The correspondents are:
File 1: James Marshall (Producer, BBC Radio 4), Larry P. Bachman, Dr. N. Celeste Bailey, Dr. Joan S. Baizer, Thomas E. Balbier (Rockville Public Health Service), Pierre Baldi, Dr. Thomas O. Baldwin, California Institute of Technology (re inaugural dinner for David Baltimore as President), Dr. Horace Barlow, Colin Blakemore, Dr. Alfred A. Barrios, Dr. Morris H. Baslow, Dr. Stephen Beck, Dr. Stephen Bekiranov, Dr. Kurt Benirschke, Inamori Foundation (re Professor Seymour Benzer), Dr. Pushpa Mittra Bhargava, Buckingham Palace, and William Black (Honorary British Consul at San Diego).
File 2: S. K. Bhattacharjee, Roger Bingham, Francis Leroy (Biocosmos Editions), Dr. Colin Blakemore, Professor Scott Bates, Yorick Blumenfeld, Dr. Steven Bodovitz, Dr. Joseph E. Bogen, Roderick Braithwaite, Jim Bower, Sydney Brenner, Jack Briley, Sir Christopher Meyer (British Ambassador to the United States), Buckingham Palace, Dr. Julian Budd, Giedrius T. Buracas, and Burroughs Wellcome Fund for Career Awards in Biomedical Sciences.