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ONSL/5/2
Title
Draft headed 'The Need for an Organisation to Provide Material for Genetic Research'
Date(s)
- [c 1917] (Creation)
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5 ff. typescript, with MS notes on f. 1v and sketches in ink on f. 5v.
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Refers to difficulties caused for Onslow's experiments in breeding mice, rabbits, and lepidoptera due to the lack of such an organisation.
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ONSL/5/B: 'Notes headed 'Genetic Research and Eugenic Legislation...'. MS draft of the beginning of ONSL/5/B can be found at ONSL/5/2 f. 1v.
ONSL/5/3: More notes under the heading 'The Need for an Organisation to Provide Material for Genetic Research'
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Note
Reference to the hope that 'pairings will be obtained this year which will yield stock for the desired experiment in 1918' indicates that this piece was written in 1917; see also the use of the first page to draft part of ONSL/59, also probably written in 1917.