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GALTON LABORATORY - Galton Laboratory Records
- 2 - Galton Laboratory Research Working Papers
  - 3 - Data and Correspondence Relating to Other Studies

StorageSite	UCL Special Collections
Level	File
Reference Number	GALTON LABORATORY/2/3/5
Title	Blood Group Department Correspondence
Date	1937-1943
Description	Correspondence from R A Fisher to the Galton Laboratory Blood Group Department regarding his serological studies in genetics. Particularly concerns early blood-grouping work at the Galton Laboratory and the idenitification of the Rhesus group. Most of the correspondence is addressed to G L Taylor. Includes some carbon copies of replies from Taylor, as well as enclosed correspondence from participants in the study, statistical tables and notes.
Extent	2 folders
AdminHistory	A blood grouping department was set up at the Galton Laboratory in 1935 by R A Fisher with the assistance of a Rockefeller Foundation grant. It was staffed by George Lees Taylor, amongst others. At the outbreak of the Second World War the department moved to Cambridge and continued its work under the name of the Galton Laboratory Serum Unit. The Unit was divided into the Medical Research Council Blood Group Unit and the Ministry of Health Blood Group Reference Laboratory in 1946. See: R R Race: 'Some Notes on Fisher's Contributions to Human Blood Groups', Biometrics , Vol. 20, No. 2, In Memoriam: Ronald Aylmer Fisher, 1890-1962 (Jun., 1964) , pp. 361-367.
CustodialHistory	Presented to the Galton Laboratory by Dr. Pat Tippett on her retirement and the closure of the Medical Research Council Blood Group Unit, 20 October 1995.
Arrangement	Chronological
AccessStatus	Restricted access
AccessConditions	This material contains non-sensitive personal data. Access to this material for the purposes of private research may be granted after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

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