McLaren: Notebook with notes on statistical methods and genetics
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Notebook with notes on 'Statistical Methods' and genetics. Includes a reading list for Statistical Methods for Biologists and Agriculturalists. Inserted material includes two loose pages of notes.
McLaren: Sketchbook with labelled drawings of various animals
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Sketchbook with labelled drawings of various animals, divided by phylum and class. Additional material includes a loose paper containing notes on 'Fixatives'.
Anne McLaren was awarded the Japan Prize with Andrzej K. Tarkowski in 2002, for their pioneering work in the developmental biology of mammals, using a mouse as a model and establishing technologies to manipulate early embryos.
Notebook with notes, tables and graphs on various topics, including 'Surface Tension of Soap Solutions' 'Determination of the Thermal Conductivity of Glass', 'Latent Heat of Mercury', 'Vapour Pressure of Water'. Additional material includes 15 page of handwritten notes primarily on 'Modern Physic...
McLaren: Notebook on practical lessons on organisms and botany
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Notebook with notes and drawings relating to subkingdoms and phyla, including Protozoa, Porifera, Coelenterate, Ctenophore, Platyhelminthes or Platyhelmia, Nemertea, Nematoda, Acanthocephala, Kinorhyncha, Nematomorpha, Chaetognatha, and Annelida. Additional material includes typed and handwritten...
McLaren: Notebook recording an experiment with rabbits
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Notebook with a report of an experiment about the maternal organism's influence on coat colour in rabbits. Dated 28 June 1950. Includes two loose inserts recording colours of rabbits.
McLaren: Notebook on animal ecology and biological oceanography
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Notebook with lecture notes on animal ecology, biological oceanography, and geographical distribution with a loose insert 'Zoogeography References to Lectures 1-8'. Additional material includes loose typed reading lists for animal ecology and biological oceanography lectures and two notes.