A PROFESSOR OF EUGENICS.

Northern Advocate, 2 May 1911, Page 2

A PROFESSOR OF EUGENICS.

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