| Description | Manuscript and typescript. On attempting to improve his mathematical knowledge to understand and use Pearson's statistical methods in biological research, on obtaining a grant from the Carnegie Institution for calculating machines, on his work on the correlation between brain-weight and age, on desired papers in the Mathematical Contributions to the Theory of Evolution series, calculating machines, and on anthrompometric data collected by a student of Pearl's with a view to studying correlation between various physical characters and menstrual cycles, and statistical analysis of the character stature (enclosing pro formas), on publication of his work on Paramecium, about joining the editorial board of Biometrika and offering to oversee the bibliography, on delaying subscription to the Weldon Memorial Fund and hostility of some American zoologists and biologists to field of biometry, thanking Pearson for toning down his response to criticism by Lister, on a new research post into "the laws of inheritance in plants and animals" at the Agricultural Experiment Station at the University of Maine, on possibly reviewing Frederick Adams Woods' Heredity in Royalty for Biometrika and detailing his own work on fecundity, on submitting a paper for the Weldon prize, about getting reprints of his Miscellany article "The Frequency Constants of a Variable" in Biometrika, 4 March 1909, editorial decisions on the bibliography, on poultry experiments, on proofs and corrections to "Data on Variation in the Comb of the Domestic Fowl", Biometrika, 4 March 1909, asking if he can exchange publications with the Eugenics Laboratory, on his dismissal from the editorial staff of Biometrika, contending the rightness of Pearson's "law of ancestral inheritance", asks for dates of award of the Weldon Prize, enclosing list of recipients and Electors, thanks Pearson for agreeing to publish his "Nowlihed" paper in Annals of Eugenics, thanks Pearson for volumes of the Galton biography, about Pearson's retirement and his daughter Ruth's view of Germany in 1934, and on the poor financial conditions at John Hopkins University.
Includes a letter dated 19 July 1909 to H D Osbourne extolling the virtues of Karl Pearson as an investigator into eugenics. |