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StorageSiteUCL Special Collections
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Reference Number PEARSON/5/3/8/7
TitleCorrespondence 1929-1935
Date1929-1935
DescriptionManuscript and typescript. Letters about his remarriage to Margaret Child, original plates from W F R Weldon's article on Mendel's peas for a reissue of Biometrika volume 1 part 2, reminiscences of Francis Galton's generosity to himself and W F R Weldon after reading Galton's letters of 1906, the death and funeral of E Ray Lankester, passing through the press the third volume of Galton's Life and Letters, his daughter Helga's married life, on the economic depression, Florence's artwork, invitations to annual Galton dinners, his resignation from the Galton Professorship and the College's future plans for the post and the Laboratory, his opposition to UCL's plans to break up the Galton Laboratory into a research institute and teaching department of statistics, his opposition to a proposed international pedigree collecting centre, asking if Florence will become a Trustee of Biometrika, complications in establishing a Trust for the journal, and the award of the Weldon Prize and Medal to Egon Pearson.
Extent41 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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