| Description | Two sub-folders of correspondence addressed to Comfort. Subjects generally include gerontology, zoology, senescence, plus requests to speak/lecture, details of the publication of academic papers and requests for article/book reviews. Also included is correspondence relating to the creation of a list of experts on molluscs by the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the UN, a request for Comfort's views on Dr T J Franklin's research on biochemical aspects of ageing, a letter from J B S Haldane regarding his concern over his own senility and an invitation to participate in a series of broadcasts called 'University of the Air' by RIAS, Berlin.
Correspondents include:
Bernard L Strehler, Department of Zoology, UCL
F J B Hodge, Secretary, Association of Psychiatric Social Workers
Robert Platt, Department of Medicine, University of Manchester
Patricia G Lauber, Senior Editor, Book of Knowledge
R Woodroffe, Unilever Research Laboratory
Amos H Lieberman, Director of Medical Education, Kaiser Foundation Hospital, San Francisco
Anthony Curtis, The Sunday Telegraph
Frederick B Turner, Associate Research Biologist, University of California Medical Center
J W McAnuff, The Nuffield Foundation
Lieutenant Colonel D A Green, Royal Veterinary College, University of London
Trevor J Franklin, Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford
James W Atz, Associate Curator, New York Zoological Society
M Stimpson, Chichester & District Angling Society
G E Burch, American Heart Journal
Professor Dr L Haranghy
Avril D Woodhead, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
J B S Haldane, Genetics and Biometry Laboratory, Government of Orissa, India
Pergamon Press Limited
A J Rook, Department of Dermatology, The United Cambridge Hospitals
Professor T A Davis, Indian Statistical Institute |