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' Biometry' and ' phylometry,' IIIB 500

Bioscopes, of all that grows, IIIB 576

Bi-projection, photographic, 11 298--300

Birds, Samuel Galton on, 148; Galton's early interest in, 168; artificial nests for, 111D 547; eggs, measurements of, IIIA 243, 244

Birmingham, Galton houses in, I 46, 49-51; photographs of, I 48 Plate XXX, 49 Plate XXXI, 50 Plate XXXII; Samuel Galton in, I 46,47; Galtons buried in, I 52, 50 Plate XXXII; Galton at school at, 181-90; medical student at, 190,99-104, IIIA 452; mediaeval education at, 181

Birmingham and Midland Institute, Galton lectures at, IIIA 12

Birmingham gham Philosophical Society and Samuel Galton,


Birth, of Francis Galton, 162, 63; order of, and health, IIIA 404, 405

Birth-control, and Eugenics, II 80; dangers of, II 111 Blending, and inheritance, 11173, 397 Blind, sensitivity of the, 11 218 Blomefield, with Galton on reading party, 1155, 156 Blomfield, Admiral and Mrs, Galton meets in Egypt,

IIIB 518

Blood, and hereditary characters, II 157; experiments in transfusion of, II 156-169, 174-177, see also Pangene8i8; examination of, Galton's prediction concerning, IIIB 564

Blood-pressure, and measurement of emotional shock, 11 270

Blow, force of, and pain occasioned by, II 408; rapidity

of, and instrument to measure, 11220, 221, 374, 376 Blunt, Lady Anne, Galton meets, IIIB 550 Boar, wild, as a pet, IIIB 562-564, 566 Board School, degeneracy among children of, MA 266 Boccaccio, on Dante, 11 99

Boers, interfere with Galton's plans in Africa, 1219, 220;

war with, III2 515-517, 519

Bogatzki, Galton uses family copy of a work by, IIIB 585 Boils, Galton's treatment of, 1107, 108, 110, 111 Bond, Dr, offers Galton a clinical clerkship, 1184 Bonner, Mr David, on trotting horses, IIIB 498 Bonnevie, K., and measurements applied to finger

prints, IIIA 168

Books, by Francis Galton: `Art of Travel,' 1855 (and many editions), II 2-6; `Decipherment of Blurred Finger Prints,' 1893, IIIA 194-197; 'English Men of Science, their Nature and Nurture,' 1874, II 87, 130, 142, 145, References to, 15, and to de Candolle, II 134, 149, 207; 'Record of Family Faculties,' 1884, II 363 etc.; 'Life History Album,' 1884, 1903, II 366 etc.; 'Finger Print Directories,' 1895, IIIA 199-215; 'Finger Prints,' 1892, IIIA 174-194, References to,, IIIA 141, 142; 'Hereditary Genius,' 1859, 1892, 112, II 87-115, References to, I 5, 7, 11 70, Charles Darwin on, 16; 'Inquiries into Human Faculty and its Development,' 1883, II 248-267, References to, 15, 1 187, 207 (de Candolle), 212, 238, 241, 361; 'The Knapsack Guide for Travellers in Switzerland,' 1864, 1867, II 11; 'Memories of my Life,' 1908, IIIA 354-355, References to, IIIA 329, 339, 342-346, 354-355, IIIB 585-588, 61.3; 'Meteorographica, Methods of Mapping the Weather; illustrated by upwards of 600 printed and lithographed Diagrams..., 1861, 11 38-43, Plate VII; 'Natural Inheritance,' 1889, IIIA 57-77, References to, I 5, 11 84, 87, IIIA 79-82; 'Noteworthy Families (Modern Science), 1906, IIIA 113-121, Reference, II 149; 'Tropical South Africa,' 1853, 1889, I 215 etc., References to, 1 215, 240; 'Vacation Tourists and Notes of Travel,' 1860-1862, ed. by F. G., II 87

Booth, Dr, medical sponsor to Galton, I 90, 99; con

sulted by Galton, 1152

Booth, C., his survey of the population of London,

IIIA 228, 231

Booth, Johnny, death of, from scarlet fever, 181

Booth, Mrs (Adi le Galton, aunt of Francis Galton), at

birth of Galton, 162; at death of her father, IIIA 45;

old letters of, IIIB 575; silhouette of, I 54 Plate

XXXV; portrait of, 154 Plate XXXVI

Border-line Cases, and `mechanical selector,' 11 305 Boredom, measurements of, 11 277

Bortkiewicz, von, and Galton's difference problem,

11 413

Boscastle, visit to, 11 130

Botany, Galton studies under Lindley, 1121, 123 Boulogne, Galton at school at, 168, 70-73 Boulton, H. W., at the Rev. Atwood's school, 177 Boulton, Mathew P. W., Galton's friendship with, 177,

188; at Cambridge, 1141, 143, 150

Boulton, Montague, at Cambridge, 1171; Galton up the

Nile with, 1200-203; Galton meets at Beyrout, 1204;

death of, 1204

Bourdillon, J., and use of finger-prints in India,

IIIA 147

Boutmy, E., honour conferred on, IIIB 494 Bowen, and ' The Reader,' 11 68

Bowman, Sir W., Galton's early tour with, I 92-97,

IIIB 565; Galton works at anatomy under, I 105;

Galton's acquaintance with, 1126

Bowring, a wrangler at Cambridge, 1167

Boyhood, of Galton, I 62-91, IIIB 449-452, 618;

associations of youth and, 11 235

Boyle Lecture, given by Karl Pearson, IIIA 309,

313-315

,Brabrook, Sir E., on low literary standard of scientific

memoirs, IIIA 330, 332

Bradford, effect of Factory Acts in, IIIA 368 Bradlaugh, and Neomalthusianism, MA 243 Bradshaw, Henry, advice from, IIIA 322

Brain, Galton on activity of, II 234-236; selective

action of, II 256; weight of, in eminent men,

IIIA 248; pigment of, and insanity, IIIA 372; in

the sane and the insane, IIIA 298, 356

Braine, Elizabeth, marriage of, with Robert Barclay,

135; ancestry of, 131, 34, 35

Brainwork, unconscious, IIIA 115 Bramah, his lock and Galton's, 1148

Branford, V. V., on architects of science of sociology,

IIIA 261; Galton consults with, IIIB 529

Breadsall Church, sketch of, 174 Plate XLIV Breadsall Priory, home of Dr Erasmus Darwin, IIIB 525;

visits to, 174; sketches of, 174 Plates XLIII, XLIV Breathing, its submission to the will, 11 247 Bree, Adele (great-niece to Galton), IIIB 586, 587

Bree, Archdeacon, translates honorary degree oration at

Cambridge as to Galton's achievements, IIP 494, 495 Bree, Sophy (great-niece to Galton), 11111511, 512; sees

Galton receive the D.C.L. in Oxford, IIIB 494 Breeding, art of, and stud-books, 11 321; experimental,

IIIA 128-131, 272, 273

Breeds, establishment of,, and regression, IIIA 31;

suitability of, for experiment, IIIA 135

Brewin, Mrs (Sophia Galton, aunt of Francis Galton),

character of, I 54; mementoes from, IIIB 585;

portrait of, 154 Plate XXXV

Brewster, Sir David, parentage of, 11 137

Brewster, E. T., on a measure of variability, etc.,

IIIA 95

'Bridgewater Treatises,' authors of, 11151, 152

Brisled, C. A., his 'Five Years in an English University,'

1171,182


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