Documents to December 1959

Notes, papers, articles, and collections

For full bibliography for 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, follow links.
See also: 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998 and 1999, and list of personal scientific publications for the 1990's and 2000's.

to 1959 (or move on to 1960).

BJF, 1946, first photograph, frogs mating in Darkes Lane, taken with Kodak Box Brownie 120 camera, Potters Bar, March.

BJF 1948, pencil sketches of Glenwood, Heath Road, Potters Bar, with contemporaneous photographs, March 1948.

BJF, 1948-1949, [project] Nature-printing with blue-print paper, Hampshire: Lordsfield School.

BJF, 1948-50, School report book (not consecntive due to hospitalisation), Potters Bar: Ladbroke School.

BJF, 1949, The Fair, [Poem], Potters bar: Ladbroke School Competition.

Report, 1950, Safety First Week in Potters Bar, [prize winners announced] Hatfield and Potters Bar Gazette, 809: 1, 17 March.

Report, 1950, Miss Annette Mills at Potters Bar (with Brian J Ford aged 10), Herts Advertiser, ?17 March.

Picture feature, 1950, Poster Winners with Annette Mills, Hatfield and Potters Bar Gazette, 811, 31 March. [See also certificate, archive file].

BJF, 1950-1951 [project] Anatomy: the Hand, London: Minchenden School, Southgate, N14.

Announcement, 1951, Salvete, The Petriburgian, Peterborough: The King's School, March.

Award, 1951, Natural Sciences, School Exhibition, Peterborough: The King's School .

Report, 1951, Music Competition, The Petriburgian, September.

Report, 1951, School Concert, The Petriburgian, September.

BJF, with Hall, Brian, 1952, Halford Miniature Repertory Company [Programmes], Summer.

Report, 1952, Music Concert at School, The Petriburgian, September.

Anon, 1952, The Man in the Bowler Hat, by A. A. Milne [review of BJF in title rôle], Peterborough Standard, October 1952.

Anon, 1952, School Play by Milne [review of BJF], The Petriburgian, December.

BJF, 1952-1953, The Dogsthorpe Chronicle, cyclostyled news-sheet.

Report, 1953, Flame Tests by Ford, Exhibition Report, The Petriburgian, March.

Award, 1953, Exhibit of Skeletons, School Exhibition, Peterborough: The King's School.

BJF, 1953, letter on garden fete, Peterborough Standard, 4 September.

Anon, 1953, The Bear, review of Brian J Ford in leading role, Peterborough Standard, October.

Anon, 1953, Dramatic Society presents The Bear [review], The Petriburgian, December.

[BJF, 1954, Solar eclipse - direct projection experiments].

BJF, 1954-1955, Journey to Mars, Art studies project, Peterborough: The King's School.

BJF, 1954, Aquatics Club [posters and circulars], Peterborough: The King's School.

Report, 1955, Cathedral Model built by Schoolboys, Peterborough Standard.

BJF, 1956, Poster for school Science Society meeting.

BJF, 1956, Experiment books:

• First Photomicrographs (April 1956)
• French notes
• Rouen cathedral analysis
• Lecture on Bacteria, infra
• Bacteria in Culture (10 May 1956)
• Sputnik I signals (October 1957);

[in archive collection].

BJF, 1956, Meals [humorous essay], Cardiff: Ymlaen school magazine, July.

BJF, 1956, Dewi House Report, Ymlaen school magazine, July.

Reports, 1956, House Competition (and) Eisteddfod Competition winners, Ymlaen Magazine, July.

Report, 1956, BJF lectures on Bacteria, Ymlaen school magazine, July.

[BJF, 1956, A Naturalised colony of Pteris regia in Sussex, with photograph, 3pp].

[BJF, 1957, Flowering Plants, studies from herbarium numbers: G27 - G259, April-June in archive collection].

Lockley, R. M., 1957, [Poem satirising BJF] The Saga of Johnny MacNab, Ymlaen school magazine, July.

BJF, 1957, Honky-Tonk Blues and Momma don't Allow [Demo discs, 78 rpm], The Ninety-Niners, (with Geoff and Dave Edmunds, Mike Bement, and others), Cardiff, Autumn.

BJF, 1957-1958, Posters for School Scientific Society meetings, [examples in archive file].

BJF, 1958, Sully Island, Fordnance Survey Map 1:750, Summer 1957-1958.

BJF, 1958,Osmunda regalis, a comparative study, A-level botany thesis, January [with two pages of later cytological studies].

BJF, 1958, [Humorous theory] The Hole Truth, Ymlaen school magazine, July.

BJF, 1958-1959, Research Projects:

• Frog Skin Electrolytes in vitro project [with Professor Scott Thomson]
• Staphylococci, plating and phage-typing techniques [with Mr John Smith]
• Cancer theory [discussions with Professor Jethro Gough]

Cardiff: Medical Research Council.

BJF, 1959, Handwritten Index Book cataloguing specimens, materials, etc, commencing 1956 (sample pages).

BJF, 1959, Notes on Anogramma leptophylla: the rare annual fern of the Channel Isles, with water-colour and photograph, 7pp, see archive file.

BJF, 1959, Collections Catalogue:

Bacteria p1	Rotifera p7	Mycology p13	Cycads p21
Algae p2	Mollusca p7	Mycology/hosts p14	Monocotyledons p22
Palaeobotany p2	Annelida p8	Pteridophyta p15	Dicotyledons p23
Protozoa p3	Insecta p9	Filices: spores p16	Bryophyta p24
Coelenterata p4	Crustacea p10	— gametophytes p17	Filices asexual p25
Platyhelminthes p5	Pisces p10	— embryology p18	Press Cuttings p26
Nematoda p6	Histology p11	— anatomy p19	Micrographs p28
Nemertines p6	Histopathology p12	— morphology p20	— [new] p45

Herbarium specimens index:

Rosaceae p31	Carophyllaceae p38	Umbelliferae p36	Scrophulariaceae p36
Cruciferae p34	Papilonaceae p32	Primulaceae p38	Ericacea p37
Rubiaceae p36	Labiatae p35	Compositae p33	Geraniaceae p39

[in archive collection; specimens in herbarium collection]. Gross human anatomy (cardiology, general anatomy, cerebral, etc) not catalogued. See also histology collections.

BJF, 1959, project papers:

• PHRED: Photomicrographic Recording and Enlarging Device, with early micrographs,
• Measurement of Plant Transpiration, 6pp, with photographs
• and others.

[see archive file].

Announcement, 1959, Science and You, a new series starts today, South Wales Echo: 1, 25 September.

BJF, 1959, Science and You: Body Temperature, South Wales Echo: 3, 25 September.

BJF, 1959, Free Verse on Caged love, The Leech [medical students'] Magazine, 1 October.

BJF, 1959, Science and You: Silicones, South Wales Echo, 2 October.

BJF, 1959, Science and You: Fibres for Clothes, South Wales Echo, 8 October.

Reader, 1959, Silicones, Correspondence column, South Wales Echo, 15 October.

BJF, 1959, Science and You: Detergents, South Wales Echo, 16 October.

BJF, 1959, Science and You: Bacteria [NOTE: sub-edited in house from two articles], South Wales Echo, 23 October.

Poster, 1959, Brian J Ford - Rhythm and Blues, at Cardiff Jazz Club, Autumn.

BJF, 1959, Science and You: The Anti-Noise Campaign, South Wales Echo, 30 October.

BJF, 1959, Science and You: Aerosols, South Wales Echo, 6 November.

BJF, 1959, Cook to Meet Duke, Broadsheet, (University College Cardiff), 12 November.

BJF, 1959, N.U.S. Report, Broadsheet, (University College Cardiff), 12 November.

BJF, 1959, Science and You: Obesity, South Wales Echo, 13 November.

BJF, 1959, Science and You: Nuclear Power, South Wales Echo, 20 November.

BJF, 1959, New House for the Medics, Broadsheet (University College Cardiff), 25 November.

BJF, 1959, Council Meeting Report, Broadsheet, (University College Cardiff), 25 November.

BJF, 1959, Science and You: Put your Dog on a Diet, South Wales Echo, 27 November.

BJF, 1959, Science and You: Heredity and Genetics, South Wales Echo, 4 December.

BJF, 1959, Science and You: Sleep, South Wales Echo, 11 December.

BJF, 1959, Holiday Scheme, Broadsheet, (University College Cardiff), 22 December.

BJF, 1959, Student Attacked [report], Broadsheet, (University College Cardiff), 22 December.



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