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Copy letter from Secretary of the Royal Society [Henry Dale] to Professor L [Lancelot Thomas] Hogben, regarding papers 'The intellectual resemblance of twins' by Louis Herrman and Hogben, and 'The correlation of relatives on the supposition of sex-linked transmission' by Hogben

Reference number: RR/W/1/35

Date: 06 October 1932

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Paper reference code: B.65 and B.66

The first referees for both of Hogben's papers [Charles Samuel Myers and Ronald Aylmer Fisher] have commented that they might be more suitable for a more specialised genetics journal. Suggests that Hogben withdraw the paper communicated by D M S Watson [B.66]. Provides a summary of the feedback on the joint paper with Herrman [B.65] and asks how Hogben would like to proceed.

[Not published in Royal Society journals, published respectively in the Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, vol. 53, 1934, pp. 105-129; Journal of Genetics, vol. 26, n.3, 1935].

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RR/W/1/35
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06 October 1932
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Ronald Aylmer Fisher

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Charles Samuel Myers

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Ronald Aylmer Fisher, Charles Samuel Myers, Copy letter from Secretary of the Royal Society [Henry Dale] to Professor L [Lancelot Thomas] Hogben, regarding papers 'The intellectual resemblance of twins' by Louis Herrman and Hogben, and 'The correlation of relatives on the supposition of sex-linked transmission' by Hogben, 06 October 1932, RR/W/1/35, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_w_1_35/copy-letter-from-secretary-of-the-royal-society-henry-dale-to-professor-l-lancelot-thomas-hogben-regarding-papers-the-intellectual-resemblance-of-twins-by-louis-herrman-and-hogben-and-the-correlation-of-relatives-on-the-supposition-of-sex-linked-transmission-by-hogben, accessed on 12 December 2025

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