Correspondence between Pontecorvo and Professor Cyril Dean Darlington about the part in Darlington's book titled The facts of life where he refers to an unknown soldier of World War I and his ideas on "scientific Calvinism" (said to be influenced by one of Bateson's lectures on Mendelism)

• Reference:GB 248 UGC 198/3/1/34
• Dates of Creation:Nov 1953
• Physical Description:
  2 letters (3 pages)

• Scope and Content

  Pontecorvo believed that this unknown soldier was James Bridie (Osborne Henry Mavor) and that Bridie mentions these scientific ideas throughout all of his plays.

• Personal Names

  Darlington, Cyril Dean, 1903-1981, biologist, geneticist, and eugenicist,

  Mavor, Osborne Henry, 1888-1951, physician and playwright,