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This webpage provides information regarding historical objects/tools that the department holds or has donated to special collections.
- Where can I find Statistical Science historical exhibits in UCL?
UCL Special Collections: Researchers can apply to Special Collections to access the materials. Categories: Galton Laboratory Archive, Rare Book Collections, Karl Pearson Collection, Department of Statistical Science Collection.
Staff common room: Statistical sculptures, open library bookcase with historical books:
MSc reading room: Victorian Era books, Biometrika journals collection, old filing system:
Staff member's office: Quincunx:
Staff member's office: Flinders Petrie's craniometer
Basement storage room: Chair, mechanical computers, pencil drawing of Pearson.
- Tours
We can offer tours around the historic exhibits of the department, for specific occasions like Open Days. Please contact s.j.dickinson@ucl.ac.uk to arrange. Locations include:
1. Staff Common Room
2. MSc study
3. Basement storage room
4. Possible extra location of staff offices (depending on availability)
- List of materials donated to Special Collections
- Three bundles of books/publications from Karl Pearson's personal library (2 include subject lists in KP's handwriting).
- One file box of correspondence to Pearson (1920-29); Includes correspondence and licence for the removal of human remains at Spitalfields (1926) reference to the Chancelade skeleton; notes and measurements with diagrams of bones; reference material; photograph of skeleton of Jean Bart (French pirate)
- One mounted photograph of Jerzy Neyman
- Copy of a photograph of E S Pearson
- Envelope address to Karl Pearson from Mary Soper, enclosing photographs of her husband, statistician Herbert E Soper (who worked at UCL)
- File of correspondence to/from E S Pearson 'Pictures in Dept and coloured photograph of himself included' (1979)
- Photograph of E S Pearson taken by Walter Bird (1970s) (relates to correspondence at E S Pearson)
- Small file containing miscellaneous material and four photographs (3 of women working in the lab (c 1930s) and one of a man (Darwin?) seated and holding a child in his lap (c 1890s)
- Oversize folder containing proofs of publication relating to Dwarfism for 'The Treasury of Human Inheritance' sent to Karl Pearson from John Clayman (1911)
- Copy of radiograph of infant with Dwarfism (possibly used in 'The Treasury of Human Inheritance'
- Envelope containing copy of Platt's couplets and various staff sketches (Kerr, Lankester, Ramsay) drawn by Goodwin (c18090 - 1910) + mWPK's sketch to assist with the identification of German spires, dated 13 November 1914
- Framed photograph of Weldon bust ('413 Common room on back)
- List of materials donated to Special Collections but returned to Statistical Science
- Box of microfiche teaching/publication slides, titled 'Pearsonal'
- Envelope of 'Photographs of scientists, to be framed as opportunity offers' - all taken from unknown publication printed by 'Lock & Whitfield' - includes a short biography of each
- Envelope of 'Copies of the 1910 photos and of the DeBiden drawing to be given away' - includes multiple copies of pencil sketch of Karl Pearson, four copies of a photograph of KP at desk, four copies of KP standing in laboratory with counting machine, copy of Galton profile signed 'Sincerely yours Francis Galton'
- Photograph of statistician W F Sheppard
- Small file of the secondary source reference material
- Karl Pearson memoir
- Bound volume of speeches delivered at dinner held in honour of Karl Pearson (1934)
- Copies of a photograph of E S Pearson x2
- Victorian Book collection stored in the Statistical Science MSc study
- Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile, Speke, 1863, Cambridge University Press
- The Laws of Thought, Boole, 1854, Walton & Maberly
- Differential calculus for beginners, Edwards, 1896, Macmillan and Co
- The Common sense of the Exact sciences, Clifford, 1885, Cambridge University Press
- Lectures and essays (second edition) , Clifford, 1886, Macmillan and Co
- Cross and self Fertilization of Plants, Darwin, 1876, London John Murray
- Darwisim, wallace, 1889, Macmillan and Co
- The ethic of freethought (second edition), Pearson, 1901, JC Black