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learning at Rutland Gate that I was here, asked for instructions and was ordered to Dorking 

 by the Manager. He had to walk 2 miles each way on a bitter evening and all for a paragraph. 

 What hustlers Editors are ! 



7, Well Road, Hampstead, N.W. February 4, 1909. 



My dear Francis Galton, I wrote to Hartog, the University Registrar, asking him to get 

 Heron reappointed for a third final year, and Miss Elderton's scholarship also extended and raised 

 to £ — . I told him that you had been consulted on the point, and that you generally approved. 

 It might be well for you to write a line to him to show that we have talked over the proposal. 

 I have had a good deal of worry and delay over the Treasury of Human Inheritance. It is 

 a gigantic task. I think the disease pedigrees alone run to thousands, mostly in out of the way 

 journals and dissertations, not accessible in England. But I hope the experience of this first part 

 will make the others easier, and get the contributors running smoothly in definite grooves. 

 I had simply no idea of the amount of material that really exists nor of what this work may do 

 to bring it to a focus ! 



Another point has been troubling me which I want to write to you about. Mrs Gotto has 

 asked for Miss Elderton's and Heron's lectures for publication. I hope she will not think me 

 churlish in feeling compelled to refuse. This refusal arises from more than one cause. Miss 

 Elderton gave material and some results of work which is not yet finished, and which it is our 

 duty to finish and publish in a form rather more academic than the publications of the Society. 

 Heron not only gave work which he hopes shortly to publish in the Galton Laboratory Memoirs, 

 but I gave him free run of my diagrams, some of which relate to work in progress, and of which 

 it would not do to anticipate the publication. Neither had at the time thought of publication 

 but only of interesting the Society in work in progress. I think you will see that it is not 

 churlish, but practically desirable not to anticipate full publication. 



Affectionately, K. Pearson. 



Meadow Cottage, Brockham Green, Betchworth. February 6, 1909. 



My dear Karl Pearson, I have written to Hartog about Heron and Miss Elderton adding 

 that I suppose he will hardly think it necessary to summon a Committee, but that if he does 

 I am too infirm to attend it. 



The Treasury will give great trouble to you, but you will, I hope, be able to divert a yet 

 larger part of the office work to it. (I wonder if among the thousands of disease pedigrees you 

 have included the important one given by Bedford Price, pp. 110-111 of the Report on the Feeble- 

 Minded..., Vol. lY) It is as you say, a gigantic work, especially at the outset. How I wish 

 I could help ; but I cannot, my working powers are now so small. 



It will never do to allow the Eugenics Education Society to anticipate and utilise the Eugenics 

 Laboratory publications. I will write to Mrs Gotto about it. I have written a brief send-off to 

 their forthcoming Review, in which I emphatically insist upon the difference between the work 

 of the two classes of publication, that they are supplementary, and in no sense rivals. The 

 Laboratory gives the foundation, the Society the superstructure. 



We leave here towards the end of the month ; as at present arranged for Lyndhurst in the 

 New Forest, but I will write further. 



I have got drawn into a publication about the Feeble-Minded, in which there are to be 

 two collaborators, one being Sir E. Fry ; if that falls through I retract also. In the meantime 

 I have got all 8 vols, of the Report— a mighty mass of letterpress. Would it be acceptable and 

 useful to the Library of the Eugenics Lab. if I sent it there when done with 1 



I hope your " half-time " gives a sensible amount of relief. 



Ever affectionately yours, Francis Galton. 



Hampstead. February 7, 1909. 



My dear Francis Galton, Thank you most heartily for your very sympathetic letter. 

 I agree so wholly with what you say — there is need for the purely scientific research, and for 

 propaganda. I feel that the former demands two essentials : we have got to convince not only 



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