NATIONAL PRIZE FOR EXCELLENCE IN
BIOMETRICAL/POPULATION GENETICS

The Professor Sir Kenneth Mather Memorial Fund has
been established to commemorate the life and work of
Professor Sir Kenneth Mather CBE. FRC. who was an
Honorary Member and a former President of the Society. It
was his wish that the fund should be used to reward
excellence and encourage research in pure and applied
aspects of Biometrical and Population Genetics. Part of the
fund is to be used to award an annual prize of £100
to a student - undergraduate or postgraduate - of any
university or other national higher education establishment
who is considered to be outstanding in the area of genetics
specified above. Nominations for this prize should be
sent, with full supporting evidence, to Dr. M.J. Kearsey,
School of Biological Sciences, The University of Birmingham,
Birmingham B15 2TT by November Ist. Awards will be
announced by December Ist and will be published in this
Newsletter.

from the archives

THE KENNETH MATHER BEQUEST

Dr. Robert Mather has generously donated many of his
father’s papers and working materials to the Genetical
Society. Eventually these will join the Society’s archives,
which are housed in Norwich at the John Innes Institute.

Approximately one third of the Mather Bequest has now
teen catalogued and added to the archives of the Genetica]
Soviety. The collection at John Innes consists, at present, of
99 fies of manuscript material, papers, correspondence and
notes or. Drosophila, Nicotiana and Lelium, 15 notebooks on
medicinal plants and poultry, 3 boxes of slides and 26 books,
mostly copies and translations of Sir Kenneth Mather’s own
works, including a translation into Japanese of the fourth
edition of “Statistical Analysis in Biology”.