Record

StorageSite	UCL Special Collections
Level	SubSeries
Reference Number	GALTON/2/5/4
Title	Evolution Committee (Plants and Animals) of the Royal Society
Date	1890-1897
Description	Correspondence, minutes, circulars and programmes of work for the Evolution Committee of the Royal Society. The correspondence concerns the Evolution Committee; a proposed experimental farm; and the argument between William Bateson and WFR Weldon over Weldon's paper on the shore crab, given to the Royal Society in 1895.
Extent	2 files plus 1 item
AdminHistory	Francis Galton was the first Chairman of the Committee for Conducting Statistical Inquiries into the Measurable Characteristics of Plants and Animals, formed in 1894 and from 1897 known as the Evolution Committee (Plants and Animals). Walter Frank Raphael Weldon was the first Secretary.
AccessStatus	Open
AccessConditions	The 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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