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Copy letter from Secretary of the Royal Society to [John Burdon Sanderson] Haldane, regarding a paper 'Partial Inbreeding in Mendelian Populations, with special reference to Human Cousin Marriage' by Haldane and Pearl Moshinsky

Reference number: RR/W/1/50

Date: 06 January 1933

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Paper reference code: B.84

States that the referee [Ronald Aylmer Fisher] has not made a clear decision on the paper, and reports some feedback from the referee. Asks whether Haldane would like to make changes to the paper based on this.

[Not published in Royal Society journals but published in the Annals of Eugenicsm vol. 9, issue 4, 1939, pp. 321-340].

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RR/W/1/50
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06 January 1933
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2 pages
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Ronald Aylmer Fisher

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Ronald Aylmer Fisher, Copy letter from Secretary of the Royal Society to [John Burdon Sanderson] Haldane, regarding a paper 'Partial Inbreeding in Mendelian Populations, with special reference to Human Cousin Marriage' by Haldane and Pearl Moshinsky, 06 January 1933, RR/W/1/50, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_w_1_50/copy-letter-from-secretary-of-the-royal-society-to-john-burdon-sanderson-haldane-regarding-a-paper-partial-inbreeding-in-mendelian-populations-with-special-reference-to-human-cousin-marriage-by-haldane-and-pearl-moshinsky, accessed on 11 May 2026

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