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Sent From (Definite): Karl PearsonSent To (Definite): Edward NettleshipDate: 13 Dec 1908
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Sent fromKarl Pearson
13 Dec 1908
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[re: RSM Mendelism debate – incomplete?]
‘... I suspect, not my remarks, but a knowledge of Castle’s paper led Bateson to make the astonishing statement that he had put two of Magnus’s pedigrees on the screen as illustrating a case for which Mendelian rules do not hold! I know they don’t hold for Magnus’ sample, but whether they do or not for our much large one, I can only tell when it is reduced, which I think it will be in the next fortnight. Anyhow we are now in the position that Bateson apparently gave up albinism in man as a Mendelian character; that I said it did not hold for Magnus’ data, but suspended judgement on our own; & that finally Mudge abused me like a pickpocket for asking the meeting to suspend judgement till they had more facts! The Lancet gave a most mangled account of what happened, but the report of the R.S. of Medicine seems much more reasonable so far as I have seen it.
I am glad to hear about the bitches & hope all will ‘go well’, as the bellied Earl devoutly hopes, whose wife has born [sic] him only daughters to date. What sort of sight have the dogs? Does it seem quite indifferent like that of white mice to light?
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Sent toEdward Nettleship
13 Dec 1908
Description:
[re: RSM Mendelism debate – incomplete?]
‘... I suspect, not my remarks, but a knowledge of Castle’s paper led Bateson to make the astonishing statement that he had put two of Magnus’s pedigrees on the screen as illustrating a case for which Mendelian rules do not hold! I know they don’t hold for Magnus’ sample, but whether they do or not for our much large one, I can only tell when it is reduced, which I think it will be in the next fortnight. Anyhow we are now in the position that Bateson apparently gave up albinism in man as a Mendelian character; that I said it did not hold for Magnus’ data, but suspended judgement on our own; & that finally Mudge abused me like a pickpocket for asking the meeting to suspend judgement till they had more facts! The Lancet gave a most mangled account of what happened, but the report of the R.S. of Medicine seems much more reasonable so far as I have seen it.
I am glad to hear about the bitches & hope all will ‘go well’, as the bellied Earl devoutly hopes, whose wife has born [sic] him only daughters to date. What sort of sight have the dogs? Does it seem quite indifferent like that of white mice to light?
...’
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