IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0103 MS ADD 426
Held at: University College London
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
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Near complete run of Smith's publications, 1934-2003; book reviews; unpublished draft of a book on genetics and papers relating to Smith's co-editorship of Colson News including editorial board meetings, correspondence and master copies of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 AND 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
Accruals:
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Received from Professor Sue Povey, May 2007.
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note: Entry compiled by Sarah Drewery.
Date(s) of descriptions: Sep 2008