| Authorised form of name | Biffen; Sir; Rowland Harry (1874 - 1949) |
| Dates | 1874 - 1949 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England |
| Date of birth | 28 May 1874 |
| Place of death | Cambridge |
| Date of death | 12/07/1949 |
| Activity | Education:
MA
Honours:
Kt 1925
|
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 07/05/1914 |
| Royal Society activity | Medals and prizes:
Darwin Medal 1920 |
| Sources | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Obituaries:
Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society 1950-1951 vol 7 pp 9-25, plate, by F L Engledow |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/290924917 |
| Royal Society code | NA1725 |
| Reference number | Title | Date |
| RR/16/173 | Referee's report by Francis Darwin, on report submitted to the Evolution Committee, II, regarding three papers 'Experimental Studies in the Physiology of Heredity' by William Bateson, E R Saunders and Reginald Crundall Punnett, 'Experiments with Poulty' by C C Hurst, and 'Some Experiments on Wheat-breeding' by Rowland Harry Biffen | September 1904 |
| RR/16/171 | Referee's report by Francis Galton, on three papers 'Experimental Studies in the Physiology of Heredity' by William Bateson, E R Saunders and Reginald Crundall Punnett, 'Experiments with Poulty' by C C Hurst, and 'Some Experiments on Wheat-breeding' by Rowland Harry Biffen | August 1904 |
| NLB/51/10 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society to Professor Rowland Biffen FRS, St Catherine's College, Camrbidge | 19 November 1914 |
| NLB/60/88 | Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Rowland Harry] Biffen, FRS | 9 December 1920 |
| NLB/52/325 | Copy letter from [Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society]; to [Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society] | 3 July 1914 |
| RR/20/48 | Referee's report by Rowland Harry Biffen, on a paper 'Breeding experiments which show the hybridisation and mutation are independant phenomena' by Reginald Ruggles Gates | July 1913 |
| RR/27/33 | Referee's report by Rowland Harry Biffen, on a paper 'A quantitative investigation of the bacterial and protozoan population of the soil, with an account of the protozoan fauna' by D Ward Cutler, Lettice M Crump and H Sandon | July 1922 |
| RR/35/140 | Referee's report by Rowland Harry Biffen, on a paper 'The agricultural value of rainfall in the tropics' by H Martin Leake | July 1927 |
| NLB/63/99 | Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society and FRS; to Professor [Rowland Harry] Biffen, FRS | 29 June 1922 |
| NLB/58/894 | Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Rowland Harry] Biffen, FRS | 30 June 1920 |
| NLB/59/702 | Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Rowland Harry] Biffen, FRS | 4 November 1920 |
| EC/1914/04 | Biffen, Sir Rowland Harry: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| RR/16/172 | Letter from Sidney Frederic Harmer, to Robert William Frederick Harrison, regarding three papers 'Experimental Studies in the Physiology of Heredity' by William Bateson, E R Saunders and Reginald Crundall Punnett, 'Experiments with Poulty' by C C Hurst, and 'Some Experiments on Wheat-breeding' by Rowland Harry Biffen | 19 August 1904 |
| NLB/55/577 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to William Foster Esq., C.I.E., Registar & Superintendent of Records, India Office | 17 June 1918 |
| RR/16/175 | Referee's report by Walter Frank Raphael Weldon, on reports to the Evolution Committee, II, regarding three papers 'Experimental Studies in the Physiology of Heredity' by William Bateson, E R Saunders and Reginald Crundall Punnett, 'Experiments with Poulty' by C C Hurst, and 'Some Experiments on Wheat-breeding' by Rowland Harry Biffen | October 1904 |