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StorageSite	UCL Special Collections
Level	Item
Reference Number	PEARSON/11/1/12/11
Title	Larmor, Sir Joseph
Date	1888-1899
Date2	1900-1904
Date3	1910-1911
Description	Letters to Pearson dated 1888-1899 regarding Pearson's paper "On impulsive stress in shafting and repeated loading (Wöhlers Laws)", and the decision as to whether it could be read at the Cambridge Philosophical Society; drafting examination questions for undergraduates at University College London [with enclosed draft]; and Pearson's plans for the undergraduate syllabus. Letters dated 1900-1904 regarding the cost of publishing Pearson's paper in the Proceedings of the Cambridge Philisophical Society; Bateson's criticism of Pearson, and Pearson's complaint to the Royal Society; forwarding the suggestion that Pearson split his paper "on the Influence of Natural Selection in the Variability and Correlations of Organs" into two separate memoirs; and debates over refereeing papers. Letters dated 1910-1911 regarding Coker's paper.
Extent	24 letters plus enclosures
AccessStatus	Open
AccessConditions	The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

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