Record

Reference numberNLB/67/365
Alternative reference numberNLB/67 p201
LevelItem
TitleCopy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor Karl Pearson, FRS
Date9 December 1924
DescriptionIn reply to Professor Karl Pearson's letter, thinks that there will be no objection to Pearson photographing the Royal Society's portraits of Buchanan, Derham, Haak, Halley, and Price. Asks which portrait of Halley that Pearson means, as there are two. Informs him that the Society does not possess a portrait of Malthus.
Extent1p
FormatCarbon
Access statusOpen
Fellows associated with this archive
CodeNameDates
NA8002Pearson; Karl (1857 - 1936); statistician and eugenicist1857 - 1936
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