The following Memoirs by the author have been freely made use of in the following pages:--
1863: The First Steps towards the Domestication of Animals
(Journal of Ethnological Society);
1871: Gregariousness in Cattle and in Men
(Macmillan's Magazine);
1872: Statistical Inquiries into the Efficacy of Prayer
(Fortnightly Review);
1873: Relative Supplies from Town and Country Families
to the Population of Future Generations
(Journal of Statistical Society);
Hereditary Improvement (Fraser's Magazine);
Africa for the Chinese (Times, June 6);
1875: Statistics by Intercomparison (Philosophical Magazine);
Twins, as a Criterion of the Relative Power of Nature and Nurture
(Fraser's Magazine, and
Journal of Anthropological Institute);
1876: Whistles for Determining the Upper Limits of Audible Sound
(S. Kensington Conferences, in connection with the
Loan Exhibition of Scientific Instruments, p. 61);
1877: Presidential Address to the Anthropological Department
of the British Association at Plymouth
(Report of British Association);
1878: Composite Portraits (Nature, May 23, and
Journal of Anthropological Institute);
1879: Psychometric Experiments (Nineteenth Century,
and Brain, part vi.);
Generic Images (Nineteenth Century; Proceedings of
Royal Institution, with plates);
Geometric Mean in Vital and Social Statistics (Proceedings
of Royal Society);
1880: Visualised Numerals (Nature, Jan. 15 and March 25, and
Journal of Anthropological Institute);
Mental Imagery (Fortnightly Review; Mind);
1881: Visions of Sane Persons (Fortnightly Review, and
Proceedings of Royal Institution);
Composite Portraiture (Journal of Photographical Society
of Great Britain, June 24);
1882: Physiognomy of Phthisis (Guy's Hospital Reports, vol. xxv.);
Photographic Chronicles from Childhood to Age (Fortnightly Review);
The Anthropometric Laboratory (Fortnightly Review);
1883: Some Apparatus for Testing the Delicacy of the Muscular
and other Senses (Journal of Anthropological Institute/pre>,
1883, etc.).
Memoirs in Eugenics.
1901: Huxley Lecture, Anthropological Institute (Nature, Nov. 1901);
Smithsonian Report for 1901 (Washington, p. 523);
1904: Eugenics, its Definition, Scope and Aims
(Sociological Paper, vol. i., Sociological Institute);
1905: Restrictions in Marriage, Studies in National Eugenics,
Eugenics as a Factor in Religion (Sociological Papers, vol. ii.);
1907: Herbert Spencer Lecture, University of Oxford,
on Probability the Foundation of Eugenics.
The following books by the author have been referred or alluded to
in the following pages:--
1853: Narrative of an Explorer in Tropical South-Western Africa
(Murray);
1854: Art of Travel (several subsequent editions,
the last in 1872, Murray);
1869: Hereditary Genius, its Laws and Consequences
(Macmillan);
1874: English Men of Science, their Nature and their Nurture
(Macmillan).
CONTENTS
[PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION]
[INTRODUCTION]
Origin and object of book.