C A B Smith Papers

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0103 MS ADD 426
Held at	: University College London   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Library/special-coll ›
Full title	: C A B Smith Papers
Date(s)	: [1934]-2003
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 6 boxes
Name of creator(s)	: Smith | Cedric Austen Bardell | 1917-2002 | geneticist and mathematician
Detailed catalogue	: Click here to view repository detailed catalogue

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born, 1917; educated: Wyggeston Boys School; University College School London; Trinity College Cambridge, 1935-1942; Friends Relief Service, Second World War; Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society, 1945; Assistant Lecturer, Galton Laboratory, University College London, 1946; Lecturer, University College London; Reader, University College London; Weldon Professor of Biometrics, University College London, 1964; President of the Biometric Society (British Region), 1971-1972; died, 2002.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers of Cedric Austen Bardell Smith, [1934]-2003, comprising biographical material including obituaries and tributes; copy of Smith's inaugural lecture as Weldon Professor, Life, Form and Number and papers relating to peace studies including articles published in The Friend.

Near complete run of Smith's publications, 1934-2003; book reviews; unpublished draft of a book on genetics and papers relating to Smith's co-editorship of Colson News including editorial board meetings, correspondence and master copies of all the issues.

Papers relating to talks and lectures chiefly comprising transparencies to illustrate lectures, on topics including genetics, statistical analysis, astrology, linguistics and place names.

Papers relating to 'Blanche Descartes' or 'F de Carteblanche' (an imaginary mathematician under which name a number of mathematicians, including Smith, published their work) including copies of the output of 'Blanche Descartes', 1947-1986 and an article 'The story of Blanche Descartes' in the Mathematical Gazette, 2003.

Fragments of Smith's research papers including computer print outs, punched cards and analysis of figures relating to the work of Michel Gauquelin; papers relating to the analysis of language and manuscript notes on Linkage.

Correspondence, 1966-1993.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

Arranged in sections as follows: Biographical; Publications; Talks and Lectures; Blanche Descartes; Research fragments; Correspondence.

Conditions governing access:

Certain restrictions apply. Access to a small part of the material in this collection is restricted. See the description of each item for further information.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Normal copyright restrictions apply.

Finding aids:

Part of the collection was compiled by Simon Coleman, Cardiff University, as part of the Wellcome Genetics Archive Project (2012). Further boxes are yet to be catalogued.

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Received from Professor Sue Povey, May 2007.

Allied Materials

Related material:

Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Entry compiled by Sarah Drewery.

Rules or conventions:
Compiled in compliance with 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:
Sep 2008