I have had a request from the daughter of Sir Charles Alexander Fleming, FRS
(1916-1987)about the location of her father's papers. I cannot help her with
papers deposited outside the Royal Society; I have checked with the NRA, A2A
and AIM25. If anyone else can help this lady, would you please send replies
to me in the first instance, and I will forward them to her.
BIOGRAPHY OF SIR CHARLES ALEXANDER FLEMING
I obtained your name and address from Dr Steve Thomson, CEO of the Royal
Society of New Zealand. I am the second daughter of the late Sir Charles
Fleming FRS who died in 1987 at the age of 71. I have spent the last eight
years working on a biography of my father and recently Mr Frank Rogers, a
man who had been at university with both my parents contacted me to see if
he could assist me. Frank Rogers is a historian, now aged 88 and he
suggested it might be possible to obtain copies of correspondence Charles
Fleming had with other scientists.
The official announcement of Charles Fleming's Fellowship of the Royal
Society in 1967 stated that his main contributions to science were as a
biogeographer, (tracing the relationship in time and space between New
Zealand plants and animals and those of the rest of the world) a
palaeontologist, (classifying New Zealand Mollusca) as a pioneer
stratigrapher and an administrator and most unselfish promoter of the
sciences. In 1967 there were only two Fellows of the Royal Society of London
living in New Zealand, the other being Sir Ernest Marsden who had worked
with Lord Rutherford in his younger days in the UK. I have the official
obituary of Charles Fleming, published by the Royal Society and written by
fellow New Zealander, the late R E F Matthews FRS.
I would be most grateful if you could publish a request for letters or other
information for me.
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