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Copy letter from Secretary of the Royal Society [Henry Dale] 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/1/39

Date: 12 October 1932

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Paper reference code: B.65 [Incorrectly inscribed as relating to B.66, Hogben’s other paper, which Fisher also acted as a referee for. Fisher was a second referee on this paper, co-authored by Hermann - see RR/45/74.]

Asks Fisher to look over the suggested amendments to this paper when he is next at the Royal Society.

[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/1/39
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12 October 1932
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Ronald Aylmer Fisher, Copy letter from Secretary of the Royal Society [Henry Dale] to R A [Ronald Aylmer] Fisher, regarding a paper 'The intellectual resemblance of twins' by Louis Herrman and Lancelot Thomas Hogben, 12 October 1932, RR/W/1/39, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_w_1_39/copy-letter-from-secretary-of-the-royal-society-henry-dale-to-r-a-ronald-aylmer-fisher-regarding-a-paper-the-intellectual-resemblance-of-twins-by-louis-herrman-and-lancelot-thomas-hogben, accessed on 16 January 2026

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