Letter to Pontecorvo from Professor John Burdon Sanderson ("Jack") Haldane concerning his current research into biometry and experiments on mixed crops on South Bihar

• Reference:GB 248 UGC 198/3/3/15
• Dates of Creation:23 Feb 1958
• Physical Description:
  1 letter (2 pages)

• Scope and Content

  Haldane addresses Pontecorvo by his nickname "Crawbrigg". During this period Haldane was working at the Indian Statistical Institue in Calcutta. He also discusses his ideas on recombination and "negative interference", and not being able to recommend anyone to work alongside Pontecorvo in Glasgow.

• Personal Names

  Haldane, John Burdon Sanderson, 1892-1964, geneticist and evolutionary biologist,