| Description | Manuscript. Contains questions arising from Pearson's Gresham Lectures on mechanics; accepting a post at UCL; equations for frequency curves; applying curves to various data sets, including English income tax; on recovery from illness and frequency curve machine; on other graphical and mathematical machines or instruments; trip to Saig with sisters; on "tint guesses" and extract from 1881 census report; dartmoor maps and Quintelet letters; on Pearson's response to Lord Salisbury [over evolution and variation]; on electrolyte problem; update on teaching at college in Pearson's absence through illness; correcting Tansley's papers; details concerns about next step in career; on Hill and Yule's proposal to invite electors to the department; on respective merits of two possible workers for department; picking up his work on pauperism; about Hardy and lectures for actuaries; about application for post of Principal of West Ham Technical College, enclosing printed application form with testimonials from Pearson, Carey Foster and Hudson Beare; thoughts on a journal "for the statistical study of evolution"; about Pearson's paper refused by The Royal Society, and Society's retention of manuscript; notes on stigmatic bands in poppies and selectivity of death rates from the Register-General's returns; on inheritance of characters and homotyposis; congratulating Pearson on achievement of <i>Biometrika</i>; eye-colour inheritance; thoughts on Brown's paper; possible separation from wife [his marriage to May Winifred was annulled in 1912]; sympathy on hearing of death of M S Pearson; on acting as joint examiner with Pearson for T Kondo's Ph.D. thesis; about Tippett's D.Sc. candidature; and thanks for Pearson's "Old Tripos Days".</p>
<p>Also contains two undated letters regarding mechanical and statistical work, a printed notice of Newmarch Lectures on the "Vital Statistics of England and Wales" to be given by Yule in 1905-1906, and and exam paper for the UCL Senior Analytical Class, dated June 1894.</p> |