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StorageSiteUCL Special Collections
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Reference Number PEARSON/11/1/14/13
TitleNettleship, Edward
Date1905-1913
DescriptionManuscript. About schedules for doctors for collecting data on Albinism in relation to heredity, giving references to opthalmic books, about amendmendts to proofs, enclosing an incomplete pedigree of Edward Gibbon and Lord Acton, about x-rays of families and an albinotic family being investigated by G P Mudge, giving an account of the London Hospital Medical College lectures where Mudge and Greenwood lectured, about Pearson letting a room from his brother's widow near Peterhead, enclosing details of his albino Pekingese dog "Tong", on G D Maynard's career enclosing notes from D Heron, on parasitic worms, on breeding Pekingese with albino heritage, on the death of Francis Galton, on studying the degrees of ametropia on visual acuity, on Pearson's consideration of the Galton Chair of Eugenics, recommending a solution used to dress dogs if scratching from lice, on "distemper" in high-bred pet dogs, on colour-blindness and research by Samuel P Hayes, on tests to detect colour-blindness, and on his bowel cancer.
Extent30 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.
Related MaterialSee PEARSON/11/1/7/58 letter dated 13 March 1908 about lectures.
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