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Authorised form of nameAgar; Wilfred Eade (1882 - 1951)
Dates1882 - 1951
Date of birth27 April 1882
Date of death14/07/1951
Research fieldZoology
Embryology
ActivityEducation:
MA; DSc
Career:
Lecturer in Zoology, University of Glasgow; ex-Fellow of King's College, Cambridge; president of the Eugenics Society of Victoria
Honours:
OBE 1939; CBE 1948
Memberships:
FLS; FZS
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election12/05/1921
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll
Obituaries:
Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society 1952-1953 vol 8 pp 3-11, plate, by O W Tiegs
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/91227116
CodeNA1739
Archives associated with this Fellow
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PIF/A/16Personal information file: Wilfred Eade Agar1942
RR/19/3Referee's report by William Bateson, on a paper 'Transmission of environmental effects from parent to offspring in Simocephalus vetulus' by Wilfred Eade Agar20 November 1912
RR/19/1Referee's report by Reginald Crundall Punnett, on a paper 'Transmission of environmental effects from parent to offspring in Simocephalus vetulus' by Wilfred Eade Agar[November 1912]
RR/21/2Referee's report by Karl Pearson, on a paper 'Experiments on inheritance in parthenogenesis' by Wilfred Eade Agar[July 1914]
NLB/63/56Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society and FRS; to Professor [Wilfred Eade] Agar, FRS16 June 1922
NLB/63/58Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society and FRS; to Dr. Vernon Kellogg, Secretary, National Research Council, 1701, Massachusetts Avenue, Washington D.C., USA16 June 1922
NLB/61/776Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [Wilfred Eade] Agar, FRS22 October 1921
NLB/69/267Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary and Librarian of the Royal Society; to to Professor [Wilfred Eade] Agar, FRS19 February 1926
CD/5/4Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society, to Professor [Wilfred Eade] Agar, Professor [William Blaxland] Benham, Sir [Tannatt William] Edgeworth David, and Sir [Walter] Baldwin Spencer16 June 1922
EC/1921/07Agar, Wilfred Eade: certificate of election to the Royal Society
RR/19/2Referee's report by Arthur Dendy, on a paper 'Transmission of environmental effects from parent to offspring in Simocephalus vetulus' by Wilfred Eade Agar[November 1912]
NLB/69/244Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Wilfred Eade] Agar, FRS, Lymington, Hants. 12 February 1926
RR/21/1Referee's report by Reginald Crundall Punnett, on a paper 'Experiments on inheritance in parthenogenesis' by Wilfred Eade Agar[June 1914]
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