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sity, and numerical data would be particularly acceptable that 

 shows the frequency of its transmission {a) in an undiluted form, 

 {b) in one that was more or less diluted, and {c) of its non-trans- 

 mission in any perceptible degree. 



** It is impossible to explain . . . the precise way in which 

 the derived facts would be utilised. An explanation that would be 

 sufficiently brief for the purpose could not be rendered intelligible 

 except to those few who are already familiar with the evidence, 

 and the technical treatment of it, by which the law of Regression 

 is established, and with the consequences and requirements of that 

 law. Regressiveness and Stability are contrasted conditions, and 

 neither of them can be fully understood apart from the other. 



" I may as well take this opportunity of appending a list of my 

 various memoirs on these subjects. The most important of these 

 are Nos. i, 3, part of 6, 7, and 8, in the following list. Nos. i to 

 5 refer to regression only. 



'^ List of Memoirs by the Author on Regression 



AND Stability. 



I. — 'Typical Laws of Heredity.' Journ. R. Institutto?t, 1877. 



This was the first statement of the law of Regression, as 



founded on a series of experiments on sweet peas. 

 2. — 'Presidential Address, Anthropol. Section, Brit. Assoc, 1885. 



Here the law of Regression was confirmed by anthropologi- 

 cal observations. 

 3. — ' Regression towards Mediocrity in Family Stature,' Journ. 



Afithrop. Inst.^ 1885. A revised and illustrated reprint of 



No. 2. 

 4. — ' Family Likeness in Stature.' Froc, Roy. Soc, 1886. 

 5. — 'Family Likeness in Eye-Colour.' Proc. Roy. Soc, 1886. 

 6. — 'Natural Inheritance.' Macmillan and Co., 1889. This vol. 



summarises the results of the previous work. 

 7. — 'Patterns in Thumb and Finger Marks, and the resemblance 



of their classes to ordinary genera. R/ii/. Trans. Roy. Soc, 



1891. 

 8. — 'Discontinuity in Evolution.' Mind, 1894. This is an article 



on Mr. Bateson's volume." 



