The cardboard box contains 1 metal and wooden object, also 4 paper packages containing dried plant specimens. The packages in the box have the brand name on them, and probably date from the 1970s.

The cardboard box contains 1 metal object. The box is inscribed in Joseph Needham’s handwriting with: 'from Odagiri Mizuko 16 Nov 74'.

The cardboard box contains 4 metal objects. The box is inscribed in Joseph Needham’s handwriting with:

'Steel nails made by the old nailor at MALENIEC. See Kieleeka Expedition. Subfile in Iron & Steel (65)'.

The fabric bag has a paper note inscribed in Joseph Needham’s handwriting with:

'Press Bag presented by 1st old-style Sake brewery (Fushimi quarter of Kyoto) 岡本酒造合資會社 Oct. 64 (See notes in Ferm, Technol, files)'.

The cardboard box contains 6 ceramic objects set in cotton wool. The box bears the inscription in Joseph Needham’s handwriting:

'Temperature Cone and two test pieces for colouring from Fujikawa pottery, Kyoto Temperature Cone from St Mary’s Pottery, Scilly Is. From Fujikawa Pottery, Kyoto, and St. Mary’s Pottery, Scilly Isles'.

The cardboard box contains 1 metal item. The box is inscribed in Joseph Needham’s handwriting with:

'Han Bronze eyebrow tweezer, sent from Peking (Rewi Alley by Joan Robinson, 6 Sept 1953).'

The cardboard box contains 3 metal specimens. The box is inscribed in Joseph Needham’s handwriting with: 'Specimens of Steel (3 grades) from the Traditional “Su Kang” Co-Fusion Steel Factory at Pei-Phei near Chungking, 1958'.

These are objects collected by, given to, or worn by Joseph Needham, Dorothy Needham and Lu Gwei-Djen. Objects given to the Needham Research Institute are catalogued as NRI 1