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RefNoMC/25/176
AltRefNo10176
LevelItem
TitleLetter from Karl Pearson, Biometric Laboratory, University College, Gower Street, London, W.C
CreatorPearson; Karl (1857 - 1936); statistician and eugenicist
Date14 February 1910
DescriptionInforms he has been made aware that Mr Everitt has not impressed the Royal Society with the urgent importance of making the scale of reductions on the diagrams of hispaper. Emphasises it to be essential for the reduction to take place and hopes the paper will not go to press without it. States that results were obtained in part by geographical and not numerical calculations making it most important to indicate what the sizes of the original working drawings were.
Includes an internal Royal Society memorandum, dated 14 February 1910.
Extent2p
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionInk on paper
AccessStatusOpen
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CodePersonNameDates
NA8002Pearson; Karl (1857 - 1936); statistician and eugenicist1857 - 1936
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