Medical Statistics

Handwritten and typed material concerning various individuals in the medical statistics field:

Copy of reprint entitled "The Correlation between Relatives on the Supposition of Mendelian Inheritance", communicated by Professor J. Arthur Thomson from Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, undated

Copy of obituary of E. S. Pearson, 1895-1980, undated

Reprint (including letter from the author) entitled "Leading British Statisticians of the Nineteenth Century by Paul J. Fitzpatrick from the Journal of the American Statistical Association, March 1960, Vol.55, pp.38-70

Copy of biography of Ronald Aylmer Fisher, 1890-1962 by M.G.Kendall from Biometrika,1963

Reference lists of various authors

Copy of article entitled "The Lanarkshire Milk Experiment" by Student (William Sealy Gossett) from Biometrika, 1931

Copy of reprint entitled "Studies in the History of Probability and Statistics. XX, some early correspondence between W.S.Gosset, R.A.Fisher and Karl Pearson, with notes and comments" from Biometrika, 1968

Talks on Geya Roheim by his cousin Mrs V. Markus, 12 May 1973

Handwritten transcript of recordings made by a refugee from Germany who came to UK as child-friend of 'Ruth', undated

Handwritten notes of various books and individuals associated with statistics, undated

Presscuttings concerning William Playfair and Adolphe Quetelet (in French), 1974

Copy of a letter concerning "Agricultural Field Experiments" (no author) from Nature,, 14 March 1931

Articles entitled "Intestinal Length in Man" by Betty M. L. Underhill and "Body Temperature in Pacific Islanders and its Relationship to Blood-Pressure" by I. Maddocks from The Lancet, 17 February 1962

Copies of graph tables taken from Biometrika, Vol.XXX, Parts III and IV, undated

Photocopies of contour maps and statistics, undated

1962-1968

1 file

Deposited in the library at Wellcome Collection by the British Psychological Society in September 2008.

Compiled by the Cataloguing Project Archivist at the British Psychological Society History of Psychology Centre, with minor editing by Wellcome staff.