320 MEMORIES OF MY LIFE 



Breed under the existing conditions of Law and 

 Sentiment." 



Great steps towards estimating the values of the 

 influences concerned in effecting it had been made 

 in the meantime by Professor Karl Pearson. He 

 took up my work on Correlation [104], vastly ex- 

 tending its theory, and adding largely to the data. 

 I had gone no further than to obtain simple results 

 based on the Gaussian law of distribution ; he worked 

 out those results with great mathematical skill and 

 elaboration. He also generalised them so as to deal 

 with other laws of distribution than the Gaussian. 



Moreover, Professor Karl Pearson established a 

 Biometric Laboratory in University College, where 

 accurate computations are made, and whence a 

 quarterly publication, Biometrika, is issued. It was 

 established by him and Professor Weldon, whose un- 

 timely death has been a deep sorrow to many friends 

 and a serious loss to the science of heredity. I also 

 was nominally connected with Biometrika as " Con- 

 sulting Editor." 



The ground had thus become more or less pre- 

 pared for further advance ; so, after talking over the 

 matter with the' authorities of the University of 

 London, and obtaining their ready concurrence, I 

 supplied sufficient funds to allow of a small estab- 

 lishment for the furtherance of Eugenics. The 

 University provided rooms, and gave the sanction of 

 their name and various facilities, and I provided the 

 salaries for a Research Fellow and for a Research 

 Scholar. The Eugenics Laboratory of the University 

 of London is now situated in University College, in 

 connection with Professor Karl Pearson's biometric 



