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StorageSiteUCL Special Collections
LevelItem
Reference Number PEARSON/11/1/13/11
TitleMacdonell, William Robert
Date1899-1908
DescriptionManuscript. About method of correlating measurements of criminals and findings, on counting poppy colours, subscription of £25 to the <i>Biometrika</i> fund, offering sympathy for illness of Sigrid, about visiting Pearson at Througham, on the death of his sisters and nephew, on a tript to Davos for his sister-in-laws health, on death ages of entries in a volume of Latin inscriptions, experiments on poppies, and cephalic indexes, enclosing data on deaths and recoveries from smallpox of vaccinated males by class, about Pearson Honorary Fellowship from King's College, Cambridge, on the death of his father-in-law and his eldest son's return to Winchester School, offering regret and sympathy on the death of W F R Weldon, and a contribution to the general memorial fund, on Pearson's problem of revolving a conic, on finding a telescope and on proof corrections, and on lecturing at the University of Aberdeen, about stock investments, his paper on Aberdeen students, and their respective sons taking the scholarship exam at Winchester School, about J F Tocher's desire to move into academia, and about a lodging house for Pearson in Aberdeen and enclosing a timetable from the Aberdeen, Newcastle and Hull Steam Company Ltd.
Extent29 letters
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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