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Letter from Robert Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society on a paper 'Mathematical contributions to the theory of evolution.— IV. On the probable errors of frequency constants and on the influence of random selection on variation and correlation' by Karl Pearson and Louis Napoleon George Filon to Olaus Magnus Friedrich Erdmann Henrici

Reference number: RR/13/251

Date: 26 January 1898

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Requests that he offers his approval or disapproval of the paper. He should forward his report with the paper to another of Mathematics Committee members.

Subject: Mathematics

[Published in Philosophical Transactions A, 1898].

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RR/13/251
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26 January 1898
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2 pages
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Letter from Robert Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society on a paper 'Mathematical contributions to the theory of evolution.— IV. On the probable errors of frequency constants and on the influence of random selection on variation and correlation' by Karl Pearson and Louis Napoleon George Filon to Olaus Magnus Friedrich Erdmann Henrici, 26 January 1898, RR/13/251, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_13_251/letter-from-robert-harrison-assistant-secretary-of-the-royal-society-on-a-paper-mathematical-contributions-to-the-theory-of-evolution-iv-on-the-probable-errors-of-frequency-constants-and-on-the-influence-of-random-selection-on-variation-and-correlation-by-karl-pearson-and-louis-napoleon-george-filon-to-olaus-magnus-friedrich-erdmann-henrici, accessed on 20 September 2024

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