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StorageSiteUCL Special Collections
LevelItem
Reference Number PEARSON/11/1/15/5
TitleOliver, Francis Wall
Date1891-1920
Description<p>Manuscript. About seeds retaining vitality under certain conditions, with examples from literature, asking Pearson to visit him in at Crockham Hill in Kent, identifying Pearson's plant as a Rush, and that he has been counting ripe fruits, on University politics, about collecting and counting Nigella species, whether he would like samples and counts of mallow and suggesting counts of leaves or colyledons in the Pine, on Poppy counts and details, on names and details of other families such as Woodruff, Ivy, and Mushrooms, advice on keeping and growing Poppies, on Council proceedings [at UCL?], thanks Pearson for his Homotyposis paper, asking to subscribe to <i>Biometrika</i>, on reading their joint paper on birds in <i>Biometrika</i> and wish to continue the research.</p>
<p>Also contains a postcard from Pearson with notes on crops and fertilisation, which is cross-referenced by Oliver, and some notes and data by Oliver and Pearson on measurements and fertilisation of plants.</p>
Extent19 letters
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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