Joseph Needham’s sub-title on the file cover is ‘America 77, Amer and 中 [China] 78 針灸 US May 80; Pub. Day Lect. LSOS Sep. 80, Singapore 83’.
It includes:
- Typescript, Chinese word list/index for 4th lecture on acupuncture given on 22 Oct. 1979

- Handwritten notes for:
- BACS St John’s College, Cambridge 24 Sep. 1978
- New York Academy of Science (4 Apr. 1978)
- Ohio Medical School in Toledo (7 Apr. 1978)
- Harris lectures at North Western University (13 Apr. 1978)
- Chinese Society, Cambridge 22 Feb. 1978
- University Hospital Medical School, University of Washington, Seattle, 29 Jun. 1977
- Acupuncture lecture given in Copenhagen, 27 Apr. 1977
- Acupuncture and moxa lecture given at the University of British Columbia in 1975
- Lecture 4 given at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Oct. 1979
- Europe-China Association Medical Conference given in Oxford, Jul. 1979

- Typescript of ‘Celestial Lancets: A History and Rationale of Acupuncture and Moxibustion’.

A sub-file entitled ‘Lecture schemata America 77, America and 中 [China] 78’ includes:
- Montreal lecture at Honolulu 18 Apr. 1978
- ‘Place of Medicine in 中 [Chinese] Culture’ Seattle 30 Jun. 1977
- ‘Some Contributions of China to World Science’ Chicago 9 Jun. 1977
- ‘Aspen Conf. Centre Lecture’ 6 Jul. 1977
- ‘Material taken for lectures in USA’ Jun.-Jul. 1977
- ‘Background of Laws of Nature in 中 [China] and the West’ Aspen Centre for Physics 5 Jul. 1977
- ‘Chinese Religion’ Aspen Institute 6 Jul. 1977
- Harris Lectures North Western University 11 Apr. 1978.