I know of scarcely anything so apt to impress the imagination as the wonderful form of cosmic order expressed by the ‘Law of Frequency of Error’,” the British polymath Francis Galton wrote in 1889.

MR. GALTON'S recent ingenious book on natural inheritance suggests some remarks on the value of his method and results. In the first place, it is plain that the method of probable error, which he ...

So Galton thought it would be a good idea to experiment on rabbits and he did, and for two years solidly he did blood transfusions between different breeds of rabbits, Lop Eared and Grey rabbits.

EVERY statistician wants now and then to test the practical value of some theoretical process, it may be of smoothing, or of interpolation, or of obtaining a measure of variability, or of making ...

Cite this article. GALTON, D. General Results of Experiments on Friction at High Velocities Made in Order to Ascertain the Effect of Brakes on Railway Trains 1. Nature 20, 316–319 (1879). https ...