E-text prepared by Suzanne Lybarger, Laura Wisewell, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (https://www.pgdp.net/) +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | | | Transcriber's Note: In this plain text version, italics have been | | rendered using underscores; both bold and small-caps using | | all-caps (these never occur near each other, so no confusion | | should arise); and the surnames of the subjects, which were in | | bold sans-serif in the original, have been rendered in all-caps | | with the # symbol on either side. The underscores have been | | removed from a few italicized abbreviations where they were felt | | to be a distraction. | | | +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ 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 I. INTRODUCTORY NOTE vii PREFACE ix CHAPTER GENERAL REMARKS ix II. NOTEWORTHINESS xi III. HIGHEST ORDER OF ABILITY xiv IV. PROPORTION OF NOTEWORTHIES TO THE GENERALITY xviii V. NOTEWORTHINESS AS A STATISTICAL MEASURE OF ABILITY xx VI. NOMENCLATURE OF KINSHIPS xxvi VII. NUMBER OF KINSFOLK IN EACH DEGREE xxviii VIII. NUMBER OF NOTEWORTHY KINSMEN IN EACH DEGREE xxxiii IX. MARKED AND UNMARKED NOTEWORTHINESS xxxv X. 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.