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Biometrika Trust Records
Catalogue reference: BIOMETRIKA TRUST
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This record is about the Biometrika Trust Records dating from 1901-1935.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- BIOMETRIKA TRUST
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Title (The name of the record)
- Biometrika Trust Records
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1901-1935
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Description (What the record is about)
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Papers relating to the foundation and early days of the journal Biometrika , 1901-1916; papers relating to the Biometrika Trust, 1935.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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University College London Special Collections also holds papers of Karl Pearson relating to the journal Biometrika , 1900-1954 (Ref: PEARSON/347-570); papers of Egon Sharpe Pearson, including material relating to Biometrika (Ref: E S PEARSON).
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- London University: University College London (UCL) Special Collections
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Not Public Record(s)
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- Biometrika Trust
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 1 box
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
- Found by Dr W Bynum in the History of Medicine Department and transferred to University College London Manuscripts Room in 1988.
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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Biometrika , a journal for the statistical study of biological problems, was founded by the eugenicist (Sir) Francis Galton (1822-1911), the mathematician and biologist Karl Pearson (1857-1936), and the zoologist Walter Frank Raphael Weldon (1860-1906), in 1901. It was initially edited by Pearson and Weldon. The journal was later published by the Biometrika Trust, whose offices are accommodated in the the Department of Statistical Science at University College London (founded in 1911 as the Department of Applied Statistics). It is distributed by Oxford University Press.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/58730a79-6ed8-460b-9821-e77496442cfd/
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This record is held at London University: University College London (UCL) Special Collections
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