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Includes files about the establishment and operation of the Salk Institute Library.

Consists of a large series which is mainly organised alphabetically by title of work.

Contains files on lectures, research subjects, an exhibition, notes and correspondence on specific subjects, articles, a proposed television series, a radio programme and being an advisor on projects.

Serenade in the Cloisters as part of the May Week Entertainment performed on Sunday 11th June 1961

On Monday 15th June, during May Week, (following a production of Gilbert and Sullivan's Trial by Jury and George Peel's Old Wives' Tale on Sunday 14th) Alfred Deller, Desmond Dupre and a madrigal and instrumental group gave a 'Serenade' in the Cloisters

18th October 1814. Received of the Revd Mr Hustler the sum of £13 6s 8d due to me as sequestrator of Great Shelford in the county of Cambridge. Signed by Henry Finch.

4d stamp on receipt.

List of receipts and payments for 8 June to 9 November 1917

A receipt for the payment of £13 6s 8d as a year's stipend to the 'Sequestrator' of Great Shelford, signed by Thomas Hirst.

Comprises agendas and minutes for meetings of the Senior Fellows of the Salk Institute (Bronowski, Melvin Cohn, Renato Dulbecco, Edwin Lennox, Leslie Orgel and Jonas Salk).

Also includes: a draft document on the 'Functions of the Committee of Fellows' (Dec 1965), a copy of the 'Institute Academic Policy' (Feb 1966), a copy of a draft lease to the University of California for temporary buildings at the Salk Institute, and memoranda relating to matters discussed in meetings.

Comprises agendas and minutes for meetings of the Senior Fellows of the Salk Institute (Bronowski, Melvin Cohn, Renato Dulbecco, Edwin Lennox, Leslie Orgel and Jonas Salk).

Also includes: a copy of the 'Institute Academic Policy' (Jul 1966), 'Proposals for the academic development of the Institute' by Renato Dulbecco and Jonas Salk (22 Nov 1966), and memoranda relating to matters discussed in meetings.

Comprises agendas and minutes for meetings of the Senior Fellows of the Salk Institute (Bronowski, Melvin Cohn, Renato Dulbecco, Edwin Lennox, Leslie Orgel and Jonas Salk).

Also includes memoranda and copies of letters relating to matters discussed in meetings, and documents relating to the finances of the Salk Institute.

Comprises material relating to meetings of a group of Fellows (the name of the group changed over time).

Comprises copies of correspondence, copies of minutes of meetings, and Salk Institute policy documents relating to: academic governance of the Salk Institute including academic policy; composition of the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees; fund raising; Presidency of the Institute; use of space in the Salk Institute by the University of California at San Diego; and visiting Fellows.

[Bronowski was the Chairman at the Senior Fellows' meetings].

Comprises copies of correspondence, copies of minutesof meetings, and Salk Institute policy documents relating to: academic policy and proposals for academic development of the Institute; facilities for animals at the Institute; the Committee of Fellows; matters relating to the faculty of Institute; eating facility for the Institute; Library; public relations policy; support for education of research associates; responsibilities of Fellows; use of space in the Salk Institute by the University of California at San Diego; and visiting Fellows.

Also includes memoranda on matters to discuss at meetings of the Senior Fellows.

[Bronowski was the Chairman at the Senior Fellows' meetings].

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) Emily Wood, (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) 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.