| Reference number | MM/15/85 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Letter from WFR Weldon to Francis Galton, on the Evolution Committee of the Royal Society |
| Date | 27 November 1893 |
| Description | Enclosing a paper relating to evolution, in particular mentioning "changes to a crab".
Weldon had a paper published in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London' in 1893 on crabs entitled On 'Certain Correlated Variations in Carcinus maenas'. In 1894 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London' also published a paper by the Evolution Committee entitled "An Attempt to Measure the Death-Rate due to the Selective Destruction of Carcinus Moenas with respect to a Particular Dimension". |
| Extent | 3 sides |
| Format | Manuscript |
| Access status | Open |
| Related material | See CMB/65 Evolution Committee Miinute Book |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | Name | Dates |
| NA7134 | Weldon; Walter Frank Raphael (1860 - 1906) | 1860 - 1906 |
| NA7708 | Galton; Sir; Francis (1822 - 1911); statistician, human geneticist and eugenicist | 1822 - 1911 |