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THE receipt of the first part of the new periodical, Biometrika, calls for more than mere formal acknowledgment. The methods of investigating biological problems statistically may be looked upon as having their origin in this country, and the names of the editorial staff are those of the pioneers in this modern departure—Francis Galton, and Profs. W. F. R. Weldon and Karl Pearson, associated with Prof. C. B. Davenport, of the University of Chicago. The part received is prefaced by an editorial article setting forth the scope and defining the spirit of the publication and an article on biometry from the pen of Mr. Galton. An admirable figure of the Darwin statue in the University Museum at Oxford, reproduced from a photograph by Mrs. E. B. Poulton, forms an appropriate frontispiece, the motto “Ignoramus, in hoc signo laboremus” being printed below the illustration. The papers contributed to this first part are seven in number, including those already mentioned. Prof. Dr. F. Ludwig writes (in German) on problems and materials for variation statistics; Mr. A. O. Powys contributes data for the problem of evolution in man, anthropometric data from Australia; Miss Beeton and Prof. Pearson furnish a paper on the inheritance of the duration of life and the intensity of natural selection in man; Mr. E. T. Browne writes on variation in Aurelia aurita, and Prof. Weldon on a first study of natural selection in Clausilia laminata.
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A Periodical for Statistical Biologists 1 . Nature 65, 106–107 (1901). https://doi.org/10.1038/065106b0
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