| Description | <p>Typescript and manuscript. About Pearson's paper on the "Theory of Errors", invitation to attend the International Congress of Science and Arts as an official speaker on "Methodology of Science", on sending a statistical inquiry on the causese of sex titled <i>A Statistical Inquiry into the Probability of Causes of the Production of Sex in Human Offspring</i> by the Carnegie Institution, and thanks for a letter to the Carnegie Institution on his plan of reducing scientific observations, and on finding correlations between two systems of observed quantities, with reference to astronomical observations.</p>
<p>Includes a typed note by Stephen Stigler on the correspondence between Pearson and Newcomb. Three letters from Pearson to Newcomb and one letter from Newcomb to Pearson found in the Simon Newcomb Papers at the Library of Congress, Washington D.C., have been transcribed and added to the correspondence originally accumulated by Pearson. Stigler has included in the typed transcriptions the Simon Newcomb Papers box numbers for the originals of these letters.</p> |