| Description | Letters to De Beer from numerous academics regarding research into Mendel's knowledge and views on Darwin's work; the search for Mendel's surviving records; various symposia organised in the UK and Czechoslovakia to celebrate the Mendel centenary; the award of the Mendel Memorial Medal to De Beer; and De Beer's paper "Mendel, Darwin, and Fisher", Notes and Records Roy. Soc., 19, (1964).
Enclosed with the letters are press cuttings regarding the Mendel centenary, plus a welcome pack for the Mendel Memorial Symposium in Brno and Prague, 1965, consisting of a programme and application forms to attend the various strands. |