UNIVERSITY OF LONDON, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE 
The Biometric Laboratory 
(assisted by a grant from the Worshipful Company of Drapers) 
Until the phenomena of any branch of knowledge have been submitted 
to 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. Assis- 
tants: Andrew Young, M.A., B.Sc, ; one vacancy; 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. Assistants: 
Galton Research Fellow: Ethel M. Elderton; one vacancy; 
Beatrice M. Cave. Secretary: H. Gertrude Jones. 
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 relation of these conditions to 
inheritance and environment; (ii) as a centre for the publication or 
other form of distribution 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 ^ho are engaged in social, 
medical, or anthropometric work. 
At press and to appear shortly : 
A Monograph on the English Long Bones. By Karl Pearson, 
F.R.S. and Julia Bell, M.A. Part L The Femur. Text Part I 
and Atlas of Plates Part I. 
