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PEARSON - Karl Pearson Papers
11 - General Correspondence
1 - Letters mainly addressed to Karl Pearson
10 - Correspondence: J and A Churchill to J Russell & Sons
StorageSite
UCL Special Collections
Level
Item
Reference Number
PEARSON/11/1/10/18
Title
Johannsen, Wilhelm
Date
1903-1905
Description
Postcard to Karl Pearson dated Nov 1903 regarding a proof of Pearson's paper in <i>Biometrika</i> on Johannsen's work on "pure lines" [reinen Linien]. Letters and postcard to George Udny Yule, thanking him for forwarding articles on correlation and Mendelian Laws; concerning different uses of the word "type"; the use of statistical methods in biology; his experiments with barley, and initial results for "displacement of a type of a pure line"; thanking Yule for reviewing his work; Yule's disagreements with Pearson; delivering lectures on heredity in Norway; and regarding a proposed trip to England.
Extent
4 letters plus 2 postcards
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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