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A PROFESSOR OF EUGENICS.Sir F. G niton has left £65,000 for tU promotion of the study oT Eugenics, and ho expressed the desire that the first professor shall he Professor Karl Pearson, with liberty to continuo his Biometric Laboratory at University College- Professor Karl Pearson, says the “Westminster,” lias been Professor of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics at University College, London, since 18S5. This statement- gives litt-to notion, however, of the scope of his learning, or tha variety of the scientific fields in which ho 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 lias expressed before now a somewhat desjKindent view of the immediate future of the race, or rather of that portion of it which occupies the British Islands. Professor Pearson’s belief is that wo aro now in the midst of an epoch which will be marked by a dearth of striking ability. Nor docs ho believe that the remedy ia to be sought in foreign methods of instruction or in technical education. Intelligence, he holds, must be bred, and just at present wo aro ceasing to. breed it in its highest forms. “National LilA from tho Standpoint of Science” is, by the way, tho title of 0110 of Professor Pearson’s many volumes.
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Wellington Dominion
Wellington, North Island, NZ
Fri, Apr 28, 1911
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