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Copy letter from R [Ronald] Winckworth, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society, to R A [Ronald Aylmer] Fisher, regarding a paper 'The intellectual resemblance of twins' by Louis Herrman and Lancelot Thomas Hogben

Reference number: RR/W/1/33

Date: 20 September 1932

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Paper reference code: B.65

Requests Fisher's opinion on the paper with regard to its statistical and genetic content.

[Not published in Royal Society journals, published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, vol. 53, 1934, pp. 105-129].

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RR/W/1/33
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20 September 1932
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Letter on paper
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1 page
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Carbon

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Ronald Winckworth

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Ronald Winckworth, Copy letter from R [Ronald] Winckworth, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society, to R A [Ronald Aylmer] Fisher, regarding a paper 'The intellectual resemblance of twins' by Louis Herrman and Lancelot Thomas Hogben, 20 September 1932, RR/W/1/33, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_w_1_33/copy-letter-from-r-ronald-winckworth-assistant-secretary-of-the-royal-society-to-r-a-ronald-aylmer-fisher-regarding-a-paper-the-intellectual-resemblance-of-twins-by-louis-herrman-and-lancelot-thomas-hogben, accessed on 09 December 2025

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