Author:Karl Pearson

Karl Pearson
(1857–1936)

Karl Pearson

Works

• The New Werther (1880) (external scan)
• The Trinity: A Nineteenth Century Passion-play (1882) (external scan)
• Die Fronica (1887) (external scan)
• The Moral Basis of Socialism (1887) (external scan)
• The Ethic of Freethought (1888) (external scan)
• The Positive Creed of Freethought: with Some Remarks on the Relation of Freethought to Socialism. Being a Lecture Delivered at South Place Institute (1888)
• The Grammar of Science (1892) (external scan)
• The New University for London: A Guide to its History and a Criticism of its Defects (1892) (external scan)
• The Chances of Death and Other Studies in Evolution (1897), in 2 vols. (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2)
• National Life from the Stand-point of Science: An Address Delivered at Newcastle (1901) (external scan)
• The Ethic of Freethought (1902, 2nd edition) (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
• On the Theory of Contingency and its Relation to Association and Normal Correlation (1904) (external scan)
• On the General Theory of Skew Correlation and Non-linear Regression (1905) (external scan)
• A Mathematical Theory of Random Migration (1906) (external scan)
• Studies in National Deterioration (1907)
• An Experimental Study of the Stresses in Masonry Dams (1907), co-authored with Alan Faraday Campbell Pollard (external scan)
• A First Study of the Statistics of Pulmonary Tuberculosis (1907) (external scan)
• A First Study of the Inheritance of Vision and of the Relative Influence of Heredity and Environment on Sight (1909), co-authored with Amy Barrington (external scan)
• On a Practical Theory of Elliptical and Pseudo-elliptical Arches, with Special Reference to the Ideal Masonry Arch (1909), co-authored with W. D. Reynolds and William Frank Stanton
• The Groundwork of Eugenics (1909) (external scan)
• The Scope and Importance to the State of the Science of National Eugenics (1909) (external scan)
• A Preliminary Study of Extreme Alcoholism in Adults (1910), co-authored with Amy Barrington (external scan)
• A First Study of the Influence of Parental Alcoholism on the Physique and Ability of the Offspring (1910), co-authored with Ethel Mary Elderton (external scan)
• The Influence of Parental Alcoholism on the Physique and Ability of the Offspring: A Reply to the Cambridge Economists (1910) (external scan)
• A Second Study of the Influence of Parental Alcoholism on the Physique and Ability of the Offspring (1910), co-authored with Ethel M. Elderton (external scan)
• Nature and Nurture, the Problem of the Future: A Presidential Address (1910) (external scan)
• The Scope and Importance to the State of the Science of National Eugenics (1911, 3rd edition) (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2, 3, 4) (transcription project)
• The Academic Aspect of the Science of Eugenics: A Lecture Delivered to Undergraduates (1911) (external scan)
• An Attempt to Correct some of the Misstatements Made by Sir Victor Horsley and Mary D. Sturge, M.D. in the Criticisms of the Galton Laboratory Memoir: A First Study of the Influence of Parental Alcoholism, &c (1911) (external scan)
• A Monograph on Albinism in Man (1911–1913), co-authored with Edward Nettleship and Charles Usher (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2)
• Eugenics and Public Health: An Address to Public Health Officers (1912) (external scan)
• Darwinism, Medical Progress and Eugenics. The Cavendish Lecture: An Address to the Medical Profession (1912) (external scan)
• Social Problems, their Treatment, Past, Present, and Future: A Lecture (1912) (external scan)
• The Problem of Practical Eugenics (1912) (external scan)
• Tuberculosis, Heredity and Environment (1912)
• On the Correlation of Fertility with Social Value: A Cooperative Study (1913)
• Mendelism and the Problem of Mental Defect, II: On the Continuity of Mental Defect (1914), co-authored with Gustav A. Jaederholm
• A Statistical Study of Oral Temperatures in School Children (1914), co-authored with M. H. Williams and Julia Bell
• The Life, Letters and Labours of Francis Galton (1914, 1924, 1930), in 3 vols.
• On the Handicapping of the First-born: Being a Lecture Delivered at the Galton Laboratory (1914) (external scan)
• Some Recent Misinterpretations of the Problem of Nurture and Nature (1915) (external scan)
• "Mathematical contributions to the theory of evolution.—XIX. Second supplement to a memoir on skew variation", in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, Vol. 216 (January 1916)
• On the Torsion Resulting from Flexure in Prisms with Cross-sections of Uni-axial Symmetry Only (1918), co-authored with Andrew W. Young and Ethel Elderton (external scan)
• A Study of the Long Bones of the English Skeleton (1919), co-authored with Julia Bell (external scan)
• The Science of Man: its Needs and its Prospects (1920)
• Side Lights on the Evolution of Man: Being a Lecture Delivered at the Royal Institution (1921)
• Study of the Data Provided by a Baby-clinic in a Large Manufacturing Town (1922), co-authored with Mary Noel Karn
• Francis Galton, 1822–1922: A Centenary Appreciation (1922)
• Tables of the Incomplete Γ-Function (1922) (external scan)
• Charles Darwin, 1809–1882: An Appreciation. Being a Lecture Delivered to the Teachers of the London County Council (1923)
• On the Relationship of Health to the Psychical and Physical Characters in School Children (1923)
• On the Skull and Portraits of George Buchanan (1926)
• The Right of the Unborn Child: Being a Lecture Delivered ... to Teachers from the London County Council Schools (1927)

As editor

• The Common Sense of the Exact Sciences (1885) (external scan)
• A History of the Theory of Elasticity and of the Strength of Materials from Galilei to the Present Time (1886–1893), in 3 vols. (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2, 3)
• The Elastical Researches of Barré de Saint-Venant (1889) (external scan)
• A Second Study of the Statistics of Pulmonary Tuberculosis: Marital Infection (1908)
• Treasury of Human Inheritance (1912), in 2 vols.
• Tables for Statisticians and Biometricians (1914)
• Tracts for Computers (1919–22).
• Tables of the Incomplete Beta-function (1934)