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as may be necessary to ensure the continuance without interruption and the extension of the 

 work in connection with Eugenics initiated by me and now carried on on my behalf at 

 University College and that during any subsequent vacancy in the Professorship the Senate 

 shall out of and by means of the said income make such arrangements as may be necessary to 

 ensure the continuance without interruption of the work being carried on for the time being at 

 the Eugenics Laboratory of the said University AND I HEREBY DECLARE it to be my 

 wish but I do not impose it as an obligation that on the appointment of the first Professor the 

 post shall be offered to Professor Karl Pearson and on such conditions as will give him liberty 

 to continue his Biometric Laboratory now established at University College AND in all other 

 respects I confirm my said Will IN WITNESS whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 

 twenty fifth day of May One thousand nine hundred and nine. 



FRANCIS GALTON. 



APPENDIX II. 



Scheme by Sir Francis Galtonfor a Eugenics Discussion Committee. 



I have several times in the course of this work pointed out Galton's belief in Committees. 

 In particular I have noted that in 1905 he set up an Advisory Committee for his Eugenics 

 Record Office. The Minute Book of this Committee indicates how little could be achieved in this 

 manner. It really only hampered the Research Fellow (see p. 233 above). When the Eugenics 

 Record Office was reorganised as the Eugenics Laboratory, there was again an "Advisory 

 Committee," but it was not to be and never was summoned ; it consisted of experts in various 

 fields, who were individually consulted when our work led us in the direction of one or another 

 branch of science. These experts were of much service, and we were very grateful for their aid ; 

 but there were no periodic meetings designed to discuss what the future work of the Laboratory 

 ought to be ; or any excuse for much talk by those who were ignorant of the difficulty of 

 collecting data, or what it was possible to deduce from them when obtained. 



Advisory Meetings at the Eugenics Record Office, 88, Gower Street, W.C. 



Mr Galton would be glad to utilise the room of the Eugenics Record Office, after office 

 hours, for the occasional meeting of a few invited persons who seriously desire to promote 

 Inductive Research in matters connected with Eugenics. 



In Mr Galton's absence, Mr Schuster would act as host. 



Under these conditions, Mr Schuster would arrange the day of each meeting, in conference 

 with Mr Branford and Dr Slaughter, and the hour of opening and closing it. 



He would similarly arrange as to the persons to whom invitations should be sent on each 

 occasion, bearing in mind that exigencies of space make it inconvenient for more than eight 

 persons to be present at the same time. 



He would also draw up the Agenda, a copy of which will accompany each invitation. 



The meetings will be somewhat informal, but its members may proceed to elect a chairman 

 for the evening if any two of those present desire it. Whenever the votes including that of the 

 chairman are equal, the host shall have a second and casting vote. 



Minutes of each meeting shall be kept by Mr Schuster, who shall cause them to be typed in 

 duplicate, one copy to be retained by the Office. 



The Secretary, Miss Elderton, will do all necessary typewriting and posting. 



The primary purpose of the meeting will be to propose and thoroughly discuss suitable 

 subjects for eugenic research, including time, cost, the persons who might undertake them, and 

 the value of the expected results. Definite proposals of this kind should take precedence in the 

 Agenda. 



Other topics connected with Eugenics might afterwards be discussed, preference being given 

 to those that bear on the future work of the Office. 



(signed) Francis Galton, October, 1905. 



