Francis Galton
1822 - 1911
- Born
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16 February 1822
Birmingham, Warwickshire, England
- Died
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17/01/1911
Grayshott House, Haslemere, Surrey
- Nationality
- British
- Gender
- Male
- Date of election for Royal Society fellowship
- 07/06/1860
- Relationships
- Son of Samuel Tertius Galton and his wife Frances Anne Violetta Darwin; grandson of Samuel Galton (FRS 1785) and of Erasmus Darwin (FRS 1761); cousin of Charles Robert Darwin (FRS 1839). Married in 1853, to Louisa Jane Butler, daughter of George Butler, Dean of Peterborough and Master of Harrow School.
- Catalogue
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- Wikipedia
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Author of
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Paper, 'Family likeness in stature' by Francis Galton
Creator: Francis Galton Reference number: PP/8/4 -
Paper, 'Co-relations and their measurement, chiefly from anthropometric data' by Francis Galton
Creator: Francis Galton Reference number: PP/13/6 -
Paper, 'Method of indexing finger-marks' by Francis Galton
Creator: Francis Galton Reference number: PP/17/41 -
Paper, 'Results derived from the natality table of Körösi by employing the method of contours or isogens' by Francis Galton
Creator: Francis Galton Reference number: PP/23/1 -
Referee's report by John Evans, on a paper 'The patterns in thumb and finger Marks.—On their arrangement into naturally distinct classes, the permance of the papillary ridges that makes them, and the resemblance of their classes to ordinary genera' by Francis Galton
Creator: John Evans Reference number: RR/10/344 -
Referee's report by Edward Burnett Tylor, on a paper 'The patterns in thumb and finger Marks.—On their arrangement into naturally distinct classes, the permance of the papillary ridges that makes them, and the resemblance of their classes to ordinary genera' by Francis Galton
Creator: Edward Burnet Tylor Reference number: RR/10/345
Referee of
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Referee's report by Francis Galton, on a paper 'Certain supra-annual cycles of temperature in the earth's surface crust' by Charles Piazzi Smyth
Creator: Francis Galton Reference number: RR/7/67 -
Referee's report by Francis Galton, on a paper 'On a new instrument for recording minute variations of atmospheric pressure' by Wildman Whitehouse
Creator: Francis Galton Reference number: RR/7/144 -
Referee's report by Francis Galton, on a paper 'On the attitudes of animals in motion' by Eadward Muybridge
Creator: Francis Galton Reference number: RR/9/71 -
Referee's report by Francis Galton, on a paper 'Muscular movements in man, and their evolution in the infant: a study of movement in man, and its evolution, together with inferences as to the properties of nervecentres and their modes of action in expressing thought' by Francis Warner
Creator: Francis Galton Reference number: RR/10/233 -
Referee's report by Francis Galton, on a paper 'On the method of examination of photographic objectives at the Kew Observatory' by L Darwin
Creator: Francis Galton Reference number: RR/11/136 -
Letter from Francis Galton, on two papers 'On the weight of the brain and its parts' and 'On the brain of the late George Grote FRS' by John Marshall to the Secretary of the Royal Society
Creator: Francis Galton Reference number: RR/11/190
Most frequently corresponded with
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John Frederick William Herschel
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