Rowland Harry Biffen
1874 - 1949
- Born
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28 May 1874
Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom
- Died
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12 July 1949
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom
- Nationality
- British
- Gender
- Male
- Date of election for Royal Society fellowship
- 07/05/1914
- Age at the time of election for Royal Society fellowship
- 40
- Occupation
- Geneticist; Agricltural botanist
- Relationships
- Parents: Henry John Biffen, headmaster of the Christ Church higher grade school at Cheltenham, and Mary. Spouse: (m. 1899) Mary (d. 1948), eldest daughter of Edmund Hemus of Holdfast Hall, Upton upon Severn.
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- Wikipedia
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Author of
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Referee's report by Francis Galton, on three papers 'Experimental Studies in the Physiology of Heredity' by William Bateson, E R Saunders and Reginald Crundall Punnett, 'Experiments with Poulty' by C C Hurst, and 'Some Experiments on Wheat-breeding' by Rowland Harry Biffen
Creator: Francis Galton Reference number: RR/16/171 -
Letter from Sidney Frederic Harmer, to Robert William Frederick Harrison, regarding three papers 'Experimental Studies in the Physiology of Heredity' by William Bateson, E R Saunders and Reginald Crundall Punnett, 'Experiments with Poulty' by C C Hurst, and 'Some Experiments on Wheat-breeding' by Rowland Harry Biffen
Creator: Sidney Frederic Harmer Reference number: RR/16/172 -
Referee's report by Francis Darwin, on report submitted to the Evolution Committee, II, regarding three papers 'Experimental Studies in the Physiology of Heredity' by William Bateson, E R Saunders and Reginald Crundall Punnett, 'Experiments with Poulty' by C C Hurst, and 'Some Experiments on Wheat-breeding' by Rowland Harry Biffen
Creator: Francis Darwin Reference number: RR/16/173 -
Referee's report by Walter Frank Raphael Weldon, on reports to the Evolution Committee, II, regarding three papers 'Experimental Studies in the Physiology of Heredity' by William Bateson, E R Saunders and Reginald Crundall Punnett, 'Experiments with Poulty' by C C Hurst, and 'Some Experiments on Wheat-breeding' by Rowland Harry Biffen
Creator: Walter Frank Raphael Weldon Reference number: RR/16/175
Referee of
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Referee's report by Rowland Harry Biffen, on a paper 'Breeding experiments which show the hybridisation and mutation are independant phenomena' by Reginald Ruggles Gates
Creator: Rowland Harry Biffen Reference number: RR/20/48 -
Referee's report by Rowland Harry Biffen, on a paper 'A quantitative investigation of the bacterial and protozoan population of the soil, with an account of the protozoan fauna' by D Ward Cutler, Lettice M Crump and H Sandon
Creator: Rowland Harry Biffen Reference number: RR/27/33 -
Referee's report by Rowland Harry Biffen, on a paper 'The agricultural value of rainfall in the tropics' by H Martin Leake
Creator: Rowland Harry Biffen Reference number: RR/35/140