Author:Francis Galton

Francis Galton
(1822–1911)

English Victorian polymath, anthropologist, eugenicist, explorer, inventor, meteorologist, proto-geneticist, psychometrician, and statistician.

Francis Galton

Works

  • Narrative of an explorer in South Africa. London. (1853) (external scan)
  • The art of travel (1855) (external scan)
  • Vacation tourists and notes of travel, 1861 (external scan)
  • The first steps towards the domestication of animals, 1863 (external scan)
  • Law of Ancestral Inheritance
  • Hereditary Genius. (1869) (external scan)
  • English men of science: their nature and nurture, 1874 (external scan)
  • Inquiries into human faculty and its development, (1883) (external scan)
  • Life history album, 1884 (external scan)
  • Record of family faculties, 1884 (external scan)
  • A descriptive list of anthropometric apparatus, 1887 (external scan)
  • Natural Inheritance. (1889) (external scan)
  • Narrative of an Explorer in Tropical South Africa, 1889 (external scan)
  • Finger prints, 1892 (external scan)
  • Supplementary chapter to 'Finger prints'. Decipherment of blurred finger prints, 1893 (external scan)
  • Fingerprint directories, 1895 (external scan)
  • Mind. With others. 1902 (external scan)
  • Probability, the foundation of eugenics, 1907 (external scan)
  • Memories of my life, 1908 (external scan)


Works about Galton

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