Volume 8

Treasury of human inheritance / edited by Karl Pearson, R.A. Fisher, L.S. Penrose.

Date:
1909-
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    AT THE CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS The Chances of Death and other Studies in Evolution By KARL PEARSON, F.RS. Vol. I. 1. The Chances of Death. 2. The Scientific in the Customs of Mediaeval Witchcraft, 10. Ashiepattle, or Aspect of Monte Carlo Roulette. 3. Reproductive Selection. Hans seeks his Luck. 11. Kindred Group Marriage. Parti. 4. Socialism and Natural Selection. 5. Politics and Mother Age Civilisation. Part II. General Words for bei Science. 6. Reaction. 7. Woman and Labour. 8. Varia- and Kinship. Part III. Special W ords for Sex and Relation- tion in Man and Woman. ship. 12. The German Passion Play; A Study m the Vol. II. 9. Woman as Witch. Evidences of Mother-Right Evolution of Western Christianity. Reissue. Price 30s. net. The Life, Letters, and Labours of Francis Qalton By KARL PEARSON, F.R.S. Vol. I. Birth 1822 to Marriage 1853. With 6 pedigree plates and 72 photographic plates, frontispiece and 2 text-figures, Price of Vol. I, 36s. net. Vol. II. Letters and Labours of Middle Life. With 50 plates and many figures in the text. Price 45s. net. Just issued, Volumes III A and IIP , completing the work. Vol. IIP. Letters and Labours of Later Life. With 44 plates (3 in colours) and many figures in the text. Ch after XIV. Correlation and the Application of Statistics to the Problems of Heredity. Chapter XV. Personal Identification and Description. Story of the Finger-Prints. Chapter XVI. Eugenics as a Creed and the Last Decade of Galton’s Life. History of Biometrika. “Eugenics Record Office” and Foundation of the Eugenics La boratory. Appendix ; Codicil of Sir Francis Galton’s Will. In the pocket : (i) Supplementary Pedigree of Distinguished Ancestors of Charles Darwin and Francis Galton. (ii) Galton’s Types of Finger-Print Patterns from the framed enlargements now in the Galton Laboratory. Vol. IIP. Characterisation of Qalton, especially by his Family Letters. With 18 plates and many sketches in the text. Appendix with account of omitted papers. This volume concludes with forty pages of Index to the four volumes. “Professor Pearson has now completed his monumental biography, that is in its way a survey of one of the most significant movements of the age, full of material which will be invaluable to the future historian.”— Daily Telegraph. “The volumes...are quite indispensable to the student of scientific history iri the last fifty years.,,,It should be added that the hook is, as a physical production, a remarkable tribute to the great press from which it comes.”— Manchester Guardian. “There is in this volume a vast store of information on eugenics, and it commands the student’s most unfeigned praise. The volume is really the standard text-book of Eugenic Science.,..Individuals who are financially able, and all libraries, owe it to science to purchase this most important book,”— New Statesman. Price for Volumes III a and III s , 69«. net. Tables for Statisticians and Biometricians Edited by KARL PEARSON, F.R.S. The new edition of this book will consist of two parts. Part I (Third Edition! embraces the Second Edition carefully revised. It has now been issued: Ireland price 15a, net, plus postage Is., Export $4 including postage), and may be obtained direct from the Biometric Laboratory, University College, London, or through any bookseller. Part II (First Edition) contains all the Tables issued In Biometrika during the last ten years together with a number of Tables not yet published, but recently computed. Ireland 30a. net, Export $7'30, The following works prepared in the Biometric Laboratory can be obtained as Government Publications from H.M. Stationery Office or through any Bookseller. The English Convict. A Statistical Study. By Charles Gorins, M.D. Text. Price 9a. Tables of Measurements (printed by Convict-Labour). Price 5a. The English Convict. An Abridgement. By Charles Goring, M.D. With a preface by Karl Pearson, F.R.S. Price 3a. Tables of the Incomplete T-Punction. Prepared by the Computing Staff, Biometric Laboratory, and edited with an Introduction by Karl Pearson, F.R.S. Price £2. 2a. PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN BE W. LEWIS, M.A., AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS, CAMBRIDGE