| Description | Typescript. Letters in 1910 about arrangements for K Pearson's course of three lectures on "Three Problems in National Eugenics - Tuberculosis, Alcoholism, and Mental Defect", and approving the title of his Friday Evening Discourse "The Inadequacy of Causation in Modern Science"; letter dated 1920 permitting the reproduction of the illustration of the seed-casting apparatus in Francis Galton's Discourse on 9 February 1877; and a letter dated 1929 informing that no letters from Laplace could be found amongst their Humphrey Davy correspondence. Includes a printed syllabus of Pearson's lectures at the Royal Institution in 1902 on "The Laws of Heredity, with Special Reference to Man". |