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- 29 November 1970-19 January 1972 (Creation)
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1 file
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Comprises correspondence, mainly with Professor Walton Fuller (School of Biological Sciences, University of London) and Professor Maurice Wilkins (President, British Society for Social Responsibility in Science), on Bronowski giving a paper on 'The Disestablishment of Science' at a meeting of the British Society for Social Responsibility in Science (Nov 1970), and subsequent publication in a book entitled 'The Social Impact of Modern Biology'.
Also includes: a typescript [of debate from the conference]; a photocopy of a press cutting about the conference (The Observer, 29 Nov 1970); publication proofs of 'The Disestablishment of Science' [for 'The Social Impact of Modern Biology']; and a page from the Bernal lecture (1971) by Sir Eric Ashby on 'Science and antiscience'.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
A "second draft" of 'The Disestablishment of Science' was removed from this file as it was a duplicate of a typescript in Bronowski 5/5/9/1.