Conversation, rapid, xviii Coomassie, relief of, 44 Copeman, A.C., 16 Edward, 16 Peter, 16 S.M., 15 Copyright Act, 50 Cork, Bishop of, 43 Correlation, negative, between constituents of highest order of mind, xv Cotterill, Arthur, 17 Henry (Senior Wrangler), 17 Professor J.H., 16 Joseph M. (surgeon), 17 Joseph M., D.D., 17 Rev. Thomas, 16 Thomas (mathematician), 17 Counties in England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland, number required to provide one F.R.S. annually, xii Cousins, first, of F.R.S., xl Crewe, first Earl of, 50 Crewe-Milnes, R.O.A., first Earl of, 50 Crete, 20 Cromer, first Earl, 4 Crompton, Charles, 6, 57 Henry, 6, 57 "Cromwell, Oliver, the Protector," 52 Crum, Alexander, 10 Walter, 10 Cuneiform writing, 47 Dalton, 24 Danish gunboat flotilla, defeat of, in the Belt, 76 Daphnae, Greek settlements at, 53 Darjeeling, 26 Darwin, Charles (medical student), 18 Charles R. (author of "Origin of Species," etc.), 18, 23, 81 Erasmus (author of "Zoonomia," etc.), 17, 23 Erasmus (grandson of the author of "Zoonomia") 18 Professor Francis, 19, 81 Professor G.H. (now Sir George), 17, 81 Horace, 19, 81 Major Leonard, 19 Robert W., 18 Davy, Sir Humphry, 56 Degrees of eminence in "noteworthy" persons, xxxv of remoteness of kinship, xxviii De la Rue, 33 Delane, 62 Denmark, Queen of, 9 "Dental Anatomy, Manual of," 70 "Dental Surgery," 71 Dentists Act, 71 Descendants, direct, xxxii De Vries, xlii Devonshire, geology of, 26 De Winter, Admiral, 30 Dickens, illustrations to, 56 Dickinson, John, F.R.S., 20 John, 21 "Dictionary of National Biography," xiv Dillwyn, Lewis Weston, 46 Diminution of frequency of noteworthiness with increase of distance of kinship, xxxix Dundas and Wilson, 8 Sir David, 8 David, 8 George, 8 John, 8 Lord, 8 Ralph, 7 Duff, _vide_ Grant Duff Duncan, Adam, Viscount Duncan of Camperdown, 30 Durham, Bishop of, 4 Lord, 65 "Ecce Homo," 15 Eccentricity in families of able scientific men, xvi "Economist," 51 Edgeworth, R.L., 24 "Edinburgh Encyclopaedia," 11 "Education, Memoirs on," 13 Egerton, Right Hon. Sir Edwin, 45 Egypt, 4 Elias, Ney, 26 Eldon, first Earl of, 13, 30 "Electrical Testing, Handbook of," 38 "Electrical Review," 38 Eminence, degrees of, in "noteworthy" persons, xxxv "Encyclopaedia Britannica," xiv Energy as a factor in success, xviii "England and Normandy, History of," 51 Number of counties of, xii "English Men of Science," xiii "Environment," xx Nature of, xxi; relation between this and ability in producing noteworthiness, xxi-xxv "Etymological Dictionary," 19 Eugenics, vii, xli, 22 Evans, Anne, 20 Arthur Benoni, 20 Arthur J., 20, 80 Sir John, 20, 80 Lewis, 20 Sebastian, 20 Excursion trains, 33 Exhibition buildings in Hyde Park, 24 Expectations of noteworthiness, xxxix Express trains, 33 Faraday, Michael, 56 "Farm, The Chemistry of the," 75 Farrer, Lord Herschell, 13