BIOMETRIKA 



.4 JOURNAL FOR THE STATISTICAL STUDY OF BIOLOGICAL PROBLEMS 



FOUNDED BY 



W. F. R WELDON, KARL PEARSON and FRANCIS GALTON 



EDITED BY 



KARL PEARSON 



Biometfika appears about four times a year. A 

 vdlume containing al)out 500 pages, with plates and 

 taUes, is issued annually. The subscription price, 

 IJayalJc in advance, is 30«. net (^7.50) jier volume 

 (post free) ; single jjarts 10«. net ($i2..")0) each. The 

 cun-ent volume is Volume X, the first part of which 

 has just appearcd. 



Vohuues 1— IX (1902—1013) complete, 30*. net 

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

 volume. Till further notice new subscriliers to 

 Biomelriku may obtain Vols. I — 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 wliich 

 have l)een disc\is.sed among others in the first nine 

 volumes of Bimnetrika : — 



Craniometry. Prehistoric Eg\ )itian Crania (Faw- 

 cett), 17tli centvHT English Crania (ilacdonell). Long 

 and Round Barrow Skulls (Schiister), Negro Crania 

 f'njm GaVxHin and CoTigo (Benington), Pigmy Crania 

 (Smith), Cranial Ty])e Contours, Intei'nal Capacity 

 from External Measurements, Study of Special Cranial 

 Bon&s, Na.sal Contours, Craniological X'otes, etc., etc. 



Anthrop<jmetry. Of Criminals in New South 

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

 Scottish In.siine (Tocher), Survey of School Children 

 of Scotland (Tocher), Influence of Pigmentation on 

 DLsease, Measurements of Brain Weight (Pearl, 

 Gladstone, Blakeman), Con-elation of Hair, Eye 

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

 Ancient Egypt and in Rome, Relation of Intelligence 

 to Physical Characters ( Pearson j. Correlation of 

 Bonas of the Hand, Measurements from Oxfoi-d and 

 Cambridge Anthropometric Lai loratories, Fertility 

 and Degeneracy, Anthropometric and oKstetric 

 Studies of the female Pelvis, etc., etc. 



Medicine. Vaccination and Recovery, Measure- 

 ments of Severity of Disease, Cancer and Diabetes, 

 Multijjle ca-ses of (lise;i.se, 'Cancer Houses,' Incidence 

 of Syphilis, Mosquitos and Malaria, Numlier of 



Erythrocytes and the Altitude, Split-foot Deformi- 

 ties, Albinism — histological and classificatory. Anti- 

 typhoid Inoculation, the Opsonic Index, Weights of 

 human Viscera, Piebalds, etc., etc. 



Heredity. Of Duration of Life in Man, of Fer- 

 tility, of Health, of Physical and Mcnt^il Characters, 

 of Eye and Skin Colour and of Special Deformities, 

 of Coat Colour in mice, in greyhounds, in cattle and 

 hoi-ses, of size of litter in mice anil sows, of jjroduc- 

 tion of butter-fat in cows, of characters in Shirley 

 Poppy and in Bejins, Papers on Mendelism, Law of 

 ancestral Hei'editv and determinantal Theories, etc., 

 etc. 



Thereare numerous papers on stfitistical problems 

 ill Zoology and Botany doAling with natural selection, 

 variation and growth in tadpole, trout, cuckoo, wasps 

 and liees, earthworms, jiaramccia, termites, domestic 

 fowl, etc., etc., anil many papers with measurements 

 of correlation and variation in plant life. 



Practice and Theory of Statistics. Btometrika 

 cont^iins many standard tables : for (Joodness of Fit 

 (Elderton), of the Proliability Integral (Shcppard), 

 Powers of Natural Numbers, I'-functions, Crades 

 and De\iates, of Probable Errors, Tetrachoric Func- 

 tious and iiicom]iletc Jloment Functions, etc., etc. 

 There are many papers on the Theory of Correlation, 

 of Association and of random Sampling, on Inter- 

 polation, the construction of Moi-tality and Sickne.ss 

 Tables, Index-distributions, etc., etc. Amcjng those 

 who ha\e contributed are A. O. Powys, W. F. R. 

 Weldon, E. Warren, O. H. Lattei-, F. Ludwig, 

 W. R. Macdonell, Francis (ialton, Karl Pearson, 

 W. F. Sheppard, E. H. Schuster, David Heron, 

 W. P. and E. M. Elderton, (i. Diincker, R. Pearl, 

 G. H. Shull, Geof. Smith, Major Greenwood, J. W. 

 Jenkinson, F. Y. Edgeworth, J. F. Tocher, C. D. 

 Fawcett, A. Lee, A. R. Galloway, R. J. Gladstone, 

 J. Brownlee, F. de Helguero, R. C. Punnctt, 

 Edmund (iain, F. E. Liitz, K. Tschepourkowsky, 

 Major W. F. Harvey, H. H. Stannus, E. C. Snow, 

 J. A. Harris, and inanv others. 



Cambridge University Press 



C. F. Clay, Manager 



London : Fetter Lane, E.G. 



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