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  <dc:title>Warren, Ernest</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Manuscript and typescript. Asks for testimonial in connection with his application for Lectureship in Biology at Charing Cross Hospital; on crab data; sexing of bones in crab skeleton; on series of results from which to make variation calculation; spurious correlations; deferring his D.Sc. to the following year [1898]; measurement of Libyan femurs; enclosing measurements of femurs of the Nagada Race, noting effect of soaking and drying bones; on obtaining a curve from Daphnia (water-fly) data; experimental results on Daphnia as a parthenogenetic animal; applying for a City and Guilds post; killing-times of Daphnia in salt solution; gladly accepting offer of Biometrika when it is issued; thanks Karl for testimonial for unsuccesful application for a post at Guy's Hospital; Aphis data; seeks advice on asking for pay rise at UCL; looking at homotyposis in snails; study of tadpoles with W F R Weldon; enclosing graphs on daisies; observations of snail shells; data on Matricaria Chamomilla; experiments on Helix apersa; contribution to the Weldon Memorial Fund; tabulating series of measurements of castes of white ants; reading of Agar's paper "Experiments on Inheritance in Parthenogenesis" in Transactions of The Royal Society, vol. 205, in light of Mendelian views on pure-lines; criticism of R A Fisher's review of a paper by Pearson in Nature, 16 Aug 1930; dismissing "genes" as significant to the transmission of characters in heredity; on familial correlations in stature in flour beetles; and further details on source of his sample and experiment.</dc:description>
  <dc:date>1896-1931</dc:date>
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