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StorageSiteUCL Special Collections
LevelItem
Reference Number PEARSON/11/1/12/13
TitleLatter, Oswald Hawkins
Date1900-1901
Date21907-1908
Date31911-1913
DescriptionLetters to Pearson from Latter of the Charterhouse School, Godalming. Letters dated 1900-1901 regarding Oswald's research into Cuckoos, eventually published as "The egg of Cuculus canorus : an enquiry into the dimensions of the Cuckoo's egg and the relation of the variations to the size of the egg of the foster-parent, with notes on coloration etc.", <i>Biometrika</i>, (1902). Letters dated 1907-1908 regarding Oswald's collection of and research on bees and wasps; and Pearson's comments on Oswald's paper. Letters dated 1911-1913 regarding breeding wasp specimens; conducting observations and measurements on pupils at Charterhouse School; and his typology of wasp faces.
Extent15 letters plus enclosures
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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