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StorageSiteUCL Special Collections
LevelItem
Reference Number PEARSON/11/1/12/8
TitleLankester, Sir Edwin Ray
Datec1887-c1921
DescriptionLetters to Pearson from Ray Lankester, regarding the campaign for a London teaching university, and attempts to garner support for Pearson's proposed Association for Promoting a Professorial University for London; proposals for scholarships; representation on the University Senate; the Bodleian Professorship; enclosing a draft petition against the Albert University Charter; regarding Romanes' religious views; posing a question on the likelihood of either inheritance or homoplasy, and the coincidences of structure; regarding Pearson's lecture on Eugenics, Huxley's comments about the problems caused by inaccurate data; proposing Galton for the Copley Medal; Weldon's death and the proposed Weldon memorial. Plus one letter to Florence Weldon regarding his trip to Oxford.
Extent14 letters plus 1 enclosure
AccessStatusOpen
AccessConditionsThe 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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