UNIVERSITY OF LONDON, ONIYERSITY COLLEGE 
The Biometpic Laboratory 
(assisted by a grant frcan the Worshipful Company of Drapers) 
Until the phenomena of any branch of knowledge have been 
submitted io measurement and number it cannot assume the 
status and dignity of a science. Francis Galton. 
Under the direction of Professor Karl Pearson, F.R.S. 
Assistants : Andrew Young, M.A., B.Sc. ; I. Horwitz, B.Sc. ; 
Adelaide G. Davin, B.Sc. ; Crewdson Benington Student in 
Anthropometry : Appointment in 1916. 
This laboratory provides a complete training in modem ' 
statistical methods and is especially arranged so as to assist 
research workers engaged on biometric problems. 
The Francis Galton Eugenics Laboratory 
National Eugenics is the study of agencies under social 
control, that may improve or impair the racial qualities of 
future generations, either physically or mentally. 
The Laboratory was founded by Sir Francis Galton 
and is under the supervision of Professor Karl Pearson, 
F.R.S. Assistant- Director: David Heron, D.Sc. Galton 
Research Fellow : Ethel M. Elderton. Assistant : Beatrice 
M. Cave. Librarian: Vacant. 
It was the intention of the Founder, that the Laboratory 
should serve (i) as a storehouse of statistical material bearing 
on the mental and physical conditions in man, and the re- 
lation of these conditions to inheritance and environment; 
(ii) as a centre for the publication or other form of distribu- 
tion of information concerning National Eugenics ; (iii) as a 
school for training and assisting research-workers in special 
problems in Eugenics. 
Short courses are provided for those who are engaged 
in social, medical, or anthropometric work. 
For information as to either Laboratory application 
should be made to the Acting Secretary, Adelaide G. Davin, 
University College, London. 
