| Description | Folder of general correspondence to and from staff of Galton Laboratory, the office of the Provost and others. Subjects include staff salaries and superannuation, the running of the laboratory at Rothamsted Experimental Station for the salary of Dr Faberge; retirement of Dr Julia Bell, 1944 grant from the Rockefeller Foundation; a request for copyright permission from H G Wells regarding use Galton's work; transfer of calculating machines to D M S Watson; correspondence between Pye and Fisher regarding the movement of equipment from Harpenden; an inventory of equipment on Fisher's resignation in September 1943; memoranda to the Committee of the Professorial Board on the resignation of Fisher; plus their draft report; correspondence regarding the writing of a biography of Karl Pearson for the Dictionary of National Biography; letter from the Eugenics Society regarding a proposal to publish a new edition of 'Hereditary Genius'.
Correspondents include:
R A Fisher
Dr D R Pye (Provost)
Miss D Lucka
Mrs Sarah B Holt
Sir E John Russell (Director of Rothamsted Experimental Station)
Professor D M S Watson
Professor J B S Haldane
H G Wells (writer)
Mr E L Tanner
Barbara E Simpson
Professor L Penrose
Eugenics Society |