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 More information on E.J. Allen
Edgar Johnson Allen F.R.S.
1892-1938 Manuscripts, notes, letters and notebooks [PAL1]
Summary:
- Laboratory notebooks (1897-1938);
- Manuscripts;
- Correspondence and notes regarding proposed aquarium in Edinburgh (1913-1916),
- Book of eight poems by E.J. Allen (1918-1920).
- "Secret" report (1917) for the Admiralty on sea lion underwater hearing, and the possibility of training them as "sub-marine trackers".
- Allen's draft for a report on the presentation of the Emil Christian Hansen prize to himself (1923).
Details:
Report upon experiments on the hearing powers of sea lions under water and on the possibility of training these animals as sub-marine trackers.
1917 Manuscript and typescript report [PAL2]
Note: Secret report prepared at the request of the Admiralty Board of Invention and Research.
Summary: Sea lions from a circus and from the Zoological Society were observed in swimming baths in Glasgow and London, and in Bala Lake, with sea trials being undertaken in the Solent, observed by a U.S. Navy Surgeon.
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