Bundle of correspondence between Pontecorvo and Professor Boris Ephrussi concerning Pontecorvo nominating Ephrussi to receive an honorary LLD degree from the University of Glasgow

• Reference:GB 248 UGC 198/3/1/1/4
• Dates of Creation:Jan 1954-May 1954
• Physical Description:
  9 letters, 1 draft oration (13 pages)

• Scope and Content

  Correspondence concerns planning and arrangements, and some notes that Pontecorvo put together for the oration. Also includes brief correspondence between Pontecorvo and Ephrussi's wife, Harriet Taylor-Ephrussi, about trying to find some humorous anecdotes or memories about Ephrussi for his oration. Ephrussi received the LLD from the University of Glagow in 1954 for services to genetics.

• Personal Names

  Ephrussi, Boris, 1901-1979, geneticist,

• Corporate Names

  University of Glasgow 1451-