Description | <p>Contains various papers relating to the institution of the Weldon Memorial Fund, comprising:</p> <p>Two invoices from Jonathan Fallowfield General Photographic Stores, dated July 1906, and a handwritten balance of the cost of photographs supplied.</p> <p>Four copies of a subscription circular with details of the proposed Weldon Memorial Fund. Two of the copies are annotated by Pearson, requesting the involvement of Gilbert Bourne and E S Goodrich, and one requesting the aid of F G Edgeworth.</p> <p>Two printed "First lists of subscribers"</p> <p>Card inviting attendance at a meeting of the Memorial Fund subscribers in November [1906].</p> <p>Letter from Karl Pearson to <i>The Oxford Magazine</i> about the work of W F R Weldon and proposed fund, dated 2 November 1906.</p> <p>MS list of subscribers and balance of the fund, with expected interest.</p> <p>MSS by Karl Pearson on "Suggested form of Trust" and "Proposed conditions of the Weldon Biometric Medal and Premium".</p> <p>Cheque for Henry Richard Hope-Pinker, dated January 1907.</p> <p>Printed letter from Karl Pearson to Dr Warren, and notice relating the Weldon Memorial Fund proposed scheme and decree, both headed "For the Hebdomodal Council only", dated February and March 1907.</p> <p>Memorandum with Regulations governing award of the Weldon Memorial Prize, from the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford.</p> <p>A photograph of Hope-Pinler's bust of W F R Weldon.</p> |