Books and Pamphlets by Francis Galton
All of Galton's major works are available here, usually in facsimile (page
image) form, and sometimes in text form, with the original page numbering
preserved. Most of the numerous pamphlets published by Galton are not
listed here - see the Collected Works for a
bibliographical listing of these with facsimiles.
Books:
The Telotype: a Printing Electric Telegraph
(John Weale, 1849)
Narrative of an
Explorer in Tropical South Africa
(Murray, 1853)
The
Art of Travel
(Murray: 1855; 1856; 1860; 1867; 1872)
Vacation
Tourists and Notes of Travel in 1860
Edited by Francis Galton (Macmillan,
1861)
Vacation Notes and Tourists of
Travel in 1861
Edited by Francis Galton (Macmillan, 1862)
Vacation Notes and Tourists of
Travel in 1862-3
Edited by Francis Galton (Macmillan, 1864)
Meteorographica
(Macmillan, 1863)
The Knapsack Guide
for Travellers in Switzerland
(Murray, 1864)
Vacation Notes and Tourists of
Travel in 1862-3
Edited by Francis Galton (Macmillan, 1864)
Hereditary Genius
(Macmillan,
1869; Second edition of 1892)
English
Men of Science
(Macmillan, 1874)
Hints to
Travellers
(Royal Geographical Society, Fourth Edition 1878, Fifth Edition 1883)
Inquiries into Human
Faculty
(Macmillan 1883, Second Edition, Everyman, 1907)
Life History
Album of ...
(Macmillan, 1884, Second Edition, 1902)
Record of
Family Faculties
(Macmillan, 1884)
Natural
Inheritance
(Macmillan, 1889)
Finger Prints
(Macmillan, 1892)
Decipherment of Blurred Finger Prints
(Macmillan, 1893)
Fingerprint
Directories
(Macmillan, 1895)
Index to
Achievements of Near-Kinsfolk of Some of the Fellows of the Royal Society
(R. Clay and Sons, 1904)
Noteworthy Families (with Edgar Schuster)
(John Murray, 1906)
Probability:
the Foundation of Eugenics
(Oxford, 1907)
Memories of My Life
(Methuen, 1908)
Essays in
Eugenics
(Eugenics Education Society, London: 1909)
Pamphlets:
Catalogue of Models and Specimens
[Illustrative of the Arts of Camp Life]
(T. Brettell, 1858).
Address to the Anthropological
Department of the British Association, Plymouth, 1877.
(William Clowes, 1877)
Psychometric Experiments.
(William Clowes, 1879)
Generic Images.
(William Clowes, 1879)
A Descriptive List
of Anthropometric Apparatus
(Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company, 1887)
Anthropometric
Laboratory. Notes and Memoirs No. 1
(Richard Clay, 1890)