Karl Pearson's Gresham lectures : W.F.R. Weldon, speciation and the origins of Pearsonian statistics / M. Eileen Magnello.
Abstract:
'This paper examines the neglected thirty Gresham lectures to reassess the significance of Pearson's early statistical work. The last ten lectures, delivered from 3 February 1893 to 11 May 1894, reveal that the Darwinian biological concepts at the centre of much of the statistical and experimental work by his colleague and closest friend, W.F.R. Weldon, provided the impetus to Pearson's earliest statistical innovation on goodness of fit testing in 1892.'
British journal for the history of science Vol. 29 (1996), p. 43-63