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Slides, chiefly images of press stories and advertisements, probably compiled for the science and social responsibility course.

Mounted slides of electron density mapping and Fourier transforms, probably relating to Wilkins’ membrane research. Also colour image of a laboratory interior

Correspondence between Wilkins and John Turton Randall, University of Edinburgh, on topics including staffing at King’s College London and Edinburgh University, and the death of Jean Hanson, 1973. Also a photograph of Randall measuring a flagellum

Semi personal correspondence between Wilkins and Peter Dohrn, Stazione Zoologica, Naples, Italy, including typescript speech text by Wilkins, ‘Commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Reinhard Dohrn’, 1980

Draft and revised scripts for a BBC television documentary, ‘DNA the secret of life’, including a contribution from Wilkins, broadcast 4 February 1958, with related correspondence between Wilkins and the production staff

Newsletters of Scientists for Global Responsibility (SGR), 1993-2003 (incomplete), previously known as Scientists Against Nuclear Arms (SANA)

Newsletters of Scientists Against Nuclear Arms (SANA), 1981-1990 (incomplete), renamed Scientists for Global Responsibility in 1992

Notes, graphs and related papers on topics including: x-ray diffraction theories, including Bragg laws; list of electron density figures for the bases within DNA; notes on the structure of crystalline lithium DNA, including an atomic map and a diagram with the helical axes of lithium DNA at 66% relative humidity; typescript draft paper, ‘On the treatment of crystalline fibre intensities which are less than some threshold values and/or made up of contributions from more than one reflexion’. Typescript draft article, ‘A study of the relationship between the molecular weight and the sedimentation coefficient of deoxyribonucleic acid’, by Herbert Rosenkranz and Aaron Bendich, [1961], with manuscript annotations by Wilkins. Typescript draft article, ‘Base pairing in DNA’ by Jerry Donohue and Kenneth Trueblood (subsequently published in Journal of Molecular Biology, 1960), with comments (possibly by Michael Spencer), illustrations used in the published article, and an offprint brief article, ‘The structure of crystals containing a hydrogen-bonded complex of 1-methylthymine and 9-methyladenine’, by Karst Hoogsteen, published in Acta Crystallographica, 1959. Also two letters received 1960 and 1961, requesting a signed photograph, and information on possible job vacancies, which include personal data CLOSED for review 2041. Original file title ‘Notes 2’

Published copies of Science for People, the journal of the British Society for Social Responsibility in Science (BSSRS), issues 19-70 (incomplete)

Manuscript research notes, data sets and graphs relating to research on the nervous system, lecithin, and rod cells in the retina, using x-ray diffraction and microscope studies

Manuscript research notes and related data, including: graphs and tables of x-ray diffraction of Li DNA sample ‘L 84’ with spot measurements and clear diffraction pattern present on graph; manuscript research notes by Max Feughelman on calculating water in DNA and nucleoprotein; notes, 1957, on water density in lithium DNA (Li DNA); list of x-ray diffraction photographs of lithium DNA taken by Donald Marvin. Original file title ‘material for papers’

Research notes compiled by Donald Arthur (‘Don’) Marvin (American PhD student, Medical Research Council (MRC) Biophysics Unit, King’s College London, 1956-1961), relating to crystalline form DNA and ‘C’ form DNA, including: manuscript drafts of an article, ‘A new crystalline form of DNA’, by Marvin and P J Cooper (apparently unpublished, though similar to Marvin, Michael Spencer, Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins and Leonard D Hamilton, ‘The molecular configuration of deoxyribonucleic acid. III. X-ray diffraction study of the C form of the lithium salt’, Journal of Molecular Biology, vol 3, 1961). Also computer aided datasets for lattice parameters (created using the Unit’s IBM 650 computer) and manuscript notes, relating to the crystal structure of ‘B’ form DNA and a comparative study between the projected orthorhombic lattice DNA crystal and a monoclinic lattice DNA crystal. Original file title ‘B 1 write up’

Graphs, diagrams and manuscript research notes relating to x-ray diffraction experiments, chiefly relating to the positions of electron density marks on x-ray diffraction photographs. File includes geometric sketches of the molecular structure of proposed models for the A and B configurations of DNA

Photocopy reports by Edgar Henry Wilkins, Director, Division of School Hygiene (Wilkins’ father), relating to the health provision and teaching in schools in New Zealand, 1919-1924

Report to the Medical Research Council (MRC), Dec 1952, on the progress of research in the MRC Biophysics Research Unit, King’s College London, including the findings to date in nucleic acid research by Wilkins, Rosalind Franklin and Raymond Gosling (Max Perutz, on the MRC Biophysics Research Committee, passed the information to Francis Crick and James Watson, Cavendish Laboratory,Cambridge). Also photocopy first page of a MRC report, [1951], including information on Wilkins’ research using ultraviolet microscopy and microspectrography

Report by Mike Cooley, ‘European competitiveness in the 21st century: integration of work, culture and technology’, published by Forecasting and Assessment in Science and Technology (FAST)

Background reference material on religious belief : booklet, ‘Human reproduction: a study of some emergent problems and questions in light of the Christian faith’ (British Council of Churches, 1962); issue of Anticipation magazine, published by the World Council of Churches, Nov 1982; typescript text, ‘Engines of Empire, energies of extinction: reflections on the crisis of faith’ by James Moore, 1984

Published articles on the history of science, including: article by Thomas Kuhn, ‘The history of science’, published in International encyclopedia of social science 1968; copy extracts from Joseph Needham, Clerks and craftsmen in China and the West: lectures and addresses on the history of science and technology (Cambridge University Press, 1970);booklet, ‘The roots of present-day science’ by Jerry Ravetz (Open University, 1971); P M Rattansi, ‘Voltaire and the Enlightenment: image of Newton’, published in History and imagination: essays in honour of Hugh Trevor-Roper (Duckworth, London, 1981)

Press cuttings and related material on the arts, on topics including aesthetic education, the poetry of John Donne, and Russian clown Slava Polunin

Draft and published articles on science, ethics and social responsibility, including: Lawrence Cranberg, ‘Ethical problems of scientists’, offprint from The Educational Record, 1965; Jerry Ravetz, ‘Ideological crisis in science’ published in New Scientist, 1971; printed lecture by Lord Jackson of Burnley, ‘The future nationally and internationally’, 1968; Sir Ernst Chain, ‘Social responsibility and the scientist’, published in New Scientist, 1970; Daniel Greenberg, ‘The accountability of physicians and other scientists to society’, published in Federation Proceedings, 1972; printed lecture by J W S Pringle, ‘A vision of man’, 1972; draft text by Thomas Rose, ‘Biology cannot give us certainty that we are doing the ‘right’ things’, 1985