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Resume of the Life and Labours of Francis Galton
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Age |
Years | |
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48 |
Heredity : Anthropometry ... |
1870 onwards |
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52 |
English Men of Science, their Nature and Nurture ... |
1874 |
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54 |
Y Heredity : Psychometry ... |
1876 onwards |
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56 |
Portraiture work ... ... ... |
1878 onwards |
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61 |
Human Faculty ... ... ... |
1883 |
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66 |
Personal Identification (arising from inquiry as to permanency |
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67 |
1888 onwards 1889 | |
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of characters). Finger-prints ... Natural Inheritance | ||
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72 |
[Correlation and its applications. This was the starting point of the Biometric School. |
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First academic Lectures on Variation and Correlation accom | ||
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panied by Laboratory work started at University College October 1894. Start of Biometric Laboratory' ... ... |
1894] | |
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74 |
Measurement of Plants and Animals Committee, Royal Society |
1896 |
67,77 Law of Ancestral Heredity ... ... ... ... (1889) 1897
79 Biometrika founded. Galton writes a preface and becomes con
sulting Editor ... ... ... ... ... 1901
79-89 Eugenics movement ... 1901-1911
82 Research Fellowship in Eugenics in University of London.
" Eugenics Office" ... ... ... . 1904
85 Transformation of "Eugenics Office" into the "Eugenics Labora
tory" and its association with the Bionietric Laboratory 1907
89 Death and by bequest Foundation of the Galton Professorship
and Endowment of the Laboratory of Eugenics in the University of London ... ... ... ... 1911
CHIEF POSTS AND HONOURS
Royal Geographical Society, Gold Medal (Member of Council for many
years) 1853 Fellow of the Royal Society (Gold Medal, 1886; Darwin Medal, 1902;
Copley Medal, 1910; Member of Council, 1865-6, 70-2, 76-7, 82-4) 1856 British Association (Sectional President, three times, Geography 1872,
Anthropology 1877, 1885, and General Secretary 1863-7, Member
of Council; twice asked to be President)
Member of Meteorological Committee (Council) ... ... 1868-1901
Chairman of the Kew Observatory Committee ... ... ... ... 1889-1901 Anthropological Institute (President, 1885-9 ; Huxley Medal, 1901)
Linnaean Society, Darwin-Wallace Medal ... 1908
Cambridge : Rede Lecturer ... ... ... 1884
„ Honorary D.Sc. ... ... ... ... 1895
„ Honorary Fellow of Trinity College ... ... 1902
Oxford: Honorary D.C.L. ... ... - 1894
„ Herbert Spencer Lecturer ... 1907
I The Laboratory existed from this date ; the name Biometric was given to it after the naming in November 1900 of Biometrika, when the term Biometry was invented, see Life of Weldon,
Biometrika, vol. v, p. 35.
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