, PEARSON 
The name of the director of the Galton Laboratory of National Eugenics, University of London, 
is probably familiar to all readers, but few know what he looks like. For many years he 
has been the leader of a movement to apply statistical methods to biological problems, 
and he and his students have made many notable contributions to the study of heredity 
and variation. Since the outbreak of the war, Prof. Pearson's biometric work has been 
largely suspended, the staff of his laboratory having for some time placed its services at 
the command of the government and devoted itself to keeping track of unemployment 
in Great Britain. (Frontispiece.) 
