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, 15 June 1937 (note on Sheppard), 16 June 1937 (returning revision, comments on own his preference for the non-controversial while allowing Fisher has earned the right to 'pull down any unauthorized flags'), 18 June 1937, 12 July 1938 (further paper), 5 February 1939 (outlining his ideas on 'your problem' [arising from paper by Wishart?][evaluation of Jacobian differential?]), 7 February 1939 (thanks), 14 February 1939 (further encouragement to Aitken to 'make a clean job of it'), 21 February 1939 (details of his method), 1 March 1939 (advising that Dr Hsu has constructed a proof of the distribution (completed by Fisher by evaluating the constant term) and that Aitken should not give more time to the problem unless of intrinsic interest to him), 2 March 1939, 11 March 1939, 13 May 1939, 16 May 1939 (re [P.V.] Sukhatme's papers, which Fisher hopes the Genetical Congress in Edinburgh will take up), 8 June 1939, 18 May 1939 (Marjorie Walker, Clerk in the Academic Department, University of London, re Aitken's acceptance of invitation to give course of special University lectures), 27 May 1939 (further on Sukhatme's papers, support for award of D.Sc.), 30 April 1940, 21 May 1940 (arrangements for examination of an external student in face of disruption of normal procedure during state of evacuation of the College), 23 August 1940 (thanks for offprints), 23 April 1941 (will look into his statistics questions and commenting on cessation of research as result of the war), 25 April 1941, 2 May 1941, 1 July 1941 (theoretical papers for the examination and procedures), 20 July 1941, 24 July 1941 (Aitken's retirement to seaside through ill health), 13 August 1941, 16 August 1941, 20 August 1941 (support for putting P.C. Mahalanobis forward for the Royal Society), 27 January 1948, 30 January 1948, 2 February 1948, 4 February 1948 (nomination of Aitken as member of the International Statistical Institute, on initiative of E.B. Wilson of the Harvard Medical School), 19 November 1948 (congratulates Fisher on award of the Darwin Medal; his response to Wishart's recent survey in Biometrika of papers on his product-moment-estimate distribution of 1928), 22 November 1948 (hopes Aitken will write up 'what at short reading seems like a very beautiful method of handling multivariate analysis'), 29 November 1953 (sorry to have missed Fisher on brief visit to Cambridge, appreciates his and Professor Bliss's attendance at 'my show at the Archimedeans'), 4 December 1953 (sorry to have missed a visit, reassures him that 'You gave the Archimedeans a great show, really astonishing'), 6 December 1953. see also in G.H. Thomson file

Alderson, Stanley June-July 1959. 3 letters. 26 June 1959 (in response to Fisher's paper on smoking and cancer, suggesting investigation of hypothesis that both are influenced by personality type), 6 July 1959 (would prefer not to venture into discussion of chains of causation, but casting further doubt on findings of Bradford Hill and others on the association between smoking and lung cancer), 13 July 1959 (suggesting further evidence that would appear to refute the Bradford Hill hypothesis).

Alexander, W.B. (University Museum, Oxford) October 1933 - January 1936. 5 letters. 18 October 1933, 20 October 1933, 26 October 1933, 27 October 1933, 13 January 1936, 14 January 1936 (supply of Alexander's lists of birds arranged in order of abundance and their value, copies of papers by Nicholson and himself dealing with results of the Oxford Bird Census, Fisher's delay in working on the bird figures because of lecture commitments, preliminary findings on comparing variabilities with the abundance data, Alexander's rationale for his arrangement for sub-species, outlining alternative arrangements (with extensive examples) [typescript and ms draft of last letter] Allan, Frances E. (Betty) (Newnham College and C.S.I.R., Canberra) October 1929 - July 1939. 24 letters. Allan to Fisher 15 and 18 October [no year] (seeking advice on what mathematical lectures to attend), 6 March 1930 (to Professor E.T. Whittaker, asking whether paper written by Allan ('an Australian research student working with us this year') on the development of functions in series of orthogonal polynomials would merit publication in the Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh), 6 October 1930 (on placement and work since return to Australia, on proofs of her paper, and on financial difficulties in Australia and impact on research), 15 October 1930, 27 November 1930 (reprints of the joint paper and acceptance of Allan's paper by Edinburgh), 26 March [1931], 4 May 1931 (Allan's interest in position in the Statistical Department if any opportunity arises with departure of Wishart), 7 July and 16 October 1931, 16 November 1932 ( (re copy of Fisher's recent paper in Metron and thanks for reprints), 17 January 1933 (offering to send some pouched mice, feeling of social and scientific isolation in Canberra), 18 January 1933 ( including re chief areas of revision in 4th edition of Statistical Methods), 4 March 1933 (on her situation, and that would greatly appreciate the pouched mice), 6 August 1935, 20 August 1935 (introduction of Hugh Smith, who hopes to carry out analysis of his results [on wheat yields] in Fisher's laboratory), 5 December 1938 20 December 1938, 10 January 1939 (Allan's review of Fisher's Statistical Tables, advice on aspects of her work (on comparison of growth rates, regression equations, and on Bliss's method for analyzing dosage mortality data), 31 May 1939 , 15 June 1939, 19 June 1939, 24 July 1939 (on suitability and availability of D.J. Finney and Daisy M. Starkey as possible appointee to C.S.I.R. statistical staff).

Allen, E.J. (Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom) February 1932 - June 1938. . 22 letters. 1 February 1932, 3 February 1932 (Fisher's nomination to Council of the Association), 2 May 1932, 19 October 1932,15 March 1933, 16 March 1933, 15 May 1933, 7 June 1933, 8 March 1935 (re meeting arrangements and agenda of Council and the Inspection Committee), 11 March 1935, 13 April 1935 (re possible deposit of data of the Association in archives established by the British Association Committee on Biological Measurements at South Kensington for access by future researchers and alternative option of printing all the original biometrical data in the MBA journal), 24 April 1935 (pressing advantage of archives if unable to publish, or of establishing an institution collection in Plymouth, and giving contributors the choice between full publication and partial publication supplemented by storage), 17 June 1935, 25 August 1935, 26 August 1935 , 26 August 1935, 27August 1935, 28 August 1935 (appointment of Dr Fabrius Gross at Plymouth, with Fisher urging need for Gross to come during plankton season), 19 March 1936 (delay of visit by Yates and himself), 8 May 1938, 9 May 1938, 12 May 1938, 18 May 1938 (proposal of J. Fraser Roberts, F.A.E. Crew, Sewall Wright and Timofeeff-Ressovsky as possible candidates for Weldon Memorial Prize), 27 June 1938 (thanks for paper on Dominance in Poultry).

Allen, F.D. Campbell (Harrow) December 1956 - January 1957. 2 letters 11 December 1956, 17 January 1957 (congratulations on Fisher's election as President of Caius College)

Allen, F.H. (Blood Grouping Laboratory, Massachusetts) August-September 1954. 4 letters and enclosures. 31 August 1954, 9 September 1954, 14 September 1954 (querying Fisher's method of calculating chances of failing to disprove paternity; Fisher agrees and sends re- calculation); also copy of circular letter from Allen to Alexander S. Weiner, 8 June 1956 re need to exclude him, Wexler, Race and Fisher from any committee formed to settle the controversy about nomenclature.

Allen & Unwin Pty Ltd, Publishers January 1952 - October 1953. Extensive correspondence between Philip Unwin and others and Fisher, regarding contract, proofs and payment for contribution to symposium Evolution as a Process and its subsequent reprinting.

Allison, Anthony (Oxford) June 1953 - February 1957. . 10 letters. 13 June 1953, 23 June 1953 (meeting to discuss matters relating to his sickle cell disease work in Uganda; includes extract from letter by Allison 17 June 1953 re blood group incompatibility), 25 June 1953 (sending address of a North Italian geneticist), 30 October 1953 (mathematical issues of investigation of relationship between sickle- cell trait and malaria) 2 November 1953 (simple calculation for viabilities) [typescript and undated ms copy of this letter], 27 November 1953 (thanks and re areas needing further investigation in his research) 5 February 1957 (in response to raising of 'some not very valid points against your theory of selective equilibrium' at the recent Copenhagen meeting by 'that absurd American'), 11 February 1957 (thanks for notes on the problem of equilibrium and sending preliminary description of Inherited Differences in Human Serum Proteins (Haptoglobulins)), 15 February 1957 (would like to see more of his work on human serum proteins, glad of his simple concept [technique of staining the haptoglobulins after combination with haemoglobin], though unlikely Wiener will appreciate it).

Altenburg, Edgar (Rice Institute, Texas) September 1955 - July 1957. 8 letters and enclosures. 4 September 1955, 23 September 1955, 10 October 1955, 15 October 1955, 19 October 1955 (re use of Fisher's table of x² in revision of his Genetics, and objecting to the publisher's stipulations), 30 June 1957 (sending copy of his revised work and asking him to review it for Nature), 19 July 1957 (Fisher's pleasure in the book and its dedication).

American Embassy (C. Grant Isaacs, Second Secretary) March-August 1941, May 1952, April-May 1957. 13 letters and enclosures. 28 March 1941, [undated reply], 16 April 1941, 22 April 1941, 25 July 1941, 9 August 1941, 13 August 1941, 14 August 1941 (Fisher seeking support for proposed visit to United States, as requires certificate that his journey is in the national interest, and subsequent rejection, allegedly on basis that was being denied an exit permit, suggestion that the Foreign Office believed him a Communist and seeking confirmation as to whether this was basis of refusal, challenging Isaacs representations on his behalf and suggesting connection of his name with 'disquieting rumours' current in Washington), 7 May 1952 (seeking entry into United States for visit in June-July 1952), 29 April 1957 (seeking entry into United States for visit September 1957- January 1958), 31 May 1957 (providing details of his bank account in England) [File includes information sheet dated March 1957 re requirements for temporary visa] see also letters to and from Sir Henry Dale 22 August and 10 September 1941

American Medical Association May-June 1956. 4 letters. C. Joseph Stetler 21 May 1956 (enclosing Journal of the American Medical Association of 19 May 1956 for information and comment), 28 May 1956 (regrets it features Wiener's views on the Rhesus factor 'on which, in my opinion, he has for the last ten years been wrecking his formerly distinguished reputation'), 19 June 1956 (thanks for comments). File includes circular letter William C. Boyd to Stetler 28 May 1956 commenting critically on the report.

American Philosophical Society May 1941, July 1960. 2 letters. 30 May 1941(honoured by election to Society), 5 July 1960 (William J. Robbins, Executive Officer, requesting photograph for files)

Anderson, Edgar (Arnold Arboretum, Boston and Missouri Botanical Garden) September 1933 - July 1954. 28 May 1930 (interesting data in regard to dominance as result of study of species crosses in Aquilegia), 19 September 1933, 29 September 1933 (on Fisher's appointment to University College), 16 May 1934 (congratulating Anderson on his recent bulletin on witch-hazel, 'a perfect model of what botanical information should be, but very rarely is'), 19 December 1935, 22 January 1936, 6 February 1936, 17 March 1936, 15 April 1936, 11 May 1936, 25 May 1936 (on Anderson's iris data and its use in measurement of differences and in published articles; with enclosures of data collected 1926 and 1935 in Tennessee and Quebec), 9 July 1936 (hoping to see Fisher at Genetics Society meetings at Woods Hole), 14 July 1936 (re planned visit to St. Louis and Columbia), 28 January 1937 (offering his complete iris data as now more usefully working with Tradescantia), 10 February 1937 (unlikely to be able to use his iris data as prefers to have a specific problem in view), 7 June 1937 (congratulating Fisher on paper of 'The coefficient of racial likeness and the future of craniometry'), 16 December 1937 (suggesting the importance of association of groups of characters/qualities in study of species hybrids and work on populations generally, and seeking advice on a test for significance), 30 November 1938, 14 December 1938, 31 December 1938 (possibility of utilizing Acer data to reflect on species and race differences; with copy of article 'The American sugar maples: I. Phylogenetic relationships, as deduced from a study of leaf variation', Botanical Gazette v.100, December 1938, by Anderson & Leslie Hubricht), 10 November 1942 (introducing Dutch geneticist Dr D. Fortuyn), 28 January 1953 (thanks for reprints and commenting that 'Though I only made slight use of the techniques I learned with you at Rothamsted, my experiences there were critical in bringing me gradually around to a new point of view'), 13 July 1954 (thanks for Anderson's paper on methods of measuring specific differences) [File also includes letters between Stevens and Anderson 3 January 1937 [1938], 12 April 1938 and 22 April 1938 re possible test/method to assist his work on grouping]

Anderson, Hugh K (Gonville and Caius College) December 1918 - June 1926. 9 letters. 17 December 1918, 14 April 1919, 21 August 1919, 6 April 1920, 31 July 1920, 28 March 1922, 31 July 1923, 10 September 1923, 19 June 1926 (regarding Fellowship and other openings in statistics at Cambridge)

Anderson, Margaret November-December 1954. 3 letters 25 November 1954, 1 December 1954, 2 December 1954 (regarding possible donation to Trinity College, Cambridge of Sir William Dampier's presentation copy of his Genetical Theory )

Andrade, E.N. da C. (University College London and Davy Faraday Research Laboratory) October 1937 - February 1960. 24 letters. 25 October 1937, 3 November 1937 (re computation of his oscillation measurements - example enclosed), 23 September 1946 (views on determinism), 10 November 1947 (proposed collection of Singeriana), 17 August 1951, 6 September 1951 (sending and thanks for offprints), 7 November 1951, 10 November 1951 (re invitation to Fisher to present Friday Evening Discourse lecture to Royal Institution), 4 April 1942, 28 April 1942 (author for obituary of Julia Bell), 1 December 1955 (congratulations on Copley medal), July 25 1956 (sending article reference), 8 November 1958 (thanks for congratulations on Hughes medal), 8 November 1958 (comment on Charles Singer's [erroneous] statement on Lamarck in his A short history of science), 14 November 1958 (thanks for references to The Historian of Science and re Singer on the doctrine of energy), 9 February 1960 (touches on involvement on moves to amend Royal Society club rules)

Annan, N.G. (King's College, Cambridge) January 1954, September 1956. 3 letters. 19 January 1954, 6 September 1956, 27 September 1956 (notes re loan of offprint)

Anscombe, F.J. (Rothamsted Experimental Station) April 1947 - December 1952. 16 letters and notes. 26 April 1947 (seeking discussion on problems connected with logarithmic series), 1 May 1947, 7 May 1947 (method of calculating error variance), 29 January 1949 (sending copy of paper to be given by Barnard to Statistics Seminar [not in file]), 7 October 1949, 6 September 1949, 12 September 1950, 18 September 1950 (re review of report on the Trend of Scottish Intelligence), 16 January 1951 (inviting Fisher to a reading of a paper by Barnard at the Research Section meeting of the Royal Statistical Society), 17 January 1951 (unable to attend meeting of the Research Section meeting of the Royal Statistical Society), 26 September 1951 (thanking Fisher for chairing opening meeting of Statistical Society conference), 31 December 1951 (inviting Fisher to paper by K.D. Tocher at the Research Section meeting of the Royal Statistical Society), 1 January 1952 (unable to attend meeting of the Research Section meeting of the Royal Statistical Society), 13 December 1952, 18 September 1951, 12 December 1952 (re apparent errors in Bliss's formulae)

Ansell P.R. (Solihull) 1 January, 2 February, 3 February, 22 March, 14 April, 14 July, 10 September, 6 October, 17 August, 27 August, 5 April, 28 June [all no year], and undated; also two pages of hand written tables, undated (all brief notes on his research and work prospects and visit(s)? to Harpenden)

Antiquity [journal] June-July 1935, December 1949, March-April 1956. 11 letters. 19 June 1935, 20 June 1935, 22 June 1935, 24 June 193, 17 July 1935, 31 July 1935 (Fisher's objections to the editorial notes on article with regard to racial likeness and physical anthropology and with regard to publication, and offering 'a short statement in popular language on the Coefficient of Racial Likeness' for the journal), 12 December 1949, 28 December 1949 (on Margate Grotto claims), 28 March 1956, 30 March 1956, 16 April 1956 (re possible purchase of the 'charming drawing of an Australiopithecus, published in the last number')

Araujo, Fernando Carvalho (Estacao Agronomica Nacional, Lisbon) July 1939 - November 1940. 7 letters. 14 March 1939, 4 August 1939, 4 January 1940, 17 January 1940, 6 October 1940 (Fisher on his problems with the College authorities and consequent removal to Rothamsted and Araujo re his continuation in the department and regret at suspension of the work of the Laboratory as result of the war, with letter Prof. A. Camara to Fisher 20 August 1939 on his behalf), 11 November 1940 (possible negotiation of exchange between publications of his department and Portuguese publications in agriculture).

Arbous, A.G. (South African Council for Scientific and Industrial Research) September 1954. 2 letters and enclosures. 22 September 1954, 29 September 1954 (proof by Dr P. Armsen of one of the conclusions of 1941 paper On A Formula Useful in the Theory of the Negative Binomial Distribution by Fisher, and Fisher's note on the method he would have used 'perhaps it will be of interest to Mr Armsen to compare our methods')

Ashby, Eric, Sir (Imperial College of Science and Technology, London) 9 October 1934 - 19 October 1955 (principally on analysis of data in relation to variance) . 21 letters, notes and cards. 18 January 1935, 22 January 1935, 23 January 1935, 14 May 1935, 16 May 1935, 24 May 1935 (sending selection of Rothamsted work on sampling technique), 22 November 1948, 26 June 1950, 28 June 1950, 2 January 1955, 29 October 1955, 1 November 1955, 7 November 1955, 9 November 1955(on his notes on Mendel's Pisum paper)

Ashby, W.R. February 1936, August 1938. 2 letters. 29 February 1936, 17 August 1938 (on his recalculation of tables of x squared, with attached calculations)

Association for the Study of Human Biology (Alan Stevenson, Director) May 1958. 2 letters. 8 May 1958, 9 May 1958 (election of Fisher as first Honorary Member of the Society)

Atkins, W.R.G. (Meteorological Office, Stonehouse, Gloucester) November 1943 - December 1945. 10 letters. 2 November 1943, 4 November 1943, 3 December 1943, 6 December 1943, 26 December 1943, 3 January 1944, 28 October 1944, 4 November 1944, 24 December 1944, 29 December 1945 (re work on Vitamin C and joint paper with Fisher after Atkins sent Fisher the results of tests on urine of soldiers)

Atsumo, Y. (Operations Research Society of Japan) 4 April 1960 Invitation to deliver lecture.

Aubert, E.F. (Ministry of Health Emergency Hospital Scheme) June-July 1942. 4 letters. Supply of data for serological work of Fisher's Department

Australian Scientific Liaison Office (London) August 1958 - February 1959. Arrangements for visit to India.

Bailey, Arthur L. January 1930, September 1936, October 1944, July 1950. On interest in analysis of covariance etc; Bailey's letter of 7 September 1944 has enclosed his paper on The Intraclass Correlation Coefficient Applied as a Credibility Factor

Bailey, M.A. (Plant Breeding Station, Khartoum and Hayling Island, Hants.) January 1929 - January 1933. Interest in statistical methods and in particular crop rotations and layouts and randomization. 13 June 1932, 12 December 1932, 15 December 1932, 3 January 1933, 6 July 1933

Bailey, Norman 12 January 1952, 25 November 1954 Includes reference to possibility of attracting Henry Bennett to advertised position of Graduate Assistant in the Unit of the Reader in the Design and Analysis of Scientific Experiment at the University of Oxford.

Baker, Frances E. (Vassar Colllege, New York) July-December 1954. 5 letters Her visit to the Statistical Laboratory and possibility of a lecture by Fisher at Vassar. 29 July 1954, 9 August 1954 Baker, G.P. (Chelsea) January-April 1918. On family size and eugenics.

Baker, H.F. (Cambridge) March-April 1925. Re comments on Fisher's paper by Dr Burnside.

Baker, John R. (Department of Zoology, University Museum, Oxford) April 1926 - January 1949. 9 letters and copy of paper on Freedom in scientific research [by Fisher] Early exchanges on views on adaptation; 1940 re freedom in scientific research. 9 December 1948, 14 January 1949 (publication of Fisher's remarks on Lysenko)

Ball, R.S. (Cambridge) August 1944 - June 1957 Mainly social invitations from Mrs Ball.

Balmukand, Bhai (Agricultural College, Lyallpur and Shri Ram Institute for Industrial Research, Delhi) January 1929 - December 1954. 2 cm. Correspondence, mainly 1930s, re Balmukand's agricultural work in India and analysis of data, in particular with regard to fertility and economic standing of landowners and cultivators: includes copies of questionnaires and some data on economic position of two generations of cultivators and on Lyallpur weather; also synopses of Balmukand's lectures on statistics at the University of the Panjab. 1 January 1929, 14 March 1929, 13 May 1929, 17 June 1929, 3 September 1929,19 November 1929, 10 February 1930, 1 April 1930, 30 June 1930 (commenting on the village/fertility data and its statistical analysis), 25 August 1930, 10 October 1930, 15 December 1930 [1], 15 December 1930 [2] (reference for Balmakund addressed to Dr. B.A. Keen), 9 February 1931, 16 April 1931, 11 November 1931, 5 January 1932, 12 April 1932, 25 May 1932 (on climatic survey of the Punjab), 17 January 1933, 24 January 1933 (commenting on schedule proposed for fertility/economic standing enquiry), 20 November 1933, 3 January 1935, 30 December 1935, 18 February 1936(detailed comments on fertility and economic standing enquiry questionnaire), 5 November 1936, 3 July 1937, 18 July 1947, 8 January 1952, 22 January 1954.

Bancroft, T.A. (Iowa State College) August 1952, May-September 1957. 7 letters Re visits and lectures by Fisher. 21 August 1952, 3 September 1957

Banks, A. Leslie (Department of Human Ecology, University of Cambridge) October 1951 - May 1956. Brief formal exchanges, including 1956 references to establishing relations with the World Health Organization. Barbacki, Stefan (Polish Academy of Sciences) July 1935 - December 1937, October-December 1945, April-July 1958. 26 letters. On Barbacki's work at the Galton Laboratory and subsequently in Poland in plant breeding of pasture/fodder plantsand field experimentation methods. 15 July 1935 (proposed work by Barbacki in the Galton Laboratory), May 26 1936 (on Gosset's letter, 9 July 1936 (needs Barbacki's original data for his drill strips yields paper), 3 February 1937 (on continuation of controversy by 'Student' on randomization), 13 October 1937, 3 December 1945 (on books for replenishment of Barbacki's professional library, lost in occupation, 16 April 1957

Barbensi, Gustavo (Florence) July 1938 - September 1953. 28 letters Seeking advice in biometrics and on his own work and proposed book to popularize modern statistical methods in Italy; includes reference in letter 20 September 1945 to differences with Gini; also Fisher's nomination of Barbensi for International Statistical Institute in 1953. 3 April 1940, 11 May 1945, 9 October 1945, 29 January 1948 (on unnecessary complication of his explanations in Statistical Methods by others)

Barber, H.N. (University of Tasmania) May-July 1959. Proposed visit to Hobart by Fisher and on Barber's work, including his 'Proposal for an Examination in Genetics at Matriculation'

Barigozzi, Claudio (University of Milan, and as General Secretary of Organizing Committee of IX International Congress of Genetics) October 1949 - July 1953. Fisher's use of his data on distribution of facette irregularities (1949); arrangements and paper/lecture and Fisher's election as Vice-President of the Congress.

Barlow, Lady Nora July 1932 - June 1958. 39 letters and notes, some with enclosures To 1943 principally re Lythrum, with some data; includes reference to earlier work of E.M. East and some enclosures of letters from East to Barlow. Later correspondence related to Barlow's book on Charles Darwin and to verse of Erasmus Darwin. 26 July 1948, 30 July 1948 (Darwin's attitude to Paley), 2 August 1948, 22 October 1954, 25 October 1954, 3 June 1958, 5 June 1958 , 7 June 1958, 12 June 1958, 13 June 1958 (Fisher's review of Barlow's edition of Darwin's autobiography and discussion re Erasmus Darwin and his poetry)

Barnard, George A. (Imperial College of Science and Technology, London) October 1945 - July 1961. 2 cm. Areas of joint interest in mathematical statistics, with some lengthy discussion of questions by Barnard and some enclosed papers relating to the history of statistics. 28 April 1955, 30 April 1955, 10 November 1956 (re note on simultaneous fiducial distribution prompted by Fieller 'entanglement') [file includes Barnard's earlier notes on 'The Creasy-Fieller Paradox']

Barnard, Mildred see Prentice, Mildred Barnes, E.W. (Bishop) (Birmingham) September 1930 - December 1953. 18 letters and notes. Mainly on Fisher's books, and (1941) support of Mahalanobis for the Royal Society. 25 September 1930, 4 October 1930 (discussion on the mathematics in Genetical theory and on family allowances in relation to the clergy), 13 January 1936 (on mathematics in Design of experiments), 12 February 1944 (reaction to his pamphlet on the birth-rate), 12 November 1951, 12 January 1952 (on his 'lay sermon' and on improvement in man and progress), 2 December 1953 (note of sympathy to Mrs Barnes after the death of the Bishop).

Barrett, T.K.P. (Cambridge) January-February 1948. 2 letters

Bartlett, M.S. (ICI Agricultural Research Station, Berks.) June 1933 - July 1949. 69 letters and notes 17 June 1933 - 28 June 1954 (exchanging papers and commenting on them) 19 June 1933, 20 March 1935 (on Latin squares), 23 June 1938, 6 October 1938 (with enclosure), 1 February 1939 (on accuracy of a proof in paper by Fairfield Smith), 3 February 1939, 24 January 1940, 28 September 1944, 11 April 1946, 18 March 1947, 15 October 1947, 29 July 1949

Barton-Wright, E. (Scottish Society for Research in Plant Breeding) December 1931-February 1954.

Bateman, A.J. (John Innes Horticultural Institution, Herts.) May 1948 - May 1950. 7 letters 12 May 1948 (criticism of aspects of Bateman's paper on intra-sexual selection), 25 April 1950

Bateson, William (John Innes Horticultural Institution) March 1920 - July 1925. 10 letters (mainly re meetings of the Genetical Society at Rothamsted, and (1925) on paper by ?? on twins) 31 January 1921 (possible discontinuation of Journal of Genetics)

Bawden, F.C. March 1949, November 1955, November 1956.

Beaghen, A. (Rev.) October 1951.

Beatty, R.A. (Animal Breeding and Genetics Research Organisation, Edinburgh) November 1951. 5 letters. 14 November 1951, 21 November 1951 (relation between an x squared test and Fisher's exact method)

Beaven, E.S. (London) October 1930, February-March 1932. 8 letters. 5 February 1932 (issues in relation to Kalamkar's thesis work), 12 March 1932 (seeding of Woburn plots)

Becker, Trevor June-July 1947, July 1955. 5 letters. 20 June 1947 (on his recent talk 'The renaissance of Darwinism'), 2 July 1947

Behrens, W.U. (Königsberg University) August 1929 - September 1935, February 1957 - February 1958. 16 letters (with some translations from the original German) On test of significance posed by Behrens in his paper "a contribution for calculating errors with small number of observations'; includes letters from Joseph Pepper to Behrens and Fisher on the problem). 1 October 1929, 18 December 1929, 20 February 1935, 12 September 1935, 9 February 1957, 20 January 1958

Bell, George H. (Physiology and Biochemistry department, University College, Dundee) November-December 1948. 3 letters

Bell, Julia (Unversity College, Medical Research Council and National Hospital, London, and department of Genetics, University of Cambridge) June 1932 - January 1944. Extensive correspondence, principally re Bell's work, pulications and resources and facilities; includes 91943) letters re future of the Annals.

Belshaw, H. (Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge) July 1925 - January 1926. 4 letters.

Belz, Maurice H. (Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge and University of Melbourne) May 1932, August 1948 - September 1959. 40 letters. Include references to possible staff appointments, the work of J.H. Bennett, meetings of the I.S.I and the Biometric Society, and to Fisher's visit to Australia in 1959. 22 July 1958 (reference to Geoff Watson and question of dispersion on a sphere)

Benza J.C. (Agricultural Experimental Station, Lima, Peru) April-May 1954. 2 letters.

Berkson, Joseph (Mayo Clinic, Minnesota) September-November 1937, February-March 1951, January 1954, June-July 1958. 18 letters.

Bernstein, Felix (Institute for Mathematical Statistics, Göttingen) May 1926, January 1929-July 1930, January 1948, April 1953-July 1954. 10 letters and printed announcement (3 December 1956) of Bernstein's death. 6 May 1930 (sending a copy of Natural selection), 14 May 1930, 24 June 1954 (Bernstein's election as Honorary fellow of the RSS) Bernstein, Marianne E. (Arvelighets Institute, Oslo) February 1949 - January 1950. 4 letters.

Best articles and stories (Bloomington, Indiana) May 1958 - September 1959. 9 letters Payment for article on 'Cigarettes, cancer and statistics'.

Beveridge, W.I.B. (Department of Animal Pathology, Cambridge) December 1950 - June 1952. 6 letters

Bewley, W.F. (Experimental and Research Station, Nursery and Market Garden Industries Development Society) January 1924 - January 1925. 10 letters

Bhat, N.R. (Central Tobacco Institute, India) January 1946 - September 1957.

Bhattacharya, A.P. (Office of the Statistical Officer, Irrigation Research Division, Uttar Pradesh, India) February-May 1951. 4 letters.

Biological Measurements Committee December 1934 - June 1935 and undated. 2 cm. Letters from Fisher to learned societies, universities and others with regard to the data archives at the Natural History Museum, with related reports of the Committee. December 1934, 3 January 1935, 18 January 1935, 23 January 1935, 22 May 1935.

Birnbaum, Allan (Columbia and New York University) June 1957 - September 1960. 7 letters and enclosures. 4 July 1958

Black, W.R. February 1924 – August 1929. 29 letters. 28 March 1924, 15 November 1924, 4 March 1925.

Blacklock, D.S. Blackman, F.F. Blackman, V.H. Blackstock, G.

Blaxter, K.L. June 1950 – September 1952. 29 letters, many with attached proposals/reports. 17 June 1950, 20 June 1950.

Bliss, Chester I. (Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station) October 1927 - November 1961. 4 cm. Extensive correspondence re statistical analysis of data; also re various papers, Bliss's work at the Galton Laboratory (1933-35), arrangements for Fisher's visits to the U.S.A., nominations of Michael Healy, George Owen and others to the ISI, etc. 28 November 1927, 21 July 1933, 13 September 1933, 12 October 1933, 14 November 1935 (to the Consul General of the USSR), 3 June 1936, 3 December 1936, 15 February 1937, 3 May 1937, 8 September 1937, 6 October 1937, 9 March 1937, 14 March 1938, 26 April 1938, 7 September 1938, 4 November 1938, 4 January 1939, 10 February 1939, 20 March 1939, 27 April 1939, 2 June 1939 [tables enclosed], 25 July 1939, 21 August 1939, 11 April 1940, 7 June 1940, 9 May 1941, 5 August 1941, 24 November 1941, 17 April 1942, 19 May 1943, 19 June 1943, 17 August 1943, 3 March 1944, 6 March 1946, 9 May 1946, 4 September 1946, 6 November 1946, 13 December 1946, 20 March 1947, 14 April 1947, 30 May 1947, 11 July 1947, 20 October 1947, 25 March 1949, 13 May 1949, 12 June 1950, 29 May 1953, 1 February 1954 [with enclosures], 3 March 1954, 15 April 1954, 23 June 1954, 21 March 1955, 16 January 1956, 25 February 1956, 13 March 1956, 16 April 1956, 28 April 1956, 26 July 1956, 4 October 1956, 29 January 1957, 19 February 1957, 2 March 1957, 9 March 1957, 3 September 1957, 18 October 1957, 29 October 1957, 6 November 1957, 20 November 1957, 30 January 1958, 24 April 1958, 27 May 1958, 21 August 1958, 20 August 1959, 2 September 1959

Blood Group Survey September 1939 - February 1943. 4 cm. Correspondence with British Red Cross Society, the Army Blood Transfusion Service, hospitals and health offices and relating to collection and analysis of blood donor data, some with enclosures of data. 3 January 1939, 13 September 1939, 18 October 1939, 23 October 1939, 24 October 1939, 27 October? 1939, 15 November 1939, 22 November 1939, 15 January 1940, 11 March 1940, 7 August 1940, 19 December 1941, 6 January 1942, 8 January 1942, 2 April 1942

Boag, J.W. (Medical Research Council, London) January 1946. 3 letters. 22 January 1946, 25 January 1946, 29 January 1946 (re papers on maximum likelihood)

Bodmer, W.F. Bogue, A.H. Boldrini, M. Bond, C.

Bonnier, Gert (Institutet för Husdjursförädling [Animal Breeding Institute], Stocksund) April-August 1937, April-June 1949. 26 letters and notes. 29 July 1947 (on International Council of Scientific Unions)

Booth, C.P. Borger, R. Born, M. Bose, Raj Chandra (Statistical Laboratory, Presidency College , Calcutta) March 1938 - July 1948, May 1960. 21 letters and enclosures, including Fisher's letter of support for Bose's candidature as Statistician to the Imperial Council of Agricultural Research. 20 May 1938, 19 October 1938 (with Bose's letter of 9 October 1938 and its enclosure), 7 November 1938, 1938, November 1938, 4 January 1939, 19 June 1939 (on incomplete blocks)

Bostock, R.C. Bourdel, L.

Boutflour, R. (Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester) February 1956. 2 letters. 17 February 1956, 20 February 1956 (on Breed Societies)

Bowden, P. Bowley, A.L. Box, G.E.P.

Boycott, A.E. February 1929 - May 1931, June 1933 - March 1937. 22 (brief) letters and cards. 7 March 1937 (with enclosure), 8 March 1937 (question of definition of 'rare' and 'common' in Fisher's recent paper [on relation between variability and abundance as indicated by measurement of eggs of British nesting birds])

Boyd, William C. (Boston University) October 1934 - January 1956. 56 letters and notes, with some enclosures. 24 August 1945, 15 September 1945 (proposal to name human genes), 8 May 1953 (gene frequencies)

Bragg, Sir Lawrence Braithwaite, R.B. Brambell, F.W. Rogers Brambilla, F. Brammall, L.H.

Bramwell, B.S. (London) October 1933 - February 1941. 54 letters and notes. Principally re Eugenics Society and eugenics matters, including Bramwell's particular study of surnames characteristics of different parts of the country. 23 July 1934 (with copy of his draft foreword for the first number of Annals of Eugenics to appear under his editorship), 4 May 1936, 6 May 1936, 7 May 1936, 9 May 1936, 11 May 1936 (award of second Darwin Studentship).

Brandt, A.E (Iowa State College and U.S. Atomic Energy Commission) September 1934 - September 1957. 4 cm. Extensive correspondence covering Brabdt's work in Fisher's laboratory and subsequent research and publications, Fisher's visits to the U.S.A. and (proposed) appointment at Ames (1937), use of sodium silicate, Brandt's genetic study of children of survivors of the atomic bombs. 13 July 1937, 30 July 1937 (ms and typescript copies) (rejection of the proposed Ames appointment), 29 April 1941 , 27 September 1941 (refusal of Fisher's exit permit by the Foreign Office), 26 November 1941, 24 April 1942 (with part of a letter of reply by Fisher attached) (on blood group data), 4 July 1942, undated, 15 September 1944 (with attached newspaper clipping of article by Marquis Childs on 'Wallace's new role'), 17 December 1947, 3 January 1948 (factorial x squared).

Brant, J.W.A.

Brash, Herbert (Edinburgh and Glasgow) January 1941 - March 1944. 23 letters and notes. 2 August 1941, 9 August 1941, 30 October 1941, 14 November 1941, 31 January 1942, 4 February 1942, 10 February 1942, 18 February 1942, 28 February 1944, 4 March 1944 (on hair and eye colour data, and on application of mathematical statistics to biological problems and use in teaching medical students)

Brash, Herbert Bratton, A.B. Breitenberger, E. Brieger, F.G. Brimble, L.J.F. Briones, H.

British Association - New Section August 1951 - February 1958. 47 letters and notes. Personal correspondence with E.C. Fieller, Kenneth Mather, D.J. Finney and others re establishment of a [Biometry and Statistics] [Statistical Methodology and] Biometry section of the Association, and subsequent circular and other correspondence re meetings and formation of a Co-ordinating Committee for Genetics and Cytology 25 July 1951(with enclosed draft Proposal), 2 August 1951, 4 August 1951, 24 June 1952, 23 August 1952 (formation of new Section) 3 February 1958, 5 February 1958, 23 February 1958, 27 February 1958 (proposed joint meeting of Sections H and D to celebrate the Centenary of Darwinism).

British Association Mathematical Tables Committee May 1940 - October 1954. War-time use of the National Machine, employment of Mrs Tysser as a computer operator, arrangements for meetings, printing of the Tables, and transfer of responsibility for the tables to Royal Society. 6 January 1941, 31 March 1944, 9 November 1945, 29 January 1946, 5 August 1947, 11 August 1947, 29 May 1948, 17 May 1948, 20 May 1948, 1 June 1948, 4 November 1948 (opposing computation for the Committee by the Scientific Computing service, 5 November 1948, 8 November 1948, 4 February 1949, 14 February 1949, 17 July 1951, 16 July 1951, 25 July 1951, 28 July 1951, 22 August 1951, 6 September 1951, 11 January 1952, 30 September 1954 [with proposal by A.J.H. Morrell re compilation of tables for constructing Gompertz Curves enclosed], 2 October 1954. see also N.F. Sheppard and W.F. Sheppard files

British Broadcasting Corporation British Medical Bulletin British Society for the History of Science Bromwich, T.J.I’a. Brooke, V.E. Brooks, F.T. Brower, L.P. Brown, A. Hampton Brown, G. Spencer Brown, H.T. Browne, H.J. Brownlee, J. Bruce, A.B.

Brück, H.A. (The Observatory, Cambridge) May-June 1946. 2 notes with enclosures. 30 May 1946 (with enclosed method - ms and typescript copies), 4 June 1946.

Brunson, A.M. 9 April 1932. 1 letter Concerning blade testing problem. Enclosure not present.

Brunt, D.

Buchanan-Smith, A.D. (Animal Breeding Research Department, Edinburgh) September 1928 - November 1933, September 1938, August 1953, May 1959. 1 cm Principally re Buchanan-Smith's work on milk yield inheritance. 9 March 1929, 13 March 1929, 11 April 1929, 5 December 1929, 20 December 1929, 21 January 1930, 30 January 1930, 3 February 1930 (1), 3 February 1930 (2), 4 February 1930, 5 February 1930, 26 March 1930, 22 July 1930, 24 July 1930, 15 November 1930 (letter from C. von Patow of Berlin enclosed), 17 November 1930, 27 February 1931, 2 March 1931, 20 March 1931, 2 April 1932, 10 June 1932 (with reprints of articles from Nature on ‘Inheritance of milking capacity), 13 June 1932, 15 June 1932, 16 December 1932, 4 January 1933, 9 February 1933, 14 February 1933, 3 April 1933, 3 November 1933.

Buchanan-Wollaston, H.J. (Fisheries Laboratory, Lowestoft) October 1931 - January 1942, February-March 1957. 1 cm. Extensive correspondence regarding period in Fisher's laboratory and on statistical procedure and problems in relation to his fisheries (herring race) research; includes draft of B-W's letter to Nature on the differences between Fisher's and Pearson's statistical methods. 15 October 1931, 17 October 1931, 9 April 1932, undated, 30 November 1932, 2 December 1932, 14 December 1932, 3 January 1933, 5 January 1933, 1 February 1933, 21 April 1933, 25 April 1933, 15 May 1933, 16 May 1933, 17 May 1933, 19 May 1933, 23 November 1933, 21 March 1934, 26 March 1934, 23 September 1935, 28 March 1936, 31 March 1936, 18 December 1941, 20 January 1942,

Buckland, W.R. (International Statistical Institute, The Hague) June-July 1954. 6 letters. Proposed Dictionary of Statistical Terms by Professor M.G. Kendall. 15 July 1954, 19 July 1954, 20 July 1954.

Buddin, W. Buehler, R.J.

Bullard, E.C. (Sir Edward) (University of Toronto and Department of Geodesy and Geophysics, University of Cambridge) February-June 1949, November 1955 - January 1959. 15 letters. 1 February 1949, 9 February 1949, 23 June 1949, 24 November 1955, 25 November 1955, 18 December 1958, 22 December 1958 [table and graph enclosed], 23 December 1958, 29 December 1958 [table enclosed], 5 January 1959, 6 January 1959, 19 January 1959

Bullen, G.E.

Burlton, R.F. August 1928 - December 1948. 36 letters and notes 20 December 1930, 22 December 1930

Burnaby, T.P. (University College, Keele) November 1953, October 1956, December 1960. 6 letters 27 November 1953, 9 October 1956.

Burnett (Fisher), Betty Burnside, W. Buros, O.K. Burt, C. Butler, E.J. Butler, L. Butler, R.P. Butler, Sir Geoffrey Buxton, P.A. Buzzati-Traverso, A.

Caius Natural Philosophy Society Calcutta, I.S.I. Caldwell, J. Calhoun, D.W.

Calman, W.T. (Department of Zoology, British Museum (Natural History)) November 1929 - June 1935. 37 letters and notes. Request by Fishers for assistance of a bird expert and taxidermist, joint interest in data archives [see also Biological Measurements file] and application by Fisher for Calman's assistance for membership of the Zoological Society and Linnean. 15 November 1932, 26 November 1932, 28 November 1932, 9 March 1933, 29 August 1933.

Camara, A. Cambridge University - College (see also Stratton, F.) Cambridge University - Genetics Dept. Cambridge University Delta2v Club

Cambridge University Philosophy of Science Club September 1953 - January 1955. 27 letters and notes. On formation of the club and its program and speakers, Fisher's address to the Club in November 1954 and counter- views of Braithwaite. 23 September 1953, 29 September 1953, 1 October 1953, 2 October 1953, undated, 11 May 1954, 28 July 1954, 14 September 1954, 15 September 1954, undated, 17 November 1954, 18 November 1954 (?), 19 November 1954, 23 November 1954, 24 November 1954, undated, 12 January 1955, 19 January 1955

Cambridge University Professorship of Genetics (see also Venn, J.A.) Camerson, F.J. Cameron, G.R.

Campbell, Norman July 1922, November - December 1925. 6 letters and undated 'Note' by Fisher. undated (copy of Fisher's Note on Campbell's alternative to the method of Least Squares).

Cappell, D.F. (Medical School, Dundee and Department of Pathology, Edinburgh University) September 1944 - March 1952. 19 letters and notes. On blood group work (including suggested mental deficiency link with the Rhesus factor). September 1944, 6 October 1944, 14 January 1948, 22 February 1952 [table enclosed], 27 February 1952, 9 January 1948 [table enclosed] see also Blood Group Survey file

Carington, Whately May 1933 - April 1946. 4 cm. 6 June 1933, 13 June 1933, 6 July 1933, 9 August 1933, 14 November 1933, 30 January 1934, 7 February 1934, 26 February 1934, 7 March 1934, 12 March 1934, 13 March 1934, 19 March 1934, 22 March 1934, 27 March 1934, 13 June 1934, 29 June 1934, 15 October 1934, 9 November 1934, 22 March 1935, 26 April 1935, 29 May 1935, 11 June 1935, 14 November 1936, 25 January 1937, 20 October 1944, 28 September 1937, 26 August 1940, 24 March 1941, 29 September 1941, 24 November 1941, 1 January 1942, 12 August 1942, 3 September 1942, 20 June 1944, 15 September 1944, 27 April 1946

Carpenter, G.H. Carr, M.

Carr Saunders, A.M. (School of Social Science, University of Liverpool) October 1929 - February 1938, March-April 1950. 26 letters. On Birth Control Investigation forms, impact of family allowances, future of the Population Union and of the Sociological Review, applications of Cedric Dover and of N. Wallace and R.M.W. Travers for Leverhulme Fellowship /grant, suggested appraisal of Galton's Hereditary Genius to accompany issue of a new edition. 3 January 1931, 6 January 1931

Carruthers, J.N.

Cartwright, Carolyn S. (Indiana) July-August 1959. 2 letters. 16 July 1959 (with attached newspaper cutting), 27 August 1959 (on possible testing of intelligence in cats)

Cashen, Rose O. (formerly Tysser) (Rothamsted Experimental Station) April 1940 - March 1958. 54 letters and notes. Her appointment and work at Rothamsted, including a copy of her Feb. 1945 report on 'The influence of rainfall on the yield and botanical composition of permanent grassland, The Park grass plots, Rothamsted'. 12 June 1940, 13 June 1940, 18 June 1940, 20 June 1940, 22 October 1941, 24 October 1941, 28 October 1941, 29 October 1940, 14 August 1944, 16 August 1944, 13 December 1944, 15 December 1944, undated, 22 March 1958

Catcheside, D.G. Cattell, R.B.

Cavalli, Luigi (Instituto Sieroterapico Milanese and Instituto di Genetica, Pavia) February 1946 - December 1958. 3 cm. 9 August 1948, 11 August 1948, 12 August 1948 [enclosures], 14 August 1948, 17 August 1948, 21 September 1950, 30 September 1950, undated [letter enclosed], 13 October 1950, 29 January 1951, 5 February 1951, 9 May 1951, 28 May 1951, 17 June 1951 [paper, table, photograph enclosed], 23 June 1951, 30 September 1951, 5 October 1951, 7 January 1952, 24 January 1952, 16 February 1952, 19 February 1952, 30 April 1952, 21 August 1952 [table enclosed], 25 September 1952, 28 October 1952, 13 November 1952 [letter enclosed], 1 March 1953, 6 March 1953, 15 April 1953, 8 May 1953 [paper enclosed], undated, 20 May 1953, 10 July 1953, 30 December 1953, 14 January 1954, 18 January 1954, 13 February 1954, 18 February 1954, 5 March 1954, 11 March 1954, 2 March 1955, 5 March 1955, 29 March 1955 [enclosure], 18 April 1955 [enclosure], 27 April 1955, 2 May 1955, 4 May 1955, 21 May 1955, 15 July 1955, 19 July 1955, 3 August 1955, 4 August 1955, 8 August 1955, 16 August 1955, 3 October 1955, 17 August 1956, 2 January 1957, 15 January 1957, 5 March 1957, undated, 26 April 1957, 15 May 1957, 17 August 1957, 18 October 1957, 14 March 1958, 25 April 1958, 30 April 1958, 8 July 1958, 18 July 1958, 22 July 1958, 10 November 1958, 13 November 1958, 17 November 1958, 16 December 1958 C.A.V. Ltd. (A.E.W. Austen, Chief Research Engineer) September-October 1958. 3 letters. On link of diesel exhaust and urbanization generally to cancer. 25 September 1958.

Chadwick, J.

Chambers, Lady Georgina April 1931, January 1937, November 1946. 8 letters. Objections to article by Dachert in Eugenics Review, location of Pearson's charts and diagrams, Eugenics Society. 17 November 1946, 19 November 1946 (proposed history of the Eugenics Society by Chambers and Fisher's views on the Society)

Chance, Col. H. 1920. Copies of correspondence with Fisher and others regarding experimentation with microplots for manorial experiments, together with papers by Chance and Fisher. Originals held at Rothamstead; these copies received in April 2002 from Dr Nancy S. Hall.

Chapman, S. (Imperial College of Science and Technology) January-June 1930. 10 letters and receipt. Course of lectures by Fisher on Statistical methods. 22 January 1930, 24 January 1930, 27 January 1930, 30 January 1930.

Charles, D.R. Chawner, E.F. Chibnall, A.C. Chimpanzees - Taste-Testing Chittenden, F.J.

Christidis, Basil G. (Cotton Research Institute, Greece) June-September 1930, July-August 1934, December 1950 - February 1954, February 1961. 15 letters and cards. 5 July 1934, 17 July 1934, 25 July 1934, 1 August 1934

Church, A.E.H. Ciba Foundation (The)

Clapham, A.R. (School of Botany, Oxford University) October 1930 - February 1946. 25 letters. Including detailed discussion (1931) of recent paper by Romell in Ecology, calculation of a correlation coefficient, and on use of tetrachoric r (1942) 7 January 1931, 16 January 1931, 27 January 1931, 6 October 1932, 8 October 1932, 13 November 1935, 19 November 1935 [tables enclosed], 23 July 1942,

Clarendon Press (Oxford) May 1929 - November 1949, August-October 1959. 3 cm Extensive correspondence (principally with Kenneth Sisam) re publication of The genetical theory of natural selection, including copies of reviews and statements of sales; also re subsequent publication of Fisher's Herbert Spencer lecture and suggested review of Nicholson and Bailey's Animal Ecology by Fisher. 20 February 1930, 22 February 1930 [enclosure], 24 February 1930, 25 April 1930, 28 April 1930, 30 November 1931, 3 December 1931, 4 December 1931, 22 February 1932, 24 February 1932, 25 February 1932, 29 February 1932

Clark, J.E.

Clark, Wilfrid E. Le Gros (Department of Human Anatomy, University Museum, Oxford) March 1939 - June 1940, November 1952, November 1955 - May 1958. 17 letters and notes. Including comments on work of Morant, Clark's membership of the Biometric Society and differences with Zuckerman on hominid affinities. 15 May 1956, 18 May 1956, 29 April 1957, 1 May 1957.

Clark-Kennedy, A.E. Clarkson, F.E.M. Cleland, J.B.

Cochran, W.G. (Statistical Department, Rothamsted and St John's College, Cambridge) May 1934 - October 1940, May 1946, December 1949 - November 1950, June 1955. 44 letters. 1 May 1934, 29 May 1935, 4 March 1937, 17 March 1937, 1 April 1937 [enclosure], 8 April 1937, 29 April 1937, 30 April 1937, 6 September 1938, 7 September 1938, 21 September 1938, 23 September 1938, 8 December 1938, 19 December 1938, 27 September 1940, 28 October 1940, 21 October 1950

Cockayne, E.A. Committee On Science and Freedom Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization Comrie, L.J.

Connor, L.R. (Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd) January-December 1934, March 1950. 10 letters. Comments on paper by Wishart at meeting of Industrial and Agricultural Research Section of the Royal Statistical Society in 1934. 30 January 1934, 7 February 1934, 16 March 1934, 6 December 1934.

Cook, A.H. Cook, P.M. Cook, S.A. Coombs, R.

Cooper, L.H.N. (Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, The Laboratory, Citadel Hill, Plymouth) November 1933 - February 1934, September-October 1947. 8 letters. Procedures for determination of standard error; and on errors inherent in 'rounding off' in results of calculations. 7 October 1947.

Corbet, A. Steven (Department of Biochemistry, University College, London and British Museum (Natural History)) January 1937, October-November 1941, April 1942. 7 letters (some with attachments) Calculations in relation to data on specimens of Malayan butterfly species. 11 November 1941 [table enclosed], 8 April 1942.

Corbet, P.S. Corbiére, H. Corless, R. Corner, Dr. H. and Miss

Cornish, E.A. (CSIRO Division of Mathematical Statistics) September 1956 - May 1959. 10 letters Joint formulae work (orders of magnitude and smoothing formula), impact of Fisher's Statistical methods and scientific inference, Fisher's visit to Australia and conferring of honorary degree by the University of Adelaide. note all but one item are copies of letters from CSIRO Archives 19 September 1956, 21 November 1956, 30 November 1956, 18 December 1958 [with enclosures], 2 January 1959, 7 January 1959, 19 January 1959, 17 February 1959, 25 February 1959

Cott, H.B. (University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge) December 1945 - January 1946. 6 letters Analysis of hornet data 12 December 1945, 24 December 1945, 11 January 1946, 28 January 1946, 30 January 1946.

Courtney-Pratt, J.S. (Gonville and Caius College) June-November 1953, October 1956. 8 letters (including copies of letters to/from W.H. McCrea) Exchanges with W.H. McCrea over (physical impact of) space travel. 17 October 1956, 20 October 1956, 24 October 1956.

Cowen, Dr. Cowling, T.G. Cox, B. Cox, G. Craig, C.C.

Cramer, H. October 1938-July 1954 14 letters and notes Including re visit C to Galton Laboratory in 1938 (no details); then gap to 1944 when correspondence resumed with Cramer's account of his interest/study of statistical theory during ('this period of scientific isolation; then 1949-50; correspondence with Fisher seeking support for election of D.J. Finney to International Statistical Institute and 1954 election of Cramer as honorary member of the RSS.

Creer, K.M. (Geological Survey and Museum, London) March-October 1956. 4 letters. 21 August 1956 (on Statistical Methods in Rock Magnetism by Irving and Watson)

Crew, F.A.E. (Institute of Animal Genetics, Edinburgh and Usher Institute, University of Edinburgh) October 1921, June 1930 - June 1944, November 1948, December 1953. 3 cm. Discussion of animal breeding work, organization of Seventh International Congress of Genetics, potential for use of Army data on distribution of physical qualities, supply of mice. 6 March 1942, 10 March 1942, 24 September 1942, 26 September 1942.

Crisp, D.J. Crofton, H.D.

Crosby, J.L. (Botany School, Cambridge) June-July 1940, October 1947 - November 1950. 14 letters, some with enclosures. Possible approaches to numerical solution of 'population problem' [in relation to homostyle plants in populations of primula], acknowledgement of use of Fisher's primrose data in his thesis, meetings of Genetical Society. 17 June 1940, 22 June 1940, [June 24 enclosure], 2 July 1940 [graph enclosed], 5 July 1940.

Crow, J.F. Csik, L. Cuboni, E. Cunningham, J.T. Cuthbertson, D.P.

Dagum, Camilo August 1960. 1 letter. 2 August 1960.

Dale, Sir Henry (The Royal Society) December 1933 - June 1935, August-September 1941. 11 letters Publication by and refereeing of papers for the Society, grant from the Society for his poultry experiments, support for enquiry into refusal of exit permit by Foreign Office. 8 December 1933, 22 August 1941.

Dalling, T. (Veterinary Laboratory, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries) February 1942 - October 1949. 20 letters and notes. Assistance with planning experiments (tuberculin tests and artificial insemination of sheep), provision of data for serum work. 2 April 1942, 22 September 1942, 18 January 1943, 30 October 1946, 18 March 1949, 21 March 1949, 24 October 1949, 26 October 1949 Dalton, H. Daly, Dr. and Mrs. De Burgh Danforth, C.H.

Danielli, Jim (Journal of Theoretical Biology) April 1961 - June 1962. 5 letters. Contribution to new Journal of Theoretical Biology 13 April 1961

Daniels, H.E.

Darlington, C.D. (John Innes Horticultural Institution, University of Oxford Botany Department and Heredity office) June 1934 - May 1957. 5 cm Principally relating to establishment of a journal by the Genetical Society and subsequent papers for Heredity, including frequent detailed comment on papers and reviews submitted; also contains report by Darlington on Genetics and plant and animal breeding and papers by F. Rose and A.J.H. Jolly and response of ?? ('The significance of taboo in primitive society: a vindication of Lewis Morgan'). 28 October 1944, 31 October 1944, 17 May 1946 [enclosure], 20 May 1946, 19 November 1946, 22 November 1946, 11 December 1946, 24 December 1946, 2 January 1947, 15 January 1947, 2 April 1947, 16 April 1947, 28 May 1947, 4 June 1947 [1], 4 June 1947 [2], 9 June 1947, 5 March 1948, 8 May 1948, 3 December 1948, 8 December 1948 [1], 8 December 1948 [2], 20 January 1949, 28 July 1949, 5 August 1949, 25 August 1949, 5 October 1949, 4 July 1950, 16 October 1950, 20 October 1950, 22 February 1951, 9 July 1951, 10 July 1951, 4 August 1951, 12 September 1951, 14 September 1951, 27 August 1952, 3 October 1952, 26 November 1952, 28 November 1952, 4 December 1952, 26 April 1956, 17 August 1956, 18 August 1956, 28 September 1956, 29 September 1956, 26 March 1957.

Darmois, G. (Faculté des Sciences, Institut Henri Poincaré, University of Paris) June 1936 - March 1956. 2 cm. Lecture visits by Fisher to Paris in 1938 and 1946 and proposed collaboration on blood-grouping work, also re the International Statistical Institute and work of Kolmogoroff (Kolmogorov). letters by Darmois in French, Fisher's in English 9 February 1937, 22 November 1937, 12 May 1938, 19 October 1938, 1 February 1940, 2 April 1940, 25 April 1940, 9 May 1940, 1 July 1940, 30 September 1942, 12 September 1945, 19 November 1945, 5 February 1946, 9 February 1946, 25 February 1946, 27 February 1946, 13 March 1946, 18 March 1946, 20 March 1946, 21 December 1953, 15 April 1954, 24 June 1954, 22 March 1955, 3 June 1955, 22 August 1955, 16 February 1956 [letter enclosed], 28 February 1956, 13 March 1956.

Darwin, C.G. (Cambridge) July 1932 - November 1948. 29 letters and two printed items re Sir Charles Darwin. Extensive comments by Darwin on Fisher's Genetical theory of natural selection and discussions of dominance theory and later papers by Fisher

Darwin, Leonard August 1915 - November 1952. 25 cm.

1915-1917 August 1915 (1), August 1915 (2), 3 September 1915, 5 October 1915, undated [probably follows 5 October], 11 October 1915, 23 October 1915, (all re questions/ problems in relation to genetic inheritance - law of ancestral descent, issues of sexual selection, parental/heredity correlation coefficient and the mathematical expression of these ideas), October 1915 (salary and conditions if Fisher continued to work for the Eugenics Education Society), 1915? (regarding work similar to Fisher's by Pearson and Snow, as recently advised by Udney Yule), 6 December 1915 ( 'I think you have done the wise thing'), 11 December 1915 (seeking help with literature for proposed article by Whetham on 'War and racial deterioration'), December 1915?, 29 January 1916 (questions re effect of environmental factors on heredity, the undated (December 1915?) letter enclosing an extract from a paper by Darwin on the subject), 27 January 1916 (classes of equal merit), 6 July 1917 (form of reference to his help in Fisher's article). [letter from W.W. Watts, Secretary of the Board of Scientific Societies 12 May 1917, circulating memoranda from The Royal Anthropological Institute on the proposed Physical Survey of the British People, January and subsequent Proposed Anthropological Survey, November 1917, not scanned] File also includes copy of a letter to Darwin from Francis Galton dated 5 October 1916, copied from a collection at the University College London, not scanned.

1918

18 January 1918 (with enclosures of letters from J.Arthur Thomson 16 January 1918 and the General Secretary of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 14 January 1918) and 6 May 1918 (regarding financial assistance for printing of Fisher's statistical paper), 22 May 1918 (on actions of Maurice and response of Lloyd George), 18 June 1918 (on Fisher's criticisms of his article), 2 August 1918 (elaborating on 'filial regression'), August 1918 (aspects of heredity and environment), 4 November, 9 November and 3 December 1918 ( reference to Fisher's statistical work and help with statistical matters in his own paper for the Statistical Society), 6 December 1918 (Fisher should send his paper to Dr Raymond Pearl at John Hopkins University; and on family limitation), 18 December 1918 (further on dilemma of family limitation).

1919

20 February 1919 (with enclosure from Vaughan Williams) 5 March and 24 March 1919 (conditions in Egypt, advice on (against) Fisher's proposed employment there), 2 April 1919, 5 April 1919, 13 April 1919 (1) (mainly re Darwin's paper on Postulates), 13 April 1919 (2) (defending Fisher's paper against criticisms of MacBride), 15 April 1919 (puzzling over 'crossing over' in gametes), 13 May 1919 (further in response to Fisher's comments on his Postulates paper, with enclosure with questions), 16 May 1919 (regarding correctness of a statement in his review of 'a good American book on Eugenics'), 7 August 1919 (surprise at offer by Pearson [to succeed him at University College] 'as I should think you were too tarred with the Eugenics Society Brush'), 22 August 1919 (detailed comments on Fisher's manuscript), 23 August 1919 (congratulations on his appointment - 'I am only a little sad that you may not have much time for Eugenics'), 31 August 1919 (further on manuscript), 25 September 1919 (views in his own paper on multiple allelomorphs unchanged in spite of Fisher's criticisms), 29 November 1919 (asks Fisher to send his Eugenics paper to Professor Gini in Rome), 14 December 1919 (on definition of 'large' in relation to mutations).

1920

29 March 1920, 2 April 1920 (amendments to Rules of the Eugenics Society), 17 April 1920, 29 April 1920 (birth limitation issues in paper by Stevenson), 10 June 1920, 31 July 1920 (Darwin's own address on birth limitation), 20 August 1920 (rejection of Fisher's paper by Pearson: 'To allow nothing to be published which does not back him up, or which he personally does not have time to read! & pitch into - it is going far'), 1 September 1920 (possibility of publication of Fisher's paper in either Metron or the Royal Society Journal), 11 October 1920 (changes to his birth limitation address), 14 October 1920 (suggestions of Dr Greenwood re Fisher's paper), 22 October 1920 (Nora March incident explanation; also reference to his father's 'erroneous statement about S. Butler'), 5 November 1920 (about the Society).

1921

10 January 1921 (asks Fisher's advice on his comments on 'hereditary ailments'), 11 February 1921 (?) (to invite Bowley to speak at the Galton dinner), 3 March 1921 (note offering copy of paper by Stockhard), 2 April 1921 (seeking Fisher's comments on his proposed footnote on selective breeding {'mating together eminent persons} - notes are enclosed), April 1921? (sending copy of his pamphlet {not enclosed} and commenting on it, 11 April 1921 (?) (proposed comments at Edinburgh, aims 'to make a professional class audience "sit up"'), 10 June 1921 (Fisher's name has been put forward for the Statistical Society, seconded by Udney Yule), June 1921 (1), June 1921 (2) (commenting on book [The relative value of the processes causing evolution] by Hagedoorn), 14 June 1921 (wants Fisher's views on his long-gestated paper on centripetal and centrifugal mutation), 25 June 1921 (text of his review of Hagedoorn's book), 27 June 1921 (note only), 28 June 1921 (in response to Fisher's letter re his mutation paper), 30 June 1921 (sending on Fisher's letter of 29th to Sir Arthur Schuster, and his own suggested additional note [enclosed] {on factors affecting infertility}, July 1921 (?), August 1921, 5 September 1921 (further re his proposed paper on need for widespread eugenic action and Fisher's reactions to drafts). Photocopy of Darwin's Organic evolution: outstanding difficulties and possible explanations in this file - not scanned.

1922

1 January 1922 (suggestions re someone to write an article on Eugenics), 23 January 1922 (seeking Fisher's comments on his notes on Population for coming discussions of birth control; paper enclosed), 8 May 1922 (sending for Fisher's comments extract from his proposed address at Edinburgh, with additional remarks; extract enclosed), 19 May 1922 (further issues of inheritance, racial deterioration and feeble- mindedness), 7 July 1922 (note and paper on Transfers of individuals between classes, and their racial effects following their discussion; paper enclosed), 16 July 1922 (number of eggs laid by cuckoos), 19 July 1922 (need to pay attention to eugenic effects on the median population rather than at the extremes of genius and feeble- mindedness), 14 August 1922 (his proposed book on eugenics for the general reader and seeking Fisher's guidance on correlation coefficients; note on proposal of Bernard Shaw as a Galton lecturer -'surely that won't wash'), 21 August 1922, 29 August 1922, 5 September 1922, 27 September 1922 (further discussion of fertility issues), 26 October 1922 and 28 October 1922,(thoughts on useless characters and possible application of mathematical measures), 5 November 1922 (impact of environment on absolute measures; influences on his thinking on useless characters), late 1922/early 1923 (further on evolutionary matters).

1923 5 January 1923 (lunch invitation), 28 January 1923 (discussions with Mrs Hodson re her replacement as Secretary), 28 January 1923 (2) (note re meeting of Editorial Committee), 29 January 1923 (thoughts on single factor qualities and comments on Fisher's 'cat letter' and his threat to resign from the Royal Statistical Society following their refusal to publish a paper by him on x²), January 1923? (ideas on recessive qualities), early 1923? (comments on Fisher's paper on evolution), 17 February 1923, 8 March 1923, 12 March 1923, 15 March 1923, 20 March 1923 (Sir Bernard Mallet's efforts to sort out Fisher's differences with RSS and attitude of editor Flux), 9 April [1923?] (comments on Fisher's article on evolution in Review), 19 April 1923 (possible sources for use in his annual meeting address on sexual selection in man; and seeking comment on his chapter on need for widespread eugenic reform), 24 April 1923, 8 May 1923 (response to Fisher's analysis), 30 May 1923 (response to proposal that he be godfather to Fisher's son Leonard), 10 June 1923, 11 June 1923 (draft for Rockefeller grant application), 18 July 1923 (response to Fisher's suggestions re triplets), 31 July 1923, 4 August 1923, 10 October 1923 (on proposed research - his own interests principally sterilization and effect on pauperism and feeble-mindedness), 17 October 1923 (response to Fisher's concerns re the proposed research project), 20 October 1923 (pleased with 'School of Economics business', need to meet with Mallet to discuss), 26 October 1923, 10 November 1923 (will do what he can re MacBride but 'internal rows in our weak scientific state would do us more harm'), 13 November 1923 (response to MacBride).

1924

21 February 1924 (regrets at their failing to meet), 7 April 1924 (sending note on Goddard's pedigrees [enclosed]), 13 April 1924 (thoughts on pedigrees), 25 April 1924 (how to establish correlations; preliminary thoughts on eugenical prognosis), 4 June 1924 (returning Fisher's lectures, and question re mutations), 12 June 1924, 14 June 1924 (further on mutations, following conversation with MacBride), 17 June 1924 (invitation to lunch), 15 October 1924 (sending chapters [of his book The need for eugenic reform] for Fisher to check for 'statistical blunders'), 18 October 1924 (discussion of Bowley's 'unemployment inevitable'), 21 October 1924, 5 November 1924 (corrections to his chapter), 7 November 1924 (MacBride's anger at the review, wishes they had got a more neutral one), 18 November 1924 (MacBride's?? answer to Brownlee), 24 November 1924 (regrets objections to Cutler being made Secretary of the Society).

1925

6 January 1925 (?) (will back Fisher's proposal re periodicals if Society finances allow), 12 February 1925, 16 February 1925 (on need to deal more gently with Biometrika and Pearson, though grants that 'Pearson is mad or bad or both') , 18 February 1925 (unsure who wrote article that upset Heron or Pearson), 20 February 1925 (will take chair at Brownlee's meeting), 23 June 1925 (Fisher's advice on his proposed reference to correlation; moving to Lincolnshire), 9 August 1925, 18 August 1925 (on Society finances, especially for research), 26 August 1925 (further on the Society), 29 September 1925 (note of thanks), [letter to Darwin from Cyril Burt, psychologist with London County Council, principally on delinquency and feeblemindedness, not scanned], 8 October 1925, 12 October 1925 (invitation to dinner in London), 21 October 1925 (thoughts on mutations), October 1925? (1) (on various papers recently offered for publication in the Society's journal, including by Malinowski), October 1925? (2) (sending draft of a letter to medical men to go with Bond's address), 9 November 1925 (misunderstanding between Fisher and Mrs Hodson), 10 November 1925 (Col. James unable to become an Hon. Officer of the Society), 19 November 1925 (1) (on Fisher's offer to read proofs of his book), 19 November 1925 (2) (on Society affairs), 26 November 1925 (lunch with MacBride), 30 November 1925 (further on reading of proofs of his book, and pursuing extent of their differences over birth control), 11 December 1925 (sending, proofs, with comments), with undated postscript (personal enquiry re Udney Yule), 12 December 1925, 13 December 1925 (distressed by Fisher's objections to Mrs Hodson), 16 December 1925, 18 December 1925, 24 December 1925 (elaborating on perceived difficulties of Research Committee, attributed to Mrs Hodson), 28 December 1925 (defending Mrs Hodson and her contributions to the Society), late 1925? (1) (proposed meeting of the Research Committee), late 1925? (2) (problem of proving transmission of acquired properties), 26 December 1925 (thanks for further valuable corrections). [Circular draft proposal [undated, but 1925] to the Medical Research Council for a national enquiry into racial deterioration, with replies from Sir Walter Fletcher, 23 June 1925, 26 November 1925 to the proposal and draft of Darwin's reply, undated; also letter from Balfour? 28 November 1925 suggesting the proposal might be sent to the Ministry of Health - not scanned]

1926 4 January 1926 (1) (Society affairs), 4 January 1926 (2) (thoughts on the causes of variation), 8 January 1926 (relationship between fecundity and death rate), 11 January 1926 (link between social advantages and fertility), 22 January 1926, early 1926? (1), early 1926? (2), early 1926? (3) (all further on issues connected with revision of text of his book), 26 February 1926 (proposing Sir Bernard Mallet be made a member of the officers' committee), 6 March 1926 (dilemma over whether to send for publication Fisher's letter to the Morning Post in reply to objections by Dean of St Paul's to eugenical sterilization: letter, dated 5 March 1925, is enclosed, together with a copy of the letter by Inge, not scanned), 11 April 1926 (light-hearted reference to 'old Elijah' {Pearson?}, 16 April 1926 (thanks for offer to review his book but offer of the Dean to do so already accepted), 21 April 1926 (further on reviews), 29 April 1926 (on causes of mental deficiency, prompted by article by Tredgold on sterilization, and possibility of investigation through study of twins), 4 May 1926, 9 May 1926 (further on 'twin problem'), 12 June 1926 (response to Fisher's objections to opening of letters by Mrs Hodson), 14 June 1926 (pleasure in Fisher's review), 17 June 1926, 15 September 1926 (seeking Fisher's opinion of his review of Nomogenesis by Berg, 'the most definite and worked out attack on Darwinism that I have seen'), 28 September 1926 (Society affairs), late September 1926 (further on his Berg review, comments on Fisher's paper, and on response of men of science to critics, with reference to value of republishing first edition of Origin of Species as written 'before my father had been subject to any criticism whatever'), 5 October 1926 (dangers of Fisher's proposal to give Nomogenesis to MacBride 'as a kind of emetic'), 11 October 1926, (note re earlier comments on dominance), 15 October 1926 (Fisher's response to talk with MacBride, and on Mrs Hodson and her value to the Society), 16 October 1926, late October 1926 (congratulations on Fisher's letter in Nature and further on review of Nomogenesis),1 November 1926 (Society administration), 6 November 1926 (where to publish his review of Nomogenesis as modified into an article on Natural his article to Science Progress), 8 November 1926, 9 November 1926, 16 November 1926, 21 November 1926 (discussion of issues of organic evolution, particularly evolution of sterility), 29 November 1926 (rejection of article by Science progress, should it go in the [Eugenics Society] Review? [rejection letter enclosed, not scanned]), November 1926? (need to meet to discuss Lady Chambers' scheme of distribution of work), December 1926 (further on 'this sterility business'), 16 December 1926 (on support for compulsory education, and his draft Sterilization Bill), 21 December 1926 (on his changes and additions to Fisher's draft paper [on Income Tax?] [typescript paper 'The principles of the relief accorded to parents in respect of income tax' is enclosed]), 24 December 1926 (replacement for Hill on Education Committee, letter from Archbishop of Armagh re importance of remission of income tax for children), 28 December 1926 (advising has sent corrected paper to 20-G-G with a copy to MacBride).

1927

6 January 1927 (intends to ask MacBride to propose vote of thanks to Tredgold at Galton dinner, problem of airing disagreement with him on causes of mental defects; problems of reprinting the correct unamended first edition of Origin of Species; expects his draft Sterilization Bill to meet opposition), 14 January 1927, 20 January 1937 (Society affairs), 30 January 1927 (possible to estimate number of children who would have been born over last 30 years if had been no fall in the birth rate?), 26 February 1927 (refers to Charles Darwin's Cross and self-fertilized plants on question of advantages of fertilization by different stock), 27 February 1927 (a postscript note to his earlier letter), 4 March 1927 (1) (further on fertilization issues), 4 March 1927 (2), 11 March 1927 (Society affairs, Mrs Hodson), 22 April 1927, 6 May 1927, 9 May 1927, 15 May 1927, 27 May 1927 (discussion with Registrar General re framing of 1931 census questions; postscript note re MacBride on Nomogenesis - much he disagrees with 'But of all things I don't want internal rows'), 28 May 1927, 30 May 1927 (criticism of article on family allowances [not enclosed]), 31 May 1927, 1 June 1927, 2 June 1927, 3 June 1927, 10 June 1927 (circular letter re intention to resign as President of the International Federation of Eugenic Societies and to propose Mrs Hodson as a member of the Federation), 11 June 1927 (regarding letter of Stevenson [not enclosed] with detailed reply of Fisher 14 June 1927 regarding the importance of proposed questions for the census), 15 June 1927 (effect of family allowances on fertility), 17 June 1927, 22 June 1927, June 1927? (1), June 1927? (2), 30 June 1927, June 1927? (3), July 1927, July 15 1927 (?) [with calculations by Fisher enclosed], 26 July 1927 (all on memorandum to Registrar General (and differences with Stevenson on the questions) and/or Darwin's proposal to the Chancellor of the Exchequer for remission on income tax for children - to apply only to earned income as 'We don't want to make idle rotters breed'), 29 July 1927 (anger at Moore's suggestions that Charles Darwin gave no credit to Lamarck), 3 August 1927 (cautious re Huxley's proposals for the Review), 6 August 1927 (on proposed theme ('Eugenics in the Future') of his Bedford College memorial lecture), 24 August 1927, 4 September [1927?], 9 September [1927?], 12 September 1927, 14 September 1927, 8 October [1927?],10 October [1927?], 11 October 1927, 15 October 1927 (mainly on Society matters), 27 October 1927, 1 November 1927 (ideas on natural selection), 6 November 1927 (advice for Fisher's proposed lecture visit to United States), 13 November 1927 , 19 November 1927 (random ideas on mutation, natural selection and inheritance), 13 December 1927 (seeking Fisher's view of significance of Haldane's suggestions at recent population Congress at Geneva, as reviewed by Carr- Saunders, on [minimal] impact on biological composition of the population of low birth rate among the higher classes).

1928

22 January 1928, 25 January 1928, 26 January 1928, 25 February 1928 (Society matters, and exchange re cuckoo parasitism and impact on fecundity), 9 March 1928 (on Fisher's memo on Income Tax), 21 March 1928 (circular letter to Council members of the Society, with enclosed letter from Sir Bernard Mallet on his reservations regarding his proposed succession as President of the Society) 11 April 1928, 12 April 1928, 25 April 1928, 26 April 1928 (Society matters, including succession), 27 April 1928, April 1928 (?), 30 April 1928, 7 May 1928, 14 May 1928 (further on useless characters in natural selection), 16 May 1928 (corrections to his Natural selection article), 23 May 1928, 28 May 1928 (on request to Punnett to bring matter before the Genetical Society), 28 June 1928 (on evidence from cotton in support of production of dominance by natural selection), 5 July 1928 (comments on Fisher's dominance theories), 6 July 1928, 7 July 1928 (in reply to Darwin's suggestions re mutation and further on his theory of evolution of dominance), 11 July 1928, 14 July 1928 (sympathy on death of with postscript on dominance), 18 July 1928, August 1928, 2 August 1928 (on 'beneficial mutation' and querying Perl's argument from rose and pea crosses), 7 August 1928 (suggested data for Darwin's October address, and elaborating on his own picture of evolution), 7 August 1928, 13 August 1928 (1), 13 August 1928 (2), 21 August 1928, 23 August (re review by James of Huntington and Whitney's Builders of America and his own views on the work; with an undated copy of his (draft?) letter to Whitney regarding the book, not scanned), 24 August 1928 (commenting on the latter to Whitney, 1 September 1928 (enclosing letters from Mrs Hodson re her work for the Society [two letters, dated 27 August 1928, 31 August 1928 not scanned], 4 September 1928 (on recessive genes, mental defect and class), 19 September 1928, 22 September 1928 (Society matters, annoyance of Dr Campbell at James' review of Builders of America), 29 September 1928, 12 October 1928 (encouraging Fisher to go on with his evolution book; good wishes for election to the Royal Society but fears that statistics not much recognized), 19 October 1928, 5 November 1928 (seeking comments on his draft Galton address), 13 November 1928 (ms and typescript copies of letter in response to Darwin's comments on his chapter [of book on evolution], particularly in relation to possible differences with views of Charles Darwin), 17 November 1928 , 20 November 1928, 17 December 1928, 23 December 1928, 28 December 1928 (graph attached; also incomplete typed copy of first page), 31 December 1928(all further exchanges on Fisher's draft chapters, including comments by Darwin on developments of Charles Darwin's own ideas in subsequent editions of the Origin of Species). [file also includes reprint of article by Paul Popenoe on 'Social and economic status of the sterilized feebleminded' Journal of Applied Psychology June 1928, not scanned]

1929

2 January 1929 (with accompanying paper on Heterozygotes), 15 January 1929, 16 January 1929, 21 January 1929, 21 January 1929, 17 February 1929, 18 February 1929 (further exchanges on Fisher's manuscript, including nature of reference to contributions of Bateson) 23 February 1929 (congratulations on appearance of Fisher's name in R.S. list[ie appointment as a Fellow]), 25 February 1929 (thanks, and possibility of offer of Pearson's Chair), 1 March 1929, 4 March 1929 (suggestions re work if successful in appointment), 8 March 1929, 19 March 1929, 20 March 1929, 26 March 1929, 28 March 1929, 31 March 1929, 2 April 1929, 5 April 1929, (further detailed discussion of Fisher's mss, including Mimicry section and aspects of birth rate), 12 April 1929, 18 April 1929, 22 April 1929 (on free will and determinism), 11 May 1929 (possibility of questionnaire to elicit statistical information re Fellows of the Royal Society, with draft attached), 14 May 1929, 15 May 1929 (1), 15 May 1929 (2), 23 May 1929, 2 June 1929, 10 June 1929, 21 June 1929, 25 June 1929, 27 June 1929(re rejoining Royal Statistical Society, 29 June 1929 (sending off last chapter to publisher and nervousness about reception), 2 July 1929, 5 July 1929, 14 July 1929, 16 July 1929, 17 July 1929 (Society matters), 18 July 1929, 25 July 1929 , 26 July 1929,[ late July 1929?], 1 August 1929, 11 August 1929, 18 August 1929 (differences with regard to adaptation), 19 August 1929, 2 October 1929 (ideas on evolution), 4 October 1929 (Haldane's review in Nature of Fisher's book), 4 October 1929, 7 October 1929, 20 October 1929, 23 October 1929, 25 October 1929, 26 October 1929, 1 November 1929, 12 November 1929, 16 November 1929 (debating aspects of production and population), 18 November 1929, 19 November 1929, 28 November 1929, 29 November 1929 (1), 29 November 1929 (2) (on Pease's memo re census data), 3 December 1929, [4 December 1929?] (Fisher's application for [Chair of Social Biology at London School of Economic] and referees), 6 December 1929, 7 December 1929, 16 December 1929, 17 December 1929, 18 December 1929, 20 December 1929.

1930

5 March 1930, 9 March 1930, 21 March 1930 (death of Society benefactor Henry Twitchin), 22 March 1930, 25 March 1930, 26 March 1930 (1), 26 March 1930 (2), 29 March 1930, [March 1930?] (uncertainty as to impact of his book), 4 April 1930 (ideas on taxation and the birth rate), 6 April 1930, 11 April 1930, April 1930 (?), 12 April 1930 (stressing need for revision of census questions), 14 April 1930, 17 April 1930 (action over Census requirements following meeting with Vivian, 9 June 1930 (first impressions of Fisher's book, questions whether Charles Darwin would have considered he had a 'theory' on evolution), 10 June 1930, 12 June 1930 (response re Darwin's comments on Salisbury's letter [re relation of plant mortality to natural selection]), 16 June 1930, 21 June 1930, 24 June 1930 (some minor criticisms of Fisher's book), 27 June 1930 (elaborating on non-genetic early nesting theory - two copies, the second with annotations), [July 1930?], 2 July 1930, 5 July 1930 (re [nephew] Charles Darwin's review of Fisher's book), 7 July 1930, 10 July 1930, 21 July 1930, 23 July 1930 (with draft argument in relation to impact of family allowances on reproduction), 25 July 1930, 31 July 1930, 4 August 1930 (further on impact of family allowances), 7 August 1930, 7 August 1930, 20 August 1930, 29 August 1930, 1 September 1930 (delight in review in Times Literary Supplement, and further on family allowances, 3 September 1930 (1), 3 September 1930 (2), 8 September 1930, 13 September 1930, 2 October 1930 (1) (differences with Huxley and Tredgold on feeble-mindedness), 2 October 1930 (2) (family allowances), 3 October 1930 (on deficiency of data on feeblemindedness and of Blacker as propagandist for the Society), 4 October 1930, 6 October 1930, 11 October 1930, 11 October 1930, 13 October 1930, 15 October 1930 , 16 October 1930, 17 October 1930, 19 October 1930, 20 October 1930, 21 October [1930] (differences over Society support of research as against propaganda), 30 October 1930, November 1930 (further on family allowances), 12 November 1930, 24 November 1930, 25 November 1930 (birth rate issues), 27 November 1930, 28 November 1930 (development of a serum diagnostic of sex), 4 December 1930, 5 December 1930, 6 December 1930, 9 December 1930 (elaborating on danger of suggesting human or eugenic applications of Todd's serum work) [Extensive undated typescript 'Notes on Taxation, Public Expenditure and Population' by ?Darwin, with annotations by Fisher, also in this file - not scanned]

1931

2 January 1931 (on reviews of Fisher's book), 5 January 1931 (proposing reply to Hill's article in Nature), 6 January 1931 (on reviews of his work, and on likely author of 'stupid review of your big book', and suggestions for reply to Hill), 9 January 1931, 10 January 1931, 11 January 1931, 14 January 1931, 21 January 1931, 26 January 1931 (further exchanges re means of calculation of incidence of mental defectiveness and on effect of the differential birth rate), 28 January 1931, 23 February 1931 (pleasure at Bradford Hill's review),11 March 1931, 16 March 1931 (response of Huxley and others to his suggestions re individualism), 20 March 1931, 31 March 1931 (possibility of inviting Bradford Hill to be a member of the Council of the Society), 11 April [1931?], 24 April 1931, 30 April 1931, 2 May 1931 (response to suggestions of divergence between his own and Charles Darwin's views on natural selection; aim rather to review the 'difficulties and criticisms raised against selection theory'), 4 May 1931 (1) (sending article by Keynes on high wages, with view to challenging Fisher on opposition to taxation as a means of redistribution of wealth), 4 March 1931 (2) , 5 May 1931, 6 May 1931 (1)(further exchanges on Fisher's ideas of blending, variation and mutation and Charles Darwin's own ideas), 6 May 1931 (2) (desirable to print Haldane's review), 6 May 1931 (3), 15 May 1931, 18 May 1931, 24 May 1931 (long elaboration on Charles Darwin's views on the laws of inheritance), 10 September 1931 (on Fisher's forthcoming operation), 15 September 1931, 17 September 1931, ? September 1931 (on 'the question of the advice which should be given by doctors concerning marriage from the eugenic point of view'), 19 September 1931 (in response to these views), 21 September 1931, 23 September 1931, 23 September 1931 (on Blacker's contribution on behalf of the Society on the medical advice matter), 26 September 1931, 29 September 1931 (taking up point on adaptation of plants to different environments as analogous to dominance theory; and on 'wrathful allusions' of MacBride at recent meeting of the British Association to 'the valuelessness of the opinion of mathematicians vis-a-vis biologists'), 30 September1931(including on Society affairs and Mallet), 1 October 1931, 2 October 1931 (elaborating on his objections to Lamarckism), 8 October 1931, 13 October 1931,15 October 1931 (further encouraging Fisher to write 'some anti-Lamarckian book', ideally with Huxley or Ford), 26 October 1931, 30 October 1931, 31 October 1931 (playing with election results to see what they indicate of voting patterns and what influences changes) 13 November 1931, 11 December 1931, 18 December 1931, 21 December 1931 (interest in implications for natural selection of work on linkage in paper by [E.M.] East), 29 December 1931, 30 December 1931, 30 December 1931 (puzzled by trimorphism mechanism in lythrum).

1932

1 February 1932 (seeking Fisher's comments on some notes on evolution), 5 February 1932 (comments on regression), 6 February 1932, 9 February 1932, 18 February 1932, 22 February 1932 (further exchange re Darwin's paper on Evolution and Eugenics), 5 March 1932, 7 March 1932 (on Haldane's review of Hogben in Nature and on Haldane himself), 29 March 1932, 23 April 1932 (on Hogben's book), 24 April 1932, 26 April 1932, 28 April 1932, 30 April [1932] (on Fisher's review of Hogben's book), June 1932, 18 June 1932 (?), 5 July 1932, 9 July 1932, 22 July 1932, 22 September 1932 (on International Eugenics Congress and success of address delivered on Darwin's behalf [text held in file - not scanned]), 23 September 1932, 1 October 1932, 5 October 1932, 10 October 1932, 10 October 1932,12 October 1932, 14 October 1932 (on Fisher's recent lecture on genetics and theories of evolution),15 October 1932, 24 October 1932, 28 October 1932, 29 October 1932 (further re Hogben on Haldane, and on Hogben's own work), 1 November 1932, 2 November 1932 (conceding to Darwin on dormant gemmules), 3 November 1932, 4 November 1932 (Fisher's understanding of [Charles] Darwin's views on environmentally induced modifications, and on future of Eugenics Society), 5 November 1932, 6 November 1932, 7 November 1932, 9 November 1932 (views on T.H. Huxley),10 November 1932 (Society business), 13 November 1932, 15 November 1932 (on Morgan's book The Scientific basis of evolution), 5 December 1932, 6 December 1932 (on M. Ginsberg's Studies in sociology), 7 December 1932, 8 December 1932 (1), 8 December 1932 (2), 13 December 1932 (declines suggestion that he write a eulogy of Pearson and proposing Gosset for the work; on discussions with Mrs Barlow on lythrum), 14 December 1932.

1933 3 January 1933, 5 January 1933,7 January 1933, 8 January 1933 (on Fisher's proposed article on 'A modern view of Darwinism'), 16 January 1933, 17 January 1933 (discussion on free will), 26 January 1933, 31 January 1933, 1 February 1933, 8 February 1932, 17 February 193318 February 1932, 20 February 1933, 22 February 1933, 23 February 1933 (discussion of infanticide in rodents), 16 March 1933, 23 March 1933, 25 March 1933 (1), 25 March 1933 (2), 28 March 1933 (on heritability of grades of defect), 31 March 1933,3 April 1933 (further exchanges on operation of freewill), 5 April 1933, 11 April 1933 (on useless characters), 15 May 1933 (eye trouble and birth of fifth daughter), 18 May 1933, 20 May 1933 (invitation to stand for Galton Professorship, possible difficulty with Pearson), 22 May 1933, 26 May 1933, ? May 1933, 31 May 1933 (reaffirming view that Eugenics Society should be concerned with propaganda rather than research), 11 June 1933, 14 June 1933, 20 June 1933 (on family allowances), 22 June 1933 (congratulations on appointment), 27 June 1933, 27 June 1933 (on family allowances), 29 June 1933, 30 June 1933, June 1933 (?), 1 July 1933, 6 July 1933, 12 July 1933, 19 July 1933 (M.E. Green's letter on family allowances), 23 July 1933, 26 July 1933, 27 July 1933, 28 July 1933 (Darwin's response to Paul Popenoe's paper on effects of family size), 31 July 1933 (family allowances), 1 October 1933, 11 October 1933, 13 October 1933 (commenting on Wagner Manslau's work on fertility of the German aristocracy [as used by Popenoe]), 23 October 1933 (thanks for copy of Mrs [Nora] Barlow's edition of the Diary [of the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle]), 2 November 1933, 9 November 1933, 10 November 1933 , 12 November 1933, 13 November 1933, 15 November 1933, 16 November 1933 (question of support of appointment of [H.H.] Laughlin as head of the American Eugenics Record Office, possible separation of that office from the Department of Research in Evolution, and American Eugenics Association generally), 21 November 1933, [November 1933?] , 23 November 1933 (thanks for packet of Galton letters).

1934-42

19 January 1934 (congratulations on report [of Brock committee on sterilization?] and general comments on mutations), 2 March 1934, 9 March 1934, 12 March 1934, 18 March 1934 (responses to Brock report, Dufton's article in the Eugenics Review, and on sterilization and mental defect), 3 April 1934 (on The Science of Life by Wells, Huxley and Wells), [July 1934], 14 July 1934, 13 August 1934, 13 August 1934 (on early results from poultry experiments in relation to dominance),15 August 1934, 17 August 1934 (troubles with College officials over funding), 10 October 1934 (advice of Fisher's lectures), 10 November 1934, 17 January 1935 (on Charles Darwin's system of correspondence 'filing' [in response to Fisher's search for original exchange with Wedderburn), 23 January 1935, 24 January 1935, 22 February [1935?], 4 May 1935 (pleasure in research studentships named after him, in spite of continued preference for Society support of propaganda rather than research), 7 May 1935 (on value of physical measurements at medical inspection of children), 9 May 1935, 10 May 1935, 10 May 1935 (on 'political' activity of the Society ['I think this would do the Society good in discouraging the ever-present danger of being associated with crankery']), 13 May 1935, 20 May 1935, 21 May 1935 (further on political/legislative interests of the Society and the Darwin and Cambridge studentships, and on commencement of serological work), 22 May 1935, 10 September 1935 (on linkage, in response to Fisher's recent poultry paper), 25 September 1935, 12 November 1935, 3 December 1935 (on preference for 2nd as against 6th edition of the Origin of species for the general reader), 16 December 1935, 19 December 1935, 29 December 1935, 17 February 1936, 28 February 1936, 5 March 1936 (queries raised with regard to 'Mendel's celebrated paper on garden peas', 14 March 1936, 13 November 1936, 20 November 1936 (including comments on Pearson and on [R.B.] Cattell, 11 January 1937 (on absence of eugenics from Galton lectures), 2 February 1937, 4 February 1937, 9 February 1937, 21 February 1937, 23 February 1937, 23 February 1937, 27 February 1937, 1 March 1937 (re support of nomination of [C.S.] Stock for the Athenaeum), 26 March 1937, [1937] (typescript Memo by Darwin proposing enquiry into Swedish figures on birth rates of the different social classes - not scanned), 17 June 1937, 26 June 1937, 18 July 1938,7 September 1938, 8 September 1938, 9 September 1938 (on difficulty of mutual understanding between scientists and those concerned with sociological problems), 16 September 1938 (re his recent correspondence with the American Eugenics Society, with his letter to the Society's [Secretary?] Bertheau 11 September 1938 enclosed), 5 November[ie December] 1938 (receipt of the Royal Society Medal, and on leaflet by Gosney on sterilization), 4 December 1938, 10 December 1940 (appreciation of subscription to Annals of Eugenics as many foreign subscribers have ceased as result of the war), 30 October 1942 (on resolution of problem in Lythrum salicaria to which Lady Barlow first called attention), 2 November 1942 (on recent Huxley lecture and book), 4 November 1942 (recent genetic work paying dividends, including on breeding out harmful mutations, and on his sons Harry and George in the Air Force)

Copy of letter from Francis Galton (in response to query re numbers of ancestors and on his own situation -'I sleep like Morpheus and enjoy a chastened dietary, and have had my day') Also photocopied letters from Fisher to Leonard Darwin ca 1916-1927, filed at the end of the Leonard Darwin correspondence

Leonard Darwin Research Studentships 9 January 1935 - 7 March 1939 Correspondence regarding original proposal and draft scheme for support by the Eugenics Society of post-graduate research in Eugenics by means of scholarships, subsequent correspondence re applications for the studentships, agendas and reports of the Leonard Darwin Research Studentship Committee, correspondence re membership of the Committee and on administration and finance of the scheme, and progress report on research by Raymond Cattell (1936). Those awarded the studentships represented in this file are Cattell, R.M.V. Travers and Dr Dora Ilse. Correspondents include B.S. Bramwell, J.F. Roberts, R. Ruggles Gates, C.P. Blacker (Eugenics Society General Secretary), A.M. Carr Saunders, J.S. Haldane, Lionel Penrose, Julian Huxley, David Heron and C. Collyer (Secretary to the Committee).

Darwin, Ruth see Darwin Trust

Darwin Trust August 1930 - December 1940, January 1947, April 1956- January 1961. 38 letters. Ruth Darwin 6 August 1930 inviting Fisher to serve as co-opted member on the Governing Body of the Darwin Trust, with copy of 'Application by [the Chairman, Sir Hubert Bond, on behalf of] the Governing Body of the Darwin Trust for a supplementary grant for research in mental deficiency in connection with the Royal Counties Institution, Colchester' dated 24 March 1930) and subsequent correspondence re meetings, membership and appointments. Includes abstract of applications for post of Medical Officer for Clinical Research at Royal Institution, Colchester as enclosure to letter of 16 October 1930, Fisher's vote for Ashby in letter of 17 October 1930 [Lionel Penrose appointed], preliminary report on the work of Penrose into Causes of Mental Deficiency (undated but enclosure in letter of 17 August 1931), reference to work on phenylketonurics in letter of 7 November 1940 (with enclosed letters from Thomas Munro and Robert Cook to Ruth Darwin) 26 December 1940 (enclosed Thomas Munro to Turner 19 December 1940), and later papers re the trsnafer of Littleton House School and the amalgamation of the Trust with the Pinsent Darwin Fund [resulting in the dissolution of the Trust]

Das, S.R. (Department of Anthropology, Indian Museum, Calcutta) November 1958 - February 1959. 2 letters. 28 November 1958 (reference to paper on the inheritance of P.T.C. tasting among the Rahri families of West Bengal), 13 February 1959 (hopes to have Fisher's guidance on procedure during his visit to India).

David, G.B. (University Laboratory of Physiology, Oxford) April-May 1954. 3 letters

Davidson, James (Waite Agricultural Research Institute) May 1929 - January 1943. 11 letters 17 April 1930, 26 August 1930, 9 October 1930, 26 April 1939 (pouched mice), 11 January 1943 (Polyommatus icarus paper)

Davis, F.M. (Fisheries Laboratory, Lowestoft) December 1930 - April 1931. 9 letters

Dawson, C.D.R. (John Innes Horticultural Institution, London) November 1937 - February 1942. 7 letters.

Dawson, George (Trinity College, Dublin) January 1953 - July 1954. 5 letters. 15 July 1954, 20 July 1954

Dawson, R.B. (St. Ives Research Station, Yorkshire) July 1929. 2 letters

Dawson, W.T. (School of Medicine, Dept. of Pharmacology, University of Texas) September - November 1937. 5 letters 3 September 1937, 16 September 1937.

Dawson & Sons Ltd July 1956 - February 1957. 8 letters.

Day, Besse (Forest Service, Washington etc and CSIRO, Adelaide) January 1937 - April 1961. 4 cm. 26 January 1937, 9 March 1937,13 April 1937, 27 April 1937, 1 April 1940, 5 May 1940, 24 May 1940, 20 June 1940, 11 July 1940, 11 February 1941, 13 August 1943, 27 September 1943, 14 June 1950, 4 July 1950, 6 June 1951, 2 July 1951, 7 February 1952 (enclosed newspaper cuttings), 15 February 1952, 1 May 1956, 5 May 1956, 8 August 1956, 20 May 1957, 30 January 1958, 29 December 1958

Dean, H.R. (Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge) October 1934 - January 1935, February 1943 - January 1949. 28 letters and notes. On genetic research, including copy of letter by Allan Mawer to O'Brien of Rockefeller Foundation with a History of the Galton Laboratory and proposed programme of research attached; also re G.L. Taylor (1934 and 1944), housing for Fisher's laboratory dogs and mice (1943), future of work on blood grouping by Race (1945) 1 October 1934 (serological testing), 24 February 1943 (future of Taylor's Unit at the School of Pathology), 1 March 1943 (future of Chair of Genetics), 20 June 1947 (continuation of work of Taylor and Race) de Beer, Gavin R. (Sir) (British Museum, Natural History) March 1935 - June 1962. 38 letters and notes. 23 November 1955, 25 November 1955, 21 January 1956, 24 January 1956, 22 May 1958, 24 May 1958 (membership of Advisory Committee of International Congress of Zoology and papers of Wallace and Darwin to be reprinted for it). de Hevesy, P. [retired Hungarian diplomat] September-November 1945. 9 letters 25 September 1945, 8 October 1945, 16 November 1945.

DeLury, D.B. September 1949 - June 1962.

Deming, W. Edward (Bureau of Chemistry and Soils, Washington) September 1932 - December 1952. 2 cm. 8 October 1932, 25 September 1934, 27 June 1935, 19 September 1935, 7 August 1937

Dennis Dobson Ltd (Publisher) October 1954 - July 1959. 14 letters.

Denyssen, Douglas (South Africa) September-October 1954. 2 letters Query re Fisher's theory of inbreeding.

Derevitsky, N. (Institute of Applied Botany, Tashkent) November 1929. 1 letter (in Russian, no translation)

Detlefsen, J.A. (Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology, Philadelphia) November 1924. 1 letter

Deutsche Akademie Der Naturforscher Leopoldina May-August 1959. 4 letters and cards.

Diamond, Louis K. (Harvard Medical School and Children's Hospital, Massachusetts June 1947 - May 1958. 19 letters and notes.

Dictionary of National Biography April 1945 - April 1948, 31 October 1953. 18 letters and notes. Proposed contribution by Fisher of a life of Karl Pearson for the D.N.B. and (1953) proposal for an entry on Rev. Thomas Bayes. 14 April 1945, 26 April 1945, 28 June 1945, 30 June 1945, 2 July 1945, 21 January 1946, 4 February 1946, 12 February 1946, 18 March 1946 [draft of Pearson biography enclosed], 19 March 1946, 23 March 1946, 25 March 1946, 17 April 1946, 24 April 1946.

Dingle, Herbert (University College, London) October-November 1946, February 1957. 7 letters. 24 October 1946, 30 October 1946 (on International Academy of the History of Science), 11 February 1957, 15 February 1957.

Discombe, George (Hillend Hospital, St. Albans and Central Middlesex Hospital, London) December 1942 - June 1956. 19 letters (some with enclosures) 3 December 1942, 5 December 1942, 7 December 1942, 8 October 1943, 14 October 1943, 4 October 1944, 12 October 1944, 26 July 1951, 5 September 1951.

Discovery ('The magazine of scientific progress') October 1934 - November 1935, September 1956 - February 1957. 13 letters and notes. Including response to letter published in Discovery October 1934 by T.W. MacAlpine.

Diver, Cyril (London) November 1925 - April 1937, May 1946. 50 letters and enclosures. Correspondence on mollusc breeding interests. 14 May 1946, 15 May 1946 (supply of snails for breeding work).

Dodds, Kenneth S. (John Innes Horticultural Institution) October 1950 - November 1959. 17 letters and notes. 8 March 1954 (need for central preservation of material for genetical research), 13 October 1959 (Dodds' results of S-alleles in diploid potatoes)

Donald, H.P. (Animal Breeding Research Organisation, Edinburgh) November 1938, January 1951, April-May 1954. 16 letters and notes. 2 November 1938, 16 January 1951, 24 January 1951

Doncaster, L. (Zoology Department, University of Liverpool) January-June 1920. 4 letters

Donnan, F.G. (Department of Chemistry, University of London) August-December 1930. 7 letters

Dover Publications, Inc May 1955 - January 1959. 34 letters. Publication of a new edition of The genetical theory of natural selection. 13 May 1955, 17 May 1955, 23 September 1955, 29 October 1955, 23 December 1955, 23 January 1956, 24 January 1956, 27 January 1956 [1], 27 January 1956 [2], 23 April 1957, 19 July 1957, 30 July 1957, 7 May 1958

Dowdeswell, W.H. (Winchester College) August-December 1953. 3 letters 30 August 1953 (ms and typed copies), 15 September 1953

Dowling, D.F. August-October 1947, July 1949. 3 letters Post-graduate work at Cambridge on a C.S.I.R. Scholarship.

Dreyfus, André (Brazil) March-April 1948. 2 letters

Drummond, J.C. (Department of Physiology and Biochemistry, University College London) May-June 1935. 10 letters 20 May 1935, 24 May 1935, 30 May 1935 (results of feeding experiment reported by Simpson and Wood)

Drury, Alan N. (Dept. of Pathology, Cambridge and Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine, London) October 1934 - May 1953. 12 letters and notes 7 January 1949 (on serological methods)

Drysdale, C.V. July-October 1929. 10 letters Eugenics Society public statements on birthrate and family allowances. 23 July 1929, 6 September 1929, 17 September 1929, 20 September 1929, 25 September 1929, 26 September 1929 [enclosed note on Effect of Taxation on Birth Rate], 2 October 1929, 4 October 1929

Dudley, F.J. (National Institute of Poultry Husbandry, Newport) July 1926 - May 1929. 7 letters

Dufrenoy, H.J. (Station de Pathologie Végétale and Société de Statistique de Paris) November 1935 - October 1945. 27 letters 2 December 1935, 5 December 1935, 15 January 1936, 28 November 1944, 18 December 1944, (undated), 2 October 1945

Dugué, Daniel (Statistique Mathématique, Université de Paris) July 1936 - January 1961. 2cm. 10 November 1936, 1 December 1936, 4 December 1936, 10 December 1936 [1], 10 December 1936 [2], 5 April 1937, 8 April 1937, 11 August 1937, 16 August 1937, ? July 1938, 12 July 1938, 17 November 1938, 3 December 1938, 5 December 1938, 11 November 1939, 12 February 1940, 29 August 1945, 11 September 1945, 10 February 1946, 15 February 1946, 28 September 1946, 2 January 1947, 13 May 1948, 22 May 1948, 28 May 1948, 2 June 1948, 9 June 1948, 6 November 1948 (enclosed Probability Calculations), 9 November 1948, 14 November 1948, 26 November 1948, 4 December 1948, 3 January 1951, 14 January 1951, 16 February 1952, 23 February 1952, 21 December 1953, 7 February 1955, 11 February 1955, 14 February 1955, 23 February 1955, 28 February 1955, 18 March 1955, 6 April 1955, 10 May 1955, 22 May 1955, 27 May 1955, 17 August 1956, 8 April 1958

Duncan-Jones, A.J. (Chichester) January 1953. 2 letters

Dunham, John Wesley (Jack) (California) February 1958. 2 letters.

Dunlop, W.R. (Kent) October-November 1947. 2 letters.

Dunn, A.T. (Glaxo Laboratories) March-August 1956. 9 letters 1 March 1956, 3 March 1956, 9 March 1956, 15 March 1956, 28 March 1956, 31 July 1956, 8 August 1956 [1], 8 August 1956 [2], 14 August 1956

Dunn, Halbert L. (Mayo Clinic, Rochester and Bureau of the Census and Public Health Service, Washington) July-December 1931, March 1935 - August 1955. 13 letters.

Dunn, L.C. (Animal Breeding Research Department, University of Edinburgh and Department of Zoology, Columbia University) November 1927 - August 1951. 43 letters and notes. 26 October 1928, 10 June 1930, 29 December 1931, 21 October 1935, 4 May 1937, 11 May 1937, 6 October 1924, 13 February 1943, 7 June 1943, 20 August 1943, 22 September 1943, 28 June 1945.

Dunsford, I. (National Blood Transfusion Service) March 1951, July 1954. 5 letters.

Durrett, Eleanor Jean (U.S. Navy) April 1950. 2 letters.

Dwight, T.W. (Faculty of Forestry, University of Toronto) February-April 1951. 5 letters. 7 February 1951, 14 February 1951, 26 February 1951, 9 April 1951, 16 April 1951.

Dymond, J.R. (Department of Zoology, University of Toronto) April-May 1950. 2 letters. 8 May 1950

East, E.M. (Harvard University) May-July 1932, December 1935 - January 1936. 9 letters 5 May 1932, 17 May 1932, 28 May 1932, 21 June 1932, 7 July 1932, 16 December 1935, 7 February 1936, 17 January 1936.

East Malling Research Station (T.N. Hoblyn and others) November 1927 - August 1949. 29 letters and postcards [copies of originals] 19 August 1942, 25 August 1949 see also T.N. Hoblyn

Easterday, Otto D. (Medical Research Center, Brookhaven National Laboratory, New York) February 1961. 1 letter.

Easterfield, Thomas E. (Cawthron Institute, New Zealand) December 1926 - March 1927, December 1943, February 1953. 8 letters and notes. 24 January 1927.

Eddington, Arthur S. (Sir) (Observatory, Cambridge) July 1919. 1 letter

Edelstam, Carl (Stockholm) December 1948. 3 letters

Eden, Thomas (Tea Research Institute of Ceylon) March 1930 - August 1942. 30 letters, some with enclosures On field trials and other matters associated with his tea research; includes Eden's curriculum vitae on his (unsuccessful) application for the post of Director of the National Institute of Agricultural Botany. 11 March 1930, 1 April 1930, 11 June 1930, 12 June 1930, 16 June 1930, 1 September 1930, 19 January 1931, 27 April 1931, 1 December 1931, 17 March 1933, 29 March 1933, 5 May 1934 [enclosed Resistance Formula], 28 May 1934, 3 August 1939

Edwards, Daisy M. see Starkey, Daisy M.

Egerton, Alfred (Sir) (Imperial College of Science and Technology) November 1956 - February 1958. 7 letters and notes. On smoking and cancer link. 23 November 1956, 7 February 1958, 8 February 1958, 27 February 1958, 28 February 1958

Einarsson, Trausti (Reykjavik) May 1955. 2 letters. 21 May 1955 Einaudi, Luigi (President of Italian Republic) June-July 1954. 2 letters Congratulations on Einaudi's election as Hon. Fellow of the RSS.

Eisenhart, C. (Agricultural Experiment Station, University of Wisconsin) September 1936 - October 1938. 5 letters. 28 October 1938

Elderton,W. P. and Ethel M. (Equitable Life Assurance Company and University of London) April 1929 - November 1942. 32 letters and notes.

Ellis, Frank (Radiotherapy Dept., London Hospital) July 1943 - February 1944. 8 letters

Emerson, Sterling (Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station and California Institute of Technology) March-April 1933, May 1939, December 1947. 6 letters.

Empire Cotton Growing Corporation February 1930, May 1954. 5 letters

Encyclopaedia Britannica October 1927 - June 1929. 7 letters and ms draft of article on Twins and twinning.

Engledow, F.L (School of Agriculture, Cambridge) January 1929 - September 1956. 44 letters

Ernst, Alfred (Zurich) July 1957 - January 1958. 4 letters and card.

Esscher, F. (Stockholm) September 1921. 1 letter.

Everard, W. Lindsay March 1930 - November 1943. 18 letters and notes.

Ezekiel, Mordecai (U.S. Department of Agriculture and Federal Farm Board, Washington) April 1929 - November 1958. 14 letters 18 April 1929, 23 April 1930 [graphs of correlation results enclosed], 2 May 1930, 15 June 1930, 26 June 1930

Fabergé Fahmy, T. Falcao, L. Farmer, J.B.

Fashihuddin, Md. (Karachi) October-December 1956. 2 letters.

Feichtinger, E.K. (Pflanzenzuchstation Gross-Enzerdorf) April-July 1929. 4 letters and notes. 5 July 1929.

Feldstein, Marc J. (Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio) September 1929 - June 1934. 13 letters 30 September 1929, 12 October 1929, 24 October 1929, 4 November 1929, 17 November 1929, 28 November 1929, 30 December 1929, 15 January 1930, 24 January 1930, 23 May 1934 [tables enclosed], 12 June 1934

Ferraro, V.C.A.

Fieller, Edgar Charles (Mathematics Division, National Physical Laboratory, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research) May 1945 - February 1961 46 letters and notes, some with enclosures.

Finney, D.J. (University of Oxford and University of Aberdeen) March 1937 - May 1962. 5 cm. 26 April 1945, 1 December 1945, 16 February 1946, 28 May 1946, 31 May 1946, 24 August 1946, 9 November 1946, 2 August 1947, 18 November 1947, 3 December 1947, 15 March 1948, 20 July 1948, 2 August 1948, 19 November 1948, 15 January 1949, 27 June 1949, 30 November 1949, 2 December 1949, 30 October 1951, 30 January 1952, 2 February 1954, 13 September 1954, 14 September 1954, 22 September 1954, 27 September 1954, 7 October 1954, 12 March 1955, 15 March 1955, 22 March 1955, 24 March 1955, 1 April 1955, 18 April 1955, 6 May 1955, 1 August 1955, 7 November 1955, 3 April 1956, 16 April 1956, 11 October 1956, 7 November 1956, 10 November 1956, 12 November 1956, 20 November 1956, 23 April 1957, 27 April 1957, 29 April 1957, 3 May 1957, 6 May 1957, 20 May 1957, 23 May 1957, 27 June 1957, 17 October 1960, 1 November 1960, 12 May 1961, 8 June 1961, 3 April 1962, 18 April 1962, 3 May 1962.

Fischer, Gustavo J. (Uruguay) May 1927 - November 1948. 6 letters 5 January 1937, 1 February 1937.

Fisher, A. Fisher, G.

Fisher, James (Rook Investigation, British Trust for Ornithology) October-December 1944. 6 letters 3 October 1944, 6 October 1944, 6 December 1944 (with summary of rookery site counts), 14 December 1944, 18 December 1944.

Fleure, H.J. (School of Geography, University of Manchester) September 1930 -July 1956. 38 letters and notes. 24 September 1930 Florey, H.W. Sir Fontseré, E. Food And Agriculture Organization of The United Nations

Ford, E.B. (Department of Zoology, Oxford) February 1949 - May 1961. 15 cm.

Fortunati, P.

Fortuyn, A.B.D. (Peiping Union Medical College, Peking) April 1931 - January 1962. 2 cm. 26 May 1938, 11 August 1938, 6 September 1938, 31 October 1938, 1 November 1938, 25 November 1940, 22 January 1941, 23 April 1941, 5 August 1941, 23 October 1942, 26 October 1942, 8 November 1942, 12 November 1942, 14 January 1956, 16 January 1956

Fox, H.M. (University of Birmingham) [editor Biological review] February 1926 - January 1953. 38 items. [Good Friday, 1940], 1 April 1940, 21 January 1941, 24 January 1941 [notes enclosed], 31 May 1943, 19 March 1952, 24 March 1952

Franco, A.O. (Ministry of Agriculture, Rio de Janeiro) January 1931 - September 1938, October 1955. 15 letters.

Frankel, Otto H. (CSIRO Division of Plant Industry, Canberra) February 1959 - March 1960. 12 letters and enclosures. 11 February 1959, 4 June 1955 [with enclosure], 31 March 1959, 7 October 1959, 19 October 1959.

Fraser, A.P. July 1935 - July 1937. 12 letters

Fraser, D.A.S.

Fréchet, R.M. (Institut Henri Poincaré, University of Paris and Institut International de Statistique) February 1934 – March 1955. 76 letters and notes, some with translations or reports attached. 13 March 1934, 14 March 1934, 22 March 1934, 6 November 1934, 21 December 1934, 7 January 1935, 19 February 1936, 5 March 1936, 18 March 1936, 24 March 1936, 18 May 1938, 17 January 1940, 26 January 1940, 10 February 1940, 12 February 1940, 26 February 1940, 8 March 1940, 18 March 1940, 18 April 1940, 26 April 1940, 14 June 1945, 17 July 1945, 18 January 1946, 21 June 1947, 27 June 1949, 11 October 1949, 9 November 1950, 25 June 1951, 23 October 1951, 19 November 1951.

Freeman, H.A. (Department of Economics and Social Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) April 1941 - February 1943. 8 letters. 9 April 1941, 25 April 1941 , 18 June 1942, 20 July 1942, 13 August 1942, 17 September 1942, 20 February 1943.

Freeman, R.A. July 1925. 2 letters

Friberg, Lars (Institute of Hygiene, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm) February 1958 - July 1959. 15 letters 17 February 1958, 19 March 1958, 18 October 1958, 24 October 1958, 27 October 1958, 13 January 1959, 16 January 1959, 19 January 1959, 20 January 1929, 3 February 1959, 5 February 1959.

Friedman, Milton (National Bureau of Economic Research) January 1940. 2 letters 12 January 1940, 30 January 1940.

Frisch, Ragnar (University of Norway) February 1931 - May 1934. 15 letters and enclosures. 12 March 1934, 14 August 1934, 23 May 1934.

Fryer, J.C.F. (Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Pathological Laboratory, Harpenden and Agricultural Research Council, London) December 1923 - February 1948. 46 letters and notes, many with attachments and enclosures. 26 November 1929, April 18 1933, 25 April 1933, 18 June 1945, 21 June 1945, 23 June 1945, 29 June 1945 (with a note on proposed Centre for Agricultural Research Statistics at Cambridge)

Fyson, P.F. (Plymouth) August 1936 - February 1939. 30 letters 9 December 1936, 10 December 1936, 3 January 1937, 3 February 1937, 15 February 1937, 8 June 1937, 11 June 1937, 5 February 1939, 6 February 1939

Gaddum, J.H. (National Institute for Medical Research) 20 October 1931 - 23 January 1936, 4-5 August 1952. 16 letters 20 October 1931, 26 October 1931, 4 November 1931 [1], 4 November 1931 [2], 6 November 1931, 30 November 1931, 15 December 1931, 29 November 1932, 30 November 1932, 1 August 1933, 3 August 1933, undated [The Fitting of Curves to Toxicity Data enclosed], 23 January 1936

Galton Laboratory Galton Laboratory Serum Unit Gander, R.S.

Garber, Lewis F. (California) August 1959. 2 letters 17 August 1959, 27 August 1959 Gardiner, S. (Zoological Laboratory, Cambridge) 12 January 1931 - 2 August 1939. 19 letters 13 January 1931, 27 February 1931, 16 March 1931, 12 May 1931 [1], 12 May 1931 [2], 24 May 1934, 30 July 1934, 7 August 1934, 2 August 1939

Garrett, S.S. (Illinois) November 1945 - October 1948. 12 letters 27 November 1945, 14 December 1945, 23 September 1947, 7 October 1947

Garwood, F. (Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Building Research Station) May - June 1935, January 1939 - March 1941. 14 letters 30 May 1935, 31 May 1935, 5 June 1935, 2 January 1939, 12 January 1939, 11 March 1940, 12 March 1940, 15 March 1940, 21 March 1940, 29 March 1940, 5 April 1940

Gates, R. Ruggles (King's College, University of London) July 1930 - June 1959. 3 cm. 30 June 1930, 1 July 1930, 2 July 1930, 3 July 1930, 12 December 1930, 28 November 1930, 29 November 1930, 8 February 1933, 14 June 1933, 10 October 1933, 3 November 1933, 30 November 1933, 19 January 1934, 29 January 1934, 9 March 1934, 22 May 1935, 1 October 1937, 6 October 1937, 7 October 1937, 4 October 1937, 5 October 1937, 31 October 1937, 1 November 1937, 26 October 1939, 5 March 1952, 8 April 1942, 29 May 1943, 7 July 1943, 21 January 1948, 10 February 1948, 17 February 1948, 9 March 1948, 23 October 1950, 4 November 1950, 11 August 1954, 27 August 1954, 29 January 1955 [newspaper clipping enclosed], 9 February 1955, 19 November 1958, 24 April 1958

Gayre, G.R. Geary, R.C.

George, R.F. (Royal Statistical Society) 26 September 1952 - 15 December 1955. 38 letters 26 September 1952, 28 September 1952, 30 September 1952, 6 October 1952, 14 February 1953, 16 February 1953, 17 February 1953, 18 February 1953 [enclosure], 19 February 1953 [two enclosures], 23 February 1953, 3 February 1955, 4 February 1955, 8 June 1955, 11 November 1955, 12 November 1955

Gibbs, R.W.M. (Oxford) May 1928 - September 1939. 6 letters 2 April 1929

Gibson, A.L. July 1957. 2 letters 8 July 1957, 10 July 1957

Gilbert, N.E.G. Gilbert, S.M. (London) March 1929. 2 letters 12 March 1929

Gilmour, J.S.L. (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew) May 1938, August -September 1945, August 1953 - May 1955. 16 letters 12 March 1954, 13 March 1954

Gilroy, A.

Gini, Corrado (Instituto di Statistica, University of Rome) June 1930 - April 1956. 3 cm. 29 June 1931, 6 October 1931, 7 March 1932, 19 October 1933, 6 February 1934, 18 January 1937, 28 January 1937, 1 March 1939, 23 March 1939, 28 March 1939, 13 September 1939, 22 September 1939, 16 October 1939, undated, 3 May 1940, 4 July 1945, 3 August 1945, 9 October 1945, 20 April 1956, 27 April 1956

Girton College Glasgow, J.P

Glasspoole, John (Royal Meteorological Society) August 1923, June 1932 - February 1939. 19 letters and notes. 13 June 1932, 12 November 1935.

Glover, J.W. Godley, E. Golding, J. Goldschmidt, E.

Goldschmidt, R. (Kaiser Wilhelm Institut für Biologie) November 1930, January 1954. 5 letters 6 November 1930

Gomes, F.P. (Escola Superior de Agricultura, Brazil) August - September 1956. 2 letters 28 September 1956

Goodale, H.D. (Mount Hope Farm, Massachusetts) July 1931 - April 1932, December 1948 - February 1949. 19 letters 16 July 1931, 27 July 1931, 3 August 1931, 18 August 1931, 24 August 1931 [enclosure "Demerit"], 15 October 1931, 2 November 1931, 7 March 1932, 2 April 1932

Gordon, Cecil (Usher Institute, Edinburgh) September 1958. 3 letters. 18 September 1958

Gordon, W.S. (Director, Agricultural Research Council, Field Station, Compton) November 1949 - August 1953. 12 letters 19 November 1949, 23 November 1949, 2 December 1949, 5 December 1949, 13 December 1949, 19 December 1949

Gossett, Marjory [wife of "Student"] March 1938 - April 1939. 10 letters 2 March 1938, 8 March 1938, 9 March 1938, 12 March 1938, 14 March 1938, 21 March 1938, 15 April 1939, 17 April 1939

Gosset, W.S. (Index To "Student" Correspondence)

Goulden, C.H. (Rust Research Laboratory, Winnipeg) February 1929 - March 1962. 43 letters, notes and cards, some with enclosed papers and data. 13 March 1929, 31 July 1929, 20 May 1930, 23 December 1930, 5 December 1932, 14 February 1934, 18 January 1941, 24 February 1941, 1 April 1941, 6 May 1941, 4 December 1941, 26 January 1942

Gowen, J.W.

Graham, Michael (Fisheries Laboratory, Lowestoft) February-March 1931. 3 letters. 13 February 1931, 2 March 1931, 3 March 1931.

Gray, Horace (Stanford Hospital, San Francisco) February 1935 - December 1959. 46 letters 26 February 1935, 29 May 1935, 1 July 1935, 20 January 1937, 15 February 1937, 26 April 1937, 18 May 1937, 19 May 1937, 17 June 1937, 6 December 1937, 17 February 1938, 19 August 1943, 6 November 1947, 24 November 1947, 22 July 1949, 6 August 1949, 19 January 1951, 15 March 1951, 19 December 1956, 18 January 1957, 28 April 1959 [newspaper clipping enclosed] 12 June 1959, 16 June 1959, 16 July 1959

Gray, James (Sir) (Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge) July 1930 - February 1952. 25 letters, some with enclosures. 26 July 1930, 16 April 1932, 22 April 1932, 4 December 1939 [paper enclosed, dated 1 December 1939], 16 February 1943, 23 February 1943 [enclosure "Genetics Department at Cambridge: Preliminary Memorandum"], 2 June 1943, 24 September 1943, 30 September 1943, 25 October 1943, paper by Fisher "Research in Animal Genetics", paper "Livestock performance tests laboratory", 26 October 1944, 6 November 1944 [enclosure], 7 December 1948, 17 December 1948, 13 December 1948, 29 January 1952, 30 January 1952

Gray, P. Greaves, W.H.M Green, M.C.

Greenwood, M. (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine) December 1930 - February 1948. 64 letters 10 June 1933, 13 June 1933, 21 October 1933, 23 October 1933, 10 January 1936

Gregor, J.W. (Scottish Society for Research in Plant Breeding) July 1936 - February 1938. 12 letters 9 December 1936, 13 January 1937, 28 January 1937, 30 January 1937, 1 February 1937.

Gregory, F.G. (Imperial College of Science and Technolgy) December 1930 - November 1938. 8 letters 30 November 1931, 3 December 1931

Gregory, P.H. (Rothamstead) October - November 1943. 3 letters 14 October 1943, 19 October 1943

Griffing, Bruce (Iowa State College) October 1952 - June 1956. 15 letters 22 September 1952, 27 September 1952, 14 October 1955, 6 January 1956, 13 January 1956, 17 February 1956, 1 March 1956, 2 May 1956, 1 June 1956, 12 June 1956

Griffith, B.A. (University of Toronto, Department of Mathematics) April 1949 - January 1950. 11 letters 3 May 1949, 7 May 1949, 23 September 1949, 12 October 1949, 19 October 1949, 2 November 1949, 7 November 1949

Grigg, P.J.

Gross, F. (Department of Zoology, University of Edinburgh) August 1935 - February 1946. 27 letters 23 April 1936 [1], 23 April 1936 [2], 13 October 1937, 24 June 1940, 2 December 194 [2], 13 October 1937, 24 June 1940, 2 December 1940, 5 December 1940 [enclosure], 13 December 1940, 30 December 1940, 8 February 1946, 11 February 1946

Grove-Hills, E.H. Grundy, P.M. Grüneberg, H.

Guha, B.S. (Zoological Survey of India, Indian Museum) November 1934 - October 1939, May 1949. 14 letters 28 September 1935, 30 September 1935, 28 October 1935, 24 November 1935, 28 November 1935, 23 August 1938, 5 September 1938, 26 October 1939 ["Discussion: The function of physical anthropology" enclosed]

Gunston, Derrick November 1931, September - December 1940. 8 letters 18 November 1931, 16 November 1931 Gunther, E.R. ("Discovery" Investigations, c/o British Museum (Natural History) January 1933 - December 1938. 10 letters 23 January 1933, 17 January 1933, 7 February 1933, 8 February 1933, 9 February 1933, 27 February 1933, 22 September 1934, 2 October 1934

Gurgel, J.T. Do A. Hack, H.R.B.

Hackel, E. May 1957 - February 1960. 16 letters. 27 April 1959, 20 August 1959, 17 February 1960

Hackett, F.E. September - October 1927. 2 letters. 26 September 1927

Hadley, P.A.S.

Hagedoorn, A.L. (Netherlands Genetics Association) June 1945 - March 1949. 14 letters including endorsed correspondence with G. Odlum). 4 August 1945, 15 July 1945

Haines, W.B. (Rubber Research Institute of Malaya) August 1928. 2 letters. 18 July 1928, 24 August 1928

Hald, A.

Haldane, J.B.S. Prof. (John Innes Horticultural Institution and University Collgege, London). March 1930 - November 1951. 3 cm. 9 November 1930, 11 November 1930, 3 December 1930, undated, 17 March 1931, 5 May 1931, 7 May 1931, undated, 10 December 1931, 15 February 1932, undated, 23 February 1932, 10 October 1933, 14 March 1934, 10 October 1934, 26 November 1934¸ 4 April 1935, 28 April 1936, 17 January 1939, 18 January 1939, 19 January 1939, 19 January 1940, 20 January 1940, 2 April 1940, 6 March 1944 [1], 6 March 1944 [2], 10 March 1944,

Hall, A.D. (Daniel)

Hall, J.G. (Department of Animal Pathology, Cambridge) May - June 1950. 2 letters. 31 May 1950, 2 June 1950

Hammond, J. Hammond, K.R. Hancock, G.L.R. Hancock, W.K. Februry 1953. 3 letters

Hanhart, E. Hardin, G.

Hardy, A.C. (Department of Zoology and Oceanography, University College, Hull) December 1936 - December 1952. 15 letters. 25 June 1942, 16 November 1948, 18 December 1948, 21 May 1951, 22 May 1951, 24 May 1951, 4 June 1951, 29 June 1951

Hardy G.H. February 1939 - March 1942 and undated. 9 letters and extract from letter from E.S. Barnes, May 1976 re the Fisher-Hardy correspondence. 27 February 1939, 8 March 1939, 10 March 1939, 16 October 1941, 1 November 1942, 27 March 1942 12 May 1976

Hardy.H.H. (Shrewsbury) May 1939. 2 letters. 2 May 1939, 3 May 1939

Hardy, M. Hardy, W.B. Harington, C.R.

Harland, Sydney C. (Empire Cotton Growing Corporation and Department of Botany, University of Manchester) November 1928 - December 1959. 56 letters, cards and notes, with some endorsed papers. 5 December 1928, 1 March 1930, 27 January 1932, 4 August 1932, 6 March 1935, 17 September 1935, 4 October 1939, 10 October 1939, 18 April 1940, 4 June 1940, 11 October 1940, 4 March 1953, 10 November 1955, 12 November 1955, 1 February 1956, 3 February 1956

Harland, W. B. (Department of Geology, University of Cambridge) January 1954. 2 letters. 22 January 1954

Harris, J.A. Harrison, G.A.

Harrod, R.F. (Sir Roy) July 1942 - January 1959. 31 letters, notes and cards. 6 July 1942, 15 July 1942 [draft letter enclosed], 17 July 1942, 23 July 1942, 1 August 1942, 23 May 1950, 4 February 1951, 6 February 1951, 10 February 1951, 28 November 1956, 1 January 1959, 26 January 1959

Harrop, Ronald. (Department of Mathematics, University of Durham) November - December 1953. 3 letters. 20 November 1953

Harrow School Harshbarger, B. Hartree, D.R.

Haskins, C.P. (Haskins Institute, New York) December 1948 - January 1949. 4 letters. 15 December 1948, 20 December 1948, 11 January 1949, 20 January 1949

Hawkins, E.C.

Hawley, T.C. (South African Police, Pretoria) November - December 1947. 4 letters. 19 December 1947, 27 November 1947

Haydon-Baillie, M. Hazell, W.H.

Healey, M.J.M. (Rothamsted) August 1954 - October 1958. 27 letters and notes, some with attached results. 20 March 1956, 23 March 1956, 24 March 1956, 27 March 1956, 28 March 1956, 17 April 1956, 19 April 1956, 23 April 1956, 25 April 1956, 26 November 1956, 5 February 1957, 18 February 1957.

Heard, G. (The Realist) March - October 1929. 12 letters 11 March 1929, 12 March 1929, 13 March 1929, 16 March 1929, 18 March 1929, 19 March 1929, 7 May 1929

Heckstall-Smith, H.W. (Devon) June 1955 - July 1957. 25 letters, some with attached offprints. 25 November 1955, 29 November 1955, 9 February 1956, 10 November 1956, 14 November 1956

Henningsen, K. Dr. (Retsmedicinske Institut, Copenhagen) December 1949 - June 1954. 7 letters and calculations. 13 December 1949, 19 December 1949, 19 March 1950, 13 June 1950, 14 June 1954

Henon, R.

Heritage, Donald C. July-August 1958. 2 letters. 30 July 1958, 19 August 1958.

Hertwig, P.

Heslot, H. (Natural Institute of Agronomy, Paris) January 1948 - January 1959. 18 letters. 28 December 1951, 8 January 1952, 11 February 1955, 14 February 1955

Hick, W.E. Hickling, C.F.

Hide, Raymond (Physics Department, University of Durham) October 1951 - January 1959. 11 letters 17 July 1958, 18 July 1958

Hiley, W.E.

Hill, A. Bradford (National Institute for Medical Research and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine) June 1929 - February 1959. 53 letters. 2 December 1930, 8 April 1931, 14 November 1931, 14 June 1933, 18 February 1936, 26 February 1936, 9 April 1937, 4 January 1954, 18 February 1954, 10 December 1955, 31 October 1958, 5 November 1958, 22 December 1958, 15 January 1959, 17 January 1959, 28 January 1959, 3 February 1959 Includes Bradford Hill's response to the invitation to join the Eugenics Society(1929); response to the invitation to come to Rothamsted (1931); discussions of experimentation with in-breeding (1931), of Greenwood's report on measurements of school children (1932-33) and the best means of measuring fertility in a proposed study by Balmukand in the Punjab (1936); ABH seeking permission to use Fisher's table of x squared in his own proposed book on statistical methods (1937); assessment of the methodology in a paper submitted to RS by Russ and Scott (1939); advising Fisher of his nomination as President of the RS and related RS matters (1952ff); invitation by ABH to Fisher to join the Dinner Club and re its meetings (1952ff). Letters 1958-59 regarding lung cancer and smoking data and the interpretation of results (and some apparent disagreement or misunderstanding regarding the supply of data).

Hill, A.V. (University College, University of London and the Royal Society) May 1934 - April 1942. 41 letters. 4 May 1939, 22 June 1939, 19 February 1942

Hill, L.

Hindle, Edward (Zoological Society of London) April 1946 - January 1949, November 1956. 15 letters. 5 November 1956

Hoblyn, T.N. (East Malling Research Station) January 1928 - October 1952. 47 letters and notes, some with attachments 25 January 1928, undated, 10 August 1928, 26 January 1929, 19 December 1930 [enclosure], 20 April 1931, 12 October 1931, 5 December 1932, 13 August 1934, 20 April 1937, 4 October 1937, 7 October 1952 note some of the early letters are photocopies of originals Hodges, R.

Hogben, Lancelot (London School of Economics and Political Science, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham) December 1930 - June 1953. 43 letters and notes, some with attachments. 21 April 1932, 4 November 1932, 17 February 1933, 18 February 1933, 15 March 1933, 18 March 1933, 8 September 1939 [with attached Manifesto], 19 September 1939.

Holck, H.

Holman, L.J. (War Office Selection Centre, Surrey) November 1947 - September 1948. 6 letters. 5 November 1947, 18 November 1947

Holt, Sadie B. (Galton Laboratory) January 1949 - June 1962. 1 cm. (includes letters from Holt's daughter Susan to Fisher, her godfather, January 1953- May 1957) 20 February 1952

Hooker, R.H.

Hope-Jones, W. (Eton College) March 1920 - March 1944, January 1951. 21 cards and letters, some enclosures. 7 February 1944, 20 February 1944, 23 February 1944

Hopkins, J.W. (University of Alberta and National Research Council, Canada) April 1930 - April 1957. 1 cm 3 February 1933, 14 February 1933, 13 July 1933, 21 July 1933, 3 March 1934, 19 March 1934, 11 December 1947, 3 January 1948, 7 February 1957, 20 March 1957, 15 April 1957, 23 April 1957.

Hospers, J. (Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge) September 1951 - January 1953. 10 letters and cards, some with attached figures. 5 September 1951, 9 December 1952, 22 December 1952, 16 January 1955, 19 January 1955

Hotelling, Harold (Department of Mathematics, Stanford University) December 1928 - January 1960. 2 cm. 7 January 1930, 20 January 1930, 8 February 1930, 26 September 1930, 9 October 1930, 23 July 1930, 8 August 1930, 21 October 1930, 12 November 1930, 15 November 1930, 12 December 1930, 29 December 1930, 6 March 1931, 1 May 1931, 12 October 1932, 24 October 1932, 3 November 1932, 14 November 1932, 3 August 1933, 14 August 1933, 25 October 1934, 2 November 1934, 22 May 1935, 9 September 1937, 21 December 1937, 16 February 1938, 2 March 1938, 10 March 1938, 11 May 1938, 21 June 1938, 29 June 1938, 30 October 1938 (with attachment on Balanced Incomplete Blocks), 10 November 1938, 18 November 1938, 20 November 1938, 1 December 1938, 2 December 1938, 20 June 1940, 29 April 1941, 3 July 1941, 27 August 1943, 30 September 1943, 15 February 1946, 22 February 1946, 30 May 1946, 4 June 1946, 14 November 1947, 28 November 1947, 13 July 1951, 16 January 1952, 30 July 1953, 28 January 1957, 1 February 1957.

Howell, Harry July-November 1959. 6 letters 1 July 1959, 16 July 1959, 22 September 1959

Hoyle, F.

Hsu, P.L. (London and Yunnan, China) March 1939 - July 1941. 1 cm 29 March 1939, 23 February 1940, 29 June 1940, 2 July 1940, 5 July 1940, 6 July 1940, 9 July 1940, 10 July 1940, 30 August 1940, 3 September 1940, 6 September 1940, 22 September 1940, 24 September 1940, 25 October 1940.

Hubback, E.M. Hubback, J.A.

Hughes, A.W.M. (Department of Entomology, British Museum (Natural History)) November 1932 - January 1933, February-March 1949. 9 letters. 3 January 1933, 7 January 1933.

Hull, F.H. (Agronomy Department, University of Florida) March 1930 - July? 1934, March-July 1948. 10 letters. 26 March 1930, 5 April 1930, 29 May 1930, 11 June 1930, 28 June 1934, ?July 1934, 3 March 1948, 9 March 1948, 23 July 1948, 26 July 1948.

Hulme, H.R. (Royal Observatory, Greenwich) November 1939 - June 1940, November 1947. 9 letters. 31 May 1940, 11 June 1940.

Human Gene Nomenclature Humm, D.

Hunt, R.H. (Department of Zoology, Michigan State College) December 1930, November-December 1934, September-October 1947. 7 letters 9 December 1930, 24 November 1934, 19 December 1934

Huntington, E.V. (Harvard University) June 1936 - January 1939. 7 letters 26 June 1936, 24 August 1936, 3 May 1937.

Huntsman, A.G. Hurst, C.C. Husain, Q.M.

Huskins, C.L. (John Innes Horticultural Institution) November 1929 - February 1949. 17 letters. 27 November 1929, 3 June 1933, 15 July 1933, 10 March 1942, 25 January 1949, 31 January 1949, 18 February 1949, 25 February 1949.

Hutchinson, J.B. (Cotton Research Station, Trinidad and Empire Cotton Growing Corporation, Uganda) February 1930 - October 1958. 2 cm. 3 February 1930, 11 February 1930, 5 March 1930, 24 April 1930, 14 June 1930, 24 July 1930, 30 January 1933, 14 November 1933, 5 October 1934, 28 November 1934, 21 April 1936, 11 May 1936, 3 December 1936, 9 September 1937, 28 September 1937, 26 November 1937, 17 February 1938, 8 November 1938, 24 November 1938, 4 June 1941, 16 July 1941, 17 September 1941, 5 November 1941, 3 February 1942, 27 May 1942, 21 September 1943, 15 February 1951, 20 February 1951, 22 February 1951, 2 December 1954, 25 January 1957, 29 January 1958, 24 March 1958, 7 July 1958.

Hutt, F.B. (Department of Genetics, University of Minnesota and Cornell University) June 1934 - December 1958. 1 cm 9 June 1934, 23 June 1934, 17 July 1934, 28 July 1939, 8 August 1939, 24 September 1948, 6 January 1949, 10 January 1949, 15 September 1950, 18 September 1950, 24 March 1951, 28 March 1951, 25 November 1958, 29 November 1958, 3 December 1958, 10 December 1958.

Huxley, A.

Huxley, J.S. (King's College and Zoological Department, University of London) August 1928 - January 1958. 3 cm. 6 May 1930, 26 June 1930, 3 July 1930, 18 September 1930, 22 September 1930, 24 September 1930, 25 September 1930, 3 October 1930, 5 May 1931, 29 September 1931, 3 October 1931, 2 November 1931, 12 November 1931, 13 November 1931, 16 November 1931, 15 June 1932, 24 June 1932, 10 February 1933, 14 February 1933, 28 September 1933, 17 November 1933, 24 November 1933, 30 November 1933, 21 December 1933, 1 January 1934, 19 June 1934, 20 July 1934, 25 July 1934, 27 July 1934, 1 November 1934, 19 November 1934, 5 December 1934, 6 December 1934, 13 December 1934, 3 June 1935, 30 December 1935, 31 December 1935, 24 February 1936, 25 February 1936, 26 February 1936, 23 March 1936, 25 March 1936, 26 March 1936, 3 June 1936, 23 February 1937, 21 April 1937, 11 November 1937, 26 October 1939, 27 October 1939, 30 October 1939, 26 February 1940, 6 June 1940, 19 July 1940, 22 July 1940, 23 July 1940, 24 July 1940, 12 April 1942, 14 April 1942, 28 August 1942, 16 June 1943, 5 November 1955, 7 November 1955, 7 November 1956, 21 January 1958.

Huzurbazar, V.S. Ilse, D.

Immer, F.R. (Department of Agriculture, Minnesota and Division of Agronomy and Plant Genetics, University of Minnesota) February 1929 - March 1946. 1 cm. 27 February 1929, 11 March 1929, 16 July 1929, 19 April 1932, 7 May 1932, 11 February 1933, 25 February 1933, 14 January 1933, 7 March 1933, 10 March 1933, 22 March 1933, 29 March 1937, 4 May 1937, 31 March 1941, 17 April 1941, 12 May 1941, 30 June 1941

Imperial Chemical Industries Limited Imperial Society of Knights Bachelor India House Indian Statistical Institute

Ingle, D.J. (The Upjohn Company, Michigan) March-May 1953, February 1959. 4 letters 21 May 1953

Ingold, C.K. Innes Horticultural Institution, John

Institut International de Statistique/International Statistical Institute April 1931 - April 1960. 3 cm. 3 November 1948 (with attached memorandum), 5 November 1948, 9 February 1957, 19 February 1957.

[First] International Congress of Human Genetics October 1955 - June 1956 and undated. 8 letters and 2 related documents. 28 October 1955, 7 May 1956.

International Congress of Zoology 1958 International Pharmaceutical Congress International Society of Hematology

Irving, Edward (Ted) (Department of Geophysics, Australian National University) January 1954 - February 1961. 47 letters and notes. 11 January 1954, 13 January 1954, 12 June 1956, 6 July 1956, 14 August 1956, 256 September 1956, 9 October 1956, 19 March 1957, 24 May 1957, 1 June 1957, 3 January 1959, 7 April 1959, 1 May 1959, 18 June 1959, 25 June 1959, ? October 1960.

Irwin, J.O. (Oscar) (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine) October 1930 - July 1961. 2 cm. 29 November 1932, [enclosure to] 11 March 1935, 8 November 1935, 19 July 1937, 28 May 1941, 8 September 1943, 7 December 1953, 24 April 1954, 25 January 1955, 16 February 1955, 4 November 1955, 9 November 1955, 14 March 1956, 3 May 1956, 7 May 1956, 6 June 1956, 11 June 1956, 13 June 1956, 20 August 1956, 29 March 1957, 7 May 1957, 6 October 1959 (with attachment), undated calculation.

Iseki, K. Iversen, S.

Iyer, P.V. Krishna (Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi) June 1938 - April 1944. 16 letters 26 November 1938, 22 December 1938, 9 January 1939, 4 March 1943, 11 January 1944.

Jack, H.W. (Dublin and Department of Agriculture, Kuala Lumpur) December 1929 - May 1932. 7 letters 11 December 1929, 23 February 1932, 10 May 1932 (with attachments)

Jackson, C.H.N. (Department of Tsetse Research, Tanganyika) January 1930 - April 1954. 2 cm. 8 January 1930, 10 January 1930, 9 January 1931, 11 May 1931, 12 June 1935, 22 July 1935, 12 November 1935, 8 June 1939 (with copy of Fisher's letter of 7 June to the Secretary of State), 22 June 1939, 2 April 1940, undated figures and tables, 23 July 1940, 30 October 1940 (with attached statements), 13 February 1941, 17 March 1942, 4 August 1942, 6 October 1942, 26? October 1943, 29 December 1944, 28 March 1945, 3 May 1945, 9 February 1946, 24 January 1947, 18 February 1947, 13 March 1947, 27 June 1947, 30 July 1947, 8 November 1948, 16 October 1950, 5 September 1951, 23 November 1951, 29 September 1953.

Jackson, F.K. (Institute of Plant Industry, Indore and Department of Agriculture, Iraq) August 1929 - August 1932. 13 letters, some with attachments. 5 September 1929, 21 March 1932, 3 May 1932, 8 July 1932

Jackson, J.

Jackson, T.H.E. (Kenya) September-October 1950. 3 letters 29 September 1950, 2 October 1950.

Jackson, Willis (Imperial College of Science and Technology) May-October 1950. 10 letters and notes 1 May 1950, 2 May 1950, 29 September 1950, 3 October 1950.

Jaeger, J.C. (Department of Geophysics, Australian National University) October 1960. 3 letters 20 October 1960

James, A.T. James, A.W.H. James, G.S. James, W.O. Japanese Society of Human Genetics

Jeffery, G.B. (University College London) March 1935 - November 1942, December 1955. 20 letters and notes. 18 November 1935, 27 September 1937, 27 November 1939, 9 December 1939, 14 December 1939, 1 July 1940, 3 December 1955.

Jeffreys, Harold (Sir) (St John's College Cambridge) June 1922, February 1934 - November 1948, January 1953 and undated. 3 cm. 19 May 1937, 24 March 1938, 6 September 1938, 19 September 1938, 21 September 1938, 15 February 1939, 27 February 1939, 7 or 8? May 1939, 30 May 1939, 8 November 1939, 21 November 1939, 16 February 1940, 9 October 1940, 25 March 194, 3 November 1941, 5 December 1941, 10 December 1941, 19 December 1941, 30 March 1942, 3 July 1944, 13 July 1944.

Jephson, Ina (Society for Psychical Research) January 1930 - November 1932. 1 cm. 2 April 1930, 8 April 1930, 10 June 1930, 15 August 1930, 10 December 1931, 21 December 1931, 7 January 1932, 15 February 1932, 13 June 1932, 5 November 1932.

Johannsen, E. Johnson, L.P.V. Johnson, S.T

Jones, D. Carradog (Manchester University, University of Liverpool and The London School of Economics and Political Science) November 1923 - July 1933, May 1948 - July 1950. 1 cm. 22 December 1925, 5 January 1932, 12 March 1932, 17 September 1932, 12 December 1932, 21 July 1933, 21 May 1948, 28 May 1948.

Jones, E.W. Jones, O.T.

Jordan, Charles (Faculty of Political Economy, University of Budapest) March 1932 - December 1939. 28 letters and cards. 1 April 1932, 26 April 1932, 13 January 1933, 27 April 1933, 4 May 1934, 8 May 1934, 18 May 1934, 15 January 1935, 22 January 1935, 11 March 1935, 17 August 1937, 4 September 1937, 8 September 1937, 20 November 1939.

Jordan, M.

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry October-November 1937, January 1943, May 1946, October-November 1954, October-November 1956. 14 letters and notes. 2 October 1937, 3 October 1937.

Journal of The Ministry of Agriculture Kastenbaum, M.A.

Kaye, Margaret April 1958. 3 letters 9 April 1948, 14 April 1948.

Keeler, C.E. (Georgia State College for Women) February 1948 - November 1953. 12 letters and notes. 9 November 1948, 15 November 1948, 16 November 1953. Keen, B.A. (Rothamsted etc.) June 1927 - November 1955. 1 cm. 19 January 1931, 31 March 1931, 24 January 1949, 31 January 1949, 2 January 1953

Keilin, D.

Keith, Arthur (Sir) (Royal College of Surgeons) October-November 1927, March 1936, January 1943. 10 letters and enclosures. 25 October 1927, 27 October 1927, 1 January 1943, 5 January 1943.

Kelley, T.L.

Kemp, Tage (University Institute for General Pathology, Copenhagen) June-July 1934, October 1945, November 1947, March 1957, December 1958. 14 letters and cards. 2 July 1934, 28 February 1957, 18 March 1957, 20 March 1957, 22 March 1957, 25 March 1957

Kemp, W.B.

Kempthorne, Oscar (Iowa State College) October 1952 - January 1956, February 1962. 23 letters. 27 October 1952, 15 April 1954, 3 December 1954, 31 January 1955, 10 February 1955, 18 February 1955, 28 September 1955, 3 October 1955, 18 November 1955, 25 November 1955, 3 December 1955, 9 January 1956, 19 February 1962.

Kendall, M.G. (London School of Economics and Political Science) November 1936 - July 1957. 2 cm. 5 January 1939, 21 November 1939, 23 February 1940, 15 March 1940, 19 August 1940, 24 August 1940, 8 December 1940, 19 December 1940, 1 February 1941, 17 April 1941, 22 April 1941, 11 August 1941, 15 August 1941, 24 December 1941, 2 November 1942, 28 April 1943, 16 June1943, 14 September 1943, ?3 November 1943, 21 February 1944, 2 November 194615 December 1950, 9 February 1952.

Kermack, W.O. (Research Laboratory, Edinburgh and Department of Biological Chemistry, Aberdeen) February 1931, February-March1952. 6 letters 12 February 1931, 27 February 1952.

Kernbach, M.

Kettlewell, Bernard (Department of Zoology, University Museum Oxford) February 1955 - March 1957. 11 letters 5 February 1955, 12 February 1955, 1 March 1956.

Keyfitz, Nathan (Dominion Bureau of Statistics, Ottawa) January 1951 - July 1958. 7 letters. 18 November 1955, 21 November 1955. Keynes, Margaret January 1944. 2 letters 4 January 1944, 11 January 1944.

Kidd, F.

Kimura, Motoo (National Institute of Genetics, Japan) March 1956 - May 1960. 13 letters 14 July 1956, 26 April 1957, 3 May 1957, 13 May 1937, 30 July 1957

King, J.S. Kislovsky, D.

Kitagawa, Tosio (Mathematical Institute, Kyusyu University, Japan) March-July 1952, March 1957 - November 1961. 13 letters 30 March 1957, 8 April 1957, 17 April 1957

Kleczkowski, A. Knighthood Knighthood, Letters of Congratulations Kobrak, F.W.

Kolmogorov, A.N. (Department of Mathematics, Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R.) November 1958. 1 letter. 10 November 1958.

Koopmans, Tjalling (Rotterdam, Amsterdam and Oslo) November 1935 - September 1937. 10 letters 26 October 1937.

Kopec, A.C.

Korenchevsky, V. et al (The Club for Research on Ageing, British Branch) January 1942 - November 1946. 3 cm 3 February 1942, 26 February 1942, 27 February 1942, 21 March 1942, 2 April 1942, 15 May 1942, 8 June 1942, 16 June 1942, 17 June 1942, 29 August 1942, 12 October 1942, 11 December 1942, 10 January 1943, 30 January 1942, 2 February 1943, 4 February 1943, 19 April 1943, 5 May 1943, 23 June 1943, 20 July 1943, 18 September 1943, (with 'Plan for the continuation of trials on senile patients'), 15 October 1943 (copy of letter to Dodds), 15 October 1943, 29 October 1943, 4 November 1943, 3 January 1944, 14 August 1945, 24 April 1946, 30 April 1946, 17 May 1946.

Körösy, Francis (Budapest) April-July 1951. 4 letters. 25 April 1951, 9 July 1951

Kosambi, D.D. Koshal, R.S. (Indian Central Cotton Committee, Bombay) April 1932 - November 1945. 2 cm. 9 May 1933, 19 June 1933, 2 October 1934, 7 January 1936, 25 October 1937, 29 October 1937, 10 March 1938, 7 July 1938, 6 January 1939, 1 March 1939, 4 January 1940, 8 January 1940, 11 March 1940, 30 April 1940, 31 May 1940, 12 December 1940, 17 November 1941, 22 December 1941.

Krizenecky, J. Kudo, A. Kurti, N. Kyburg, H.E.

Lack, David (Dartington Hall, Totnes) November 1939 - April 1940, March 1951, November 1955. 13 letters. 9 November 1939, 15 November 1939, 23 April 1940, undated, 9 November 1955

Lacroix, Max (University of Lyon) September 1937 - July 1940. 7 letters 20 October 1937, 12 July 1940.

Laing, E. Lake, U. Lancefield, D.E.

Landauer, Walter (Storrs Agricultural Experiment Station, University of Connecticut) June 1934 - October 1953. 16 letters. 6 June 1934, 29 June 1934, 6 December 1935

Langer, R.E. (Mathematics Research Center, U.S. Army) January 1939. 3 letters. 2 January 1959, 5 January 1959 (with staff list)

Lapage, Geoffrey (Institute of Animal Pathology, University of Cambridge) September-November 1941. 6 letters 2 October 1941, 17 November 1941

Lauer, A. Lauterbach, C.E. Lawrence, W.J.C.

LeClerg, E.L. (Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture) October 1936 - September 1945, March-April 1954. 18 letters and notes. 10 November 1936, 17 February 1941, 17 February 1942, 15 April 1954.

Leeds Leese, E.L. June 1934 - June 1941. 18 letters and a ms proof. 28 June 1934, 2 August 1934,

Leonard, V.P.

Leonard Darwin Research Studentships see under Darwin

Leopoldina

Lerner, I. Michael (Agriculture Experiment Station, University of California) May 1948 - October 1953. 7 letters. 20 October 1950, 12 October 1953.

Levine, Philip (Ortho Research Foundation, New Jersey) September 1944 - August 1945, May 1956. 8 letters 2 November 1944, 10 August 1945, 1 October 1945

Lewis, Aubrey (Maudsley Hospital, London) July1930 - September 1942. 19 letters. 10 July 1930, 23 September 1930.

Lewis, Dan (John Innes Horticultural Institution) January 1946, November 1948, October 1956, February 1957. 11 January 1946, 17 November 1948, 19 October 1956, 4 February 1957.

Lewis, F.C.

Lewis, J. Spedan March 1929 - December 1938. 1 cm, 21 March 1929, 29 March 1929, 7 May 1929, 7 August 1929, 13 March 1930, 10 April 1930, 24 May 1930, 23 November 1931, 29 December 1931, 30 December 1931, 3 January 1933, 22 February 1934, 19 June 1934, 28 June 1934.

Lewontin, R.C. Lilley & Co. Ltd., W. Eaden

Linder, Arthur (Switzerland) June 1937 - July 1961. 1 cm. 11 February 1953, 3 March 1953, 3 February 1954, 4 February 1957, 19 February 1957.

Lindley, Dennis (Faculty of Mathematics, University of Cambridge) January 1953 - February 1959. 10 letters and two papers by Lindley. 13 January 1953, 14 August 1956, 14 January 1957

Linnean Society [Stanley Savage, Stanley Kemp] April 1932 - June 1935, February 1958. 19 letters (some circular). 26 April 1932 (with enclosed statement on Hinton's paper), 4 February 1933, 6 December 1934, 3 February 1958.

Linnik, Y.V. Lloyd, R.P. Locks, M.O. Lockspeiser, B. Loertscher, H. London School of Economics

Longuet-Higgins, H.C. (University Chemical Laboratory, Cambridge) November 1956. 3 letters and notes. 6 November 1956.

Lopez, M.D. (Escola Nacional de Ciencias Estatisticas, Rio de Janeiro) January-[March] 1960. 2 letters. [March 1960]

Lord, Leslie (Department of Agriculture, Ceylon) September 1929 - April 1932. 11 letters. 21 October 1929, 1 December 1931, 2 April 1932

Löve, A. 9 May 1956. 1 letter.

Lowndes, Arthur (Marlborough College) May 1933 - October 1955. 2 cm. 4 July 1933, 11 July 1933, 23 August 1933, 11 October 1933, 23 May 1934, 26 July 1934, 11 March 1935, 2 July 1935, 18 February 1936, 10 September 1936, 8 May 1937, 21 June 1937, 21 October 1937, 1 March 1938, 4 October 1939, 9 October 1939, 3 November 1939, 30 December 1942, 15 March 1947, 17 November 1952, 28 October 1955.

Loxton, G.E. October 1956. 3 letters 6 October 1956.

Lubin, A. Lubischew, A.

Lucka, Dora March 1940 - December 1957. 1 cm. 1 April 1952, 6 May 1953, 13 July 1955, 27 August 1956.

Lugg, J.W.H. (Department of Biochemistry, University of Western Australia) January-August 1961. 5 letters. 17 February 1961.

Lukacs, E. Lumby, J.R. (Fisheries Laboratory, Lowestoft) January 1931 - March 1935. 24 letters. 26 January 1931, 21 October 1931, 20 March 1934, 18 June 1934.

Lupton, A.

Lush, Jay L. (Texas Agricultural Experiment Station and Iowa State College) December 1928 - August 1934, June 1948. 7 letters. 14 January 1929, 8 August 1933, 16 June 1948.

Lyle, Philip (Tate & Lyle Ltd, London) February 1934 - January 1949. 2 cm 13 February 1934, 23 February 1934, 1 November 1937, 6 November 1937, 10 November 1937, 16 November 1937, 19 November 1937, 29 January 1941, 6 February 1941, 13 February 1941, 24 February 1941, 28 February 1941, 20 March 1941, 4 April 1941, 23 October 1942, 8 January 1943, 10 February 1943, 17 February 1943, 12 February 1944, 21 February 1944, 29 February 1944, 8 March 1944, 10 March 1944, 5 October 1944, 19 March 1945, 3 January 1949.

Lyon, M.F. February 1946 – October 1947. 10 letters (some about Lyon’s application to work in Fisher’s laboratory) 6 February 1946.

Lyot, B (Paris) February 1947, February 1948. 2 letters. [possibly both are either 1947 or 1948] 1 February 1947, 10 February 1948.

Lythgoe, B.

Macara, T.

Macbride, E.W. (Imperial College of Science and Technology, London) January 1928 - May 1934. 1cm 22 March 1930, 21 December 1932, 16 May 1934, 21 May 1934

Maccacaro, G. (University of Pavia and University of Milan) October 1949 - January 1956. 2cm 22 September 1951, 12 November 1951, 3 May 1955, 15 July 1955, 19 April 1955, 2 January 1956

MacDonald, I. February - March 1958. 2 letters

Maclean, J. Dr. (Wilson College, Bombay) February 1930 - July 1955 1 cm 3 March 1930, 3 May 1930, 19 April 1932, 13 December 1933, 29 July 1935, 11 May 1936, 15 February 1937, 3 July 1937, August 1937, 23 September 1937, 1 January 1940, 27 January 1942, 2 February 1949, 6 July 1949

Macmahon, P.A. Macmullan, C.W.

Mahalanobis, P.C. (Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta) December 1929 - October 1961. 3cm 13 December 1929, 27 January 1930, 14 August 1933, 10 May 1937, 10 March 1938, 20 April 1939, 29 September 1939, 28 June 1943, 26 October 1948, 9 October 1954, 22 October 1954, 20 August 1956, 13 October 1956, 25 March 1958, 9 April 1958, 19 June 1958, 21 June 1958, 6 October 1958, 28 October 1958, 19 January 1959, 29 April 1959

Mainland, D. October 1933 - October 1958. 30 letters 13 April 1934, 21 November 1955

Mainx, F. (Prague (1939) and Vienna University) May 1939, March 1952. 4 letters 31 March 1952, 26 March 1952

Malik, I. (Director of Veterinary Services, Bihar) August - September 1945. 2 letters 11 September 1945

Malisoff, W.M. (ed. Philosophy of Science, and University of Pennsylvania) February 1933 - May 1935. 7 letters 21 February 1933, 11 May 1933, 15 January 1934

Mallett, B. Sir (President, The Eugenics Society) January 1930 - March 1932. 2cm 11 April 1930, 14 April 1930, 23 April 1930, 3 June 1930, 11 June 1930, 13 June 1930, 16 June 1930, 17 June 1930, 25 June 1930, 16 July 1930, 25 September 1930, 27 September 1930, 2 October 1930, 3 October 1930, 13 October 1930, 14 October 1930, 27 November 1930, 12 December 1930, 25 February 1932, 31 March 1932, 14 April 1932, 18 April 1932, 20 May 1932

Manchester Literary & Philosophical Society March, L.

Marchant, James Sir April 1937 - November 1938. 18 letters 19 April 1937, 21 April 1937, 30 April 1937, 21 May 1937, 11 June 1937, 28 November 1938

Market Research Society Martin, Laurence. June 1948 – September 1955. 22 letters, some with notes/comments. 30 May 1949, 28 September 1950 [with enclosure], 13 February 1951, 27 July 1955, 8 August 1955.

Martin, Leopold. (Brussels) October 1952 - May 1959. 1 cm 13 January 1953, 11 November 1953, 24 December 1953, 7 September 1955, 24 September 1958, 27 September 1958, 13 November 1958, 21 November 1958, 11 May 1959

Maskell, E.J. (University of Birmingham) September 1927 - November 1955. 10 letters 10 October 1940

Mather, Kenneth April 1934 – December 1958. 8 cm. 20 April 1934, 1 May 1934, 14 May 1934, 18 May 1934, 23 May 1934, 25 May 1934, 2 July 1934, 16 August 1934, 23 August 1934, 7 October 1937, 30 November 1937, 4 February 1938, 23 March 1938, 8 June 1938, 30 June 1938, 5 July 1938, 1 August 1938, 18 January 1939, 21 February 1939, 22 February 1939, 13 May 1939 [with report ‘Research on Dogs’], 20 November 1939, 11 December 1939, 14 December 1939, 24 January 1940, 24 January 1940 (2), 5 March 1940, 7 March 1940, 15 April 1940, 2 September 1940, 30 January 1941, 3 February 1941, 4 February 1941, 6 February 1941, 17 March 1941, 14 May 1941, 14 May 1941 (2), 16 May 1941, 29 May 1941, 5 June 1941, 30 June 1941, 22 August 1941 [with enclosure], 25 November 1941, 24 December 1941, 2 January 1942, 6 January 1942, 7 January 1942, 3 February 1942, 5 February 1942, 10 February 1942, 12 February 1942, 16 February 1942, 17 February 1942, 20 February 1942, 21 February 1942, 12 March 1942, 16 March 1942, 17 March 1942 [with enclosed notes], 19 March 1942, 26 March 1942, 30 March 1942, 13 June 1942, 16 June 1942, 3 December 1942, 7 December 1942, 6 January 1943, 10 January 1943, 23 February 1943, 9 March 1943, 11 March 1943, 12 March 1943, 4 June 1943, 5 June 1943, 17 June 1943, 21 June 1943, 28 June 1943, 29 June 1943, 26 April 1947, 30 April 1947, 17 June 1947, 9 June 1948, 14 June 1948, 15 June 1948, 13 October 1949, 15 October 1949, 3 November 1949, 8 May 1950, 18 May 1950, 20 May 1950, 1`2 June 1950, 26 February 1954, 1 March 1954, 3 March 1954, 25 October 1956, 22 May 1957, 23 May 1957, 25 February 1958, 1 March 1958, 7 March 1958, 10 March 1958, 11 March 1958, 29 November 1958, 1 December 1958, 3 December 1958.

Matsumoto, S.

Matthews, D.J. (Hydrographic Department, Admiralty) February 1930. 2 letters 14 February 1930

Maung, K. [Burmese scholar] (Indian High Commission, Education Department) January 1940 - October 1940; October - December 1945. 22 letters 30 October 1945, 2 September 1945 Maxwell, Sir Alexander – see G.F. Todd file

Mawer, A.

Mayo, C.H.P. (Devon? former Maths master at Harrow?) July 1925, February 1929. 3 letters 25 February 1929

Mayr, E. March 1949. 1 letter 1 March 1949

McCall, M.A. McConnell, P.

McCrea, W.H. (Royal Holloway College, University of London) October 1953 - March 1959. 24 letters 17 October 1953, 10 May 1956, 7 November 1956, 18 February 1957, 1 March 1957

McDougall, S.A.

McDowall, S.A. Rev. January 1931 - March 1934. 1cm 19 November 1931, 1 July 1932, 15 July 1932, 5 August 1932, 30 October 1933, 28 February 1934, 13 March 1934,

McGuigan, F.J.

McIlwraith, T.F. (Toronto) October - November 1956. 3 letters 25 October 1956

McKendrick, A.G. (Edinburgh) October 1929. 3 letters 4 October 1929

McKie, Douglas. December 1935 - November 1944. 11 letters 8 January 1936, 11 February 1936, 11 May 1936, 10 June 1936, 26 January 1937, 28 January 1937, 4 June 1943

McLaren, Anne (Institute of Animal Genetics, Edinburgh) February 1952 - December 1958. 24 letters 13 December 1952, 24 November 1953, 11 June 1956

McMullen, L. McNair, A.D. Medawar, P.B. March 1943 -May 1956. 49 letters 30 August 1943, 22 November 1943, 28 July 1944, 10 March 1948, 13 March 1947

Medical Research Council (London) [Secretary, A Landsborough Thomson] January 1932 - November 1952. 2cm 28 January 1932, 25 April 1932, 21 June 1932, 29 May 1935, 31 May 1935, 6 December 1935, 14 May 1936, 11 July 1941, 16 July 1941, 22 July 1941, 21 March 1945

Mehrotra, S.N. Mellanie, F.C. Mestler, G.E. Meteorological Office

Meteorology Committee (Agricultural Research Council) March 1921, January 1924 and undated. 7 letters 1 April 1921 [with enclosure]

Metrika

Michie, D. (University of Edinburgh; Royal Veterinary College and Department of Zoology, University of London; Department of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy, University Museum, Oxford) June 1848 - June 1956. 1cm 3 November 1948, 15 February 1949, 17 October 1949, 20 February 1956

Middleton, A. Middleton, T. Miles, A.A. Miles, J.A.R. Miller, R.L.

Miller, W.G. (Victoria Infirmary) November 1940 - January 1941. 4 letters plus enclosures 15 November 1940, 20 January 1941

Mills, W.H.

Milne, A. February 1942 - September 1942. 13 letters 26 February 1942, 6 March 1942, 26 August 1942, 1 September 1942, 4 September 1942

Milne, E.G. Milne, W.P.

Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries (Advisory Committee and Fishery Research, Pollution sub-committee) January - February 1933; February 1952 - June 1955. 19 letters 7 February 1933

Misra, D.C. (Department of Statistics, University of Calcutta) April 1948 and undated. 3 letters 20 April 1948

Mitchell, P. Chalmers

Mollison, Th. (International Federation of Eugenic Organisations Congress) September 1930. 1 item 11 September 1930

Montalenti, G.

Montefiore, Janet. March - April 1959. 2 letters

Moore, Eldon. (ed. Review of the Eugenics Society, Imperial Bureau of Animal Genetics, University of Edinburgh; The London Press Exchange Ltd) January 1930 - June 1942. 2cm 16 February 1931, 16 April 1931, 1 May 1931 [with enclosure], 14 April 1932, 25 May 1932, 10 October 1932, 1935 [?], 28 February 1938, 15 June 1942

Moore, R.S.

Moran, P.A.P. (The Australian National University, Canberra) April 1957. 2 letters

Morant, G.M. (University College, University of London) July 1933 - July 1935, April 1940 - June 1942. 1cm 4 July 1933, 13 July 1933, 21 July 1933, 26 July 1933, 28 July 1933, 17 July 1935, 22 July 1935

Morgan, T.H. Morgan, W.T.J. Morley, B.D. Wragge Moshman, J. Mosteller, F. Mothes, K. Mourant, A.E.

Moyers, R.E. (University of Michigan) April 1951, August - October 1957. 9 letters 30 April 1951, 5 August 1957

Mudge, G.P. Mudgett, B.D. Muller, H.J. (The University of Texas; Academy of Sciences, Institute of Genetics, Moscow, USSR; Indiana University) March 1930 - March 1946. 13 letters plus card 10 March 1930, 7 July 1930, 23 December 1930, 3 June 1935, 6 August 1935, 22 October 1937, 14 December 1945, 5 March 1946

Mumford, A. Munday, A.

Murphy, P.A. (Royal Dublin Society, Dublin) February 1931 - February 1932. 13 letters 10 April 1931, 8 January 1932

Myers, C.H.

Myers, C.S. (National Institute of Industrial Psychology) November 1932 - July 1943. 24 letters 15 November 1932, 6 December 1932, 23 February 1933, 13 January 1934, 9 February 1934, 12 November 1942, 20 July 1934

Myres, J.L. (Oxford) January 1926 - May 1929. 5 letters 10 May 1929, 14 May 1929, 21 May 1929.

Myslevic, I.V. (Czechoslovakia) April 1937 - December 1946. 1cm 21 March 1938, 3 November 1938, October 1939, 8 November 1939, 26 June 1940, 28 June 1940, 30 July 1940, undated, reply 24 September 1940 on verso, 7 October 1940, 14 October 1940, 22 January 1941, 4 June 1946

Nabours, R.K. (Department of Genetics, Carnegie Institute; Kansas State College) September 1929 - July 1939, May 1950. 2cm 26 February 1930, 14 October 1933 [enclosure], 3 November 1938, 31 July 1939, 31 May 1950

Nachtsheim, H. (Berlin) July - August 1947, February 1954 - January 1955 21 July 1947

Naddeo, A.

Nair, K.R. (Forest Research Institute, India) February 1939, April 1945 - March 1946, April - May 1958. 11 letters 27 April 1945

National Academy of Sciences, Washington

National Institute of Agricultural Botany (Cambridge) March 1924 - August 1933, May 1948 - May 1955. 1cm 11 December 1930, 25 March 1931, 1 April 1931, 28 April 1932, 23 September 1932, 30 September 1932, 31 July 1933, 10 October 1932

National Institute of Sciences Of India National Union of Scientific Workers National University, Canberra

"Nature" May 1958 - October 1958. 19 letters 17 July 1958, 25 July 1958, 28 July 1958, 18 September 1958 [1], 18 September 1958 [2]

Nawaz, S.M. (Senior Research Officer, Pakistan Institute of Cotton Research and Technology) April 1951 - October 1957. 8 letters 25 April 1951

Needham, J. Neilson, H.V.

Nelder, J.A. November - December 1956. 5 letters 3 December 1956

Neuwirth, S.I.

Neville, E.H. (British Association Mathematical Tables Committee) August 1939 - June 1940. 15 letters 26 September 1939, 29 September 1939, 18 October 1939

New Zealand - Visit 1959 Newton & Co.

Neyman, Jerzy. (Biometric Laboratory, Warsaw, Poland) January 1932 - June 1933, January 1935. 24 letters 26 January 1932, 12 February 1932 [letter 22 January 1935 is to the provost of University College re Neyman, annotated by Fisher 'never sent']

Nichols, J.E. Nicholson, A.J. Nicholson, J.W. Nicol, H. Nitram Limited

Nixon, W.L.B. (Institute of Psychiatry, University of London) January 1956. 2 letters 17 January 1956 Noble, N.S. (ed. C.S.I.R.O. Melbourne, Victoria, Australia) September 1960. 1 letter plus enclosure 1 September 1960

Normand, C.W.

Norton, H.W. (College of Agriculture/ Agricultural Experiment Station, University of Illinois; Iowa State College, Iowa) January 1936 - November 1957. 1cm 29 January 1937, 22 April 1937, 14 February 1951, 5 September 1951, 8 September 1951, 17 October 1957, 29 October 1957

Nutman, P.S. Nye, G.W.

Nygaard, K.K. (Oslo) March - July 1939. 7 letters 17 April 1939, 24 May 1939, 19 July 1939

Oakeshott, M. Obkura, K. Oden, S.

Odriozola, M. Dr. (Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Agronomicas) October 1948 - April 1961. 7 letters 13 October 1948, 24 November 1958

Ogawa, Y. Olbrycht, T.M.

Oliver & Boyd May 1946 - December 1959. 2cm 24 May 1946, 23 May 1950, 2 June 1950, 16 January 1952, 13 April 1954, 19 May 1955, 17 June 1955 [enclosure]

Oliver & Boyd Ltd (Edinburgh) May 1946, November 1954 - June 1961. 37 letters

Orowan, E. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) December 1949 - June 1961. 37 letters 6 February 1951 - 22 September 1952

Orr, A.P. Dr (Buteshire) December 1930. 2 letters 24 December 1930

Osamu, H. (YMCA, Tokyo) June - July 1959. 3 letters 23 June 1959 Osamu, Hino

Osborn, Frederick. (New York) October 1934, November 1954 - March 1954. 17 letters plus enclosures 26 October 1934

Osborne, R. February 1956. 5 letters 9 February 1956, 16 February 1956

Osgood, G.D.

Ostergaard, P.S. (Copenhagen) December 1936 - July 1939, September 1951. 10 letters 1 November 1935

O’Toole, A.L.

Owen, A.R.G January - March 1949. 6 letters 3 March 1949

Page, A.J. January 1930 - May 1931. 6 letters 3 February 1930

Palmer, A.

Panse, V.G. (Institute of Plant Industry, Indore and Indian Council of Agricultural Research, New Delhi) February 1938 - November 1958. 2 cm. 20 May 1938, 25 September 1940, 4 March 1941, 27 April 1942, 4 November 1943, 21 May 1947, 22 March 1949, 26 July 1954, 25 January 1955.

Pantin, A. Pantin, Carl Parish, E.

Parker, E.R. (College of Agriculture, University of California) June-November 1925. 5 letters, enclosures. 25 July 1925.

Parkes, A.S. (National Institute for Medical Research, Hampstead) August-November 1923, April-May 1932. 11 letters. 9 April 1932, 12 April 1932, 25 May 1932.

Passey, R.D. Patrick, C.V. Payne, Lawrence C. July 1953 - December 1960. 32 letters and notes. 6 October 1953, 29 September 1955, 2 December 1955, 28 February 1956, 31 May 1956, 25 September 1956, 26 September 1956, 29 September 1956, 10 October 1956 [Payne's letter of 24 February 1956 has paper on 'The present crisis in statistical theory' by Lancelot Hogben attached]

Peake, H.

Pearson, Egon S. (University College London) June 1930 - November 1947. 2 cm. 25 June 1930, 3 December 1930, 9 December 1930, 10 March 1932, 29 September 1932, 14 January 1933, 21 January 1933, 17 February 1933, 23 February 1933, 24 May 1933, 27 May 1933, 2 June 1933, 19 June 1933, 4 July 1933, 13 July 1933, 2 January 1934, 21 December 1934, 7 May 1935, 27 April 1936, 1 March 1939, 7 June 1945. [File includes copies of four letters between Pearson and Joan Box, Fisher's daughter, January-April 1979, with extensive notes on Fisher's theoretical differences with Neyman, Haldane and Karl Pearson]

Pearson, Karl (University College London) September 1914 - February 1936. 1 cm. 18 October 1933, 23 October 1933, 22 January 1934, 28 February 1934, 5 March 1934, 7 May 1935, 8 May 1935, 13 May 1935, 14 June 1935, 8 July 1935, 15 July 1935, 30 August 1935 [Note: selections from the correspondence between Pearson, Fisher and W.S. Gosset was published by Egon Pearson in Biometrika (1968) 55, 445-457]

Pease, J.D.L.

Pease, Michael S. (University of Cambridge) January 1929 - July 1957. 1 cm. 3 November 1932, 24 May 1934, 12 March 1935, 19 March 1935, 26 March 1935, 29 November 1935, 20 December 1935, 11 February 1936, 14 February 1936, 25 August 1943, 1 September 1943, 15 May 1944, 29 July 1944.

Penrose, L.S. (Research Department, Royal Eastern Counties Institution, Colchester) March 1930 - February 1952. 1 cm. 5 March 1931, 9 March 1931, 31 October 1932, 8 December 1933, 1 January 1934, 4 January 1934, 16 January 1934, 7 February 1934, 12 March 1934, 25 April 1934, 29 November 1934, 11 May 1937, 31 July 1939, 30 January 1952, 5 February 1952, 5 February 1952, 16 February 1952, 29 February 1952.

Peters, B.G. (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine) April 1940 - February 1943. 1 cm. 3 July 1940, 5 July 1940, 4 July 1941, 5 July 1941, 8 July 1941, 11 July 1941 (with enclosure of 10 July), 15 July 1941, 24 July 1941, 27 October 1941, 31 October 1941, 10 December 1941, 18 February 1942, 23 February 1942, 25 February 1942, 3 June 1942, 16 June 1942, 20 June 1942, 25 June 1942, 12 November 1942, 22 January 1943.

Peters, R.A.

Peters, Father Walter (Yale University) October 1950 - December 1958. 44 letters, notes and postcards. 13 January 1955, 19 April 1955, 27 October 1955.

Petrie, Flinders (University College London) September 1929. 1 letter and 1 postcard. 9 September 1929.

Pettit, G.H.N. (Imperial Chemical Industries, Manchester) November 1949 - September 1950. 11 letters and notes. 28 August 1950.

Pfannenstiel, D. Phenology

Phillpotts, G.S. July 1939 - April 1940. 7 letters 7 July 1939, 27 July 1939, 22 April 1940.

Pianka, E. Pickard, R.H. Pickering, Spencer Pirotta, R. Pitman, I.J. Plant Breeding Abstracts Platt, R.

Polunin, Nicholas (Yale University) October-December 1954. 3 letters. 10 November 1954.

Pontecorvo, Guido. (Department of Genetics, Glasgow University) July 1943, September 1946 - November 1955. 26 letters and notes. 13 April 1948, 21 April 1948, 6 May 1954.

Pontifical Academy

[Royal Commission on] Population July-August 1944, September 1949. 5 letters and enclosures. 14 August 1944, 12 September 1949, 23 September 1949.

Poulton, Edward B. (Oxford) December 1929 - June 1938. 68 letters and postcards. 23 January 1930, [1930], 14 April 1930, 12 December 1930, 15 December 1930, 15 December 1930 (2), 12 January 1931, 20 February 1931, 2 March 1931, 9 May 1931, 2 November 1931, 30 April 1932 (with outline of Poultry experiment), 4 May 1932, 20 May 1932, 15 November 1932, 8 December 1932, 13 December 1932, 21 December 1932, 10 February 1933, 13 March 1933, 26 July 1933.

Prentice, Mildred (née Barnard) August 1934 - July 1956. 12 letters and notes. 17 September 1934, 20 November 1935, 22 February 1937. [Includes initial exchange between Fisher and Betty Allen of CSIRO introducing Barnard/Prentice]

Prescott, J.A.

Previtera, Antonio (Instituto do Profilassi Ed Igiene) April-May 1954. 2 letters. 7 May 1954.

Punnett, R.C. (Genetics Institute, Cambridge) January 1930 - November 1955. 64 letters, notes and cards. 3 July 1930, 1 August 1930, 7 February 1933, 11 December 1934, 24 May 1934, 5 July 1944, [undated], 21 January 1949. [Includes data on linkages sweet pea in file with Fisher's letter of 1 January 1930]

Pycroft, W.P.

Pye, David R. (Provost of University College London) December 1942 - December 1948. 45 letters and notes, some with enclosures. 31 May 1943, 23 August 1943.

Quenouille, M.H. Quetelet, A.

Race, J.W.

Race, R.R. April 1940 – July 1962. 10 cm. 8 April 1940, 3 February 1942, 20 March 1942, 27 May 1942, 19 August 1942, 17 September 1942, 29 June 1944, 11 December 1945, 19 January 1946, 2 September 1946, 1 October 1946, 2 October 1946, , 2 October 1946, 2 October 1946 (2), 21 October 1946, 18 December 1946, 24 December 1946, 18 January 1947, 21 January 1947, 21 February 1947 [with enclosure], 10 March 1947 [with enclosure] 18 March 1947, 14 April 1947, 2 July 1947, 8 August 1947, 8 October 1947, 30 October 1947, 4 November 1947, 28 January 1948, 31 January 1948, 3 February 1948, 4 February 1948, 11 February 1948, 20 February 1948, 3 April 1948, 15 April 1948, 23 October 1948, 19 November 1948, 24 January 1949, 1 February 1949, 23 April 1949, 27 April 1949, 30 June 1947, 22 June 1949, 6 December 1949, 5 May 1950, 17 May 1950 [forward to Race’s book], 23 May 1950, 29 May 1950, 31 July 1950, 23 September 1950, 4 December 1950, 11 January 1951, 8 February 1951, 20 February 1951, 10 March 1951, 15 March 1951, 30 March 1951, 23 June 1951, 20 October 1951, 12 November 1951, 11 March 1952, 13 November 1952, 4 December 1952, 4 March 1953, 13 July 1953, 27 July 1953, 27 October 1953, 17 November 1953, 4 January 1954, 20 January 1954, 4 February 1954, 29 April 1954, 7 May 1954, 15 May 1954, 19 May 1954,1 June 1954, 13 September 1954, 14 February 1945, 16 February 1955, 17 March 1955, 18 May 1955, 21 May 1955, 24 November 1955, 2 May 1956, 19 November 1956, 5 May 1958, 8 July 1958, 3 December 1958, 15 January 1959, 21 January 1959.

Ramiah, K.

Rankin, R.A (Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Birmingham) December 1947 (circular letter), January 1953. 4 letters. 10 January 1953, 31 January 1953.

Rao, C.R. (Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta) April 1945 - June 1962. 37 letters and notes; also Rao's solutions in relation to balanced incomplete blocks. 8 January 1947, 15 October 1952, 25 May 1957, 16 July 1957, 2 June 1958.

Rao, K.S. ((London House) January-February 1953. 5 letters and notes. 20 January 1953, 5 February 1953.

Rasmusson, J. (Sweden) March 1931 - December 1943. 1 c. 31 March 1931, 9 February 1932, 29 June 1932, 23 November 1932, 8 August 1933, 1 January 1934, 12 December 1935, 30 December 1935, 11 February 1936, 12 March 1937, 20 March 1939, 31 March 1939, 16 December 1943.

Raven, C.R.

Reeve, E.C.R. (Bradfield College, Berkshire) May 1936 - May 1940. 23 letters and notes, some with enclosures. 15 May 1936, [late October 1929], 23 November 1939, 9 December 1939, 9 January 1940.

Regan, C. Tate Rew, R.H.

Rhine, J.B. (Duke University, North Carolina) August 1934 - March 1962. 11 letters and notes. 20 August 1934.

Rice, S.A. Richards, O.W.

Richardson, E.C. (West Byfleet) January 1943 - November 1953. 10 letters. 2 February 1943, 18 March 1949, 4 April 1945, 11 November 1953.

Richardson, L.F. December 1927 - September 1953. 27 letters. 29 December 1927 (with enclosure), 12 June 1930, 8 August 1933, 13 August 1940, 4 May 1949, 22 November 1950, 8 January 1951.

Richardson, M.M. (University of Reading) February-May 1955. 6 letters. 25 February 1955.

Riches, T.H.

Richey, F.D. (Bureau of Plant Industry, United States Department of Agriculture) April 1928 - October 1934, August-October 1954. 15 letters. 9 May 1928, 4 July 1932, 19 April 1934, 27 August 1954.

Riddell, W.J.B. (University of Glasgow) March 1939 - January 1956. 2 cm. 24 March 1939, 14 February 1940, 19 February 1940, 2 August 1940, 9 August 1940, 6 November 1940, 28 January 1941, 7 February 1941, 10 May 1941, 5 August 1941, 18 November 1941, 29 November 1941, 6 December 1941, 1 January 1942, 14 July 1942, 18 August 1942, 1 October 1942, 7 November 1942, 20 November 1942, 17 July 1944, 9 April 1946, 13 April 1946, 26 September 1955, 30 December 1955, 10 January 1956, 20 January 1956.

Rider, Paul R. (Washington University) February 1931 - January 1956. 31 letters and cards. 10 December 1934.

Rifaat, O.M. Riley, N.D. Rivett, D.

Rietz, H.L. (State University of Iowa) February 1930 - February 1939. 10 letters. 20 February 1939.

Roach, W.A. (East Malling Research Station) January 1932 - November 1956. 13 letters. 11 June 1934.

Robb, W.

Roberts, H.A. (Appointments Board, Cambridge University) November 1924 - April 1930. 29 letters (many with enclosures) 7 July 1930. [includes summary notes on applicants for position for Assistant Statistician 1924 - among them Frank Yates - and for position with Ministry's Agricultural Meteorological scheme 1928 - G.G. Sherratt, W.Appleyard and M.G. Spriggs; also cv of Florence E.C. James]

Roberts, J.A. Fraser (British Research Association for the Woollen and Worsted Industries) April 1930 - March 1958. 4 cm 11 April 1930, 20 October 1930, 22 October 1930, 8 April 1931, 19 May 1933, 8 August 1933, 17 August 1933, 22 August 1933, 16 November 1933, 27 November 1933, 30 November 1933, 26 February 1934, 7 March 1934, 25 May 1934, 20 June 1934, 10 August 1934, 8 November 1934, 5 December 1934, 9 January 1935, 29 March 1935, 20 May 1935, 2 July 1935, 9 July 1935, 26 September 1935, 30 September 1935, 2 December 1935, 19 February 1936, 17 December 1936, 18 February 1937, 16 February 1937, 30 April 1937, 22 June 1937, 22 February 1938, 25 February 1938, 9 December 1938, 14 December 193815 December 1938, 4 October 1939, 9 October 1939, 17 February 1940, 21 February 1940,21 March 1940, 24 July 194025 September 1940, 1 October 1940, 5 March 1941, 6 June 1941, 13 June 1941, 5 August 1941, 9 October 1941, 27 October 1941, 21 November 1941, 21 January 1942, 19 February 1942, 25 February 1942, 11 April 1942, 25 July 1942,15 September 1942, 7 December 1942, 5 February 1943, 16 February 1943 (with table of blood groups), 2 March 1943, 22 April 1943, 29 June 1943, 23 September 1943, 3 January 1944, 15 March 1944, 26 August 1944, 19 October 1944, 4 April 1945, 27 April 1946, 11 May 1946, 6 October 1951, 26 November 1951, 22 December 1952, 26 January 1953, 15 June 1953, 17 March 1954, 25 November 1954, 1 March 1955, 12 March 1955, 23 September 1955, 1 March 1956, 3 March 1958, 11 March 1958.

Roberts, P.H.

Robertson, Sir Robert (Directorate of Explosives Research, University College, Swansea) April 1940 - November 1948. 10 letters and notes. 25 April 1940, 29 January 1941, 20 February 1941.

Robins, E.A.

Robinson, Roy May 1944 - January 1954. 25 letters and notes. 1 January 1954, 13 January 1954.

Rockefeller Foundation August 1934 - January 1950. 2 cm 26 October 1934 {enclosure only, paper New Scheme of Research in Serological Genetics}, 24 April 1935, 21 August 1935, 18 May 1936, 28 May 1936, 29 April 1937, 11 May 1939 (with enclosed memorandum on Work in Human Genetics of same date), 4 October 1939, 28 December 1939, 15 January 1940, 4 April 1940, 11 April 1940 (with enclosed letter from G.L. Taylor dated 5 April 1940), 9 December 1941, 23 December 1941 (with attached memorandum), 27 January 1942, 28 January 1942, 3 February 1942, 13 February 1942, 21 February 1942, 16 October 1942, 21 December 1942, 12 February 1943, 9 June 1943, 8 July 1943, 3 September 1943, 4 November 1943, 2 May 1946. Roe, W.N. October-November 1929. 3 letters. 28 October 1929, 6 November 1929.

Roebuck, A. Rolfe, N.

Rolleston, Sir Humphry October 1933 - February 1936. 14 letters and notes. 31 October 1933, 6 November 1933, 7 March 1934, 27 September 1934, 17 September 1935.

Romanovsky, V. (Tashkend University) October 1929 - October 1938. 23 letters and cards. 10 October 1929, 6 January 1930, 11 April 1930, 14 November 1930, 4 January 1932, 5 February 1934, 1 February 1937, 1 November 1937.

Rosenfeld, M. Felix (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations) May 1946, May-July 1950. 8 letters and notes 6 May 1946, 10 May 1946.

Rosenhead, Louis (Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Liverpool) May 1946, January 1949, November 1955. 7 letters and notes. 24 January 1949, 9 November 1955.

Rosenhead, L. Rosevear, W.N.

Rossow, E. February 1954. 3 letters. 16 February 1954.

Rothamstead Experimental Station - see Galton Laboratory

Rothschild, Victor (Lord Rothschild) (Merton Hall, Cambridge) October 1948 - November 1958. 3 cm 29 October 1948, 24 May 1949, 15 August 1949, 26 August 1949, 19 October 1949, 16 November 1949, 5 December 1949, 12 June 1950, 16 January 1951, 1 March 1951, 28 July 1951, 6 May 1952, 6 October 1952, 17 October 1952, 17 July 1953, 23 February 1954, 30 July 1956, 28 February 1958, 12 November 1958.

Routledge, N.A. (Department of Geodesy and Geophysics, University of Cambridge) October-December 1958. 2 letters. 3 December 1958.

Row, D.H. (Buckingham Palace) August-December 1923, March-April 1928. 5 letters. 29 March 1928, 12 April 1928. Rowland, E. Roy, A.D.

Roy, S.N. (Statistical Laboratory, Presidency College, Calcutta) January 1940 - November 1944. 7 letters. 6 February 1940, 22 September 1942, 2 November 1944.

Royal Aeronautical Society April-December 1955, December 1958. 17 letters and notes. 21 April 1955, 30 April 1955, 27 October 1955 (1), 27 October 1955 (2), 1 November 1955, 23 December 1958.

Royal Anthropological Institute October 1946, February 1951-May 1952. 11 letters and notes. 12 February 1951 (with summary of proposed address)

Royal Astronomical Society November 1929, June-September 1955. 5 letters and notes. 2 June 1955

Royal Danish Academy of Sciences April 1950. 2 letters. 17 April 1950

Royal Meteorological Society

Royal Society of London December 1933 - May 1960. 2 cm. 20 December 1933, 26 March 1934, (with Report), 24 March 1937, 8 April 1937, 24 May 1939, 28 November 1939, 23 January 1940, 16 November 1939, 23 July 1942, 17 March 1943, 2 April 1943, 18 April 1943, 20 November 1944, 22 December 1950, 27 August 1954, 5 November 1955, 7 November 1956, 14 November 1956.

Royal Statistical Society November 1929 - April 1960. 2 cm. 25 April 1933, 21 July 1933, 7 January 1934, 29 October 1934, 31 January 1935, 11 April 1935, 24 April 1935, 7 May 1935, 13 May 1935, 12 April 1946, 15 December 1955.

Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture

Ruben, H.

Runcorn, S.K. (Physics Department, University of Durham) April 1951 - April 1962. 82 letters, notes and postcards. 23 April 1951, 1 September 1952, 14 May 1943, 15 July 1955, 13 January 1956, 3 February 1956, 7 February 1956, 26 March 1956, 24 April 1956, (with enclosure), 28 April 1956, 3 November 1956, 7 November 1956, 12 February 1957, 14 February 1957, 22 February 1957, 26 February 1957, 5 March 1957, 3 April 1957, 20 June 1957, 16 August 1958, 15 September 1958, 22 September 1958, 28 November 1958, 18 December 1958, 22 January 1959, 29 January 1959, 10 February 1959, 13 February 1959.

Russ, Sidney (Middlesex Hospital) November 1937 - December 1944. 23 letters. 10 November 1937, 11 November 1937, 28 March 1939, 29 March 1939, 17 April 1939, 21 April 1939, 31 May 1939. [file includes reports April 1939 of W.W.C. Topley and M.Greenwod on paper by Russ and Scott on 'Evidence of resistance to tumor growth']

Russell, C.F. May 1929. 2 letters. 2 May 1939.

Russell, E.J. (Sir John) (Rothamsted) March 1928 - October 1956. 70 letters and notes, some with enclosures. 3 May 1929, 21 September 1929, 18 February 1931, 6 December 1932, 8 December 1932 (with attachment), 30 June 1933, 12 July 1933, 13 July 1933, 16 January 1934, 26 November 1934, 17 December 1934, 21 September 1939, 26 September 1939, 27 September 1939, 29 September 1939, 16 November 1939, 24 July 1941, 28 March 1942, 30 March 1943, 2 June 1943, 9 November 1955. [note that file includes letters of P.C. Mahalanobis to Russell September 1942]

Russell, E.S. (Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries) August 1934 - July 1935, March-August 1940. 14 letters. 16 March 1940, 31 May 1940 (with report dated 30 May by Wood on Papers on Herring Races), 5 August 1940.

Russell, E. Walter (Agrikulturchemisches Laboratorium, Eidgenössische technische Hochschule, Zürich and Rothamsted) May-June 1929, August 1938, June 1952 - January 1953. 9 letters and notes. 27 May 1929.

Russell, F.S. (Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom) March 1938, January 1951. 4 letters. 3 January 1951.

Sabet, M.A.

Sade, Albert August 1948 - June 1958. 10 letters and cards. 15 March 1949.

Salaman, Redcliffe N. (School of Agriculture, Cambridge) December 1925, February 1933 - February 1955. 27 letters and notes. 26 July 1935, 22 March 1944, 8 November 1949, 12 November 1949. Salisbury, E.J. April 1935, January 1939 - November 1955. 36 letters and notes 28 April 1941, 5 May 1941, 18 August 1941, 21 August 1941, 23 September 1941, 11 December 1941, 20 December 1941, 24 December 194122 September 1942, 3 June 1943, 5 June 1943.

Saltmarsh, J.

Sanders, H.G. (School of Agriculture, Cambridge) November 1929 - November 1930, January [1934?]. 9 letters. 30 May 1930, 1 September 1930.

Sanderson, W. Sandon, F. Sandoz Ltd.

Sanger, Ruth (Blood Group Research Unit, Lister Institute) July 1947 - January 1957. 42 letters and notes. 1 August 1947, 30 December 1948, 10 March 1951, 8 June 1951, 22 September 1952, 25 November 1954, 22 June 1956, 31 January 1957.

Sankey, Lord

Sansome, F.W. (Botanical Department, University of Manchester) May 1936 - April 1950. 28 letters, some with enclosures including Sansome's curriculum vitae) 26 May 1936, 9 May 1941, 14 May 1941, 30 May 1941, 6 March 1942, 19 August 192, 3 June 1943, 14 August 1945.

Sarhan, A.E. April-May 1952. 5 letters. 1 April 1952, 21 April 1952.

Sarkar, S.S. (Department of Anthropology, Indian Museum) March 1952. 2 letters. 7 March 1952.

Saskatchewan (Mendelsohn)

Satakopan, V. (India Meteorological Department, Poona) February 1938 - January 1947. 29 letters {enclosures include Satakopan's 1939 curriculum vitae and list of publications} 21 November 1938.

Saunders, A.M.C.

Savage, I.R. (U.S. Department of Commerce) April 1954. 3 letters. 2 April 1954. Savage, L.J. Savile Club Sayers, W.H. Scattergood, B.P. Schafer, B. Schiller, F.C.S. Schmid, A.

Schmidt, Johs. (The University, Copenhagen) June 1930. 1 letter and part of results of investigation by Schmidt, undated. 23 June 1930.

Schull, William J. (Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission, San Francisco) June-August 1950. 2 letters. 8 August 1950.

Schultz, Henry (University of Chicago) March 1928, October 1933 - September 1937. 18 letters. 30 March 1936, 19 April 1937.

Schumacher, F.X. (Forest Service, Washington) January 1934 - May 1939. 9 letters. 6 February 1934.

Scossiroli, R.E.

Scott, W. Clifford M. February 1951. 4 letters. 7 February 1951, 21 February 1951.

Seal, H.L. (Statistical Laboratory, Yale University) February 1941 - November 1942, June 1958. 19 letters, notes and card. 25 February 1941, 14 June 1941, 20 June 1941, 12 August 1941, 20 August 1941, 13 January 1942, 10 November 1942, 10 June 1958.

Selye, H.

Selous, Edmund November 1932 - August 1933. 5 letters. 4 August 1933.

Sen, A.

Sen, A.R. (Indian tea Association, Assam) February 1954 - March 1959. 10 letters. 8 February 1954, 17 March 1956, 9 May 1958, 17 July 1958.

Sen, M. Serfling, Robert E. (Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Atlanta) December 1955. 2 letters. 29 December 1955.

Serjeant, R.B. May-July 1948. 4 letters.

Seward, A.C.

Sheffield, F.D.

Sheppard, N.F. November 1935 - June 1937. 32 letters and a number of enclosures, including draft obituary and list of mathematical papers by his father W. F. Sheppard, notes and correspondence 1933-36 between Fisher, Wishart, Comrie, (W.F.) Sheppard and others re W.F. Sheppard's tables and a duplicate of one of the tables in the hands of the B.A. Tables Committee. 27 February 1936 (with tables by W.F. Sheppard and note), 13 May 1936 (with Sheppard Tables), 15 March 1937, 8 April 1937, 4 May 1937, 14 June 1937, 23 July 1937, 19 August 1937, 20 September1939 (draft obituary notice re W.F. Sheppard).

Sheppard, P.M. (Department of Zoology, University of Liverpool) April 1948 - January 1959. 2 cm. 12 April 1948, 21 April 1948, 25 November 1948, 10 January 1949, 30 September 1949, 11 November 1949, 9 December 1949, 7 September 1950, 10 October 1950, 5 September 1951, 23 October 1951, 30 October 1951, 21 April 1952, 27 October 1952, 13 June 1953, 7 January 1954, 5 July 1954, 8 July 1954, 1 March 1955, 24 April 1956, 20 March 1957, 27 June 1957, 6 July 1957, 17 August 1957, 4 September 1957, 1 May 1958, 28 June 1958, 27 October 1958.

Sheppard, W.F. October 1922 - March 1930. 16 letters and cards. 7 June 1928, 7 March 1930.

Sherratt, G.G. May 1927 - April 1931. 7 letters (one with curriculum vitae of Sherratt as at 1928). 2 April 1931, 11 April 1931.

Sherrington, (Sir) Charles. July 1945 - February 1947. 5 letters and notes. 26 October 1946.

Shewhart, W.A.(American Telephone and Telegraph Company and Bell Telephone Laboratories) March 1930 - March 1956. 18 letters. 9 August 1934, 2 February 1940, 24 June 1954, 9 March 1956.

Shiratari, K. Shirras, G. Findlay. November 1951 - February 1952. 5 letters. 7 February 1952.

Shoenberg, D. Shrubsall, F.C.

Siddons, A.W. (Harrow School) October 1930, October-November 1953. 4 letters and copy of The Harrovian, 4 November 1953, which includes a letter from A.W. Siddons re Fisher. 7 October 1930, 23 October 1953.

Silow, R.A. Simlote, K.M.

Simonsen, W. (Copenhagen) November 1936 - January 1937. 3 letters. 14 November 1936 (with notes)

Simpson, B.E.

Simpson, E.H. July 1948. 2 letters and paper 'The Measurement of Diversity' by Simpson. 22 July 1948.

Simpson, G.C. January 1927. 2 letters. 31 January 1927.

Simpson, H.R. (Rothamsted) July-October 1959. 7 letters. 27 August 1959, 2 September 1959, 22 September 1959, 6 October 1959.

Singh, S.

Sjögren, Torsten (Sweden) April 1935 - January 1936. 23 letters and notes. 15 July 1935, 27 August 1935, 29 August 1935, 29 August 1935 (2), 7 November 1935, 18 November 1935, 27 November 1935.

Slater, Eliot (Institute of Psychiatry, London) September 1934 - May 1944, May 1958. 19 letters and notes. 28 September 1934, 19 December 1934, 28 December 1942, 3 May 1958, 10 May 1958, 23 May 1958.

Slater, Gilbert September 1929. 3 letters and newspaper cuttings (re falling birth-rate) 18 September 1929. Slater, Patrick (Oxford) April 1941 - June 1944. 14 letters, some with work-sheets and tables attached. 16 April 1941, 3 June 1941, 20 August 1941, 18 April 1944, [June 1944].

Slater, W.K. (Agricultural Research Council, London) January 1950 - October 1958. 45 letters and notes. 19 May 1950, 30 October 1950, 10 May 1954.

Smart, John (Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge) October 1951 - October 1958. 7 letters and notes. 8 February 1957, 30 October 1958.

Smeal, Glenny (University of Leeds) December 1925 - March 1928. 24 letters and notes, with tables and copies of printed examination papers in Statistics. 4 January [1926]

Smith, A.R. Stoney

Smith, C.A.B. (Galton Laboratory) December 1950, February 1951, May 1959. 6 letters. 7 December 1950, 20 February 1951, 27 May 1959.

Smith, C.S. (Leicester College of Technology & Commerce) May-June 1953. 4 letters and draft outline of proposed course 'Foundations of Industrial Sampling'. 18 May 1953, 1 June 1953.

Smith, E.R. (Iowa State College) March 1935 - August 1937. 14 letters. 16 October 1935, 28 October 1935, 27 November 1935, 23 January 1936, 29 January 1936.

Smith, H.

Smith, H. Fairfield (CSIRO, Canberra, University College London, Rubber Research Institute of Malaya) August 1935 - January 1956. 57 letters and notes, with enclosures including 'Report of a Preliminary Statistical Investigation of Flowering Dates of Plant' by Smith and Paul Rider 1936 and report by Fisher on Smith's work at the Galton Laboratory. 16 July 1937, 1 March 1938, 29 April 1938, 13 January 1939, 30 January 1939, 24 September 1940, 4 January 1946, 29 May 1946, 31 January 1948, 28 October 1949, 19 May 1950, 8 September 1950.

Smith, Malcolm January 1941- September 1944. 16 letters and various enclosures re progeny of King Mon Kut. 16 January 1941, 5 January 1944, 20 January 1944, 2 February 1944, 18 February 1944.

Smyth, M.

Snedecor, George W. (Department of Mathematics, Iowa State College) June 1932 - November 1955. 47 letters and notes. 12 June 1935, 23 January 1936, 15 January 1937, 4 August 1937, 7 October 1937, 3 November 1937, 16 February 1938, 29 December 1939, 11 April 1940, 4 May 1944, 14 June 1947 (with testimonial of same date), 31 October 1947, , 26 April 1949, 25 July 1950, 30 July 1951, 18 September 1951, 24 June 1954, 18 February 1955.

Snell, George D. (Roscoe B. Jackson Memorial Library, Maine) June 1935 - July 1953. 1 cm. 8 July 1935, 9 November 1943, 7 June 1945, 11 June 1945, 18 April 1947, 22 May 1947, 31 October 1947, 28 November 1947, 19 December 1947, 28 April 1948, 1 June 1948, 16 November 1949, 6 December 1949, 26 January 1950, 3 February 1950, 8 August 1950, 12 January 1951, 13 November 1951, 9 January 1952, 26 June 1953, 6 July 1953.

Snell, W.E. (British Tuberculosis Association) February 1958. 2 letters. 7 February 1958.

Snow, R. October 1930, January 1935. 5 letters. 14 October 1930.

Society for Freedom In Science

Society for Psychical Research March 1935 - January 1936, May 1949 - April 1950. 10 letters and notes. 8 November 1935.

Somerfield, E. (St James's Gate Brewery, Dublin) August 1930, September-October 1938, June 1957. 7 letters. 5 August 1930.

Sprott, D.A. (Indian Statistical Institute) March 1956 - March 1962. 13 letters. 2 March 1956, 7 March 1956.

Stamp, Sir Josiah May 1932 - November 1938. 19 letters and notes. 1 June 1932, 4 August 1932, 7 January 1933.

Starkey, Daisy M. (Mrs Edwards) February 1939 - June 1946. 19 letters and notes. 1 February 1939, 2 May 1939, 8 May 1939, 22 May 1940, 5 June 1946,. Steffens, L.R. (Socony-Vacuum Oil Company) March 1955 - April 1956. 5 letters (including copy of letter from Steffens to John Tukey) 12 March 1955, 19 April 1956.

Stellfox, A.W. (Dublin) January-May 1931. 24 letters. 23 January 1931, 2 February 1931, 9 February 1931, 27 February 1931, 6 March 1931, 14 March 1931, 17 March 1931, 26 March 1931, 31 March 1931, 9 ay 1931, 11 May 1931, 16 May 1931.

Stephenson, Chris (Cambridge East African Expedition 1959) April - December 1959. 9 letters and General report of the Expedition November 1959.

Sterne, T.E. (Harvard College Observatory) June 1934 - December 1936. 5 letters. [July 1934], 30 November 1936.

Stephens, W.L. July 1934 - August 1956. 11 letters 3 July 1934, 29 July 1944, 19 May 1956.

Stevens, A. Stevens, W.L. Stevenson, T.H.C.

Stock, C.S. May 1930 - July 1959*. 2 cm. 8 May 1930, 30 April 1931, 11 October 1932, 24 October 1932, 3 November 1932, 4 December 1934, 13 February 1936, 21 April 1937, 17 November 1938, 6 February 1939, 19 August 1940, 30 March 1942, 31 August 1942, 11 May 1943, 9 November 1943, 20 March 1944, 29 June 1944, 16 December 1947, 5 September 1951, 10 November 1951, 8 February 1954, 18 December 1953, 8 January 1959 * file includes letters from Leonard Darwin to Stock August 1912, May 1918, June 1924

Stocker, B.A.D. (Department of Bacteriology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine) July 1953. 2 letters. 7 July 1953.

Stocks, Percy (Galton Laboratory) August 1930 - August 1935. 15 letters. 6 August 1930, 24 May 1933, 6 June 1933, 29 May 1933, 3 November 1933, 7 November 1933, 11 December 1933.

Storey, H.H. (East African Agricultural Station, Nyasaland) February 1932 - June 1958. 17 letters. 14 March 1932 (analyses attached), 3 May 1932, 24 July 1939, 17 January 1957.

Stoy, R.H. (Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope) December 1958 - August 1959. 15 letters. 4 December 1958, 22 December 1958, 12 January 1959, 19 January 1959, 9 February 1959, 21 February 1959, 18 April 1959, 14 May 1959, 12 August 1959.

Stratton, Fred. (National Blood Transfusion Service, Manchester) June 1944 - December 1953. 30 letters. 24? June 1944, 28 June 1944, 8 July 1944, 15 July 1944, 28 July 1944, 6 November 1944, 28 November 1944, 7 December 1944, 25 May 1946, 1 October 1946, 7 December 1953.

Stratton, F.J.M. (Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge) March 1922 - March 1960. 36 letters, notes and cards. 13 May 1931, 16 May 1931, 29 September 1931, 5 October 1931, 14 October 1932, 7 December 1932, 23 September 1935, 7 March 1952, 23 May 1956, 13 February 1957.

Sturtevant, A.H. (California Institute of Technology) February-May 1951. 3 letters. 9 February 1951, 21 May 1951.

Sukhatme, P.V. May 1936 - August 1958. 53 letters, many with attachments. 15 January 1937, 8 March 1937, 25 March 1937, 10 May 1937, 18 June 1937, 18 August 1937 (with tables), 27 August 1937, 13 October 1938, 28 February 1939, 6 May 1940, 7 September 1943, 7 March 1944, 8 June 1945, 9 October 1945, 21 June 1958, 22 July 1958.

Summerby, R. (Macdonald College, McGill University) April 1932 - August 1933. 6 letters. 25 April 1932, 1 November 1932.

Summers, F. Sutcliffe, J.P.

Sutton, R.W. (Derby) March 1944. 3 letters and enclosures. 17 March 1944 (with calculation)

Swann, A.W.

Swedish Royal Academy of Science October 1946 - October 1958. 15 letters (some are circular letters to all members of the Academy) 18 October 1946.

Swedish Seed Association May 1946 - May 1951. 7 letters. 24 August 1946, 11 May 1951.

Symington, A.A. Sutcliffe, J.P. (University of Sydney) February 1956. 2 letters. 13 February 1956.

Tang, P.S.

Tanner, J.M. (St Thomas's Hospital, London) April-October 1951. 4 letters 4 May 1951, 26 October 1951.

Tattersfield, F. Taylor, E.L.

Taylor, E. McKenzie February-March 1938. 8 letters and copy of Taylor's 'Notes on the rise in water-table in the Pubjab'. 16 February 1938, 24 March 1938.

Taylor, George Lees (Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge) April 1935 - March 1945. 5 cm.* 5 April 1935, 24 April 1935, 14 May 1935, 14 June 1935, 27 August 1937, 26 September 1939, 3 October 1939, 25 October 1939, 3 November 1939, 6 November 1939, 15 November 1939, 25 November 1939, 28 November 1939, 7 December 1939, 26 January 1940, 19 February 1940, 21 February 1940, 23 February 1940, 26 February 1940, 6 March 1940, 14 March 1940, 15 March 1940, 29 April 1940 (with 'Memorandum on Blood group Tests in Legal Cases'), 31 May 1940, 7 August 1940, 19 August 1940, ? October 1940, 16 October 1940 (with tables), 18 November 1940, 22 November 1940, 12 December 1940, 3 February 1941, 22 February 1941, 5 March 1941, 6 May 1941, 9 May 1941, 27 May 1941, 13 June 1941, 2 July 1941, 9 July 1941, 23 July 1941, 23 July 1941 (2), 5 August 1941, 23 September 1941, 25 September 1941, 14 November 1941, 27 November 1941, 6 January 1942, 17 January 1942, 8 April 1942, 17 April 1942, 27 April 1942, 13 May 1942, 18 May 1942, 2 July 1942, 14 September 1942, 23 October 1942, 28 October 1942, 23 November 1942, 26 January 1943, 27 January 1943, 22 February 1943, 25 February 1943, 3 March 1943, 12 March 1943, 15 March 1943, 22 March 1943, 27 March 1943, 19 April 1943, 28 April 1943, 8 May 1943, December 1943, 6 December 1943, [1944] 'Notes on Cappell's data', 4 December 1944, 5 January 1945. * file includes extensive serum data and calculations, Fisher's letter of condolence to Mrs Taylor and draft of his obituary notice of Taylor.

Tedin, Olof (Sweden) February 1931 – June 1952. 31 letters 18 February 1931, 27 February 1931, 9 March 1931, 31 March 1931, 26 April 1932,26 April 1932, 13 June 1932, 22 March 1933, 11 April 1933, 29 January 1934, 16 August 1934, December 1934, 15 June 193916 November 1939. Teissier, Georges (University of Paris) April-December 1935, May 1939, March 1948, February 1952, March 1958. 8 letters (most circular, one with attached paper by Teissier) and card. 20 December 1935.

Thom, H.C.S. (Advisory Committee on Weather Control, Washington) August-October 1941, July 1955, March 1961. 5 letters. 11 July 1955, 15 July 1955.

Thomas, Brynmor (Armstrong College, Newcastle-on-Tyne) May 1933 – March 1936. 11 letters. 3 May 1933, 26 March 1935, 24 February 1936, 2 March 1936.

Thomas, E.N.M

Thompson, D’Arcy Wentworth (University of St Andrews) April 1933. 5 letters. 3 April 1933, 6 April 1933.

Thomson, Godfrey H. (Edinburgh) May 1930 – December 1947. 29 letters, including enclosure of letter to Thomson from A.C. Aitken dated 31 May 1931. 4 June 1930, 11 June 1930, 16 January 1934, 27 March 1934, 3 November 1937, 23 July 1940.

Thomson, George W. (Ethyl Corporation, Michigan) October-November 1954. 6 letters, one with enclosed Fisher-Behrens tables 15 October 1954, 30 November 1954.

Thorndike, E.L.

Thornton, H. Gerard January 1933 – July 1961. 1 cm. 18 January 1933, 30 November 1933, 18 April 1934, 12 July 1935, 22 March 1944, 3 May 1945, 4 June 1945, 27 February 1947, 8 March 1947, 24 February 1948, 27 February 1948, 15 March 1948, 18 November 1948, 27 November 1948, 3 December 1948, 17 January 1949, 19 July 1949, 18 October 1950, 30 December 195322 July 1955, 9 November 1955.

Thorpe, W.H. (Department of Zoology and Jesus College, University of Cambridge) August 1944 – May 1953. 25 letters and notes 15 February 1950.

Threlfall, R.E. Timofeef-Ressovsky, N.W.

Tintner, Gerhard (Iowa State College) September 1931 – October 1957. 33 letters, notes and cards. 30 September 1931, 26 November 1931 (1), 26 November 1931 (2), 20 March 1940, 21 August 1952, 6 May 1955, 28 February 1956.

Tippett, L.C.H. (Shirley Institute, Manchester) November 1930 – April 1961. 29 letters and notes. 27 November 1930, 5 July 1934, 26 November 1934, 22 April 1936, 27 April 1936, 22 September 1950.

Tjebbes, K. (Sweden) September-December 1930. 5 letters. 25 September 1930, 7 November 1930.

Tobacco Manufacturers’ Standing Committee – see G.F. Todd file

Tocher, J.F. (Aberdeen) October 1930 - January 1944. 2 cm. 11 October 1930, 15 October 1930, 13 February 1932, 12 March 1932, 6 November 1933, 5 March 1940, 11 March 1940, 18 April 1940, 24 April 1940, 3 May 1940, 20 May 1940, 27 May 1940, 20 June 1940, 16 December 1940, 27 March 1941, 7 April 1941, 24 April 1941, 26 January 1943.

Todd, A.R. Middleton March 1957 – August 1958. 22 letters and notes. 6 March 1957, 1 April 1957, 1 June 1957, 2 August 1957, 3 September 1957. Re painting of Fisher’s portrait for Gonville and Caius College

Todd, Charles (Medical Research Council) April 1930 – March 1947. 31 notes and letters (that of 3 March 1935 with attached paper by Todd on ‘Cellular individuality in the higher animals…’) 3 October 1930, 30 September 1931, 10 March 1932, 27 September 1934, 24 October 1934, 4 March 1935.

Todd, G.F. (Tobacco Manufacturers’ Standing Committee) July 1956 – April 1962. 4 cm. 21 July 1956, 18 August 1956, 6 October 1956 (with paper ‘Note on some of the evidence produced in relation to tobacco smoking and cancer of the lung’), 25 October 1956, 31 October 1956, 3 November 1956, 10 November 1956, 19 November 1956, 26 November 1956, 28 November 1956, 4 February 1957, 29 March 1957 (with a note by Frank Yates on sampling), 26 July 1957, 30 July 1957, 26 November 1957, 27 February 1958, 11 March 1958, 18 March 1958, 8 April 1958, 14 April 1958, 16 April 1958, 19 April 1958, 30 April 1958, 12 May 1958, 20 May 1958, 27 June 1958, 30 June 1958, 3 July 1958, 23 July 1958, 28 July 1958, 15 September 1958, 16 September 1958, 29 September 1958, 24 October 1958, 31 October 1958, 5 November 195812 November 1958, 22 December 1958, 29 December 1958, 17 January 1959, 19 January 1959, 20 January 1959, 22 January 1959, 28 January 1959. Todd was Secretary of the Institute – this file also includes letters from its Chairman, Sir Alexander H. Maxwell

Todd, H. (Department of Mathematics, University of Bristol) June 1938 – May 1939. 11 letters. 10 June 1938, 8 March 1939, 13 March 1939, 11 May 1939.

Topley, William Whiteman Carlton (Agricultural research Council, London) June 1941 - January 1944. 54 letters, some with enclosed papers and notes. 20 June 1941, 7 August 1941, 13 August 1941, 18 October 1941, 27 October 1941, 23 November 1941 (with experimental results), 21 January 1942, 12 March 1942, 1 June 1942, 20 May 1942 (experimental findings paper), 2 June 1942, 26 August 1942, 9 November 1942, 17 November 1942, 4 January 1943, 28 January 1943, 23 February 1943.

Travers, R.M.W. [student in Fisher’s department 1936-38] June 1938 – April 1943. 9 letters and notes. 20 May 1942.

Trevan, J. Triplets Triplet Study, Letters re Tschapek, M.

Tubbs, F.R. (Tea Research Institute of Ceylon) July 1931 – May 1932. 8 letters. 10 September 1931, 15 December 1931, 10 May 1932.

Tucker, B.W. (Department of Zoology, University Museum, Oxford) September 1943 – October 1944. 12 letters 21 September 1943, 28 October 1943, 24 May 1944, 2 October 1944, 18 October 1944.

Tukey, John W. (Princeton University) August 1947 – February 1958. 44 letters. 25 October 1948, 14 December 1948, 3 February 1950, 13 February 1951, 24 February 1951, 23 November 1953, 1 September 1954, 1 May 1956.

Tunstall, A.C.

[Turing, A.M.] November-December 1934. 8 letters. 19 November 1934, 27 November 1934, 17 December 1934. Note that file comprises correspondence with the Provost of King’s College regarding Turing’s dissertation ‘The Gaussian error function’, not with Turing himself.

Turner, Helen Newton (Division of Animal Genetics, CSIRO) July 1938 – July 1960. 42 letters. 7 October 1947, 20 December 1948, 22 March 1949, 27 April 1950, 27 December 1950, 21 February 1951, 20 December 1952, 28 August 1959.

Turner, R. Tyrrell, G.W. February 1935 – March 1936. 8 letters and card. 18 February 1935, 18 March 1936.

United Nations

United States Educational Commission in the United Kingdom November 1956. 2 letters. 12 November 1956.

University College London University of Adelaide University of Bristol University of Calcutta University of Dublin University of Durham University of Glasgow

University of London September 1938, April 1946. 3 letters. 24 September 1938.

University of Madras

[University] Michigan State University October 1955 – January 1958. 20 letters (with Department of Statistics and other re visit by Fisher in 1957) 17 October 1955, 15 January 1957, 16 April 1957, 23 April 1957, 4 March 1957.

University of Melbourne Universtiy of Mysore University of Panjab, Lahore University of W.A., Perth

Ure, Edith [Roy] March-April 1949, April 1956, January 1957, August 1958. 6 letters. 26 April 1956.

Vaidyanathan, Rao Bahadur M. (Madras) July 1934 – October 1938, June 1958. 26 letters, some with enclosures. 23 July 1934, 15 September 1937, 21 September 1937, 8 November 1937, 11 June 1958.

Van Dantzig, D. [International Organization for Standardization] July-August 1953. 3 letters. 27 July 1953.

Vandenberg, Steven G. (University of Michigan) March-May 1956. 3 letters and enclosure. 16 April 1956.

Van Rest, E.D. May 1935 – September 1939, November 1952 – May 1957. 23 letters. 17 January 1957.

Van Uven, M.J. October 1933 – May 1939, June 1946 – May 1948.22 letters and notes. 12 December 1934, 6 January 1935, 23 August 1935, 12 December 1935, 9 September 1938, 10 January 1939, 24 August 1946, 6 November 1946.

Vassall, Arthur March 1929 – June 1930 and undated. 4 letters. 1 March 1929.

Venn, J.

Venn, J.A. (University of Cambridge) December 1922, April 1923, August 1926, May 1943. 5 letters. 31 May 1943.

Verney, E.B. Vernon, P.E. Villars, D.S. Vincent, M. Vivian, S.

Voelcker, J.A. May 1928 – October 1929. 8 letters 7 October 1929 File also contains 1S letters between Voelcker and J Wishart, March 1928 and September 1930 Von Bonin, Gerhardt April-December 1931, October 1936. 10 letters. 12 May 1931, 17 June 1931, 6 October 1931, 12 January 1932.

Von Feilitzen, Hj. (Sweden) December 1924 – June 1925. 4 letters. 29 December 1924.

Von Hofsten, Nils June-July 1950. 4 letters. 26 June 1950,7 July 1950.

Von Mises, H.

Von Verschuer, Ottmar June 1928, May 1936 – October 1958. 67 letters (some with English translations) 10 March 1938, 19 May 1939, 27 June 1939, 4 August 1947, 7 October 1947, 3 February 1948, 2 April 1948, 27 September 1948, 10 July 1951, 26 August 1952, 14 January 1943, 22 December 1953, 18 October 1956, 18 January 1957, 18 February 1957, 20 March 1957, 19 February 1958, 5 March 1958, 11 March 1958, 14 March 1958, 18 March 1958, 24 April 1958, 15 October 1958.

Wagner-Manslau, W October 1932 - June 1936. 16 letters and cards, some with translations, and copy of paper by Wagner-Manslau. 1 October 1932, 23 February 1933, 24 May 1935, 30 July 1935, 8 June 1936.

Walker, C.B.V.

Walker, Sir Gilbert (Imperial College of science) May 1930, February 1942 – June 1943, June 1952. 7 letters. 17 May 1930, 16 June 1943.

Walker, Helen M. (American Statistical Association) April 1937 – July 1957. 21 letters. 22 April 1940, 11 May 1944, 29 April 1946, 7 May 1953, 22 September 1953, 18 ay 1957, 7 June 1957, 15 July 1957.

Wallace, G.B.

Wallace, J.C. (Holland County Council Agricultural Education Committee) June 1932 – August 1933. 15 letters and experimental data. 19 July 1932, 16 September 1932, 28 April 1933, 18 August 1933.

Wallace, M.E.

Wallis, W. Allen (University of Chicago) May 1937 – January 1955. 18 letters and notes and telegram. 17 May 1950, 2 June 1950, 6 June 1950, 21 November 1950.

Walsh, R.J. (Blood Transfusion Service, NSW Division, Australian Red Cross Society) May 1954. 2 letters. 21 May 1954.

Ward, M. Warming, J. Watkin, P.J.

Watkins, A.E. (School of Agriculture, Cambridge) October 1933 – May 1937. 25 letters. October 1933, 27 October 1933, 10 November 1933, 13 November 1933, 20 November 1933, 5 July 1934, 5 October 1934, 27 November 1934, 28 November 1934, 14 january 1935, 4 May 1937 Watkins, H.M.S. (University of California) June-July 1953. 3 letters. 13 July 1953.

Watson, Alfred N. March 1937 – April 1946. 10 letters. 21 March 1937, 20 May 1937, 9 December 1938, 31 August 1942, 11 April 1946.

Watson, G.N. (Birmingham University) May 1928 – September 1935. 18 letters and paper by Fisher and Yates on ‘The 6 x 6 Latin squares’ 26 October 1929, 12 March 1931, 25 May 1933, 21 December 1933.

Watson, G.S. (Australian National University) May 1955 – June 1957. 9 letters. 2 June 1955, 18 October 1955,15 August 1956, 25 June 1957.

Weatherburn, C.E. (University of Western Australia) October 1940 – February 1941, September 1950. 4 letters. 27 November 1940.

Webster, J.H. Douglas September 1938 – September 1954. 9 letters and notes. 20 September 1954.

Webster Sheffield and Chrystie (attorneys) October 1959 – May 1960. 11 letters 9 October 1959.

Wedderburn, T.M. Wedmore, E.B.

Weinberg, Wilhelm (Stuttgart) July 1930 – August 1937. 48 letters and cards (some with translations) 22 July 1930, 7 August 1930, 29 August 1930, 19 May 1931, 8 February 1933, 9 March 1934, 16 March 1934, 2 March 1935, 19 March 1935, 10 May 1935, 1 July 1935, 31 December 1936, undated.

Weiss, D. (Moscow) April-June 1935. 3 letters and agreements (re publication of Russian translation of The genetical theory of natural selection) 8 May 1935 (with agreement)

Weldon, F.J. Weninger, M.

Westenberg, J. (Holland) May-October 1935. 6 letters and card. 30 May 1935, 24 October 1935. Westman, A.E.R.

Whitby, Sir Lionel (University of Cambridge) November 1948 – January 1956. 9 letters and notes. 21 December 1955 (with copy of letter A.R.G. Owen to Whitby dated 5 January 1956)

White, M.J.D. Whitley Trust, The Herbert Whittaker, E.T. Whittaker, R.H.

Wiener, A.S. (Jewish Hospital of Brooklyn) October 1931 – September 1955. 23 letters and notes, some with attachments. 2 November 1931, 20 May 1936, 3 June 1936, 26 March 1945, 15 June 1945, 9 July 1951.

Wigan, Lambert (John Innes Horticultural Institution) August-September 1942. 3 letters, including letter Mather to Fisher re paper by him and Wigan. 31 August 1942.

Wigglesworth, V.B.

Wildfowl Trust April 1954 – May 1959. 5 letters, with some circular minutes and reports. 27 April 1954.

Wiley & Sons Inc., John

Wilkes, M.V. (University Mathematical Laboratory, Cambridge) February 1949 – December 1953. 15 letters and notes. 16 February 1949, 17 June 1949, 27 April 1950, 26 September 1950, 2 October 1950, 4 October 1950, 27 November 1953, 10 December 1953.

Wilks, John (Library, University College, London) April 1939 – December 1944. 14 letters and notes. 30 May 1939, 1 June 1939.

Wilks, S.S. (Princeton University) November 1932 – March 1962. 37 letters. 2 November 1932, 24 May 1935, 5 February 1936, 21 July 1936, 29 June 1938, 6 November 1939, 26 April 1941.

Williams, Carrington Bonsor February 1929 – October 1956. 49 letters, notes and cards, some with enclosures. 3 April 1929, 10 November 1944, 9 April 1945, 7 December 1945, 11 January 1946, 16 November 1948, 3 May 1949, 15 November 1955, 16 January 1956, 4 February 1956, 3 October 1956, 24 October 1956. Williams, Evan J. (CSIRO) August 1938 – November 1954. 17 letters and notes. 29 April 1941, 3 March 1944, 9 March 1954, 23 November 1954.

Williams, Kennedy December 1942 – July 1950. 31 letters, notes and cards. 3 August 1943, 23 April 1948 (with enclosed comment on paper by A.H. Pollard), 18 August 1948, 29 July 1950.

Williams, R.D. Williams, R.M. Williams, T.I.

Williams, Watkin January 1957 – February 1959. 12 letters and notes, some with attachments. 16 January 1957, 19 January 1957, 23 January 1957, 19 March 1958, 4 February 1959, 5 February 1959.

Wilson, E.

Wilson, Edwin B. (Harvard University and Social Science Research Council) August 1929 – August 1959. 2cm. 15 August 1929, 23 May 1930, 2 June 1930, 14 June 1930, 2 July 1930, 18 July 1930, 2 August 1930, 10 August 1932, 24 August 1932, 26 November 1932, 7 December 1932, 27 October 1933, 10 November 1933, 15 May 1934, 9 July 1934, 24 July 1934, 3 May 1935, 13 May 1935, 20 May 1935, 5 June 1935, 18 June 1935, 27 June 19358 July 1935, 12 July 1935, 22 July 1935, 25 November 1938, 9 December 1938, 19 December 1938, 3 January 1940, 25 January 1940, 13 March 1940, 16 March 1940, 17 November 1945, 19 November 1945, 5 December 1945 (telegram), 5 December 1945, 7 December 1945, 14 December 1945, 4 April 1946, 7 September 1947, 24 September 1947, 28 October 1947, 4 November 1947, 19 December 1947, 20 January 1949, 31 January 1949, 4 February 1949, 9 February 1949 21 February 1949, 7 March 1949, 8 March 1955, 19 March 1955, 23 March 1955, 18 august 1955, 26 September 1955, 30 September 1955 (ms and typed copies), 24 January 1956, 7 February 1956, 1 April 1956, 8 August 1956, 24 November 1956 (ms and typed copy), 5 February 1957, 16 March 1957, 28 March 1957, 3 April 1957, 17 April 1957, 2 May 1957, 7 May 1957, 12 May 1957, 3 September 1957, 24 September 1957, 24 December 1957, 29 November 1958, 3 December 1958, 11 December 1958, 14 December 1958, 16 December 1958, 20 December 1958, 10 January 1959, 29 January 1959, 4 February 1959, 5 August 1959, 19 August 1959, 25 August 1959.

Wilson, William March 1957. 2 letters. 18 March 1957.

Wilson, Roy September 1952. 5 letters. 2 September 1952. Windsor, E.

Winge, Öjvind (Copenhagen) April 1930 – January 1960. 61 letters and notes, some with enclosures. 23 April 1930, 1 May 1930, 19 October 1932, 2 March 1934, 19 March 1934, 9 November 1934, 3 December 1934, 21 December 1934, 7 January 1935, 12 February 1935, 18 February 1936, 14 September 1945, 28 April 1948, 30 June 1950, 25 April 1951, 15 August 1952, 29 September 1952, 8 October 1952, 5 March 1956, 24 March 1958, 11 June 1956.

Winton, T (Bishop of Winchester) January 1931. 1 letter and enclosure. 22 January 1931 (with paper The Church and Eugenics)

Wisdom, J. Wisdom, J.O.

Wishart, John (School of Agriculture and Faculty of Mathematics, University of Cambridge) February 1931 – July 1956. 3 cm. 16 October 1931 (with trial results), 17 October 1931, 14 January 1932,17 June 1932, 16 July 1932, 8 August 1932, 31 March 1933, 5 April 1933, 25 April 1933, 13 June 1933, 19 June 1933, 28 July 1933, 3 August 1933, 28 February 1934, 9 March 1934, 15 October 1935, 15 April 1936, 1 March 1937, 18 May 1937, 16 February 1938, 3 March 1938, 27 April 1938, 4 May 1938, 19 September 1938, 5 September 1942, 2 June 1943, 4 November 1947, 27 October 1949, 23 March 1955. see also Voelcker file

Witherby, H.F.

Wolfenden, H.H.

Wood, Eric C. December 1944 – May 1948. 12 letters. 16 December 1944, 21 December 1944, 4 June 1945, 9 December 1947, 1 May 1948

Woolley, V.J. [1924] – April 1929. 8 letters and undated ms paper on ‘A method of scoring coincidences in tests with playing cards’. [1924]

World Population Conference

Wright, E. Maitland January 1953. 3 letters. 20 January 1953.

Wright, Sewall (Dept of Zoology, University of Chicago) June 1929 – June 1931. 31 letters (most photocopies) and typescript extracts from later (1932, 1940) published papers by Wright. 10 July 1929, 13 August 1929, 9 September 1929, 17 February 1931.

Wright, W.D.

Wyld, Norman (The Industrial Institute) March 1930 – October 1935. 44 letters and notes, with some reports of the Institute. 8 March 1930, 14 November 1931, 3 December 1931, 29 January 1932, 4 February 1932, ? February 1932, 10 March 1932, 2 April 1932, 25 May 1932, 4 August 1932, 5 November 1932, 14 December 1932, 27 May 1933, 10 October 1935.

Wynne-Edwards, V.C. Wynter, E.

Yates, Frank (Rothamsted) April 1931 – July 1962. 5 cm. 17 April 1931, 2 May 1931, 9 May 1931, 1 November 1933, 2 November 1933, 3 November 1933, 6 November 1933, 21 December 1933, 22 December 1933, 5 February 1934, 12 February 1934, 13 February 1934, 11 April 1934 (1), 11 April 1934 (2), 27 April 1934, 16 July 1934, 15 august 1934, 16 august 1934, 18 October 1934, 19 October 1934, 17 December 1934, 29 May 1935, 30 May 1935, 31 May 1935, 13 May 1936, 29 May 1936, 5 February 1937, 9 March 1937, 10 March 19372 June 1937, 3 June 1937, 10 July 1937, 15 July 1937, 7 October 1938, 16 February 1939, 17 February 1939, 20 February 1939, 6 March 1939, 8 March 1939, 9 December 1941, 25 March 194728 April 1947, 1 May 1947, 9 January 1948, 12 January 194815 January 1948, 16 January 1948, 15 March 1948, 19 March 1948, 18 February 1949 with enclosure of letter from Yates to Sade of same date, 21 February 1949, 11 May 1949, 17 May 1949, 25 April 1950, 8 May 1950, 15 May 1950, 17 May 1950, 9 February 1951, 1 January 1952, 7 February 1952, 8 February 1952, 15 February 1952, April 1952, 28 April 1952, 28 May 1952 with ‘Proposal for the formation of a Section of Biometry’, 29 May 1952, 22 December 1952, 6 January 1953, 14 January 1953 with footnote, 22 January 1953, 3 February 1953, 11 February 1954, 15 February 1954, 29 April 1954, 30 April 1954, 22 November 1954, 24 November 1954, 29 November 1954, 7 February 1955, 17 February 1955, 18 February 1955, 28 April 1955, 23 July 1955, 25 July 1955, 26 July 1955, 27 July 1955, 19 august 1955, 28September 1955, 29 September 1955, 30 September 1955, 13 October 1955, 19 October 1955, 29 October 1955, 1 November 1955, 2 November 1955, 2 December 1955, 5 December 1955, 8 December 1955, 9 December 1955, 1 February 1956, 2 February 1956, 10 February 1956, 11 February 1956, 2 May 1956, 4 May 1956, 29 May 1956, 5 June 1956, 6 June 1956, 18 august 1956, 21 august 1956, 22 august 1956, 28 august 1956, 6 September 1956, 14 September 1956, 27 September 1956, 27 September 1956, 28 September 1956, 29 September 1956 with figures, 13 October 1956, 11 September 1957, 7 February 1958, 7 May 1958, 28 February 1959, 22 April 1959, 27 April 1959, 8 May 1959, 15 May 1959, 26 May 1960, 27 May 1960, 15 May 1961, 23 May 1961, 25 august 1961, 12 July 1962 (1) , 12 July 1962 (2).

Youden, Jack October 1936 – April 1961. 28 letters and notes. 4 February 1937, 3 May 1937, 30 December 1942, 23 November 1949, 28 August 1950, 6 September 1950, 28 May 1951, 8 October 1951, 15 March 1955.

Young, F.G. Young, J.Z.

Yule, G. Udny (St John’s College, Cambridge) December 1930 – October 1947. 29 letters, notes and cards. 16 January 1932, 8 July 1933, May 1944

Zaiman, A. Zassenhaus, H. Zaunick, R. Zeller, A. Ziaud-Din, M. Zinzadze, Ch. Zuckerman, S. Zulueta, A. De Zulueta, J. De