| RefNo | CD/25/3 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Letter from Karl Pearson, 7 Well Road, Hampstead, to Joseph Larmor, Secretary of the Royal Society |
| Date | 17 February 1902 |
| Description | Informs Larmor that he [Pearson] has not raised any question of the irregularity of publishing [William] Bateson's criticism, but thinks that its issue was not advisable, because: (i) it was discussed widely by people who did not know the contents of Pearson's unpublished memoir, and (ii) it opened the Proceedings of the Royal Society to highly controversial matter.
Notes that Pearson asked Sir Michael Foster to bring the matter before the Council, but that they would not. Suggests that the question between Pearson and Bateson is 'whether the old methods and terms are to stand and that touches every nine out of ten men I know'. Also suggests that 'one might almost imagine from your [Larmor's] letter that I [Pearson] was the aggressor', but that really 'it is I who am dragged into the arena, by what I hold to be a very illogical, unfair, (because it makes insinuations) attack on the whole of my work for the past eight years'.
Asks for the notice that he [Pearson] encloses to be included in the Proceedings. |
| Extent | 2p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| AccessStatus | Open |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA7894 | Larmor; Sir; Joseph (1857 - 1942); physicist | 1857 - 1942 |