Hereditary genius : an inquiry into its laws and consequences / by Francis Galton.

  • Francis Galton
Date:
1892
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    APPENDIX TO OARSMEN ‘*T have not picked and chosen, but have simply taken all the best men I could hear anything certainly about.”—LHxtract from Mr. Warson’s Letter. The 18 men whose names are printed in ?zfalics are described below as examples of hereditary gifts. The remaining 3 are not. Candlish ; Chambers ; 5 Clasper ; Coombes ; Cooper ; Kelly ; Maddison ; 2 Matfin ; Renforth ; Sadler ; 5 Taylor; Winship. Candlish, James; a Tyne man, married sister of Henry Clasper ; has no children. [B.] Thomas ; a good. but not a great rower; has always pulled as one of a crew. Unmarried. [B.] Robert ; moderately good ; has not rowed very often. Clasper, Henry; very excellent oarsman. Is the most prominent member of a large and most remarkable family of oarsmen. He was for many years stroke of a four-oared crew, and frequently the whole crew, including the coxswain, were members of the Clasper family. For eight years this crew won the champion- ship of the Tyne. Six times Henry Clasper pulled stroke for the crew winning the championship of the Thames, and Coombes declared that he was the best stroke that ever pulled. Up to the year 1859, when he was 47 years old, he had pulled stroke 78 times in pair or four-oared matches, and his crew had been 54 times victorious. He had also pulled in 32. skiff matches and won 20 of them, and had been champion of Scotland upon the only two occasions on which he contested for it. Nearly all these matches were over a 4 or 434 mile course. He invented the light outrigger, and has been a very successful builder of racing boats,
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