Joseph Needham's file title is ‘Paris Lecture Plans Mar/Apr 73 Collège de France Visiting Prof. Lects.’ It contains handwritten notes, annotated typescripts and correspondence for:
- ‘ALM course’, no date given
- ‘The Elixir Concept and Chemical Medicine in East and West’ for the Organon (connected with the International Congress of the History of Science in Japan), 1973
- ‘Il Concetto di Elisir e la Medicina su Base Chimica in Oriente e in Occidente’, the First John Caius Lecture given in Padua in Apr. 1974
-‘L’Alchemie en Chine: Pratique et Théorie’, the Ludwig Mond Lecture given in Manchester on 13 Dec. 1973
- Speech given by Professor Piyo Rattansi on Joseph Needham’s behalf in acceptance of the Dexter Prize for the History of Chemistry on 12 Jul. 1979
- 4 lectures given to the Collège de France 28 Mar. – 7 Apr. 1973: ‘Alchemy and Chemo-therapy in 中 [Chinese] History’; ‘Practice and theory in early 中 [Chinese] chemistry (wai tan)’; ‘Physiological alchemy (nei tan) and iatro-chemistry’; and ‘The Elixir in 中 [China], Islam and the Latin West’.