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Authorised form of name	Bateson; William (1861 - 1926); biologist
Dates	1861 - 1926
Nationality	British
Place of birth	St Hilda's Terrace, Ruswarp, near Whitby, Yorkshire, England
Date of birth	08 August 1861
Place of death	Manor House, Watery Lane, Merton, Surrey, England
Date of death	08/02/1926
Dates and places	Cremation: Golders Green (12 February 1926)
Occupation	biologist
Research field	Cytology
	Morphology
	Genetics
Activity	Education: Rugby School (1875–9); St John's College, Cambridge MA Career: Professor of biology at the University of Cambridge (1908-1910); directed an informal school of genetics at Cambridge (1900-1910) with the group comprising predominantly of women associated with Newham College, Cambridge, prior to Mendelism being recognised as a legitimate field of study; the results of experiments carried out by this group supported and extended Medel’s laws of heredity (1902-1910); became director of the John Innes Horticultural Institution (1910) where he became interested in the chromosome theory of heredity and promoted the study of cytology by the appointment of W.C.F Newton, and Cyril Dean Darlington (FRS 1941) (1923); founded The Genetics Society (1919); become a trustee of the British Museum (1922).
Membership category	Fellow
Date of election	07/06/1894
Age at election	33
Proposer	Walter Frank Raphael Weldon; George Gabriel Stokes; Thomas George Bonney; Edward Bagnall Poulton; George Murray Humphry; Arthur Newton; David Sharp; Osbert Salvin; Charles Scott Sherrington
Proposer	John Lubbock; Adamm Sedgwick; Thomas Henry Huxley; William Henry Flower; St George Mivart; John Newport Langley; Alex Macalister; Francis Darwin; Geo John Romanes; Arthur Milnes Marshall; Francis Galton
Royal Society activity	Medals and prizes: Darwin Medal 1904; Royal Medal 1920 Lectures: Croonian 1920 Committees: Evolution committee
Relationships	Parents: William Henry Bateson (1812–1881), master of St John's College, Cambridge, and Anna Aikin (1829–1918), daughter of James Aikin (1792–1878), Liverpool shipping merchant. Spouse: Beatrice Durham, daughter of a senior surgeon at Guy's Hospital, Arthur Edward Durham (1834–1895) (1889). Children: Three sons: John was killed in the First World War in 1918, Martin committed suicide in 1922, and Gregory Bateson (1904–1980) had a distinguished career in social anthropology and psychology. A cousin of the grandfather of Patrick Bateson FRS.
Published works	RCN 18637 RCN 18639 RCN 18640 RCN 18636 RCN 26856 RCN 26858 RCN 16397 RCN 26857
General context	Known for heredity and biological inheritance; he was the first person to use the term genetics to describe the study of heredity, and the chief populariser of the ideas of Gregor Mendel following their rediscovery in 1900 by Hugo de Vries and Carl Correns. Opposition to the emerging experimental tradition began in the biometric school led by Karl Pearson (FRS 1896) and Bateson's former close associate at Cambridge, Walter Frank Raphael Weldon (FRS 1890). The rift between Weldon and Bateson began around 1890 when Bateson criticised orthodox Darwinism. Additionally, they were academic competitors, and tensions escalated when Bateson assumed control of the Royal Society's evolution committee, redirecting its funds away from Weldon's biometric research. The ensuing dispute between biometricians and Mendelians became infamous. Bateson vehemently ridiculed his opponents, who remained supportive of Francis Galton's (FRS 1860) ancestral theory of inheritance. Initially, Bateson acknowledged the possibility of two forms of heredity—ancestral for continuously varying traits and Mendelian for discontinuously varying ones. However, he later argued that the ancestral theory was merely a subset of the broader Mendelian framework. In contrast, Weldon initially criticized the Mendelian theory but later adjusted his stance to incorporate it within the ancestral theory, which he considered foundational, once convinced of its validity.
Royal Society Obituary or Memoir	Click to view (may be contained within a meeting notice, presidential address or list of death notices)
Sources	Sources: Bulloch's Roll; DSB; DNB Patrick Bateson, 'William Bateson, Archibald Garrod and the Nature of the "Inborn"' in 'A Century of Mendelism in human genetics' ed M Keynes et al Obituaries: Proc Roy Soc Series B 1927 vol 101 pp i-v, plate, signed by J B F References: A D Boney, 'The Summer of 1914: Diary of a Botanist' in NR 1998 vol 52 pp 323-338 R D Harvey, 'Pioneers of Genetics: A Comparison of the Attitudes of William Bateson and Erwin Baur to Eugenics' in NR 1995 vol 49 pp 105-117, plate A G Cock, 'Chauvinism and Internationalism in Science: The International Research Council, 1919-1926' in NR 1982-83 vol 37 pp 249-288 Rose Scott-Moncrieff, 'The Classical Period in Chemical Genetics. Recollections of Muriel Wheldale Onslow, Robert and Gertrude Robinson and J B S Haldane' in NR 1981-82 vol 36 pp 125-154 Sir Gavin de Beer, 'Mendel, Darwin, and Fisher (1865-1965)' in NR 1964 vol 19 pp 192-226 R C Punnett, 'William Bateson and Mendel's Principles of Heredity' in NR 1952 vol 9 pp 336-347
Virtual International Authority File	http://viaf.org/viaf/46821482
Royal Society code	NA8118

Archives associated with this Fellow

Reference number	Title	Date
EC/1894/05	Bateson, William: certificate of election to the Royal Society
MM/15/82	Copy of an excerpt from the minutes of the Royal Society's Evolution Committee	15 February 1900
MM/16/113	Letter from William Bateson, Merton, to WB Hardy	26 January 1925
MM/15/102	Printed circular with two printed enclosures, relating to a collective inquiry of the Evolution Committee of the Royal Society, into progressive melanism in moths	April 1900
NLB/34/290	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to William Bateson, Fellow of the Royal Society	21 December 1906
NLB/26/129	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to, William Bateson, Fellow of the Royal Society	29 January 1903
NLB/41/12	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor William Bateson, Fellow of the Royal Society	21 September 1909
NLB/3/575	Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to William Bateson, [Fellow of the Royal Society]	17 July 1889
NLB/3/602	Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Michael Foster, [Royal Society]	22 July 1889
NLB/14/346	Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Messrs Harrison & Sons	22 February 1897
NLB/16/101	Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Messrs Harrison & Sons	31 January 1898
NLB/11/639	Copy letter from an unknown correspondent, to Messrs Harrison & Sons	[August 1895]
NLB/13/712	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Messrs Harrison & Sons	9 November 1896
NLB/26	New Letter Book volume 26, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration	13 January 1903-13 June 1903
RR/16/367	Referee's report by William Bateson, on a paper 'The function of sex' by G Archdall Reid	5 October 1905
RR/17/206	Referee's report by William Bateson, on two papers [attributed] 'On some features in the hereditary transmission of the self-black and the “Irish” coat characters in rats.—Paper I' and 'On some features in the hereditary transmission of the albino character and the black piebald coat in rats.—Paper II' by George Percival Mudge	17 May 1907
NLB/24/131	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to William Bateson, Chairman of the Zoology Sectional Committee	10 March 1902
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
RR/19/3	Referee's report by William Bateson, on a paper 'Transmission of environmental effects from parent to offspring in Simocephalus vetulus' by Wilfred Eade Agar	20 November 1912
NLB/15/30	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to William Bateson, Fellow of the Royal Society, Norwich House, Cambridge	9 June 1897
NLB/19/414	Copy letter from A L K, to Messrs Harrison & Sons	27 September 1899
NLB/22/680	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to [William] Bateson, Fellow of the Royal Society	25 June 1901
NLB/26/403	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to, William Bateson, Fellow of the Royal Society	13 March 1903
NLB/20/446	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to William Bateson, Fellow of the Royal Society	26 April 1900
NLB/22/49	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to [William] Bateson, Fellow of the Royal Society	20 February 1901
NLB/21/654	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to William Bateson, Fellow of the Royal Society	3 January 1901
NLB/21/585	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to William Bateson, Fellow of the Royal Society	12 December 1900
NLB/21/685	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to William Bateson, Fellow of the Royal Society	9 January 1901
NLB/21/629	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to William Bateson, Fellow of the Royal Society	20 December 1900
NLB/23/1/538	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to William Bateson, Fellow of the Royal Society, Merton House, Grantchester	28 November 1901
NLB/24/101	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to William Bateson, Fellow of the Royal Society	28 February 1902
NLB/23/1/562	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to William Bateson, Fellow of the Royal Society	4 December 1901
NLB/24/33	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to William Bateson, Fellow of the Royal Society	[February 1902]
NLB/24/89	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to William Bateson, Fellow of the Royal Society	[February 1902]
NLB/23/1/520	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to William Bateson, Fellow of the Royal Society	26 November 1901
NLB/23/1/364	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to William Bateson, Fellow of the Royal Society	1 November 1901
NLB/23/2/395	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Harry Marshall Ward, Fellow of the Royal Society, and others	11 November 1903
NLB/23/1/741	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to William Bateson, Fellow of the Royal Society	14 January 1902
NLB/23/2/551	Copy letter from Joseph Larmor, to William Bateson, Fellow of the Royal Society	3 November 1904
NLB/23/1/756	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to William Bateson, Fellow of the Royal Society	16 January 1902
NLB/65/859	Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr [William] Bateson, FRS	18 January 1924
NLB/24/163	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to William Bateson, [Fellow of the Royal Society], Merton House, Grantchester, Cambridge	14 March 1902
NLB/26/508	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to, William Bateson, Fellow of the Royal Society	2 April 1903
NLB/23/1/856	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to William Bateson, Fellow of the Royal Society	[6 February 1902]
NLB/24/678	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to William Bateson, Fellow of the Royal Society	16 June 1902
NLB/26/357	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to, William Bateson, Fellow of the Royal Society	6 March 1903
NLB/24/439	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to William Bateson, Fellow of the Royal Society	16 May 1902
NLB/24/464	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Wiliam Bateson, Fellow of the Royal Society	23 May 1902
NLB/25/712	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to William Bateson, Fellow of the Royal Society	12 December 1902
NLB/25/745	Copy letter from Michael Foster, to William Bateson, Fellow of the Royal Society	18 December 1902
NLB/25/837	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to William Bateson, Fellow of the Royal Society, Cambridge	9 January 1903
NLB/27/251	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to William Bateson, Fellow of the Royal Society	27 July 1903
NLB/26/549	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to, William Bateson, Fellow of the Royal Society	20 April 1903
NLB/27/319	Copy letter from A H White, to William Bateson, Fellow of the Royal Society	7 August 1903
NLB/29/786	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to William Bateson, Fellow of the Royal Society	10 December 1904
NLB/34/831	Copy letter from Archibald Geikie, to William Bateson, Fellow of the Royal Society	15 March 1907
NLB/26/741	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to, William Basteson, Fellow of the Royal Society, Chairman of the Zoology Committee	[May 1903]
NLB/29/647	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to William Bateson, [Fellow of the Royal Society]	19 November 1904
NLB/28/99	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to William Bateson, Fellow of the Royal Society	9 January 1904
NLB/30/245	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to William Bateson, Fellow of the Royal Society	17 February 1905
NLB/30/375	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to William Bateson, Fellow of the Royal Society	15 March 1905
MC/19/745	Memorandum from Adam Sedgwick, Trinity College, Cambridge, to the Royal Society	1 August 1904
NLB/30/721	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to William Bateson, Fellow of the Royal Society	11 May 1905
NLB/29/540	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to William Bateson, Fellow of the Royal Society	1 November 1904
NLB/29/471	Copy letter from Archibald Geikie, to William Bateson, Fellow of the Royal Society	21 October 1904
NLB/29/746	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to William Bateson, Fellow of the Royal Society	5 December 1904
NLB/31/761	Copy letter from Robert Frederick William Harrison, to William Bateson, [Fellow of the Royal Society]	10 November 1905
NLB/42/699	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Messrs Harrison & Sons	17 August 1910
NLB/32/618	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to P Murray Thomson, 5 York Place, Edinburgh	24 April 1906
NLB/32/702	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to William Bateson, Fellow of the Royal Society	11 May 1906
NLB/43/80	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to William Bateson, Fellow of the Royal Society	4 November 1910
NLB/37/72	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to W Bateson, Weston House, Grantchester, Cambridge	20 January 1908
NLB/35/603	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to William Bateson, Fellow of the Royal Society	18 June 1907
NLB/37/432	Copy letter from Archibald Geikie to Mr Bateson	19 March 1908
NLB/36/600	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to William Bateson, Fellow of the Royal Society	19 November 1907
NLB/36/799	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to William Bateson, Fellow of the Royal Society	17 December 1907
NLB/37/304	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor J [John] Hickson, Fellow of the Royal Society, Chairman of the Zoology Sectional Committee.	28 February 1908
MC/23/38	Letter from [William] Bateson, Merton House, Grantchester, Cambridge, to [Robert] Harrison, The Royal Society	20 November 1908
NLB/39/302	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor F [Francis] W [Wall] Oliver, Fellow of the Royal Society, Chairman of the Botany Sectional Committee	22 December 1908
NLB/38/633	Copy letter from Archibald Geikie, to Professor William Bateson, Fellow of the Royal Society	14 October 1908
NLB/40/391	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Dr [William] Bateson FRS, Merton House, Grantchester, Cambridge	June 1909
NLB/40/528	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor W [William] Bateson FRS	21 June 1909
NLB/40/692	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor W [William] Bateson FRS	19 July 1909
MC/25/16	Letter from [William] Bateson, Merton House, Grantchester, Cambridge, to Mr [Robert] Harrison, [Royal Society]	6 January 1910
NLB/41/112	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to William Bateson, Fellow of the Royal Society	15 October 1909
NLB/40/812	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor W [William] Bateson FRS	30 August 1909
MC/25/18	Letter from [William] Bateson, Merton House, Grantchester, Cambridge, to Mr [Robert] Harrison, [Royal Society]	20 April 1910
NLB/44/28	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to W [William] Bateson FRS	26 April 1911
NLB/43/212	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to William Bateson, Fellow of the Royal Society	22 November 1910
NLB/43/228	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to William Bateson, Fellow of the Royal Society	25 November 1910
NLB/44/815	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to W [William] Bateson FRS	20 November 1911
MC/27/19	Letter from [William] Bateson, The Manor House, Merton, Surrey, to Sir John Rose Bradford, [Royal Society]	13 February 1912
NLB/46/234	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to William Bateson, Fellow of the Royal Society	28 June 1912
NLB/47/37	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to W [William] Bateson FRS	19 November 1912
NLB/46/803	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to [William] Bateson, [Fellow of the Royal Society]	5 November 1912
NLB/47/476	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor W [William] Bateson FRS	5 February 1913
NLB/47/685	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor W [William] Bateson FRS	14 March 1913
NLB/48/778	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor [William] Bateson, Fellow of the Royal Society	13 October 1913
NLB/51/351	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society to Professor William Bateson FRS	22 February 1915
NLB/51/165	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society to Professor William Bateson FRS	23 December 1914
NLB/50/705	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor [William] Bateson, Fellow of the Royal Society	16 October 1914
NLB/50/728	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to The Soiree Committee, via Professor [William] Bateson, Fellow of the Royal Society, Chairman of the Soiree Committee	23 October 1914
NLB/52/369	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor William Bateson, FRS	19 November 1915
RR/22/78	Referee's report by William Bateson, on a paper 'The inheritance of colour in the stick-insect, Carausius morosus' by Ernest William MacBride and A Jackson	6 June 1915
NLB/60/818	Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to [William] Bateson Esquire, Chairman of the Soiree Committee and FRS	7 April 1921
RR/20/46	Referee's report by William Bateson, on a paper 'An investigation by pedigree breeding into the polymorphism of Papilio polytes, Linn' by John Claud Fortescue Fryer	8 May 1913
NLB/59/655	Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [William] Bateson, Chairman of the Soiree Committee and FRS	29 October 1920
NLB/60/573	Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [William] Bateson, Chairman of the Soiree Committee and FRS	25 February 1921
NLB/59/544	Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [William] Bateson Esquire, Chairman of the Soiree Committee and FRS	15 October 1920
NLB/53/164	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Zoology Committee	12 May 1916
NLB/54/538	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Charles Scott] Sherrington, Chairman of the Physiology Committee and FRS	12 June 1917
NLB/59/769	Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to William Bateson Esquire, Chairman of the Soiree Committee and FRS	10 November 1920
RR/23/85	Referee's report by William Bateson, on a paper 'On the growth and habits of the stick insect' by H L Roth	8 April 1916
NLB/58/12	Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [William] Bateson, Chairman of the Soiree Committee and FRS	1 March 1920
NLB/58/858	Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [William] Bateson, Chairman of the Soiree Committee and FRS	25 June 1920
NLB/58/91	Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [William] Bateson, Chairman of the Soiree Committee and FRS	12 March 1920
RR/17/401	Referee's report by William Bateson, on a paper 'The possible ancestors of the horses living under domestication' by James Cossar Ewart	15 June 1909
NLB/58/805	Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [William] Bateson, Chairman of the Soiree Committee and FRS	21 June 1920
NLB/57/266	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor W [William] Bateson, FRS	1 October 1919
NLB/65/306	Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [William] Bateson Esq., FRS	9 October 1923
RR/17/267	Referee's report by William Bateson, on a paper 'An experimental estimation of the theory of ancestral contributions in heredity' by A D Darbishire	16 December 1908
NLB/59/444	Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [William] Bateson Esquire, Chairman of the Soiree Committee and FRS	4 October 1920
NLB/59/778	Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to William Bateson Esquire, Chairman of the Soiree Committee and FRS	10 November 1920
NLB/60/522	Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [William] Bateson Esquire, Chairman of the Soiree Committee and FRS	18 February 1921
NLB/62/510	Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to [William] Bateson Esquire, Chairman of the Soiree Committee and FRS	24 February 1922
NLB/65/532	Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr [William] Bateson, FRS	14 November 1923
RR/17/149	Referee's report by William Bateson, on a paper 'On the result of crossing round with wrinkled peas, with especial reference to their starch-grains' by A D Darbishire	7 July 1907
NLB/61/679	Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [William] Bateson Esquire, Chairman of the Soiree Committee and FRS	6 October 1921
NLB/57/669	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor W [William] Bateson, FRS, Chairman of the Applied Biological Sciences Committee	9 January 1920
NLB/64/271	Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [William] Bateson Esquire, Chairman of the Soiree Committee and FRS	3 March 1923
NLB/62/626	Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [William] Bateson Esquire, Chairman of the Soiree Committee and FRS	27 March 1922
NLB/57/768	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor W[William] Bateson, FRS, Chairman of the Applied Biological Sciences Committee	2 February 1920
NLB/67/844	Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [William] Bateson Esq., FRS	24 March 1925
NLB/62/915	Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [William] Bateson Esquire, Chairman of the Soiree Committee and FRS	2 June 1922
NLB/55/921	Copy letter from [Joseph John] Thomson, President of the Royal Society; to Professor [William] Bateson, FRS	24 October 1918
NLB/62/731	Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society	24 April 1922
NLB/63/168	Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society and FRS; to [William] Bateson Esq., FRS	07 July 1922
NLB/57/841	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Harold [William Taylor] Wager, FRS, Chairman of the Sectional Committee for Botany	21 February 1920
NLB/57/691	Copy letter from John M [Millar] Thomson, Chairman of the Library Committee of the Royal Society; to Professor JW [John William] Nicholson, FRS, Chairman of the Sectional Committee of Mathematics	16 January 1920
NLB/64/922	Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to [William] Bateson, FRS	11 July 1923
NLB/64/843	Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Sidney [Frederic] Harmer K.B.E. FRS	28 June 1923
NLB/64/817	Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; [William] Bateson Esq. FRS	25 June 1923
NLB/65/216	Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr [William] Bateson, FRS	21 September 1923
NLB/64/637	Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to William Bateson, Esq. FRS	18 May 1923
NLB/65/917	Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Albert Charles] Seward, FRS	29 January 1924
NLB/66/178	Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr [William] Bateson, FRS	8 March 1924
NLB/65/420	Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr [Arthur Smith] Woodward, FRS; also sent to Professor [Godfrey Harold] Hardy; [Charles Thomson Rees] Wilson Esq.; [Joseph] Barcroft Esq; Dr [Frederick Frost] Blackman; Sir Frank [Watson] Dyson; [William] Bateson, Esq.; Professor [John Bretland] Farmer; Professor [Frederick Gowland] Hopkins	30 October 1923
NLB/66/565	Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. Julian Huxley	30 May 1924
NLB/67/43	Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Sidney [Frederic] Harmer, KBE, FRS	9 October 1924
NLB/67/767	Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [William] Bateson, FRS	3 March 1925
NLB/66/456	Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [William] Bateson Esq., FRS	15 May 1924
NLB/68/860	Copy letter from Charles Scott Sherrington, President of the Royal Society; to [William] Bateson Esq., FRS	14 November 1925
NLB/69/233	Copy letter from Sir Ernest Rutherford, President of the Royal Society, to Mrs. Bateson	11 February 1926
NLB/67/756	Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr [William] Bateson, FRS	27 February 1925
NLB/69/235	Copy letter from [Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of] the Royal Society; [to the Press?]	12 February 1926
NLB/68/644	Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [William] Bateson Esq., FRS	[September 1925]
NLB/68/551	Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Vernon Herbert] Blackman, FRS	6 August 1925
NLB/68/908	Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [William] Bateson Esq., FRS	27 November 1925
MM/15/93	Letter from William Bateson to Francis Galton	11 November 1897
NLB/26/799	Copy letter from Theodore E James to, William Bateson, Fellow of the Royal Society	4 June 1903
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
RR/29/77	Referee's report by William Bateson, on a paper 'A mathematical theory of evolution, based on the conclusions of Dr. J. C. Willis' by George Udny Yule	26 January 1924
NLB/27/839	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to William Bateson, Fellow of the Royal Society	8 December 1903
NLB/35/783	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Albert Charles Seward, Fellow of the Royal Society	16 July 1907
RR/16/174	Referee's report by Walter Frank Raphael Weldon, on a paper 'Experimental Studies in the Physiology of Heredity' by William Bateson, E R Saunders and Reginald Crundall Punnett	9 October 1904
RR/10/242	Referee's report by Henry Bowman Brady, on a paper 'On some variations of Cardium edule apparently correlated to the conditions of life' by William Bateson	3 June 1889
RR/30/39	Referee's report by William Bateson, on a paper 'On an orthogenetic series of growth forms in certain Tetraxonid Sponge Spicules' by Arthur Dendy	8 October 1924
NLB/65/231	Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [William] Bateson, Esq., FRS; also sent to Professor [Alfred] Fowler, Professor [Godfrey Harold] Hardy, Dr [Frederick Frost] Blackman, Professor [John Bretland] Farmer, Professor [Frederick Gowland] Hopkins, Dr [Arthur] Smith Woodward, Dr [Frank Watson] Dyson, [Charles Thomson Rees] Wilson Esq., [Joseph] Barcroft Esq.	24 September 1923
NLB/69/1	Copy letter from Henry Hallett Dale, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Sidney [Frederic] Harmer K.B.E. FRS	10 December 1925
MDA/C/4/2	Letters on nominations to deliver the Croonian Lecture	1921-1925
NLB/3/597	Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to William Bateson, The Laboratory, Citadel Hall, Plymouth	22 July 1889
NLB/3/596	Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Michael Foster, Secretary, Royal Society	20 July 1889
NLB/32/24	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to William Bateson, Fellow of the Royal Society	13 December 1905
NLB/58	New Letter Book volume 58, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration	28 February 1920-9 July 1920
NLB/59	New Letter Book volume 59, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration	9 July 1920-2 December 1920
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
NLB/57	New Letter Book volume 57, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration	27 June 1919-27 February 1920
RR/16/39	Referee's report by William Bateson, on a paper 'Experiments in hybridization; with special reference to the effect of conditions on dominance' by Leonard Doncaster	6 April 1903
NLB/24/79	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to William Bateson, Fellow of the Royal Society	25 February 1902
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
PP/6/4	Paper, 'Note on the later stages in the development of Balanoglossus Kowalevskii (Agassiz), and on the affinities of the enteropneusta' by William Bateson	1884
PP/10/16/1	Manuscript, 'Preliminary note on a Balanoglossus larva from the Bahamas' by W F R [Walter Frank Raphael] Weldon	1887
RR/15/100	Referee's report by William Bateson, on a paper 'Mathematical contributions to the theory of evolution. IX. On the principle of homotyposis and its relation to heredity. Part I. Homotyposis in the vegetable kingdom' by Karl Pearson	15 November 1900
RR/10/241	Referee's report by Edwin Ray Lankester, on two papers 'On Phymosoma varians' by Arthur Everett Shipley, and 'On some variations of Cardium edule apparently correlated to the conditions of life' by William Bateson	23 May 1889
MC/14/282	Letter from [Julian] Pauncefote, Foreign Office, to the Secretary of the Royal Society	10 January 1888
PP/10/16	Paper, 'Preliminary note on a Balanoglossus larva from the Bahamas' by W F R [Walter Frank Raphael] Weldon	1887
MC/19/51	Letter from [William] Bateson, The Royal Society, Burlington House, to [Robert William Frederick] Harrison	[November 1904]
MC/14	Volume 14 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society	1885-1888
MC/19/50	Letter from [William] Bateson, The Royal Society, Burlington House, to [Robert William Frederick] Harrison	8 January 1904
MC/19/52	Letter from [William] Bateson, The Royal Society, Burlington House, to [Robert William Frederick] Harrison	10 December 1904
MC/23/37	Letter from [William] Bateson, Merton House, Grantchester, Cambridge, to [Robert] Harrison, The Royal Society	10 June 1908
NLB/39/52	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor W [William] Bateson, Fellow of the Royal Society	18 November 1908
MC/25/17	Letter from [William] Bateson, Merton House, Grantchester, Cambridge, to Mr [Robert] Harrison, [Royal Society]	6 February 1910
NLB/41/508	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor William Bateson, Fellow of the Royal Society	5 January 1910
NLB/41/692	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor William Bateson, Fellow of the Royal Society	7 February 1910
MC/25/19	Letter from [William] Bateson, The Manor House, Merton, Surrey, to [Joseph] Larmor, [Royal Society]	30 November 1910
MC/19/747	Letter from Adam Sedgwick, 4 Cranmer Road, to [Robert William Frederick] Harrison	4 October 1904
MC/19/746	Letter from Adam Sedgwick, Trinity College, Cambridge, to [Robert William Frederick] Harrison	28 September 1904
MC/19/744	Letter from Adam Sedgwick, Trinity College, Cambridge, to [Robert William Frederick] Harrison	12 July 1904
MC/23	Volume 23 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society	1908
MC/26/21	Letter from [William] Bateson, The Manor House, Merton, Surrey, to Mr [Robert] Harrison, the [Royal Society]	1 March 1911
MC/21	Volume 21 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society	1906
MC/27/127	Letter from [John] Stanley Gardiner, The Royal Society, Burlington House, London, W, to The Assistant Secretary, Royal Society	30 October 1912
MC/28/18	Letter from [William] Bateson, The Manor House, Merton, Surrey, to Mr [Robert] Harrison, [Royal Society]	1913
MC/21/28	Letter from [William] Bateson, Merton House, Grantchester, Cambridge, to the Secretaries of the Royal Society	31 January 1906
MC/19	Volume 19 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society	1904
MC/30/12	Letter from [William] Bateson, The John Innes Horticultural Institution, The Manor House, Merton, Surrey, to Mr [Robert] Harrison, [Royal Society]	20 November 1915
NLB/54/53	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [William] Bateson, FRS	29 January 1917
MC/32/24	Letter from [William] Bateson, The Manor House, Merton, Surrey, to Mr [Robert] Harrison, [Royal Society]	18 January 1917
MC/36	Volume 36 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society	1922
MC/36/8	Letter from [William] Bateson, Cornwall, to [Francis Alexander] Towle	9 October 1922

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