| Description | <p>Letters from the Assistant Secretary and Librarian of the Royal Society to Karl Pearson, consisting of:</p>
<li>Letter enclosing a copy certificate of candidature for Samuel Galton Jnr of Birmingham, 1785.</li>
<li>List of portraits of Erasmus and Charles Darwin held by the Royal Society.</li>
<li>Information about Timothy Lane, his publications in the <i>Philosophical Transactions</i>, copy certificate of candidature, and notes.</li>
<li>Information about the publications of David Loxe.</li>
<li>Letters concerning the award of the Darwin and Copley medals to Francis Galton, with enclosed copy letter from Galton to the Royal Society informing them that he cannot collect the award in person, plus a clipping of Montagu Crackanthorpe's article about Galton, dated January 1911.</li>
<li>Letters granting permission to reproduce illustrations from Royal Society publications, plus a letter concerning the location of William Herschel's fingerprint document, thought to have been given by Galton to the Royal Society.</li> |