Noteworthy families (modern science) : $b An index to kinships in near degrees between persons whose achievements are honourable, and have been publicly recordedGalton, Francis
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Noteworthy families (modern science) : $b An index to kinships in near degrees between persons whose achievements are honourable, and have been publicly recorded
Galton, Francis
Eugenics
_fa bro_, Walter GEIKIE (1795-1837). R.S.A., painter and draughtsman;
author of "Etchings Illustrative of Scottish Character and
Scenery."--["Dict. N. Biog."]
_me bro_, William THOMS, master mariner; subsequently teacher of
navigation in New York; author of an elaborate treatise on
navigation.
_bro_, James GEIKIE (b. 1839), LL.D., D.C.L., F.R.S.; Professor of
Geology and Mineralogy since 1882, and Dean of the Faculty of Science
Edinburgh; author of many works on geology, and of "Songs and Lyrics
by Heinrich Heine."--["Who's Who," and "Ency. Brit."]
_fa bro son_, Cunningham GEIKIE (b. 1824), LL.D., D.D., a
clergyman; author of many religious works.--["Who's Who."]
_fa bro son_, Walter Bayne GEIKIE, Professor of Anatomy, and Dean of
Medical Faculty, Trinity Coll., Toronto.
Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Haversham #GODWIN-AUSTEN# (b. 1834),
F.R.S., geologist; Topographical Assistant to the Trigonometric
Survey of India; surveyed the high country and glaciers of
Kashmir and by Ladak, also between Darjeeling and Punakha;
numerous scientific memoirs.--["Who's Who."]
_fa fa fa_, Robert AUSTEN, archaeologist and coin collector; he was
one of the few in his time who understood the value of local maps; a
good surveyor of his own property and neighbourhood.
_fa fa_, Sir Henry E. AUSTEN, interested in forestry, and planted
largely on his estate; he also knew the value of maps, and had
excellent ones of his property.
_fa_, Robert Alfred C. GODWIN-AUSTEN (1808-1884), F.R.S., geologist,
took additional surname of Godwin; wrote important papers on the
geology of Devonshire, Southern England, and parts of France.
--["Dict. N. Biog."]
_me fa_, Major-General Sir Thomas H. GODWIN (1784-1853), K.C.B.,
served in Hanover and the Peninsula, Commander-in-Chief in second
Burmese War.--["Dict. N. Biog."]
_bro_, Harold GODWIN-AUSTEN, Assistant-Commissioner to the Andaman
Islands for thirteen years; was selected by Ney Elias to accompany
him on a mission to Yarkand and Kashmir; is now a Deputy Commissioner
in S. India.
_me_, Maria Elizabeth GODWIN-AUSTEN, was certainly above the average
of women of her time; interested in natural history; drew well in pen
and pencil; was an accomplished musician.
_si son_, Bertram H.M. HEWETT, civil engineer; surveyed the great
glaciers of the Mustakh Range, Kashmir, and elsewhere; is now in sole
charge of main shaft of tunnel under the river in New York.
Francis #GOTCH# (b. 1853), D.Sc, F.R.S., Waynflete Professor of
Physiology at Oxford; formerly Holt Professor of Physiology at
University Coll., Liverpool; author of many scientific
papers.--["Who's Who."]
_me fa_, Ebenezer FOSTER, founder of well-known banking firm of
Messrs. Foster, Cambridge.
_fa_, Fredrick William GOTCH, LL.D., late President of Baptist
College, Bristol; Hebrew scholar; member of committee for the
authorized version of the Old Testament.
_fa bro son_, Thomas Cooper GOTCH (b. 1854), well-known
painter.--["Who's Who."]
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