| Description | Manuscript and typescript. About further measurements of mental health patients; on calculating correlation between rainfall, barometric pressure, and height of barometer at various weather stations; on Cambridge University Press agreement to allow Henderson Measurements to appear as supplement in <i>Biometrika</i>, letter of confirmation enclosed; enclosing letter from John Macpherson on applying for a Carnegie Trust grant; about survey of pigmentation in Scottish schoolchildren, and conflict with John Gray over the survey, enclosing memorandum from Sir William Turner disposing of the matter; considers applying for the Sorby Fellowship and proposes a scheme for a eugenic study of a large sample of the British population for measurements and other characteristics, particularly analysis of hair; missing out on Fellowship but plans to apply to government for grant for his scheme; on showing Karl data from invesitgation into distribution of cancer in Scotland; encloses typed draft of "Cancer Mortality in Scotland" [only titled page remains]; thanks from Mr Rae for Karl's criticism of his census work; on Pearson's Honorary Degree from the Universtity of Aberdeen; his nomination by Karl for the External Examinership in Statistics at London University; on cousinship data; death of W R Macdonall; private donations from himself, Bulloch, Elderton and Heron to <i>Biometrika</i> to assist during war-time; sending pigmentation data to the Galton Laboratory; his current work on the Drug Tariff; his "Milk" memoir for <i>Biometrika</i>; possible statistical commerical work for Harrisons and Crosfield; attempts to calculate results of Brownlee in his Medical Research Committee Special Report on pthisis death rates from data provided, enclosing correlation tables'; on population distributions; on proposed excavation for leper skeletons at Kingcase Hospital, Ayrshire; enclosing correspondence with the Town Clerk of Prestwick regarding excavations; details of dig site; letter of condolence following death of M S Pearson; about Fertility Tables abstracted from the Scottish census for study at the laboratory; on reviewing the last volume of <i>The life, letters and labours of Francis Galton</i> for <i>Press and Journal</i>; on Lanarkshire milk data, enclosing letters from the Department of Health for Scotland, and his analysis of correlations between milk conditions and weather characters; and enclosing correspondence with Norman C Wright on Hannah Dairy Research Methods comparing calf weights when fed on raw or pasteurised milk. |