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MR. G. UDNY YULE'S interesting obituary of Karl Pearson (NATURE, May 23, p. 856) does not offer ” the meed of some melodious tear” to his efforts for the creation of a great University of London. ” K. P.” collected his ephemeral contributions on this question in a small book, ” The New University of London” (Fisher Unwin, 1892). Appendix C (p. 130) deals exhaustively with the contributions of Sir Thistleton Dyer and Sir Ray Lankester to NATURE of May and June 1891; but ” K. P.” himself does not appear to have used this journal for his polemics. Unlike Huxley, he was as regards the colleges an absorptionist, his somewhat naïve idea being that absorption would prevent domination. For the vigour of its dialectic, this little book is a delight.
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HUMBERSTONE, T. Karl Pearson. Nature 137, 951 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137951c0
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