RefNo | MDA/C/12/1/4 |
AltRefNo | MS 618 |
Level | Item |
Title | Letter from Walter Frank Raphael Weldon, 30A Wimpole Street, to the Secretaries of the Royal Society |
Date | 12 February 1895 |
Description | He hesitates to make a suggestion on the use of Dr. R.H. Gunning's bequest, because his idea is so specific. He is anxious that the Royal Society should collect and record wild plants or animals in a specific locality, through time, where conditions are soon to be modified by human behaviour. He suggests the rock-living plants of the Outer Hebrides. Large numbers of specimens should be collected for statistical information on the measurement of selected characteristics. The men involved would require payment. Three or four such collections would 'form a better basis for speculation as to the effect of variability upon the mean character of successive generations of a species than any at present existing'. |
Extent | 3p. |
Format | Manuscript |
PhysicalDescription | On paper |
AccessStatus | Open |
Fellows associated with this archive
Code | PersonName | Dates |
NA7134 | Weldon; Walter Frank Raphael (1860 - 1906) | 1860 - 1906 |