Volume 1
The life, letters and labours of Francis Galton / by Karl Pearson.
- Karl Pearson
- Date:
- 1914-1930
Licence: In copyright
Credit: The life, letters and labours of Francis Galton / by Karl Pearson. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Age 48 52 54 56 61 66 67 74 67, 77 79 79—89 82 85 89 Heredity: Anthropometry English Men of Science, their Nature and Nurture Heredity: Psychometry Portraiture work Human Faculty Personal Identification (arising from inquiry as to permanency of characters). Finger-prints Natural Inheritance [Correlation and its applications. This was the starting-point of the Biometric School. Years 1870 onwards 1874 1876 onwards 1878 onwards 1883 1888 onwards 1889 First academic Lectures on Variation and Correlation accom- panied by Laboratory work started at University College— October 1894. Start of Biometric Laboratory1 ... ... 1894] Measurement of Plants and Animals Committee, Royal Society 1896 Law of Ancestral Heredity ... ... ... ... ... (1889) 1897 Biometrika founded. Galton writes a preface and becomes con- sulting Editor ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 1901 Eugenics movement ... ... ... ... ... ... 1901—1911 Research Fellowship in Eugenics in University of London. “Eugenics Office” ... ... ... ... ... ... 1904 Transformation of “Eugenics Office” into the “Eugenics Labora- tory” and its association with the Biometric Laboratory 1907 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 1 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.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29000695_0001_0029.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
