Includes: draft of Crick's paper "A General Model for the Chromosomes of Higher Organisms", c 1971; reprints including "Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids", "Genetical Implications of the Structure of Deoxyribonucleic Acid", 1953, "General Nature of the Genetic Code for Proteins", 1961 and "On Protein Synthesis", 1958; note for the RNA Tie Club by Crick and Sydney Brenner, "Some Footnotes on Protein Synthesis", 1959; draft paper by Crick and Leslie Orgel, "Complementation: the Protein-Protein Interaction Theory", 1960; preliminary note by Crick, Brenner, Leslie Barnett and Alice Orgel, "The Theory of Mutagenesis", c 1961; photocopy of a paper by Crick, "On Degenerate Templates and the Adaptor Hypothesis", 1955; later letter from Crick to Professor Mark Bretscher on identifying some of his early papers found by Bretscher at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

Also includes a print of a lecture by Lord Rutherford, given before the Royal Institution, on the transmutation of heavy elements, 1937.