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StorageSiteUCL Special Collections
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Reference Number GALTON LABORATORY/2/1/3/1
TitleLectures, Notes and Correspondence on 'Albinism in Man'
Date1908-1922
DescriptionPrimarily contains manuscript lectures on 'Albinism in Man', reference notes and correspondence, and also includes a draft chapter list. Consists of:

Karl Pearson (KP)'s mss lecture titled 'Albinism and Piebaldism in Man', 21pp.
KP's mss notes on Valentyn Haecker's article 'Ueber Axolotlkreuzungen', and article from 'Country Life' on 'Albino Axolotl' with KP's notes, plus brief extracted passages from French texts on albinism.
Mss tables of mammals and birds from albino case, Natural History Museum, South Kensington.
Letter from KP to E Nettleship enclosing notes and table on classification of albinism cases, 23 April 1908.
Letter from C H Usher to E Nettleship enclosing tables of albinism cases by location, 21 April 1908.
KP's mss notes on Mendelism and nightblindness, and albinism in man, probably draft of a letter to 'The Lancet'.
Bundle of letters dated 1908-1912 and 1920-1922, from E Nettleship, W Bulloch, C H Usher, Archibald Garrod, Frances Haswell and Fred Armstrong regarding eyes and albinism, plus enclosed notes and newspaper cuttings.
Mss draft lecture titled 'II. Albinism in Man', 33pp.
Mss draft lecture titled 'I. Albinism in Man', 26pp., also includes two page list of slides and plates collected by Nettleship and first five pages of 'Albinism in Man II'.
Mss draft titled 'Chapter IX. The association of albinism with other abnormalities and specific diseases', 6pp.
Draft chapter list and other notes on albinism.
Extent1 folder
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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