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The photograph features Gordon Dickerson, Douglas Falconer, Jay Lush, Alan Robertson and Forbes Robertson. The photograph enclosure is inscribed 'Dr Falconer we have thoroughly enjoyed your talk' by Gordon D. Rapp, Poultry Breeders Roundtable and signed March 1955.

Scope and Contents The collection is composed of a paper ( a 'mimeo' copy) on The genetics of populations. The paper consists of 364-pages, numbered. It contains chapters on general or static populations, forces which change gene frequency, mating systems, and appropriate breeding plans. On the title page is handwritten in ink: H. P. Donald (presumably of the Animal Breeding Research Organisation, Edinburgh, of which he became Director in 1951), August 1949. There...