Downing Street Research Articles

Inositol Trisphosphate and Calcium Mobilization

Agricultural and Food Research Council, Unit of Insect Neurophysiology and Pharmacology, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge, England

Comparison of the Respiratory Metabolism ofPlantago lanceolataL. andPlantago majorL.

Bryce, J. H. and ap Rees, T. 1985. Comparison of the respiratory metabolism of Plantago lanceolata L. and Plantago major L.—J. exp. Bot. 36: 1559-1565. The aim of this work was to discover if the respiratory metabolism of the roots of Plantago lanceolata L. differed from that of the roots of Plantago major L. Measurements of oxygen uptake and dry weight of excised root systems during growth of seedlings provided evidence that the two species differed in the amount of respiration needed to support a given increase in dry weight. Excised root systems were given a 6-h pulse in [U-14C]sucrose followed by a 16-5-h chase in sucrose. The detailed distribution of 14C amongst the major components of the roots at the end of the pulse and the chase revealed no significant difference between the two species. Patterns of 14C02 production from [1-I4C], [2-14C], [3,4-14C], and [6-14C]glucose of excised root systems from plants of three ages were similar for the two species. It is suggested that there is no conclusive evidence for any significant inherent difference in the respiratory metabolism of the roots of the two species. Key words—liC sugar metabolism, respiration, roots, Plantago. Correspondence to: Botany School, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EA, U.K.

Inflorescence production by Brownea rosa‐de‐monte (Leguminosae) and feeding behaviour of the Long‐tailed Hermit Phaethornis superciliosus

IbisVolume 126, Issue 3 p. 416-420 Inflorescence production by Brownea rosa-de-monte (Leguminosae) and feeding behaviour of the Long-tailed Hermit Phaethornis superciliosus P. J. Hudson, P. J. Hudson Edward Grey Institute of Field Ornithology, Zoology Department, Oxford University, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PS North of England Grouse Research Project, The Game Conservancy, Mews House, Askrigg, Leyburn, N. Yorks DL8 3HG.Search for more papers by this authorA. M. Sugden, A. M. Sugden Botany School. University of Oxford. Oxford OX1 3PS The Botany School, Downing Street, Cambridge CB1 3EA.Search for more papers by this author P. J. Hudson, P. J. Hudson Edward Grey Institute of Field Ornithology, Zoology Department, Oxford University, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PS North of England Grouse Research Project, The Game Conservancy, Mews House, Askrigg, Leyburn, N. Yorks DL8 3HG.Search for more papers by this authorA. M. Sugden, A. M. Sugden Botany School. University of Oxford. Oxford OX1 3PS The Botany School, Downing Street, Cambridge CB1 3EA.Search for more papers by this author First published: July 1984 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1474-919X.1984.tb00265.xCitations: 2 AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Citing Literature Volume126, Issue3July 1984Pages 416-420 RelatedInformation

CONSERVATISM IS NOT ENOUGH

The Political QuarterlyVolume 55, Issue 1 p. 3-16 CONSERVATISM IS NOT ENOUGH SIR JOHN HOSKYNS, SIR JOHN HOSKYNS The author, former head of the Prime Minister's Downing Street Policy Unit, was responsible for monitoring Government's long-term objectives from the election in 1979 to 1982. This is a lightly edited version of the Institute of Directors' Annual Lecture delivered on September 28, 1983.Search for more papers by this author SIR JOHN HOSKYNS, SIR JOHN HOSKYNS The author, former head of the Prime Minister's Downing Street Policy Unit, was responsible for monitoring Government's long-term objectives from the election in 1979 to 1982. This is a lightly edited version of the Institute of Directors' Annual Lecture delivered on September 28, 1983.Search for more papers by this author First published: January 1984 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-923X.1984.tb02557.xCitations: 14Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Citing Literature Volume55, Issue1January 1984Pages 3-16 RelatedInformation

WISE bus departs from Downing Street

WISE bus departs from Downing Street

Kenneth Craik: the man and his work.

British Journal of PsychologyVolume 71, Issue 1 p. 1-16 Kenneth Craik: The man and his work* O. L. Zangwill, Corresponding Author O. L. Zangwill ProfessorDepartment of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EB.Search for more papers by this author O. L. Zangwill, Corresponding Author O. L. Zangwill ProfessorDepartment of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EB.Search for more papers by this author First published: February 1980 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2044-8295.1980.tb02723.xCitations: 7 † The Kenneth Craik Lecture delivered in Cambridge on 10 March 1978 under the auspices of St John's College. AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Citing Literature Volume71, Issue1February 1980Pages 1-16 RelatedInformation

AFROTROPICAL REGION: A SUBSTITUTE NAME FOR SCLATER'S ETHIOPIAN REGION

IbisVolume 121, Issue 4 p. 518-518 AFROTROPICAL REGION: A SUBSTITUTE NAME FOR SCLATER'S ETHIOPIAN REGION C. W. BENSON, C. W. BENSON Department of Zoology, Cambridge University, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EJSearch for more papers by this authorP. A. CLANCEY, P. A. CLANCEY Museum and Art Gallery, Smith Street, Durban, 4001 Natal, South AfricaSearch for more papers by this authorC. H. FRY, C. H. FRY Department of Zoology, Aberdeen University, Tillydrone Avenue, Aberdeen AB9 2TN P. O. Box 65426, Benmore, 2010 Transvaal, South AfricaSearch for more papers by this authorK. NEWMAN, K. NEWMAN Department of Zoology, Aberdeen University, Tillydrone Avenue, Aberdeen AB9 2TN P. O. Box 65426, Benmore, 2010 Transvaal, South AfricaSearch for more papers by this authorA. PRIGOGINE, A. PRIGOGINE Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Rue Vautier 31, B-1040 Bruxelles, BelgiumSearch for more papers by this authorD. W. SNOW, D. W. SNOW Sub-Department of Ornithology, British Museum (Natural History), Tring, Herts HP23 6APSearch for more papers by this author C. W. BENSON, C. W. BENSON Department of Zoology, Cambridge University, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EJSearch for more papers by this authorP. A. CLANCEY, P. A. CLANCEY Museum and Art Gallery, Smith Street, Durban, 4001 Natal, South AfricaSearch for more papers by this authorC. H. FRY, C. H. FRY Department of Zoology, Aberdeen University, Tillydrone Avenue, Aberdeen AB9 2TN P. O. Box 65426, Benmore, 2010 Transvaal, South AfricaSearch for more papers by this authorK. NEWMAN, K. NEWMAN Department of Zoology, Aberdeen University, Tillydrone Avenue, Aberdeen AB9 2TN P. O. Box 65426, Benmore, 2010 Transvaal, South AfricaSearch for more papers by this authorA. PRIGOGINE, A. PRIGOGINE Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Rue Vautier 31, B-1040 Bruxelles, BelgiumSearch for more papers by this authorD. W. SNOW, D. W. SNOW Sub-Department of Ornithology, British Museum (Natural History), Tring, Herts HP23 6APSearch for more papers by this author First published: October 1979 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1474-919X.1979.tb06697.xCitations: 5AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article.Citing Literature Volume121, Issue4October 1979Pages 518-518 RelatedInformation

Errata

The detection, in unordered octads, of 6+:2m and 2+:6m ratios with postmeiotic segregation, and of aberrant 4:4s and their use in corresponding-site interference studiesBY AGLAIA GHIKAS AND B. C. LAMBDepartment of Botany, Imperial College, London SWl 2BBVol. 29, No. 3 p. 273.The first line should read ‘originally PD or NPD 4:4(4)s,’.Sterile mutation in Drosophila melanogasterBY TAKAO K. WATANABE AND WON HO LEENational Institute of Genetics, Mishima 411, JapanVol. 30, No. 2.p. 110, second line: for ‘Avery Period’ read ‘P. J. Avery’.p. 111, 4 lines from foot of page: formula should readp. 112, line 4: start of line should readThe contribution of plasmid and host genes to plasmid-mediated interference with phage growthBY VICTORIA HUGHES AND G. G. MEYNELLBiological Laboratory, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent CT2 4tNJ, EnglandVol. 30, No. 2.p. 180, line 12: ‘2000μg streptomycin’ should read ‘200μg streptomycin’.The basis for an apparent auxotrophy for reduced sulphur metabolites in sF−mutants of Aspergillus nidulansBY HERBERT N. ARTS, JR.Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EH, EnglandVol. 30, No. 2.p. 209, note added in proof line 9: ‘does not protect sF-211 strains’ should read ‘does protect sF-211 strains’.

Diel Changes in Potassium Activity in the Haemolymph of the Cockroach Leucophaea Maderae

ABSTRACT A technique is described for continuous measurement, with ion-selective microelectrodes, of K+ and Na+ activity in the blood of a free-walking cockroach Leucophaea maderae(Fab.).Measurements can be made for periods of up to 96 h. In LD 16:8, there is a marked and consistent pattern in the diel variation of K+ activity, with minima 1 h before dusk and 2 h after dawn. The mean diel range in K+ activity covers a drop of 67 % below the maximum daily value. The maximum range in K+ activity for an individual cockroach in 24 h was from 4·5 to 25·0 mm-K+. Simultaneous records of K+ activity and locomotor activity show that the first minimum in K+ activity occurs 1–2 h before the main, sharp peak in locomotor activity at dusk, and the second minimum 1–3 h after the subsidiary, broad peak in locomotor activity at dawn. Diel fluctuations in whole-blood potassium concentration follow a roughly similar pattern to the K+ activity changes. Comparison of the concentration and activity changes allows some speculations about the diel movements of potassium within the blood. Diel fluctuations in Na+ activity show no clear overall pattern.

The dynamics of interruption and the filled pause

British Journal of Social and Clinical PsychologyVolume 16, Issue 3 p. 283-284 The dynamics of interruption and the filled pause Geoffrey Beattie, Corresponding Author Geoffrey BeattieThe Psychological Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EB.Search for more papers by this author Geoffrey Beattie, Corresponding Author Geoffrey BeattieThe Psychological Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EB.Search for more papers by this author First published: September 1977 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2044-8260.1977.tb00230.xCitations: 22AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article.Citing Literature Volume16, Issue3September 1977Pages 283-284 RelatedInformation

Fusarium culmorum on Phaseolus vulgaris.

Plant PathologyVolume 25, Issue 1 p. 55-56 Fusarium culmorum on Phaseolus vulgaris. P. E. RUSSELL, P. E. RUSSELL Department of Applied Biology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3DX.Search for more papers by this authorP. W. WARBURG, P. W. WARBURG Department of Applied Biology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3DX.Search for more papers by this author P. E. RUSSELL, P. E. RUSSELL Department of Applied Biology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3DX.Search for more papers by this authorP. W. WARBURG, P. W. WARBURG Department of Applied Biology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3DX.Search for more papers by this author First published: March 1976 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-3059.1976.tb01917.xCitations: 1AboutRelatedInformationPDFPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessClose modalShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Citing Literature Volume25, Issue1March 1976Pages 55-56 RelatedInformation RecommendedDetermination of deoxynivalenol and nivalenol chemotypes of Fusarium culmorum isolates from England and Wales by PCR assayP. Jennings, M. E. Coates, J. A. Turner, E. A. Chandler, P. Nicholson, Plant PathologyNivalenol-producing Fusarium cerealis associated with fusarium head blight in winter wheat in Manitoba, CanadaC. C. Amarasinghe, S. A. Tittlemier, W. G. D. Fernando, Plant PathologyTrichothecene production is detrimental to early root colonization by Fusarium culmorum and F. graminearum in fusarium crown and root rot of wheatM. Winter, P. L. Samuels, Y. Dong, R. Dill-Macky, Plant PathologyZearalenone production in Fusarium culmorum after transformation with DNA of F. graminearumCLARENCE MADHOSINGH, WINSON ORR, Plant PathologyNatural occurrence of fusarium head blight, mycotoxins and mycotoxin-producing isolates of Fusarium in commercial fields of wheat in HubeiJ.-B. Zhang, J.-H. Wang, A.-D. Gong, F.-F. Chen, B. Song, X. Li, H.-P. Li, C.-H. Peng, Y.-C. Liao, Plant Pathology

XXX Lord Spencer on the Phoenix Park Murders

The electoral debacle of 1874 removed only the least important aspect of Irish liberalism. The real strength of the liberal approach to Irish government continued to lie in the much less accessible, but much more important, official world of Dublin Castle which, in the early 1880s, was still confidently running Ireland as it thought best without too much reference to public opinion. The emergence of militant nationalism should not divert attention from the plain fact that the government of the country remained firmly in the hands of liberal-minded administrators, of whom very little is known. Dublin Castle, like Whitehall, guarded its secrets with care, the great scandal of 1884 marking the single departure from normal practice. The high value which the liberal establishment of 1880–85 placed on discretion is registered most forcibly through the lack of memoirs written by senior officials, whose competent management of affairs deserved a permanent literary memorial. No Boswell, or even Edward Hamilton (Downing Street's uncritical diarist at this time), came forward to describe the régime at work or at play. Unpublicised achievements are easily forgotten: and in this case the problem of penetrating a wall of silence is made more difficult by the absence of most of the appropriate archives. Apart from Spencer himself, only Thomas O'Hagan, the Irish lord chancellor (1880–81) and one of the least important figures in Forster's circle, seems to have preserved a substantial body of papers, though further discoveries may still be made.

BOOKS IN REVIEW

Book reviewed in this article:The System of Industrial Relations in Great Britain H. A. CleggManpower Planning: A Bibliography C. G. LewisManagerial Effectiveness William J. ReddinJob Enrichment and Employee Motivation W. J. Paul and K. B. RobertsonImproving Business Results John HumbleHuman Relations in Management E. W. HughesThe Battle of Downing Street Peter Jenkins

Milk replacers in the artificial rearing of lambs

Journal of the Science of Food and AgricultureVolume 21, Issue 7 p. 340-341 Article Milk replacers in the artificial rearing of lambs† J. B. Owen, J. B. Owen Department of Agricultural Science and Applied Biology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3DXSearch for more papers by this authorD. A. R. Davies, D. A. R. Davies Department of Agricultural Science and Applied Biology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3DXSearch for more papers by this author J. B. Owen, J. B. Owen Department of Agricultural Science and Applied Biology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3DXSearch for more papers by this authorD. A. R. Davies, D. A. R. Davies Department of Agricultural Science and Applied Biology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3DXSearch for more papers by this author First published: July 1970 https://doi.org/10.1002/jsfa.2740210703Citations: 3 † Presented at a Symposium on ‘Milk Replacers for Young Farm Animals’, organised by the Agriculture Group, on 21 October, 1969 AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article.Citing Literature Volume21, Issue7July 1970Pages 340-341 RelatedInformation

Mucopolysaccharides of an avian egg shell membrane.

Journal of the Royal Microscopical SocietyVolume 88, Issue 1 p. 13-22 Mucopolysaccharides of an avian egg shell membrane D. S. ROBINSON, D. S. ROBINSON Food Research Institute, Low Temperature Research Station, Downing Street, Cambridge Food Research Institute, Recreation Road, Norwich, NOR 26G.Search for more papers by this authorN. R. KING, N. R. KING Food Research Institute, Low Temperature Research Station, Downing Street, Cambridge Food Research Institute, Recreation Road, Norwich, NOR 26G.Search for more papers by this author D. S. ROBINSON, D. S. ROBINSON Food Research Institute, Low Temperature Research Station, Downing Street, Cambridge Food Research Institute, Recreation Road, Norwich, NOR 26G.Search for more papers by this authorN. R. KING, N. R. KING Food Research Institute, Low Temperature Research Station, Downing Street, Cambridge Food Research Institute, Recreation Road, Norwich, NOR 26G.Search for more papers by this author First published: February 1968 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2818.1968.tb00594.xCitations: 27 AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Citing Literature Volume88, Issue1February 1968Pages 13-22 RelatedInformation

The Grant of Responsible Government to the Transvaal: More Notes on a Myth

THE article by Dr Ronald Hyam, 'Smuts and the Decision of the Liberal Government to Grant Responsible Government to the Transvaal', in the recent number of the Historical Journal1 proposes and amply documents the solution to a problem that has troubled historians for some years. Even with the best and most generous spirit, how could Prime Minister Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, within weeks of taking office, have accepted the arguments of an acknowledged dangerous enemy of his nation, the Boer Jan Christian Smuts, and persuaded his Cabinet colleagues to reverse their own considered policy and grant self-government to the citizens of the Transvaal? In fact was the grant of responsible government that, as Smuts put it, 'settled the future of Africa', entirely the work of one man? Dr Hyam suggests that it was no such thing. Smuts, he feels, overestimated his own influence on the prime minister. Throughout his life Smuts assumed that the series of events that culminated in I909 in the formation of the Union of South Africa had been set in train by his interview with the Liberal leader a few days before the Cabinet meeting of 8 February I906, which made the final decision for responsible government. Dr Hyam shows that the Liberals had been committed for many months to a policy leading to some form of responsible government. For some time members of the administration had been at work on modifications of the representative constitution issued under letters patent by the Unionist Colonial Secretary Alfred Lyttleton on 3I March I905. Campbell-Bannerman's contribution, he feels, was at most to compel a decision to discard the so-called 'Lyttleton Constitution' and to prepare instead a new document. The story that C.B. converted his Cabinet colleagues from some other more harsh policy he dismisses as a 'myth'. The question under consideration in this brief note is simply the origin of this myth. There is among the Spender Papers a letter from H. H. Asquith to his friend, the journalist J. A. Spender, suggesting that as late as I9I2 the question of whether Campbell-Bannerman should have been personally and solely credited with the grant of self-government was by no means settled. When read together with Lloyd George's statement to Lord Riddell, which came only about nine months later, the Asquith letter suggests that for a time two almost directly conflicting stories were in circulation. Then within a few years, certainly well before the end of his life, Asquith chose no longer to press his own version of the 8 February Cabinet meeting while Lloyd George promoted assiduously the story that Campbell-Bannerman alone was responsible for self-government in South Africa. Asquith's letter to Spender, sent from Downing Street on I5 June I9I2, offers the most convincing evidence that

Growth and the hormonal control of sexual maturation in the male desert locust, Schistocerca gregaria (Forskål)

Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of LondonVolume 118, Issue 13 p. 393-412 Growth and the hormonal control of sexual maturation in the male desert locust, Schistocerca gregaria (Forskål) Thomas R. Odhiambo, Thomas R. Odhiambo Zoological Laboratory, Downing Street, Cambridge *Search for more papers by this author Thomas R. Odhiambo, Thomas R. Odhiambo Zoological Laboratory, Downing Street, Cambridge *Search for more papers by this author First published: December 1966 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2311.1966.tb00831.xCitations: 51 Department of Zoology, University College, P.O. Box 30197, Nairobi, Kenya. AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Citing Literature Volume118, Issue13December 1966Pages 393-412 RelatedInformation

Abstracts of Papers read at the hundred and forty-fifth meeting of the Society held on 8th, 9th and 10th July, 1964, in the School of Agriculture, Downing Street, Cambridge

Abstracts of Papers read at the hundred and forty-fifth meeting of the Society held on 8th, 9th and 10th July, 1964, in the School of Agriculture, Downing Street, Cambridge

Unilateral hormone effect in the marsupial Trichosurus vulpercula.

Trichosurus vulpecula Kerr (the Brush Possum) is a monovular and polyoestrous marsupial in which the two uteri are completely separate. Pilton & Sharman (1962) reported that in non-pregnant females, the uterus under the corpus luteum often exceeded the other in size. This observation formed the basis of the present investigation. In twelve females killed at 8 to 10 days post-oestrus, it was found that where the corpus luteum was on the left ovary, the left uterus averaged 19% heavier than the right, but where the corpus luteum was on the right ovary the left uterus averaged only 1% heavier than the right (see Table 1). Thus it seemed that basically the left uterus was heavier than the right (the `left side effect') and that superimposed on this was a `corpus luteum effect', whereby there was an enlargement in the uterus under the corpus luteum. Present address: Physiological Laboratory, Downing Street,

Lord Curzon of Kedleston, 1859–1925

A MONG those Ministers who gave their support to Chatham House in the early days of its existence was Lord Curzon, who was Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs from I919 to I924. In doing this he was following the lead given by his predecessor, Mr Balfour. Since Lord Curzon's death much has been written about him by those who knew him and worked with him, and more recently by those who never saw him at all. Lord Ronaldshayl and Sir Harold Nicolson2 have written first-rate books about his life and character and, therefore, it may well be thought superfluous to produce another account, however short, about the same man. Nevertheless, there must still be a large if diminishing number of people who have either known or heard about Lord Curzon who would, I think, be glad to read more about him, provided that the facts and materials are first-hand, authentic, fresh, and hitherto unpublished. I do not claim to be a biographer, but after three years of service under Lord Curzon I am in a position to speak of him from my own experience and I shall try to give a correct impression of the C-urzon that I knew and shall always remember with affection. What I have recorded is taken either from his letters to me or from words that I heard him use in conversation. Throughout the year I9I6 Lord Curzon was Chairman of a Committee appointed by Mr Asquith's Coalition Government to deal with the allocation of merchant shipping. I was Secretary of that Committee and consequently during that year it was my privilege and delight to serve closely under him and to see him constantly at I, Carlton House Terrace. In December I9I6 the Asquith Government fell, to be followed by the Lloyd George Coalition. A small War Cabinet was created and a Cabinet Secretariat was appointed, with Sir Maurice Hankey as Secretary. As a result of this change, Curzon became a member of the War Cabinet and, on his nomination, I became a member of the Cabinet Secretariat. And so, for two more years, from December I9I6 to December I9I8, I continued to serve under him in the Cabinet room at io, Downing Street and on various committees in the Lord President's room in the Privy Council Office.