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Referee's report by William Burnside, on a paper 'Mathematical contributions to the theory of evolution. XI. On the influence of natural selection on the variability and correlation of organs' by Karl Pearson

Reference number: RR/15/370

Date: February 1902

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Sectional Committee: Mathematics

He declines to act as a referee as he is 'quite unable to understand it'. He has explained this at greater length in the accompanying letter to the Chairman of the Mathematical Committee [not attached].

[Published in Philosophical Transactions A, 1903].

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February 1902
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William Burnside, Referee's report by William Burnside, on a paper 'Mathematical contributions to the theory of evolution. XI. On the influence of natural selection on the variability and correlation of organs' by Karl Pearson, February 1902, RR/15/370, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_15_370/referees-report-by-william-burnside-on-a-paper-mathematical-contributions-to-the-theory-of-evolution-xi-on-the-influence-of-natural-selection-on-the-variability-and-correlation-of-organs-by-karl-pearson, accessed on 05 October 2024

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