Karl Pearson - Publications

Publications

• The New Werther (1880)
• The Trinity, A Nineteenth Century Passion Play (1882)
• The Trinity: a nineteenth century passion-play (E. Johnson, Cambridge, 1882)
• A history of the theory of elasticity and of the strength of materials from Galilei to the present time (University Press, Cambridge, 1886-1893; editor)
• The Ethic of Freethought (1886)
• Die Fronica (1887)
• The moral basis of socialism (W. Reeves, London, 1887)
• The positive creed of freethought: with some remarks on the relation of freethought to socialism (W. Reeves, London, 1888)
• Enthusiasm of the market place and of the study (1885)
• The common sense of the exact sciences (Kegan Paul & Co, London, 1885; editor)
• Matter and soul (1886)
• The ethic of Freethought: a selection of essays and lectures (T. Fisher Unwin, London, 1888)
• The Grammar of Science (1892), Dover Publications, 2004 edition, ISBN 0-486-49581-7
• The grammar of science (1892)
• The new university for London: a guide to its history and a criticism of its defects (T. Fisher Unwin, London, 1892)
• On the dissection of asymmetrical frequency curves (1894)
• Skew variation in homogeneous material (1895)
• Reaction! A criticism of Mr Balfour's attack on rationalism (1895)
• Regression, heredity and panmixia (1896)
• The chances of death and other studies in evolution (E. Arnold, London, 1897) Online version at and vol.2 only at archive.org at
• On the criterion that a given system of deviations from the probable in the case of a correlated system of variables is such that it can be reasonably supposed to have arisen from random sampling (1900)
• National life from the stand-point of science An address delivered at Newcastle (A. & C. Black, London, 1901)
• Mathematical contributions to the theory of evolution (1904)
• A mathematical theory of random migration (1906)
• Studies in national deterioration (1907)
• A first study of the inheritance of vision and of the relative influence of heredity and environment on sight (London, 1909)
• On a practical theory of elliptical and pseudo-elliptical arches, with special reference to the ideal masonry arch (with W. D. Reynolds and W. F. Stanton; 1909)
• A second study of the statistics of pulmonary tuberculosis: marital infection (London, 1908; editor)
• The groundwork of eugenics (1909)
• The problem of practical eugenics(1909)
• The treasury of human inheritance (Dulau & Co., London, 1909; editor)
• Nature and nurture, the problem of the future: A presidential address (1910)
• A preliminary study of extreme alcoholism in adults (with A. Barrington, London; 1910)
• Supplement to the memoir (by Ethel Elderton) entitled: The influence of parental alcoholism on the physique and ability of the offspring: A reply to the Cambridge economists (1910)
• A second study of the influence of parental alcoholism on the physique and ability of the offspring (1910)
• A monograph on albinism in man (with Edward Nettleship and Charles Usher; 1911)
• The academic aspect of the science of eugenics: A lecture delivered to undergraduates (1911)
• Eugenics and public health: An address to public health officers (1912)
• Tuberculosis, heredity and environment (1912)
• Darwinism, medical progress and eugenics: The Cavendish lecture, an address to the medical profession (1912)
• Social problems, their treatment, past, present, and future A lecture (1912)
• On the correlation of fertility with social value: a cooperative study (1913)
• On the handicapping of the first-born (1914)
• Tables for statisticians and biometricians (London, 1914; editor)
• Mendelism and the problem of mental defect (1914)
• Tables for Statisticians and Biometricians (1914)
• A statistical study of oral temperatures in school children, with special reference to parental, environmental, and class differences with M. H. Williams and Julia Bell (1914)
• The life, letters and labours of Francis Galton (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1914)
• The life, letters and labours of Francis Galton (three volumes: 1914, 1924, 1930; available in full at Galton website)
• On the torsion resulting from flexure in prisms with cross-sections of uni-axial symmetry only (with A. W. Young and Ethel Elderton; 1918)
• A study of the long bones of the English skeleton (London, 1919)
• Tracts for computers(London, 1919; editor)
• On the construction of tables and on interpolation (London, 1920)
• The science of man: its needs and its prospects (London, 1920)
• Side lights on the evolution of man (London, 1921)
• On the sesamoids of the knee-joint (Cambridge, 1922)
• Tables of the incomplete G-function: computed by the staff of the Department of Applied Statistics, University College (London, 1922; editor)
• Study of the data provided by a baby-clinic in a large manufacturing town (Cambridge, 1922)
• Francis Galton, 1822-1922, a centenary appreciation (London, 1922)
• Charles Darwin, 1809-1882, an appreciation(London, 1923)
• On the relationship of health to the psychial and physical characters in school children (Cambridge, 1923)
• Home conditions and eyesight: some recent misinterpretations of the problem of nurture and nature'
• On the skull and portraits of George Buchanan (Oliver & Boyd, Edinburgh, London, 1926)
• The right of the unborn child (Cambridge University Press, London, 1927)
• The skull and portraits of Henry Stewart, Lord Darnley, and their bearing on the tragedy of Mary, Queen of Scots (1928)
• Tables of the incomplete beta-function (The Proprietors of Biometrika, London, 1934; editor)
• Tables of Incomplete Beta Function (1934)