees of the Cambridgeshire Permanent Benefit Building Society.

Parties: (1) Ellis Rooke, (2) Trustees of the Cambridgeshire Permanent Benefit Building Society. Consideration £198

Parties: (1) Emily Wood, (2) the Trustees of the Cambridgeshire Permanent Benefit Building Society

Parties: (1) Fanny Susannah Bagley, (2) Messrs. Foster & Co., Bankers.

Parties: (1) Caleb Henry Siggs, (2) The Trustees of the Cambridgeshire Permanent Benefit Building Society. Includes witness to payment in full satisfaction and discharge, dated 18th June 1897

Includes correspondence with Chubb Alarms Ltd, Bramah Security Equipment Ltd, Mid-Anglia Constabulary and the Post Office concerning security measures relating to the SCR, specification for new system by Chubb, 1970-3; General security of the SCr, 1986-8; Correspondence with Chubb relating to improvements to existing security system to include coverage of silver pantry, 1973 - 1997;

Colour sections A-A and B-B and elevation to Jesus Close. Scale: 1" to 8'

Colour plan of proposed three houses for Messrs P. Banyard and A. Wisbey showing sections and a block plan. Drawing number 2

24½ Diameter 7" drop

Letters written at Cherry Hinton, Harlton and (mostly) Cambridge.

Letters from Trumpington and Harlton.

Letter mostly from Trumpington including some to Mrs. Otter

Letters mostly from Trumpington

Letters to Otter and Mrs Otter, written at Trumpington and elsewhere

John Bell: A brief sketch of the past history of the parish of Fordham 1873

Arthur W. Ivatt: A brief sketch ... by the Rev. John Bell, with supplement by the Rev. Arthur W. Ivatt, 1923

Registers for February 1917 (1 page)

The District Parish Magazine: Fordham (1 page, covers 1903-1922)

Photograph of the Church, on a postcard.

Letters to Otter and Mrs Otter, written in Cambridge and elsewhere

Letters written en route from Scandinavia to Jerusalem and Cairo.

Letters mostly written at Uckfield, Sussex.

Watercolour drawing

Shows designs for pew and piscina in Chapel.

Section of proposed building in pencil and ink

Watercolour drawing

Contains minutes and records of races.

Includes summary of details relating to accelerated wartime degree, 1941; Descriptions of life in College during WW2 from the College's Annual Report, 1945

Copy returns made by the College to the University Commissioners, 1873; Statutes proposed for consideration by a College meeting, 9th July 1878; Copy statutes proposed by 2nd University Commission as sent ot the Privy Council, 21st march 1881; Covering letter from Dr. Corrie, 9th March 1881; Case relative to statute made by the Cambridge Commisisoners "For contributions of Colleges for University purposes" and opinion of Mr. Davey, Q. C. Mr. Rigby,Q. C., and Mr. Christopher James, 1881; Report of first College meeting held under the new statutes and letters from Fellows wishing to be placed under the new statutes, 1st July 1882; Counsels' opinion from Rigby and Joyce, 7th May 1894; Case for Counsel's opinion passed at College meeting, 9th July 1894; Counsel's opinion (Montague Crackenthorpe) including covering letter from E. H. Morgan, 7th September 1894; Suggested alterations of statutes VI, VII and XIX, 1894; Copy amending statutes submitted for the approval of Her Majesty the Queen in Council. Published in the London Gazette 8th February 1895 and laid beofre parliament 10th May 1895, 19th December 1894; Case for counsel's opinion on statute VII by E. A. Hadley, 13th March 1895; Copy order in Council for Royal approval of the amendments to statutes XV and XX, 13th May 1896.