| StorageSite | UCL Special Collections |
| Level | Item |
| Reference Number | GALTON/3/3/22/17 |
| Title | Weldon, Walter Frank Raphael |
| Date | 1890-1906 |
| Description | Manuscript letters
Folder 1: 7 Jan 1890-15 Apr 1890
Discussing his work on original curves, mean curve, centile tables; enclosures mathematical workings and graphs; discusses how he treated his curves after coaching from MacAlister; concerning the geometric mean; concerning curves and natural selection; curve of Plymouth shrimps; mean curves of organs of crangon; work on tables using a new species of shrimp from Sheerness; concerning frilling of oysters and the influence of Whitstable in this (etching attached).
Folder 2 : 21 Apr 1890-18 Sep 1890
Encloses a manuscript paper by Galton "Sexual generation x cross fertilisation"; discussion of somatic cells; details of a new machine made by Elliot for Dr G H Fowler; correlation chart of 1000 shrimps; details of a species of prawn which behave strangely; some discussion about Galton's paper on fingerprints.
Folder 3 : 1 Jun 1891-24 Dec 1893
Letter dated 1 Jun 1891 discusses fingerprints with Galton's notes in margins and 11 examples of fingerprints made with ordinary brown printing ink; concerning research on breeding of crabs in Naples; diagram of two types of herring; note about an informal meeting for an application to be made to the Royal Society to form a Committee to conduct a statistical enquiry into the variability of organisms.
Folder 4 : 26 Jan 1894-16 Nov 1894
Discussing the results of throwing dice and probability; discussing Miss Jeffriey's work and progress with crab measurements; discussing Bateson's new book; discussing the work of Walter Heape; discussing results of measurements with crabs and work with Daphnia (graph and drawing); Petrie was going to open a graveyard with 200 early Egyptian skeletons and wanted to know if they could be used for research.
Folder 5 : 23 Jan 1895-28 Oct 1895
Concerning his research - Daphnia experiments have failed, dice-throwing, herring curve and Pearson's work on this, chrysantheanum tables; discussing Pearson's theory of skew variation and of the curve of frontal breadth; results and graphs of experiments with crabs (frontal breath) and problems of measuring natural selection.
Folder 6 : 5 Jan 1896-7 Dec 1896
Discussing the arithmetic relating to crabs and applying Pearson's formulae; discussing karyokinesis with diagram; enclosed Galton's essay "The service of sex" in a notebook; concerning Bateson.
Folder 7 : 12 Jan 1897-11 Nov 1896
Invitation from George Darwin; asked if Galton will take Bateson's view on his paper on crabs; discussing Lloyd Morgan's letter on birds; concerning the survival of the crabs; requests advice about an experiment with Daphnia.
Folder 8 : 9 Jan 1899-26 Jun 1900
Constructive criticism of a paper by Herdman and Boyce entitled "Observations upon the normal and pathological histology and bacteriology of the oyster"; wished words of a report to be removed; asked Galton for a reference for professorship at Oxford (Galton declined - reply in pencil); considered problems with race formation; concerning results with moths; proposed publication; discussing problems with the Evolution Committee; discussing Pearson's new edition; discussing distribution of "Palaearctic" animals by Kobelt and distribution of snails.
Folder 9 : 1 Jul 1902-27 Nov 1904
Mentioning Pfitzner's variations in hand and feet; discussing variation in "hairy" plants; discussing the theory of gametic purity and Mendel; discussing Bateson's paper (1903); discussing a meeting at Zoological Society; concerning the Royal Society's resolution about Pearson mixing mathematical methods and biological statements (23 Oct 1903); discussing snails; discussing Salpa; concerning Pearson's law of ancestral inheritance; asked Galton to collect data about Silician albinos; discussing cancer cells; theory of particular reversion; requested a definition of "inherited" and "acquired" characters.
Folder 10 : 15 Jan 1905-28 Feb 1906
Concerning Mendel's theory and doctrine of gametic purity; updating the mouse catalogue; arrangements for taking photography; concerning a barrow at Dorchester and bones of Berenius; discussing Bateson's work (Oct 1905); concerning colours of race horses and Mendelism and manuscript report of a meeting at the Royal Society; enclosed is uncorrected proof for Fellows of the Royal Society only "Note on the Offspring of Thoroughbred Chestnut Mares" by W F R Weldon and charts showing pedigrees. |
| Extent | 176 letters, 23 enclosures and 6 envelopes |
| 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. |