| Description | <p>Letters from W Bateson to Pearson.</p>
<p>Letter dated 1896, regarding women taking degrees at Cambridge.</p>
<p>Letters dated 1901 to 1903, regarding Pearson's ideas of homotyposis and experiments with sweet peas, and Bateson's criticism; Bateson's defence of Mendel in response to Walter Frank Raphael Weldon's paper; disagreements between Pearson and Bateson; and regarding Bateson's criticisms of Pearson's paper "On the Fundamental Conceptions of Biology". On the letter dated 07 June 1902 Pearson has appended a draft response to Bateson, and a letter to Weldon concerning Bateson's wish to publish in <i>Biometrika</i>.</p>
<p>Letter dated 1912, thanking Pearson for forwarding a manuscript.</p> |