| Description | <p>Letters to Pearson from Dr Alice Lee, a mathematician who worked extensively with Pearson at the Biometric Laboratory.</p>
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<p>Folder 1, 1892-1895. Letters regarding: Pearson's criticism of Bedford College, which appeared in the <i>Pall Mall Gazette</i>, and Lee's reply; Lee's work on oscillation curves; discussing the work of Heinrich Rudolph Hertz, and her attempts to photograph colours; Pearson's attack of influenza; correlation of sea and air temperatures; enclosed pedigree diagrams; her work on barometer curves [with enclosed graphs]; calculations taken from meteorological instruments; and processing data returns from various UK cities.</p>
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<p>Folder 2, 1896-1899. Letters regarding: correlation tables; calculation correlation coefficients for data collected from families; compiling logarithmic tables; meteorological reports [with enclosed tables]; her work on skull data for Francis Galton; and regarding the examination of her doctoral thesis on the calculation of skull capacity from the dimensions, length, breadth, and height.</p>
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<p>Folder 3, 1901-1915. Letters regarding: calculations; her illness and return to UCL; working conditions at the laboratory; paper supply; Beatrice Eringham's book; enclosing a letter from F Edgeworth to Lee regarding errata in her publication; research on wasps; enclosing a letter from Tom Greenwood regarding the collection of wasps, offering to send wasp nests to the Biometric Laboratory; lecturing at Bedford College; phthisis and mortality statistics; and family news.</p>
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<p>Folder 4, 1922-1928. The folder primarily contains records relating to Pearson's petition to the Home Office for Alice Lee to receive a pension on the Civil List, in recognition of her contribution to science and her time lecturing at Bedford College. The papers consist of Pearson's notes, several drafts of the petition, a bibliography of Lee's work, and letters of support for the petition from George Udny Yule, Harry Egerton Wimperis, Frank Heath, E Gerry, F Edgeworth, Gregory Foster, Miss Tuke, D Mair, and staff at Bedford College. Also included in the folder is Alice Lee's list of books and papers returned to the Air Ministry Laboratory, dated 1922; and letters from Lee to Pearson dated 1925 and 1928, regarding her work on tetrachonic functions, and offering commiserations over the death of Maria Sharpe Pearson.</p> |