File 13 - The Ascent of Man, Program XII, research and developments

2 files (2 parts)

Comprises: photocopies, reprints and press cuttings of articles by others; photocopies of a storyboard for a sequence on Mendelian Genetics; a page of typescript notes on illustrating biological concepts in programme 12; a page of notes in German about the Communist manifesto; handwritten notes by Bronowski on quotes and references from James Watson's 'Double Helix'; a typescript of suggested corrections for chapter 12 [book] regarding bees and clones; and a one-page outline for programme 12 entitled "A controlled harmony: Mechanisms of regulation from the Cell to the Animal".

Also includes: a copy of a letter from H Stanley Bennett (the Laboratories for Reproductive Biology, the University of North Carolina) on sending Bronowski references and reprints; a letter from Nicole [Bronowski] about Elizabethan poetry and sending a copy of 'Lines to a movement in Mozart's E-Flat Symphony' by Thomas Hardy (included); a typescript of 'A preliminary outline of the plans for developing Neurobiology at the Salk Institute' by Edwin Lennox (5 Apr 1969); a note from [Rodney] R Porter (department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford) on sending Bronowski a copy of his lecture on 'The Structure of the Combining Sites of Antibodies' (included); an annotated letter from Bronowski to Edwin Lennox (10 May 1970) on the analogy between a cell and an orchestra and other questions relating to cells; a bibliography of literature on the incest taboo sent by [Roman] Jakobson; a note on bacterial chromosomes; and a copy of a letter from Bronowski to Professor Hermann Lehmann (MRC Abnormal Haemoglobin Unit, University department of Biochemistry, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge) about Lehmann's article on the evolution of Myoglobin in 'Nature' (14 Dec 1973, included).

This file was originally in a ring binder with research for programme 11 (Bronowski 6/3/1/12).