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StorageSiteUCL Special Collections
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Reference Number PEARSON/5/3/8/6
TitleCorrespondence 1915-1928
Date1915-1928
DescriptionManuscript and typescript. Letters about the death of Darbishire and return of his mouse books, laboratory staff being called up for Government work and the impact of war on research, graphs sent to the Board of Trade on war-time employment statistics, the threatened existence of <i>Biometrika</i> and its rescue by guarantees from J F Tocher, David Heron, and William P Elderton, the death of Florence Joy's father, work on charts for anti-aircraft gunners, endowment for a professorship in Florence's Will, the Weldon Prize, effect of the war on working conditions in academia, the vacant Chair of Zoology at Oxford, an exhibition on the heredity of skin colour, with specimens from mice, dogs and horses, enclosing a report of speeches at the Annual Galton Dinner from 1922, gifts for the Eugenics Laboratory and publication of the second volume of <i>The Life and Letters of Sir Francis Galton</i>, Florence's proposed move to London, the absence of letters from Galton to W F R Weldon, likely value to posterity of correspondence between Weldon, Galton and himself, the ongoing deficit in account balance for <i>Biometrika</i>, the Eugenics Education Society and its criticism of <i>Biometrika</i>, family illnesses, particularly of his wife, a proposed portrait of Florence for the purpose of sculpting a bust if she decides to endow a College, suggested executors of Florence's Will, the death of his wife, and the death of William Bateson.
Extent61 letters plus enclosure, 1 postcard
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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