Just issued 

 AT THE CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS 



THE LIFE, LETTERS, AND LABOURS 

 OF FRANCIS GALTON 



By KARL PEARSON, KR.S. 



Volumes III A and III B , completing the work 



Volume III\ Letters and Labours of Later Life* With 44 Plates 

 (3 in colours), many Figures in the Text, an additional Pedigree of 

 the Darwin Family, and a large Sheet of Finger-Print Types. 



CHAP. XIV. Correlation and the Application of Statistics to the Problems of 

 Heredity. CHAP. XV., Personal Identification. Story of the Finger-Prints. 

 CHAP. XVI. Eugenics as a Creed and the Last Decade of Galton's Life. History 

 of Biometrika. Galton's " Eugenics Record Office" and the Foundation of the 

 Eugenics Laboratory. 



Volume IIP. Characterisation of Galton, especially by his Family 

 Letters* With 18 Plates and many sketches in the text. Appendix 

 with omitted papers. The 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 



" Now sixteen years after the appearance of the first volume, the work is complete. It will stand 

 for all time as a monument to both subject and author. No other man of science ever had such 

 a biography to preserve his memory.... The same infinity of painstaking care over the details of 

 the production, illustration and documentation that marked the first two volumes is apparent 

 here.... And so comes to an end a remarkable, indeed a unique piece of biographical work, 

 a fitting and adequate record of a great man." Science 



" The completion of this great ' Life ' of a great man is an achievement and we wish to express 

 what all interested must feel that the library of science has been enriched in a very noble way. 

 We venture to congratulate Professor Karl Pearson on the success of his undertaking ; he has 

 given us a painting by a master. No doubt it has been a labour of love and not without the 

 artist's joy ; but it has meant many years of strenuous sifting and appreciating and arranging 

 to elaborate this worthy record of the life and work of one of the most notable pioneers in the 

 history of civilisation.... We would simply thank Professor Pearson for this monumental work, 

 surely never excelled in completeness, accuracy, insight and keen judgment.... We must be 

 allowed to express our admiration at the perspective and proportion that mark these volumes ; 

 amid the manifoldness of recorded achievement, there is no crowding or jumble, and this is 

 the reward granted to an artist who mixes his paints with brains." Nature 



Price, Bound in Buckram, Volumes III A and IIP, 69s. net 



