Scope and Contents These files contain handwritten and typescript drafts, often pinned or stuck together, for a range of lectures given by Joseph Needham. They include: - ‘The Coming of Ardent Water’ by Joseph Needham and Lu Gwei-Djen - ‘Alcohol paper’ for Ambix - ‘Alchimie et Chimiotherapie dans l’Histoire de la Chine’ - ‘L’éxlir dans la Chine, l’Islam et l’Occident Latin’ - ‘Alchimie physiologique (nei tan) et Iatro-chimie’ - ‘Physiological alchemy (nei tan) and Iato-chemistry’ -...