 In the early 1960s a particular enterprise that took McClintock's time was a study of the natural history of Buckingham Palace Garden in London.He often spent an evening in that garden, listing plants himself, or organising other specialists to survey their own field of expertise.Because the agreement to permit that study had specified minimal publicity, the eventual publication of those results, in 1964, was low profile; it was buried in the "Proceedings and Transactions of the South London Entomological and Natural History Society", and unmentioned on the cover.