K. Pearson to F. Galton, 27th Dec. 1902.- External URL
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Sent From (Definite): Karl PearsonSent To (Definite): Sir Francis GaltonDate: 27 Dec 1902
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Sent fromKarl Pearson
27 Dec 1902
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‘... [re: Biometrika proofs] ... I have asked Yule to modify his article by giving a general popular account of association to start it. I think Suty’s[?] paper is interesting as strengthening at least for one character the effect of a change of sex. The mouse paper in Part I is not quite definite enough, but I hope to get a second paper in Part II, on further results. The Shirley poppy paper contains a great deal of work, and I wish it was more definite, but until we get a Biometric Farm where secular experiments of this kind can be carried out under uniform conditions, I don’t think we can do much better. So far as it goes, it is quire in favour of plants obeying laws of inheritance very like those shown to hold for man & horse.
I hope to have a paper on the Law of Ancestral Heredity showing really what it assumes & how far we can at present assent it to hold.
It is pleasant to hear of breakfast out of doors in Alassio, and of the sun too hot to sit in at Balians[?]! I have just received 200 ants from Petrie’s settlement & hear of 100 hornets in spirit coming. Please don’t forget the Celandines if you get further sough & find the collecting not too irksome. I shall hope to get the paper on the first series out in the next Biometrika.
Pray send me any point in the finger print investigation which you think I might elucidate. I am very interested in its possibilities and think it ought to be rendered available for heredity. Weldon is not in Sicily, most happy over snail results.
Yours very sincerely,
Karl Pearson.’
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Sent toSir Francis Galton
27 Dec 1902
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‘... [re: Biometrika proofs] ... I have asked Yule to modify his article by giving a general popular account of association to start it. I think Suty’s[?] paper is interesting as strengthening at least for one character the effect of a change of sex. The mouse paper in Part I is not quite definite enough, but I hope to get a second paper in Part II, on further results. The Shirley poppy paper contains a great deal of work, and I wish it was more definite, but until we get a Biometric Farm where secular experiments of this kind can be carried out under uniform conditions, I don’t think we can do much better. So far as it goes, it is quire in favour of plants obeying laws of inheritance very like those shown to hold for man & horse.
I hope to have a paper on the Law of Ancestral Heredity showing really what it assumes & how far we can at present assent it to hold.
It is pleasant to hear of breakfast out of doors in Alassio, and of the sun too hot to sit in at Balians[?]! I have just received 200 ants from Petrie’s settlement & hear of 100 hornets in spirit coming. Please don’t forget the Celandines if you get further sough & find the collecting not too irksome. I shall hope to get the paper on the first series out in the next Biometrika.
Pray send me any point in the finger print investigation which you think I might elucidate. I am very interested in its possibilities and think it ought to be rendered available for heredity. Weldon is not in Sicily, most happy over snail results.
Yours very sincerely,
Karl Pearson.’
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