Scope and Contents Joseph Needham’s file title is ‘Confidential long-term matters / Jap invtn / Nobel’. It contains correspondence and administrative papers relating to offers to Joseph Needham of academic positions, invitations to lecture or attend meetings, membership and resignation of the Athenaeum Club 1949-53, correspondence with the Nobel Foundation regarding deposit of Joseph Needham’s books in the library of the Caroline Institute (he had been nominated in 1947 as a candidate for the Medicine and...