Life of Francis Galton by Karl Pearson Vol 1 : image 0017

Resume of the Life and Labours of Francis Galton

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Age		Years
48	Heredity : Anthropometry ...	1870 onwards
52	English Men of Science, their Nature and Nurture ...	1874
54	Y Heredity : Psychometry ...	1876 onwards
56	Portraiture work ... ... ...	1878 onwards
61	Human Faculty ... ... ...	1883
66	Personal Identification (arising from inquiry as to permanency
67		1888 onwards 1889
67	of characters). Finger-prints ... Natural Inheritance	1888 onwards 1889
72	[Correlation and its applications. This was the starting point of the Biometric School.
72	First academic Lectures on Variation and Correlation accom
	panied by Laboratory work started at University College October 1894. Start of Biometric Laboratory' ... ...	1894]
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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