| Description | Primarily contains manuscript tables and notes on mean age of living people with albinism and their relations, associated physical and mental illnesses. Consists of:
Mss tables with revised figures showing 'Mean age of Living Albinos'; 'Age of Living Albinos and Normal Siblings, English, Scotch, Welsh, Irish'; and age distributions; tables on siblings of individuals with albinism.
Mss tables 'Pedigrees in which mental or nervous afflictions occur'.
Mss tables 'Association of Disease with Albinism'.
Mss tables 'Occurence of mental disease in siblings - families in which 1 is tainted'.
Mss tables 'Sibships containing albinism and cataract or some probably hereditary structural defect'.
Mss notes and pedigree diagrams. Consists mainly of references, pedigrees for particular familial albinism cases, and descriptions of figures.
Newspaper cuttings from 'The Times', 5-6 March 1926, regarding albinotic animal specimens at the Natural History Museum, and an albino elephant at London Zoo.
Letter from the Surgeon-General's Office to KP enclosing information from Dr Conyers, Resident Surgeon in Georgetown, in response to Pearson's 1910 enquiry for information on albinism in native people of British Guiana (now Guyana), Jul 1916.
Chapter list for 'memoir on albinism' (only covers Part 1 and start of Part 2).
Photograph of a 'piebald' man (light damaged or over-exposed), in envelope from 'Man', journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, labelled 'Valuable portrait - Piebald - For Prof. Karl Pearson.
Letters regarding albinism and piebaldism, 1915-1917, from Ernest Aubrey and his wife regarding their daughter (enclosing photographs and hair samples), C H Usher, Graham Renshaw, and two letters from Karl Pearson. |