A PROFESSOR OF EUGENICS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1113, 28 April 1911, Page 8

A PROFESSOR OF EUGENICS.

Sir F. Galton has left £65,000 for the promotion of the study or Eugenics, and lie expressed tho desire that tho first professor shall bo Professor Karl Pearson, with liberty to continuo his Biometric Laboratory at University College. Professor Karl Pearson, says the "Westminster," lias boon Professor of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics at University College, London, since 1885. This statement gives little notion, however, of tho scope of his learning, or the variety of the scientific fields in which ho has attained distinction. Ho has published works on subjects as far 'removed as tho Theory of Elasticity and the Mediaeval Portraits of Christ, while ho is one of the leading authorities of the flay on all anthropological questions. Professor Pearson lias expressed before now a somewhat despondent view of tho immediate future of the race', or rather of that portion of it which occupies the British Islands. Professor Pearson's belief is that wo are now in tho midst of .111 epoch which will b{ marked by a dearth of striking ability. Nor does ho believe that the remedy ia to ho sought in foreign methods of instruction or in technical education. Intelligence, ho holds, must be bred, and just at present we are ceasing to.breed it in its highest forms. "National Lift from tho Standpoint of Science" is, by the way, the title of ono of Professor Pearson's many volumes. >