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Authorised form of nameWilson; Edmund Beecher (1856 - 1939)
Dates1856 - 1939
NationalityAmerican
Place of birthGeneva, Illinois, USA
Date of birth19 October 1856
Place of deathNew York, New York, USA
Date of death03/03/1939
Membership categoryForeign Member
Date of election05/05/1921
RSActivityLectures:
Croonian 1914
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DSB
Obituaries:
Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society 1939-1941 vol 3 pp 123-138, plate, by T H Morgan
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/35237996
CodeNA1123
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EC/1921/05Wilson, Edmund Beecher: certificate of election to the Royal Society
NLB/50/365Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor [Edmund Beecher] Wilson, c/o J Laird Busk, Delaborde, Westerham, Kent23 June 1914
NLB/39/550Copy letter from Archibald Geikie to Dr [Edmund Beecher] Wilson4 February 1909
RR/9/195Letter from Edmund Beecher Wilson, on his paper 'The development of renilla' to the Secretary of the Royal Society26 August 1883
RR/9/194Referee's report by Edwin Ray Lankester, on a paper 'The development of renilla' by Edmund Beecher Wilson5 January 1883
NLB/69/727Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof. [James Hartley] Ashworth, FRS15 September 1926
NLB/61/89Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Arthur Schuster, Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society7 May 1921
NLB/50/594Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor [Edmund Beecher] Wilson, Wood's Hole, Massachusetts, USA14 September 1914
MC/12/326Letter from Edmund B [Beecher] Wilson, Zoological Station, Naples, to Professor G G [George Gabriel] Stokes, Secretary of the Royal Society, Cambridge25 April 1883
MC/12Volume 12 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1880-1883
RR/21/162Referee's report by John Bretland Farmer, on the Croonian Lecture 'The bearing of cytological research on heredity' by Edmund Beecher Wilson15 Spetmeber 1914
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