Memories of my life / by Francis Galton.

  • Galton, Francis, 1822-1911.
Date:
[1908]
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Credit: Memories of my life / by Francis Galton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CONTENTS CHAP. PAGE i. parentage ..... i ii. childhood and boyhood . . -, . i3 iii. medical studies . . . . .22 iv. short tour to the east . . . .48 v. cambridge ...... 58 vi. egypt and the soudan (map) . . .83 vii. syria ...... loi viii. hunting and shooting . . . . iio ix. south-west africa—{map) . . .121 x. lands of the dam aras, ovampo, and namaquas. 138 xi. after return home marriage . . . 152 xii. art of travel . . . . .161 xiii. social life—(medallions) . . . .169 xiv. geography and east africa . . .198 xv. british association. . . . . 213 xvi. kew observatory and meteorology—(meteoro¬ logical tracings) . . . . .224 xvii. anthropometric laboratories . . . 244 xviii. composite portraits and stereoscopic maps . 259 xix. human faculty . . . . .266 xx. heredity ...... 287 xxi. race improvement—{Galtonia Candicans) . . 310 appendix.—books and memoirs by the author . 325 principal awards and degrees . . • зз^ index ...... 332 vii