Inquiries into human faculty and its development — John Shaqi
Inquiries into human faculty and its developmentGalton, Francis
Science
Inquiries into human faculty and its development
Galton, Francis
Ability; Eugenics
1863: The First Steps towards the Domestication of Animals
(_Journal of Ethnological Society_);
1871: Gregariousness in Cattle and in Men
(_Macmillan's Magazine_);
1872: Statistical Inquiries into the Efficacy of Prayer
(_Fortnightly Review_);
1873: Relative Supplies from Town and Country Families
to the Population of Future Generations
(_Journal of Statistical Society_);
Hereditary Improvement (_Fraser's Magazine_);
Africa for the Chinese (_Times_, June 6);
1875: Statistics by Intercomparison (_Philosophical Magazine_);
Twins, as a Criterion of the Relative Power of Nature and Nurture
(_Fraser's Magazine_, and
_Journal of Anthropological Institute_);
1876: Whistles for Determining the Upper Limits of Audible Sound
(_S. Kensington Conferences_, in connection with the
Loan Exhibition of Scientific Instruments, p. 61);
1877: Presidential Address to the Anthropological Department
of the British Association at Plymouth
(_Report of British Association_);
1878: Composite Portraits (_Nature_, May 23, and
_Journal of Anthropological Institute_);
1879: Psychometric Experiments (_Nineteenth Century_,
and _Brain_, part vi.);
Generic Images (_Nineteenth Century; Proceedings of
Royal Institution_, with plates);
Geometric Mean in Vital and Social Statistics (_Proceedings
of Royal Society_);
1880: Visualised Numerals (_Nature_, Jan. 15 and March 25, and
_Journal of Anthropological Institute_);
Mental Imagery (_Fortnightly Review; Mind_);
1881: Visions of Sane Persons (_Fortnightly Review_, and
_Proceedings of Royal Institution_);
Composite Portraiture (_Journal of Photographical Society
of Great Britain_, June 24);
1882: Physiognomy of Phthisis (_Guy's Hospital Reports_, vol. xxv.);
Photographic Chronicles from Childhood to Age (_Fortnightly Review_);
The Anthropometric Laboratory (_Fortnightly Review_);
1883: Some Apparatus for Testing the Delicacy of the Muscular
and other Senses (_Journal of Anthropological Institute_,
1883, etc.).
_Memoirs in Eugenics_.
1901: Huxley Lecture, Anthropological Institute (_Nature,_ Nov. 1901);
Smithsonian Report for 1901 (_Washington_, p. 523);
1904: Eugenics, its Definition, Scope and Aims
(Sociological Paper, vol. i., _Sociological Institute_);
1905: Restrictions in Marriage, Studies in National Eugenics,
Eugenics as a Factor in Religion (Sociological Papers, vol. ii.);
1907: Herbert Spencer Lecture, University of Oxford,
on Probability the Foundation of Eugenics.
The following books by the author have been referred or alluded to
in the following pages:--
1853: Narrative of an Explorer in Tropical South-Western Africa
(_Murray)_;
1854: Art of Travel (several subsequent editions,
the last in 1872, _Murray_);
1869: Hereditary Genius, its Laws and Consequences
(_Macmillan_);
1874: English Men of Science, their Nature and their Nurture
(_Macmillan_).
CONTENTS
PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION
INTRODUCTION
Origin and object of book.
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