| Level | File |
| Ref No | MYERS/001/05/01 |
| PreviousNumbers | Kenna/1/5 |
| Title | Letters to Myers 1902-1911 |
| Date | 1902-1911 |
| Extent | 1 file |
| Description | Letters to C. S. Myers from
William Ridgeway (10 December 1902 and 1 October 1905) Torres Straits, visit to Dublin, Seligman,; postcard with citation of De Morgan on Egytian tatooed mummies
Carl Stumpf (29 July 1910) - German
Flinders Petrie (13 May 1902) - ? Royal Society, need for new assistants - sorry to lose [Arthur] Weigall, exhibition of his work
James Ward (part letter only date missing) - criticses discussion at [British] Psychological Society and Shand in particular.
Henri Bergson (20 January 1911) French - thanks for articles on instincts and intellegence, work of H Wildon Carr
Karl Pearson (20 December 1902) - looking forward to Myers paper on Nagada skulls, unable to attend meeting at Anthropological Institute as too busy, difficulties of finding anthropologists who are willing to bring their mathematical skills to the level necessary to do biometiric work " although one can turn out a new school of workers, one cannot hope to persuade the older men to go to school again'. Criticises German research "The extraordinary futility of much of the craniometric work now published is what strikes a biometrician most. The Germans in particular .... draw absolutely illegitimate conclusions as to racial and group distinctions without the least idea of a science of statistics involves.'
Donated to the BPS archive by D.W. Harding, Bedford College 1958 see Correspondence between BPS Archivist John Corbett Kenna in Kenna papers Kenna/1/4/9 (Wellcome Ref: PSY/KEN/4/9) |
| Format | File |
| Notes | The History of Psychology Centre is committed to creating an inclusive environment for all our users. Be aware that our catalogue contains historic terminology relating to mental health which could be considered offensive. The terminology exists within the original record and has been retained to inform users on viewpoints at the time. It in no way reflects the attitudes of the cataloguers or the British Psychological Society. |
Wellcome Reference: PSY/KEN/5/2/1 Box 4
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| Related Material | PHO/001/01/385 Photograph of Myers
PHO/001/06/06/05 Slides of Pearson
PHO/001/06/04/15 Photograph of Carl Stumpt
PHO/001/02/552 Photograph of James Ward |
| RelatedRecord | PHO/001/01/385 |
| PHO/001/03/08/29 |
| KENNA/1/4/9 |
| PHO/001/06/06/05 |
| PHO/001/06/04/15 |
| PHO/001/02/552 |
| AccessConditions | Authorised Users. View by Appointment |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| Location | 16: Wellcome Library |
| Term | Experimental psychology |
| Occupational psychology |
| Medical psychology |
| Industrial psychology |
| Eugenics |
| Ethnology |
| Anthropology |
| Medical statistics |
| Clinical psychology |
| Copyright | Subject to the condition of the original, copies may be supplied for private research use only on receipt of a signed undertaking to comply with current copyright legislation. Permission to make any published use of material from the collection must be sought in advance from the Head of the History of Psychology Centre and Archives and, where appropriate, from the copyright owner. Where possible, assistance will be given in identifying copyright owners, but responsibility for ensuring copyright clearance rests with the user of the material |
| Rules | Description compiled in line with the following standard
ISAD (G) General International Standard Archival Description |
| ArchNote | Compiled by Mike Maskill BPS Archivist for the History of Psychology Centre. |
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Persons
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| BPS/GB/23 | Myers; Charles Samuel (1873-1946); Professor; Dr, FRS, CBE | 1873-1946 |
| BPS/GB/303 | Pearson; Sir; Karl (1857-1936); Professor; Statistician | 1857-1936 |
| BPS/GB/508 | Ridgeway; William (1853-1926); Sir; Classicist and Anthropologist | 1853-1926 |