| Description | Correspondence between Penrose and W M Court Brown on the following subjects: physical effects of irradiation on humans and other mammals, an ankylosing spondylitis survey, somatic chromosomes in Down's syndrome, leukemia, birth ranking and sex chromosome abnormalities. Includes a typescript of Court Brown's publications and a copy of his obituary in the Lancet, with a contribution from Penrose, plus two letters from the Librarian of the Royal Society regarding Court Brown's death.
Also includes the programme and abstracts for the Fifth Pfizer International Symposium "Human Population Genetics", 14-16 May 1969, annotated by Penrose. |