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Preface; Acknowledgements; List of Tables; 1. Pioneer; 2. Scandal; 3.Discoveries; 4. Burt's historical claims: the early papers; 5. Burt'shistorical claims: Spearman and Pearson; 6. Burt's kinship studies: theinvariant correlations; 7. Burt's kinship studies: the missingassistants; 8. Burt's last papers; 9. The mad professor; 10. Burt'scharacter; 11. How it happened: the accusation; 12. How it happened:the endorsement; Appendix A a disputed priority; Appendix B letter fromThorndike to Spearman, 17 October 1904; Appendix C note from Burt(1917:53); Appendix D letter from Sir Halford Cook, 30 August 1984;Bibliography; Index.