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Ford, Edmund Brisco (1901-1988) and Cain, Arthur James (1921-1999)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0117 MS 854

Held at: Royal Society

Title: Ford, Edmund Brisco (1901-1988) and Cain, Arthur James (1921-1999)

Date(s): 1901-1988

Level of description: sub-fonds

Extent: 9 folders

Name of creator(s): Clarke | Bryan Campbell | b 1932 | geneticist

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CONTENT

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Biographical Memoirs notes and papers accumulated by Professor Bryan C Clarke in the process of compiling two Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society: Edmund Brisco Ford FRS (1901-1988); and Arthur James Cain FRS (1921-1999).

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Language/scripts of material: English

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Open

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No publication without written permission. Apply to Archivist in the first instance.

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

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Archivist's note: Copied from the Royal Society catalogue by Sarah Drewery.

Rules or conventions: General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal Place and Corporate Names 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: Feb 2009.


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Biographies | Prose | Literary forms and genres | Literature
History of science | Science of science

Personal names
Cain | Arthur James | 1921-1999 | biologist and ecologist
Clarke | Bryan Campbell | b 1932 | geneticist
Ford | Edmund Brisco | 1901-1988 | geneticist

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