Reviews and Criticism of Francis Galton


Review of Tropical South Africa
Christian Observer, reprinted in The Living Age Volume 40, Issue 506 (January 28, 1854)

Not everyone was enthusiastic about exploring Africa.  The Christian Observer thought that Galton should rather have stayed at home.

Review of Tropical South Africa
Spectator, reprinted in The Living Age Volume 38, Issue 479 (July 23, 1853)

Review of the Art of Travel
Household Words, Reprinted in The Living age Volume 48, Issue 611 (February 9, 1856)

Review of Men of Science
Yale Review Volume 34, Issue 133 (October 1875)

Review of Vacation Tourists and Notes of Travel in 1860
North American Review
Volume 93, Issue 192 (July 1861): 271-272

Review of Vacation Tourists and Notes of Travel in 1861
North American Review Volume 95, Issue 197 (October 1862): 558

Review of Hereditary Genius  
The Atlantic Monthly Volume 25, Issue 152, June 1870

Review of Hereditary Genius
Galaxy 1870

Review of Hereditary Genius
Herman Merrivale, Edinburgh Review (July 1870): 51-65

Review of Hereditary Genius
Westminster Review (Jan. 1870): 144-145

Critical discussion of Galton's Psychometric Experiments
Mind 4, 16 (Oct. 1879): 551-557

Review of Human Faculty
by H. Holland, Atlantic Monthly (1883)

Popular Science Monthly Profile of Galton
Unsigned, 1885?

Cambridge Anthropometry
John Venn, Journal of the Anthropological Institute (1889)

Review of Probability: The Foundation of Eugenics
by G. Udny Yule

Review of Essays on Eugenics 
D. H. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society 73 (1910): 339