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Guide to Correspondence Files (Dates in Bold Indicate Letters by Fisher) Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher (1890-1962) Papers MSS 0013 Guide to correspondence files (Dates in bold indicate letters by Fisher) Acharya, Salil (Assam, India) November-December 1952. 3 letters. 21 November 1952 (introducing himself; querying Fisher's comments on the relationship between infantile death and the death rate), 18 December 1952 (thanking Fisher for information but seeking further detailed comment on 'whether in the event of a fall in infantile death rate in India a corresponding fall in birth-rate would be noticeable'), 1 December 1952 (in reply, refers to relevant work of [ ] Stevenson, A. Bradford Hill, Bentley Glass and other clinical studies) Adams, Duncan (Medical Research Council of New Zealand) March 1955 - December 1958. 3 letters. 23 March 1955 (thanking him for consultation on thyrotrophic hormone assay, agreeing to adopt suggestions), 30 October 1958 (sending reprint of paper on the thyroid-stimulating hormone in serum of some thyrotoxic patients, requesting criticism), 16 December 1958 (in reply) Adrian, E.D. (Cambridge) April 1934 - June 1952. 19 April 1934 (seeking information on C.C. Hurst as applicant for Leverhulme Fellowship), 24 April 1934 (reply re Hurst), 26 October 1934 [or possibly1939?] (asking Fisher to meet O'Brien of the Rockefeller Foundation to support MRC Committee proposal for research into effects of consanguinity on mental disorders), 8 March 1936 (seeking information on H. Fairfield Smith and Frank Yates as applicants for Leverhulme Fellowship), 10 March 1936, 11 March 1936, 13 March 1936 (re T.N. Hoblyn as applicant for Leverhulme Fellowship), 19 March 1943, 23 March 1943 (re Fisher's opinion on work of J.H.D. Webster), 18 September 1943, 21 and 29 September 1943 (temporary housing of his dogs until can move into Whittinghame Lodge), 18 February 1944 (regarding arrangements for teaching in ?serology), 25 November 1947, 11 December 1947, 13 December 1947 (re procedure and protocol for arranging visits by German scientists von Verschuer and Paula Hertwig), 18 February 1948 (in support of grants by Royal Society for (relatively) junior workers in genetics to attend international congresses), 19 February 1948 (suggesting Fisher rank those he wishes to be given assistance to attend international Genetics congress), 20 February 1948 (proposing George Owen, Mrs S. Holt and Mrs V. Martin for assistance), 8 March 1948 (proposing Royal Society make a block grant and leave it to the Genetical Society to distribute), 9 March 1948 (note supporting suggestion for block grant), 7 October 1948 and 16 October 1948 (regarding Smithson Research Fellowship), 13 October 1948 (suggesting George Owen as a candidate for Smithson Research Fellowship), 19 November 1948, 22 November 1948 (on work and standing of Otmar von Verschuer), 4 June 1952 (strong support for continuation of Lord Rothschild as Chairman of the Agricultural Research Council, in response to rumour that he would not be renewed) Agricultural Research Council (London) [various Secretaries and other officials] February 1951 - January 1959. 36 letters, notes and enclosures. 7 February 1951 (1) (regarding bench fees for Dr H. Ruben), 7 February 1951 (2) (visit by Group to review the work of the John Innes Horticultural Institution), 24 April 1952, 2 May 1952, 25 April 1952 (advice on proposed replacement of dried milk and yeast in poultry foods by Riboflavin supplement), 28 May 1952, 29 May 1952 (on suitability of C.E. Harrold for position as bacterial geneticist [brief cv attached], 3 September 1952 (acknowledging receipt of report on field experiments with B.C.G. Vaccine), 9 September 1954, 13 September 1952 (on proposed promotion of M.J.R. Healy, a member of staff of Rothamsted Experimental Station), 30 January 1956, 2 February 1956, 6 February 1956 (inviting Fisher to join a group to visit the Animal Breeding Research Organisation), 7 February 1956 (requesting Fisher to examine enclosed manuscript for proposed publication in Heredity [no copy in file], 22 March, 24 March 1956, 19 April, 20 April, 26 April, 27 April, 7 May, 8 May and 24 May 1956 (re dates for visit to the Animal Breeding Research Organisation), 26 April 1956 (R. Osborne providing address while on Fellowship at University of California, in case it is necessary to contact him re proofs of paper on family selection), WG Alexander 28 February 1957 (re minutes for meeting held on 21 February and 11 March 1957 between representatives of the Agricultural Research Council and the Council of the John Innes Horticultural Institution [minutes included]), 4 February 1957 (date of meeting re proposal to create a Department of Cell Biology at John Innes Horticultural Institution), 3 May, 4 May and 6 May 1957 (R Scarisbrick seeks discussion on maintenance of the nucleus of a mouse colony), 17 July 1957 (W.G. Alexander re support by University of Aberdeen for Fisher to continue his work there when leaves Cambridge), 19 January 1959 (decision of Council to wind up the Technical Committee on Brucellosis in Animals, and thanking Fisher for his assistance) see also Slater, W.K. Ahuja, Y.R. (Indian Agricultural Research Institute) March 1954 - March 1955. 4 letters. 13 March 1954, 5 January and 25 March 1955 (seeking to work in Fisher's laboratory if successful in obtaining an 1851 Science Research Scholarship), 17 March 1954 and 12 January 1955 (advising no longer has a microbiological section and suggesting other institutions or more appropriate departments) Aikman, Kenneth B. (Surrey) October 1929 - December 1934. 12 letters. 7 October 1929 (seeking advice on candidate for co-option on to the Eugenics Council), 10 October 1929 (sending recent article on 'Overproduction of Food'), 14 December 1931 (sympathies on Fisher's illness; comment on resolution of 'the Moore affair' at the last Committee meeting [Eugenics Society]), 18 December 1931 (on Moore and the controversy), 20 January 1934, 22 January 1934 (re Memorandum of 14 January re proposed Eugenics Department), 28 January 1934 ("Private' - further comments on negotiations with the University College Hospital re the proposed department), 30 January 1934 (enclosing copy of letter he had sent to Dr [Wilfred] Trotter and Dr [T.R.] Elliott on the memorandum [copy of the latter is held with the file], 2 February 1934 thanking him for his letter, but indicating 'I do not think it likely that a department will be created just now'); also letter Elliott to Fisher 1 February 1934, (brief thanks for Fisher's support), 18 February 1934 (advising that the scheme has been turned down; proposes to approach St Thomas's Hospital but not optimistic), 31 December 1934 (on vital importance of research into heredity and hereditary disease). Aitken, A.C. (Mathematical Institute, Edinburgh) April 1931 - December 1953. 2 April 1931 (responding to reported tests by Aitken of interpolation formulae and relative merits of the Jordan and Everett methods of central coefficients - own experience with a "Millionaire" machine contrary), 3 April 1931, 4 April 1931 (own experiments limited but willing to further test on his "Archimedes" machine and also willing to take up experiments on the "Millionaire" machine), 8 April 1931 (giving results of his own experiments), 13 April 1931 (results of his further experiments with the Archimedes, and regarding Jordan's method), 16 April 1931 re Aitken's results and the controversy over Jordan's method), 17 April 1931 (details of responses of colleagues like Wishart to the method), 21 September 1932 (his ideas on the problem of fitting polynomials to observations by least squares), 24 September 1932 (appreciation of Fisher's support and further on how he proposes to approach a paper on the subject), 10 October 1932 (details of his further progress in fitting data by the orthogonal polynomials of Least Squares), 25 October 1932 and 2 November (enclosing duplicates of the tables of Tchebychef polynomials and differences previously described [these are in the file] and on methodology), 23 September 1932 (Aitken's observations of great interest because of his own work from 1919 in analysis of simple series), 31 October 1932 commenting on the Tchebychef tables of polynomials), 4 November 1932 (suggesting Tchebychef's work in the area of polynomial fitting is over-rated ('The fact is that it has always been a cheap way of maintaining a shaky reputation for expert knowledge, to quote some foreigner unknown to most of one's countrymen, as of the highest importance..'), 6 February 1933 (changes to paper in response to referees' advice), 19 December 1935 and 20 January 1956 (sending copies of his offprints and noting improvement that might have been made to one on least squares and orthogonal polynomials), 30 December 1935 and 20 January 1936 18 January 1936 ( (exchanges of offprints), 22 January 1936 (suggesting that refinement of the mathematics of probability is of secondary importance compared with a correct grasp of the basis), 23 January 1936 (agreeing re position in mathematical probability and needs in the field), 22 February 1936 (commenting on Fisher's papers and in particular his views on '"degrees of freedom" and the circle of ideas connected with x²'), 26 February 1936 (acknowledgement), 21 March 1936 (thanks for message of congratulation), 4 May 1936 (offering copies of offprints by [the late] W.F. Sheppard to Aitken for his department), 5 May 1937, 7 May 1937, 13 May 1937(re matrix problem posed by W.G. Cochran), 18 May 1937, 1 June 1937 (contribution from Aitken for obituary of Sheppard in Annals of Eugenics), 3 June 1937,
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