<< I wonder if your correspondents on Student's t have looked at p.666 of
Anders Hald's "A History of Mathematical Statistics From 1750 to 1930",
New York: Wiley, 1998. That seems to indicate the origin of the "t"
although the original sources should be checked. >>
I have requested the Hald book through Interlibrary Loan. Thanks.
For original sources, there are a few collections of original papers of
English-speaking statisticians:
R. A. Fisher _Contributions to Mathematical Statistics_ New York: Wiley,
1950. This is Fisher's own selection of papers; a complete bibliography of
his works can be found in Fisher, _Statistical Methods for Research Workers_,
13th edition, New York: Hafner Publishing Company Inc, 1958. Incidentally,
four of Fisher's papers are in French.
_A Selection of Early Statistical Papers of J. Neyman_ Cambridge University
Press, 1967.
_Joint Statistical Papers of J. Neyman and E. S. Pearson_ Cambridge
University Press, 1967, ISBN 0-85264-706-9
_The Selected Papers of E. S. Pearson_ Cambridge University Press, 1966.
_Karl Pearson's Earlyh Statistical Papers_ London: Cambridge University
Press, 1948.
_"Student's" Collected Papers_ London: Biometrika Office, Univeristy College
London, 1942.
_Selected Papers in Statistics and Probability by Abraham Wald_ New York:
McGraw-Hill, 1955; reprinted by Stanford Univ. Press, 1957.
ISBN 0-8047-0493-7.
_S. S. Wilks: Collected Papers: Contributions to Mathematical Statistics_
New York: Wiley, 1967.
_Statistical Papers of George Udny Yule_ London: Griffin, 1971.
James A. Landau