K. Pearson to E. Nettleship, 20th March 1909.- External URL
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Sent From (Definite): Karl PearsonSent To (Definite): Edward NettleshipDate: 20 Mar 1909
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Sent fromKarl Pearson
20 Mar 1909
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‘Dear Nettleship,
I am much distressed by news I have this morning from Bulloch, that Mudge has been provided by Usher with sections of albino eyes. It is clear that if such is the case, he has gone a long way to damage our forthcoming memoir. Mudge is doing all he can to discredit that paper before its appearance & while we are going & have gone to great expense in the matter of illustration, we find our material put into the hands and possibly to be published by a very hostile critic before our paper appears.
I have been extremely upset by this report, and I do not think Usher can have in the least realised the evil effect of his courtesy to Mudge. I cannot in the least claim to control my colleagues use of their material, but it does seem to me that in a joint work, there must be some mutual responsibility, & that we might claim that no step should be taken that would render idle the great expense we have gone to in this matter & the chance of its repayment being curtailed by earlier publication & announcement of results which would have been published in the paper for the first time.
I am writing more strongly to you than I have done to Usher, but I have felt very moved by the report. Will you please send me back the eye pedigree of partial albinism at once? Bulloch wants to add new details & I want to get it out onto the last plate.
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Sent toEdward Nettleship
20 Mar 1909
Description:
‘Dear Nettleship,
I am much distressed by news I have this morning from Bulloch, that Mudge has been provided by Usher with sections of albino eyes. It is clear that if such is the case, he has gone a long way to damage our forthcoming memoir. Mudge is doing all he can to discredit that paper before its appearance & while we are going & have gone to great expense in the matter of illustration, we find our material put into the hands and possibly to be published by a very hostile critic before our paper appears.
I have been extremely upset by this report, and I do not think Usher can have in the least realised the evil effect of his courtesy to Mudge. I cannot in the least claim to control my colleagues use of their material, but it does seem to me that in a joint work, there must be some mutual responsibility, & that we might claim that no step should be taken that would render idle the great expense we have gone to in this matter & the chance of its repayment being curtailed by earlier publication & announcement of results which would have been published in the paper for the first time.
I am writing more strongly to you than I have done to Usher, but I have felt very moved by the report. Will you please send me back the eye pedigree of partial albinism at once? Bulloch wants to add new details & I want to get it out onto the last plate.
...’
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