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Authorised form of nameCallan; Harold Garnet (1917 - 1993)
Dates1917 - 1993
NationalityBritish
Date of birth05/03/1917
Date of death03/11/1993
ActivityEducation:
B.A. 1938, M.A. 1950, Oxford; D.Sc. 1948 Edinburgh
Career:
Kennedy Professor of Natural History at St Andrews (1950-1982)
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election21/03/1963
Age at election46
SourcePapers deposited at Department of Special Collections, University of St Andrews, Reference MS 38571
I box of papers sent to the Royal Society by Professor H C Macgregor, Professor Emeritus of Zoology, Department of Biology, University of Leicester, in April 2001, and subsequently donated to the main collection at St Andrew's University in 2002
Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 2003 vol 49 pp 107-118, plate, by Joseph G Gall
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/7994837
CodeNA4879
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
RR/68/28Referee's report by Reginald Crundall Punnett, on a paper 'Heterochromatin in Triton' by Harold Garnet Callan[1941]
RR/68/212Referee's report by James Gray, on a paper 'The effects of cold and colchicine on mitosis in the newt' by Horace Newton Barber and Harold Garnet Callannd [1942]
IM/GA/WRS/9111Callan, Harold Garnetnd
EC/1963/05Callan, Harold Garnet: certificate of election to the Royal Society
RR/68/214Letter from David Keilin, to John David Griffith Davies, regarding a paper 'The effects of cold and colchicine on mitosis in the newt' by Horace Newton Barber and Harold Garnet Callan27 June 1942
MDA/C/6/4Papers relating to an award from the Darwin Research Fund to Sir Arthur Hill, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew1939-1940
RR/68/213Referee's report by Harold Munro Fox, on a paper 'The effects of cold and colchicine on mitosis in the newt' by Horace Newton Barber and Harold Garnet Callan[1942]
RR/68/215Second letter from David Keilin, to John David Griffith Davies, regarding a paper 'The effects of cold and colchicine on mitosis in the newt' by Horace Newton Barber and Harold Garnet Callan21 July 1942
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