| Description | Pearson's manuscript drafts and research notes for lectures on the history of statistics, which would later be published as chapters 3 to 7, and 9, in Karl Pearson, Egon Pearson, The History of Statistics in the 17th and 18th Centuries Against the Changing Background of Intellectual, Scientific and Religious Thought.
Includes accounts of the life and work of Edmond Halley, Abraham de Moivre, Thomas Simpson, Jean Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, William Derham, Johann Peter Sssmilch, and Nicholas Struyck. |