Group photograph of Institute staff and visitors, with related correspondence, 1924
Scope and Contents
Contains two negatives and four copies of the photograph, in two sizes, including one mounted on card (with names written underneath), and a letter from Ronald Birse to Douglas Falconer about the appearance of the picture in Birse's Science at the University of Edinburgh 1583-1993 (Edinburgh, 1994).
The photograph depicts (from left to right): Arthur Walton, D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, Paul Kammerer, Lancelot Hogben, Honor Fell, F.A.E Crew and M.V Cytovich.
Dates
- Creation: 1924
Language of Materials
English
Conditions Governing Access
This material is open.
Extent
1 folder
Subject
- Birse, Ronald M., fl 1994 (science historian) (Person)
- Crew, Francis Albert Eley, 1886-1973 (professor of animal genetics and professor of public health and social medicine, University of Edinburgh) (Person)
- Cytovich, M.V, fl 1924 (secretary to F.A.E Crew) (Person)
- Falconer, Douglas Scott (professor of genetics, University of Edinburgh and director of the Agricultural Research Council, Unit of Animal Genetics) (Person)
- Fell, Honor Bridget, Dame, 1900-1986 (biologist and director of Strangeways Research Laboratory, Cambridge (England)) (Person)
- Hogben, Lancelot, 1895-1975 ( British experimental zoologist and medical statistician) (Person)
- Kammerer, Paul, 1880-1926 (Austrian biologist) (Person)
- Thompson, D'Arcy Wentworth, Sir, 1860-1948 (zoologist and classical scholar) (Person)
- Walton, Arthur, fl 1924 (geneticist) (Person)
Creator
- From the Sub-subfonds: University of Edinburgh, Institute of Animal Genetics (1930-1990) (university research institute) (Organization)
Repository Details
Part of the University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections Repository
Centre for Research Collections
University of Edinburgh Main Library
George Square
Edinburgh EH8 9LJ Scotland
+44(0)131 650 8379
heritagecollections@ed.ac.uk