Letters between J B S Haldane and the Medical Research Council

Date:
Jan 1939
Reference:
HALDANE/4/16/5/7
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Letters between J B S Haldane and the Medical Research Council. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Letters between J B S Haldane and the Medical Research Council regarding discrepancies in figures returned from schools taking part in an inquiry into congenital defects amongst school children. Haldane advises the matter be referred to R A Fisher, and suggests calling a meeting of the Committee on Human Genetics. Encloses two letters from A Bradford Hill analysing the data.

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Jan 1939

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3 letters plus 2 enclosures Letters 4 sides; enclosures 2 sides.

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See HALDANE/4/16/5/8 for correspondence between Haldane and Fisher.

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

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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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