Joseph Needham travelled with Lu Gwei-Djen. On 9 Jun. 1978 he gave the inaugural Martin Wickramasinghe lecture entitled ‘History and Human Values: A Chinese Perspective for World Science and Technology’. This was also an important trip for raising funds and support for the newly established East Asian History of Science Library based at 8 Shaftesbury Road, Cambridge.

Itinerary:
London to USA: New York, Detroit, Toledo (Ohio), Evanston (Illinois)
Chicago to Hawaii on 15 Apr.
Hawaii to Osaka, Kyoto and Tokyo on 21 Apr.
Tokyo to Beijing on 28 Apr.
China for the month of May
Beijing to Hong Kong on 30 May
To Singapore on 4 Jun.
To Sri Lanka on 5 Jun.
Sri Lanka to Athens on 10-11 Jun.
Met Dorothy Needham in Athens on 13 June.

Photographs given to Joseph Needham during this visit to China have been moved to the box of his 1978 photographs in the Archive.
At the end of the year, Joseph Needham and Lu Gwei-Djen travelled to Paris for a meeting at the UNESCO Headquarters, held 4-5 Dec. 1978.