BIOMETRIKA 



1 JnriliVAL FOR THE STATISTICAL NTl'ity ni' lUnl.onii'M. ///"/;/. AM/. 



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W. F. II. WELLHJN, KARL PEARSON AM, FlJANdS GALTOM 



KDITKD IJY 



KARL I'KAIiSON 



ii appears about four times a year. A 



volume containing about 500 pages, with plates and 

 tallies, is issued annually. The subscription price. 

 pavalile ill advance, is 30*. net iS7..">"' pel- volume 

 ..post free); single pails |(U. not (82.00) each. The 

 current volume is Volume X, the tirst part of which 

 has just appeared. 



Volumes I IX (19021913) complete, 30,<. net 

 per volume; bound in buckram, 34*. Vvi. net per 

 volume. Till further notice new subscribers to 

 Biometriku may olitain Vols. 1 IX together for 

 10 net, or in buckram for 12 net. 



Some idea of the scope of the journal may lie 

 obtained from the following list of topics which 

 ha\e been discussed anion^ otliers in the first nine 

 volumes of Biometrika : 



Cfa/doiiteli-y. Prehistoric Egyptian Crania ( Favv 

 cett), 17th century English Crania (Maedonell), l,on;^ 

 and Round Barrow Skulls (Schuster), Negro Ci-a.nia 

 from Caboon and Congo (Benington), Pigmy Crania 

 (Smith), Cranial Type Contours, Internal Capacity 

 from External Measurements, Study of Special Crai lial 

 Bones, Nasal < 'ontours, Oraniologioal Notes, etc., etc. 



Anthropometry. Of Criminals in New South 

 Wales and in England (Powis, Maedonell, etc.), of 

 Scottish Insane ^Tocher), Survey of School Children 

 of Sc,,t land .Tocher), Influence of Pigmentation on 

 Disease', Measurements of Brain Weight (Pearl, 

 Gladstone, Blakeman), Correlation of Hair, Kye 

 Colour, and Age (Pearson), Expectation of Life in 

 Ancient Egypt and in Rome, Relation of Intelligence 

 to Physical Characters Pearson >. Correlation of 

 Bones 'of the Hand, Measurements from Oxford and 

 Cambridge Anthropornetric Laboratories, Fertility 

 and Degeneracy, Anthropometric and obstetric 

 Studies of the female Pelvis, etc., etc. 



Medicine. Vaccination and Recovery, Measure- 

 ments of Severity of Disease. Cancer and Diabetes. 

 Multiple cases of disease, 'Cancer Houses,' Incidence 

 of Syphilis, Mosquitos and Malaria, Number of 



Krythrocyte.s and t he Alt itude. Spin i,,ot 1 1. i 

 ties, Albinism 



typhoid Inoculation, the (Ipsonie Index. \\Vi-_- 

 human Viscera. Tiehalds. 



ll'-i-i'<iily. Of Duration of Life in Man. of Fer- 

 tility, of Health, of I'h ysical and Mcnt.il < 

 of Kye and Skin Colour ami of S|N*;ial Det'oru. 

 of Coat Colour in mice, in L;iey hounds, in 

 horses, of si/e of litter in mice anil sow-, of prdiic- 

 lion of butter-fat in cows, of . 'ii Shirlc\ 



I'oppy ami in I Jeans, Papers on Mendelisni. |,,\ v of 

 ancestral Heredits and detenninantal The 

 etc, 



There, i re numerous oapei d problems 



in /oolo'4\ and Uotany dc.'ilini,' with nat iii-iil selection. 

 \ariation and growth in tadpole, trout, click-*'. ^ c 

 and IKH'S, earthworms, parameeia, tcrmite.s, don 

 fowl, etc., etc., and many (vipers with iniMsiiri'iiH'iits 

 of correlation and variation in plant life. 



I'fui'ili'i- mill Theory <>> Si /'// 



contains many standard tables : for ( iiHnlnev> ,,f Kit 

 (Eldcrton), of the Prolibility I 

 Towers oi' Natural Nuniln-rs. r-fiinctions, Ci 

 and Deviates, of Probable Krroi's. Tetr.ieh..| i, Kunc- 

 tions. and ineoni|ilet<' Moment Kunction 

 There are many papers on the Theory of Correlation, 

 of Association and of random 3 on Inter- 



polation, the construction of Mortality and Sj< k 

 Tables, Index-distributions, etc. . eti . \^ 

 who have contributed are A. O. Powvs. \\'. I'. I; 

 Weldon, E. \\"arren. ( >. 11. Latter. F. Lu .: 

 \V. K. Maedonell, Francis Calton. 

 W. F. Shcppard, E. H. Schn ! Hc-nui, 



W. P. and E. M. Kldcrton, C. Diincker, li. I 1 - 

 (!. II. Shall. (Jcof. Smith. Major ( Jrccnvvoml. .1. \V. 

 Jenkinson, F. V. F.dgeworth. .1. F. Tocher. ( '. D. 



ctt, A. Lee, A. Ii. (Jalloway. K. .1. G 

 J. Brownlec, F. de Eelguero, K. C. Punnett. 

 Edmund (iain. F. K. l.ut/t, K. Tschepourkoi 



Major W. F. Harvey. II. 11. Stannus. K.I'. SIH.W. 

 J. A. Harris, and many others. 



Cambridge University Press 



( '. F. CLAY, Maliaovr 



Liind'ni : Kt'ttrr Lune, E.C. 



Chicago: The Univn-sity "t ChicM-o 1'ivss 



