Description | Papers relating to Pearson's papers and research conducted through the Galton Laboratory. Contains: Bundles of completed schedules on the hereditary transmission of disease and temperament. Blank schedules and hair and colour charts used whilst collecting and analysing data for Pearson and Elderton, "On the measure of the resemblance of first cousins", in <i>Eugenics Laboratory Memoirs</i>, Vol 4, (1907). Press clippings on the controversy surrounding Pearson's public lecture demonstrating compound silhouettes of female students. Draft papers by Pearson and Henry Ruger on Galton's 1884 Anthropometric Laboratory work. Papers relating to the London County Council investigations conducted at the Jews' Free School, 1910. Papers, notes and letters regarding Elderton and Pearson's investigations into alcoholism. |