The Project Gutenberg eBook, Noteworthy Families (Modern Science), by Francis Galton and Edgar Schuster

Title: Noteworthy Families (Modern Science)

An Index to Kinships in Near Degrees between Persons Whose Achievements Are Honourable, and Have Been Publicly Recorded

Author: Francis Galton and Edgar Schuster

Release Date: November 21, 2005 [eBook #17128]

Language: English

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NOTEWORTHY FAMILIES

(MODERN SCIENCE)

AN INDEX TO KINSHIPS IN NEAR DEGREES BETWEEN PERSONS WHOSE ACHIEVEMENTS ARE HONOURABLE, AND HAVE BEEN PUBLICLY RECORDED

BY FRANCIS GALTON, D.C.L., F.R.S.
HON. D.Sc (CAMB.)

AND EDGAR SCHUSTER
GALTON RESEARCH FELLOW IN NATIONAL EUGENICS

VOL I
OF THE PUBLICATIONS OF THE EUGENICS RECORD OFFICE
OF THE UNIVERSITY OF LONDON

LONDON
JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET
1906

CONTENTS

•   page
• Introductory Note vii
• Preface ix
• chapter
  1. general remarks ix
  2. noteworthiness xi
  3. highest order of ability xiv
  4. proportion of noteworthies to the generality xviii
  5. noteworthiness as a statistical measure of ability xx
  6. nomenclature of kinships xxvi
  7. number of kinsfolk in each degree xxviii
  8. number of noteworthy kinsmen in each degree xxxiii
  9. marked and unmarked noteworthiness xxxv
  10. conclusions xxxix
• Noteworthy Families:
  of sixty-six f.r.s.'s who were living in 1904 1
• Appendix:
  fathers of some of the sixty-six f.r.s.'s classified by their occupations 80
• Index 85

INTRODUCTORY NOTE

The brief biographical notices of sixty-six noteworthy families printed in this book are compiled from replies to a circular issued by me in the spring of 1904 to all living Fellows of the Royal Society. Those that first arrived were discussed in “Nature,” August 11, 1904.

On Mr. Schuster's appointment by the University of London, in October, 1904, to the Research Fellowship in National Eugenics, all my materials were placed in his hand. He was to select from them those families that contained at least three noteworthy kinsmen, to compile lists of their achievements on the model of the above-mentioned memoir, to verify statements as far as possible, and to send what he wrote for final approval by the authors of the several replies.