Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher,
Papers 1911-94
MSS 0013
Contents
| Correspondence |
Series 1, 6 |
| Scientific papers (published) |
Series 2 |
| Published books |
Series 3-5, 7-11 |
| [Collected papers |
Series 33] |
Unpublished and miscellaneous papers,
calculations etc. |
Series 12-13 |
| Notebooks, data collections, calculations |
Series 14-16 |
| Lecture notes and outlines |
Series 17-18 |
| Reviews |
Series 19 |
| Miscellaneous |
Series 20 |
| Personal and biographical |
|
Family papers
|
Series 22 |
Honours, obituaries, commemorations,
photographs, etc
|
Series 23-27 |
Correspondence
| Correspondence. 1911, 1914,
1918-62. 5 metres. |
Series 1 |
[Principally of a scientific nature. An
alphabetical list of Fisher’s correspondents is
available. A separate brief guide (incomplete) to the
contents of the file(s) for each correspondent has been prepared by
the Special Collections Librarian and is available for
consultation.]
| Letters from W.S. Gosset to R.A.
Fisher 1915-36. 5 volumes. |
Series 6 |
[Copy of typescript for private circulation. The
Letters were published in 1962.]
Scientific papers
Published scientific papers and other
writings, including contributions to discussions, comments on the
contributions of others, reviews, and letters to the editor.
1912-62. 594 separately numbered items.
see also Series 12-13 and 19. |
Series 2 |
Published books
| Statistical methods for research
workers (1925-58) |
Series 3 |
Typescript and ms. corrections for the 14th edition; Reviews
of various editions, 1925-56; and variorum compilation by J.H.
Bennett showing the changes over all editions.
A complete set of all 14 editions is held in the separate
library of Fisher’s books donated by Professor J.H. Bennett and
held in Special Collections [the second edition is in the form of a
photocopy, in two parts, and the “14th edition” consists of the
manuscript amendments to the printed 13th edition]
| Genetical theory of natural
selection (1930) |
Series 7 |
Annotated copy of first edition, second revised edition,
Memorandum of Agreement with the publisher Clarendon Press (OUP)
1929, Reviews 1930-31, and revisions for reprint, 1939, 1948, 1955
and undated.
See also Series 34
| Design of experiments (1935-60) |
Series 4 |
Reviews of various editions, 1936-52; and variorum
compilation by J.H. Bennett showing the changes over all
editions.
A complete set of all 8 editions is held in the separate library
of Fisher’s books donated by Professor J.H. Bennett and held in
Special Collections [the “8th edition” consists of the manuscript
amendments to the printed 7th edition]
See also Series 18
| Statistical Tables (1938-63) |
Series 8 |
Reviews of various editions, 1938-49 and undated file of
corrections for a later edition.
| The Theory of inbreeding (1949) |
Series 9 |
Interleaved copy with changes and revisions, drafts and data for a
revised edition [1965], and Reviews of both editions,
1950-52 and 1965.
| R.A. Fisher, Contributions to mathematical statistics
(1950) |
Series 10 |
Reviews 1951-52
| Statistical methods and scientific inference |
Series 5 |
First (1956), second (1959) and third (1973) editions. Second
edition is Fisher’s interleaved copy, including corrections and
changes/revisions in Fisher’s hand. Also separate file of
corrections and of Reviews of the first (1956) and second
editions, 1956-59.
see also Series 18 (1957
address)
Collected Papers of R.A. Fisher
see Series 33
| Statistical methods,
experimental design and scientific inference. (1990)
1v. |
Series 11 |
[A re-issue of Fisher’s Statistical methods and Design of
experiments and of his Statistical methods and scientific
inference.]
Unpublished and miscellaneous
papers
All are by Fisher and are undated unless otherwise
indicated.
| Papers on Eugenics 1911-20,
1936 |
Series 12 |
Including papers on Heredity and Evolution and science delivered at
the Cambridge University Eugenics Society November 1911 and March
1912; papers given to the Eugenics Query Club 1912 and undated;
memo on the Policy of the Eugenics Society with respect to the
professions and trade unions; paper 'Nationalism and Eugenics' read
to Science and Arts Society;
untitled paper read at Cambridge c 1920; 'The Barbarians of Arabia'
(early 1920s?); 'The National Union of Scientific Workers' (undated
- while at Rothamstead); 'Current condition of the birthrate'
(1936)
Also manuscript draft of book? on natural selection/eugenics
c1919 (3 chapters only, ms and typed copies); and paper by T.E.
Jones on Eugenics delivered at the Cambridge University Eugenics
Society, 5 March 1912.
| Miscellaneous papers c1927-59 |
Series 13 |
Including :
Triplet children in GB and Ireland 1928
A genetic garden [proposal for creation of at Cambridge] undated -
after 1943
Polyommatus icarus, 1947-48 [cf CP177]
Testing the significance of manifestation in a three-point
backcross 1948
Observed frequencies, March 1949
Chromosome markers in human genetics - paper read at Milan meeting
September 1949
Paper by Fisher on Gregor Mendel, 1955
[prepared as introduction to the translation of Mendel’s
Experiments in plant hybridisation]
Latin Squares - draft paper? prompted by earlier publications by
Bose and others, undated [after 1959]
Space travel and ageing (correspondence between Fisher, W.H. McCrea
and others 1956-57)
Modes of gamete formation [part published 1962 as CP 292]
Also undated papers including
‘Stability of Veering Flight’
Combinatorial problems connected with arrangements in incomplete
blocks - drafts of papers, calculations and table
Distributions (single tail) calculations, undated
Fitting curves by moments (relates to Karl Pearson and the Method
of Moments), draft note and calculations [cf
CP149]
Fitting the non-cyclic 4 x 4 Latin Square with expectations
The location of a suppressor for polydactyly (Pl) in the fifth
chromosome
The Petersburg problem
Polysomic inheritance with double reduction
The Rainbow
Self Sterility Allelomorphs
[includes Probability of extinction of non-advantageous genes and
other untitled papers ]
Tests on samples from a wild population of Lotus
corniculatus
Mathematical theory of Genetics
[Uncertainty and indeterminism] part only (p.5-15)
Notebooks and data
collections
| Lythrum data 1940-68. 24
v. |
Series 14 |
[23 v. of data and Register. Data more limited after
1960]
| Data records and notes |
Series 15 |
Data on Sd (dominance) in mice. 1940-45 1v.
with covering letter from Dr. Margaret Wallace, University of
Cambridge 1966
[Data on mice litters] 1924-25 1v.
data is preceded by a ms story, not in Fisher’s hand, and some
plant data
[Data on chicken broods] 1929-36 1v.
Untitled notebook of data relating to inheritance, containing
primarily analysis of data on egg-shell size (Jourdain’s
data) 1v.
Untitled early laboratory notepad
Dominula data c1941-46 and draft paper cf CP219
Grouse locusts data [includes copies of tables of Acrydium
arenosum of Robert K. Nabours and draft papers on dominants and
cross-overs using samples from Acrydium arenosum and other
material]
Rainfall data for Cambridge 1900-53
Twin data, with typescript paper on Twins and twinning, undated
(late 1920s?)
Table of ‘t’
Lecture notes/outlines
| Notes of lectures attended by Fisher
undated. 2 v. |
Series 17 |
Theory of elliptic functions, Statistical mechanics [notes on
lectures?]
| Lectures and addresses given
by Fisher |
Series 18 |
History of Biometry ('On the systematic fitting of curves to
observations and measurements' and 'The functions of Mathematics in
Biology') undated
Abstract of lectures on population c1924 (given at the invitation
of A.L Bowley at the London School of Economics)
Design of experiments (October 1935-March 1936) and Theory of
estimation (May 1936) - notes taken of Fisher's lectures by
Churchill Eisenhart (with related correspondence between Eisenhart
and Prof J.H.Bennett 1986-87)
The Logic of Experimentation: a series of six lectures given by
Fisher at the University of California, September-October 1936
[photocopy of transcript made by Dr Evelyn Aylesworth for the
California Forest and Range Experiment Station at Berkeley
received from Professor Bennett February 2003]
Lectures 1945-47
[including general lecture schedule, brief notes and outline of
lecture on The Theory of Inbreeding 1947]
Lectures 1948 on Bases of Genetics
Statistical information [based on a lecture to the Bio-System group
of the Central System Laboratory August 1962]
The Evolution of Genetics (Ramsden Memorial Lecture to Manchester
Literary and Philosophical Society March 1953)
Human Genetics 1955-56 - lecture on Scoring
Lay sermons [Thy will be done and Let the dead bury their
dead] given at [Gonville and] Caius College Chapel, Cambridge
11 November 1951 and 4 November 1956
Statistical Methods and Statistical Inference (address October 1957
to American Statistical Association, Twin Cities Chapter)
The Centenary of Darwinism - Paper read at a meeting held in
Adelaide 1959 [included in Natural selection, heredity and
eugenics ed. J.H. Bennett 1983]
Mathematical theory of Genetics (course outline/syllabus, undated)
Kinds of gentics.
Reviews
| Reviews of writings and comments by Fisher*, and Fisher’s
reviews of books and papers by others**. 1926-59. 2
cm. |
Series 19
|
* other than his major published works, for reviews of which
see with the relevant publication in series 3
–11. Includes review of Fisher's 1959 article 'Smoking -
the cancer controversy’.
** see also Series 2, which contains many reviews
among Fisher’s published writings.
Including:
Mailing list for reprints/papers
Lists of books in Fisher’s library
Personal and biographical
papers
| Scrap book re Willis’s Rooms
1892-1900. 1v. |
Series 22 |
[Willis’s Rooms was an auction house in St. James’s Square, London,
run by Messrs Fisher and Robinson]
| Scrap book re school and later
awards. 1901-10, 1920, 1926-33. 1v. |
Series 23 |
Examination lists, reports, letters of congratulation to his
parents and later to Fisher re appointments and honours,
photograph.
| Cuttings book re
[early] career. 1930-[38]. 1v. |
Series 24 |
Copies of his scientific articles, reviews and work, general news
items of interest (especially re the birthrate), a few
letters.
see also Series 26
| Photographs. 2 albums and loose items. |
Series 25 |
Family album c1900-55; album of official functions (conferences,
dinners, etc) 1945-62; and loose photos of similar occasions
1936-61; also 1932 photo of V.I. Vavilov and E.M. East; also framed photograph of Fisher at Iowa State University (?) given to A.M. Brunson 1956. Donated by Wyman Nyquist May 2006.
| Obituaries, appreciations and
commemorations. 1938-78, 1990. |
Series 26 |
Includes W.E. Dick 'Professor R.A. Fisher' Discovery March 1944;
Statistics and research: a colloquium on the contribution of
R.A. Fisher [reprint from the March 1951 issue of Journal of
the American Statistical Association], extensive obituary notices
1962-63 and papers re Centenary Dinner at Gonville and Caius
College 1990
see also Series 2 and letters re Knighthood in
Series 1.
| Reproduction of 1946 oil painting of Fisher by Leontine
Camprubi |
Series 27 |
[framed copy of original held in the Institute of Statistics,
Raleigh University of North Carolina, commissioned by Professor
J.H. Bennett] Oversize
| Articles about Fisher and/or his
work. 1928-88. |
|
Including articles by G.A. Barnard, H.A. David, A.F. W.
Edwards, Churchill Eisenhart, Nancy Hall, H. Hotelling, Ina
Jephson, E.J. Maskell, Sewall Wright, Frank Yates.
Miscellaneous papers relating to Fisher’s colleagues and
correspondents
- List of the papers and correspondence of Sir Francis Galton
held at University College London. 1978. 1v.
- The Charles Darwin Memorial at Down House, Downe, Kent
(undated) and Lady Barlow 'Charles Darwin as author'
(Proceedings of the Annual Conference of The Library
Association, 1959), received 2/10/2000, were both added to
Charles Darwin file
- Prospectus for Heredity: an international journal of
genetics April 1947
- Leonard Darwin 1850-1943
- Folia Mendeliana 26-27 (Moravian Museum, 1993) and
Gregor Mendel and the Foundation of Genetics (symposium Brno
1983)
[Other published works by Fisher, his colleagues and from Fisher’s
library donated by Professor Bennett have been separately
catalogued]
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