Abstract
Revisiting scenes from my early life, I recently came across Mr Lugenbeal’s review of Charles Oxnard’s book on human evolution. The review is much taken up with the role of multivariate analysis in palaeontological research, and refers to contributions by "Lang and Bronowski." I happen to be the former, and thereby the subject of a couple of typos: I’m Long, not Lang. This can be confirmed by viewing the 1951 and 1953 papers in the journal Nature, through which, coupled with an article in The American Journal of Physical Anthropology, Bronowski and I launched multivariate analysis in the field of palaeontological research.