CONTENTS 
Ignoramus, in hoc signo laboremus (Portrait) . . . Frontispiece 
I. Editorial, (i) The Scope of Biometrika 1 
(ii) The Spirit of Biometrika 3 
II. Biometry. By Francis Galton, F.R.S. 7 
III. Variationsstatistische Probleme und MateriaKen. Von Prof. Dr 
F. LUDWIG . I . . 11 
IV. Data for the Problem of Evolution in Man. Anthropometric Data 
from Australia. By A. O. PowYS . . . . . ; . .30 
V. Inheritance of the Duration of Life and the Intensity of Natural 
Selection in Man. By Miss M. Beeton and Prof. Karl Pearsox, 
F.R.S . . . . . . . 50 
VI. Variation in Aurelia auritd (LiNNAEUs). By E. T. Browne . . 90 
VII. A First Study of Natural Selection in Clausilia laminata (Montagu). 
By Prof. W. F. R. Welpon, F.II.S. . . . . . . .109 
Miscellanea, (i) Change in Organic Correliation of Ficaria ranunculoides 
during the Flowering Season 125 
(ii) Statoblasts of Pectinatella Magnifica . . . .128 
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