Noteworthy Families (Modern Science) / An Index to Kinships in Near Degrees between Persons Whose Achievements Are Honourable, and Have Been Publicly Recorded

by Francis Galton; Edgar Schuster

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NOTEWORTHY FAMILIES
(MODERN SCIENCE)
AN INDEX TO KINSHIPS IN NEAR DEGREES BETWEEN PERSONS WHOSE ACHIEVEMENTS ARE HONOURABLE, AND HAVE BEEN PUBLICLY RECORDED

BY FRANCIS GALTON, D.C.L., F.R.S.
HON. D.Sc (CAMB.)
AND EDGAR SCHUSTER
GALTON RESEARCH FELLOW IN NATIONAL EUGENICS

VOL I
OF THE PUBLICATIONS OF THE EUGENICS RECORD OFFICE
OF THE UNIVERSITY OF LONDON

LONDON
JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET
1906

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CONTENTS

• page
• [Introductory Note] [vii]
• [Preface] [ix]
• chapter
  • [general remarks] [ix]
  • [noteworthiness] [xi]
  • [highest order of ability] [xiv]
  • [proportion of noteworthies to the generality] [xviii]
  • [noteworthiness as a statistical measure of ability] [xx]
  • [nomenclature of kinships] [xxvi]
  • [number of kinsfolk in each degree] [xxviii]
  • [number of noteworthy kinsmen in each degree] [xxxiii]
  • [marked and unmarked noteworthiness] [xxxv]
  • [conclusions] [xxxix]
• [Noteworthy Families:
  of sixty-six f.r.s.'s who were living in 1904] [1]
• [Appendix:
  fathers of some of the sixty-six f.r.s.'s classified by their occupations] [80]
• [Index] [85]