Francis Galton: Pioneer of Heredity and Biometry

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments I am grateful to University College London Library for access to the Galton and Pearson papers, and for permission to use extracts from them; to the Biometrika Trust and to Oxford University Press for permission to quote extracts and to reproduce three figures from The Life, Letters and Labours of Francis Galton by Karl Pearson; to the librarians of the Radcliffe Science Library and the Bodleian Library at Oxford University for their help in locating references; to Professor Anthony Edwards of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge and to an anonymous referee for valuable comments on the manuscript; to David Burbridge for helpful correspondence about Galton’s theory of heredity; to Gavan Tredoux for use of his excellent website www.galton.org; to my copy editor Alice Calaprice of Princeton, New Jersey; to Trevor Lipscombe, Julie McCarthy, and Martha Sewall at Johns Hopkins University Press, for their help in improving the manuscript and in preparing it for publication ; and to Mark Boardman for making the scanned images. This page intentionally left blank ...