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which I had never ventured on before, has the merit of great rapidity. It did not, however, 

 show up properly the red amid the yellow peas in the box diagram. 



I am glad you have got the clause worded satisfactorily. I think it will be a safeguard but 

 1 hope it will be unnecessary and that the right man will be found when the time comes. 



Miss Elderton gave a very good lecture to-day — I think quite the best of the series — but 

 for some reason her audience was rather smaller. It was a pity as the material was very good 

 and she lectured fluently for over an hour. Affectionately, Karl Pearson. 



The Galton Eugenics Laboratory, University College. June 9, 1909. 



My dear Francis Galton, I think the enclosed letters may interest and amuse you. To 

 Letter I, I replied that we need aid most for (a) a publishing fund and (b) a library, and that 

 if Mr H.'s views went beyond these lesser matters he could build an Institute for the Galton 

 Laboratory ! Letter II follows ! Just think of those " old and crooked " mares forwarded to 

 England and arriving in Gower Street ! We should have to tether them in the quadrangle ! 

 I have written again endeavouring in a friendly way to show that the highest results are not to 

 be obtained by any experiments on " old and crooked " mares ! But some Americans are very 

 weird, and a better man than myself might have made something out of Mr H. " the wealthiest 

 man in B "! Affectionately, K. P. 



42, Rutland Gate, S.W. June 11, 1909. 



My dear Karl Pearson, What fools this world contains ! — even in the U.S. A man 

 with the persuasiveness and moral standard of a dealer in horses or in works of art, might 

 possibly succeed in diverting the coin to more promising Eugenic purposes than the effect of 

 sympathy on the conception of mares, but quere. 



I heard from Heron, that M — shied at the idea of publishing the little book by Miss 

 Elderton and her brother. Of course I am prepared to contribute towards the cost of the 

 publication, if on those terms only a good publisher would accept it. 



Ever affectionately, Francis Galton. 



7, Well Road, Hampstead, N.W. June 15, 1909. 



My dear Francis Galton, You will be glad to know that Messrs Adam & Charles Black 

 have accepted the Eldertons' book at their own cost giving to the authors a 10 °/ o royalty on 

 copies sold. I think these are as good terms as we could expect. 



There is to be a meeting of the Galton Laboratory Committee to see the Report and if 

 approved to forward it to the University Senate next week. I don't think it means more than 

 sanctioning the Report Hartog sent to you. He wrote to me that there will be a vacancy on 

 the Committee and asked me unofficially if I could suggest any member of the Senate to go on. 

 He sent me the enclosed list and asked for suggestions. But I know nobody with a Eugenic 

 bent. Do you 1 They all seem to me folk rather lacking in imagination. Gregory Foster would 

 do quite well, but I don't know that he has any special knowledge in this direction. 



I had two very different men to see the Laboratory yesterday. Dr Woodward, the 

 President of the Carnegie Institute of Washington and Dr Chau-tao-Chen, First Secretary of 

 the Chinese Finance Board. I suppose a sort of permanent Secretary of State for the Chinese 

 Treasury. I got him to promise me some Chinese Skulls* ! 



Yours affectionately, Karl Pearson. 



I am so sorry about Charles Galton Darwin ! Still he has done quite well and will no doubt 

 get his fellowship. Will you write a brief introduction to the Eldertons' booklet? What shall 

 we call it — A Primer of Biometry or of Statistics or what? 



42, Rutland Gate, S.W. June 16, 1909. 



My dear Karl Pearson, Of the names in the Senate suitable for our Committee, 

 A. C. Headlam, Principal of King's College, seems one of the most suitable. He has given 

 help in various ways — lecture room, etc. — to the Eugenics Education Society. Roscoe is very 



* He thought the skulls of decapitated criminals might be available, but even these never 

 reached me. 



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