Sir Francis Galton, FRS : the Legacy of His Ideas: Proceedings of the twenty-eighth annual symposium of the Galton Institute, London, 1991

' ... This is a splendid, first-class book, the definitive book on Francis Galton and his legacy. The editing has been superb ... The timing of its publication is excellent in relation to the increasing interest in human genetics in all areas of the biological and behavioural sciences'.R. Plomin, Distinguished Professor and Director, Center for Development and Health Genetics, Pennsylvania State University Sir Francis Galton (1822-1911), a grandson of Erasmus Darwin, was one of the most versatile men of his time. In his twenties he won fame as an explorer. He worked at the prediction of weather, and described his discovery of the anticyclone He first became an anthropologist in 1862 when he joined the Ethnological Society. He initiated anthropometry and the measurement of human variation, and the use of photography for the analysis of differencies, or individual characteristics, in a group. He recognised the uniqueness of Finger Prints, and, in 1875, first used the records of pairs of identical twins in his researches into the laws of heredity. Besides contributions to human genetics, Galton devised the correlation coefficient, and was thus concerned with the advancement of statistics. In 1883, he coined the word eugenics by which he meant 'good in birth' and 'noble in heredity', and, in 1904, he founded the Galton Laboratory at University College, London. He was first President of the Eugenics Education Society in 1907 Front Matter....Pages i-x Sir Francis Galton — A Man with a Universal Scientific Curiosity....Pages 1-32 The Historical Galton....Pages 33-44 Francis Galton: Travel and Geography....Pages 45-53 Meteorographica and Weather....Pages 54-61 Intelligence and Hereditary Genius....Pages 62-74 The Galton Lecture for 1991: Francis Galton — Numeracy and Innumeracy in Genetics....Pages 75-90 Galton, Karl Pearson and Modern Statistical Theory....Pages 91-107 Galton on Human Growth and Form....Pages 108-118 Galton and the Use of Twin Studies....Pages 119-143 Galton and the Study of Fingerprints....Pages 144-157 Galton and Evolutionary Theory....Pages 158-169 Galton’s Conception of Race in Historical Perspective....Pages 170-179 Galton, the Educationist....Pages 180-189 The Galton Laboratory, University College London....Pages 190-194 Three Memoirs....Pages 195-213 Back Matter....Pages 214-237