ID# 2126:
 Charles Davenport letter to Karl Pearson, defending roles of mutation and environment in evolution in paper rejected by Biometrika (6/5/1903)
Date:
1903
Pages: (1|2|3|4|5|6)
Source:
 University College London, KP, 674/1
Charles Davenport letter to Karl Pearson, defending roles of mutation and environment in evolution in paper rejected by <i>Biometrika</i> (6/5/1903)

[5-6-03] tion can take place by selection alone. Did you pin your faith in the importance of biometry on the absence of that demonstration? And will you abandon it if the demonstration should be satisfactorily made tomorrow? I would not. Biometry is numerical precision and that is the soul of science, according to Herschel. Well, I have written a long letter in my plea that Biometrika be not run in the interest of one idea but that everyone who [crossed out 'wishes'] has used the method of numerical precision properly and will adopt the motto: "Ignoramus, in hoc signo labor[illegible]" may have free entry to it to express the truth as he sees it. Thank you for giving over some of the calculations. Some of the tables are not in precisely the form in which I calculated them, to save expenses in print so that results may differ in the decimals. All Sincerely yours, Chas. B. Davenport [end]

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