Evolution Committee (Plants and Animals) of the Royal Society

Date:
1890-1897
Reference:
GALTON/2/5/4
Part of:
Galton Papers
  • Archives and manuscripts

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Description

Correspondence, minutes, circulars and programmes of work for the Evolution Committee of the Royal Society.

The correspondence concerns the Evolution Committee; a proposed experimental farm; and the argument between William Bateson and WFR Weldon over Weldon's paper on the shore crab, given to the Royal Society in 1895.

Publication/Creation

1890-1897

Physical description

2 files plus 1 item

Biographical note

Francis Galton was the first Chairman of the Committee for Conducting Statistical Inquiries into the Measurable Characteristics of Plants and Animals, formed in 1894 and from 1897 known as the Evolution Committee (Plants and Animals). Walter Frank Raphael Weldon was the first Secretary.

Location of duplicates

A digitised copy is held by the Wellcome Library as part of Codebreakers: Makers of Modern Genetics.

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The papers are available at UCL Special Collections and Archives subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

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The original material is held at UCL Special Collections. This catalogue is held by the Wellcome Library as part of Codebreakers: Makers of Modern Genetics.

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