by Francis GALTON F.R.S.
PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION
LIST OF WORKS.
LIST OF MEMOIRS. The following Memoirs by the author have been
CONTENTS PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION INTRODUCTION
PLATES
INQUIRIES INTO HUMAN FACULTY INTRODUCTION
VARIETY OF HUMAN NATURE
FEATURES
COMPOSITE PORTRAITURE
BODILY QUALITIES
ENERGY
SENSITIVITY
SEQUENCE OF TEST WEIGHTS
WHISTLES FOR AUDIBILITY OF SHRILL NOTES
ANTHROPOMETRIC REGISTERS
UNCONSCIOUSNESS OF PECULIARIEITES
STATISTICAL METHODS
CHARACTER
CRIMINALS AND THE INSANE
GREGARIOUS AND SLAVISH INSTINCTS
INTELLECTUAL DIFFERENCES
MENTAL IMAGERY
NUMBER-FORMS
COLOUR ASSOCIATIONS
VISIONARIES
NURTURE AND NATURE
ASSOCIATIONS
PSYCHOMETRIC EXPERIMENTS
ANTECHAMBER OF CONSCIOUSNESS
EARLY SENTIMENTS
HISTORY OF TWINS
DOMESTICATION OF ANIMALS [14]
THE OBSERVED ORDER OF EVENTS
SELECTION AND RACE
INFLUENCE OF MAN UPON RACE
POPULATION
EARLY AND LATE MARRIAGES
MARKS FOR FAMILY MERIT
ENDOWMENTS
CONCLUSION
APPENDIX A. COMPOSITE PORTRAITURE
B. THE RELATIVE SUPPLIES FROM TOWN AND COUNTRY FAMILIES TO THE POPULATION OF FUTURE GENERATIONS
C. AN APPARATUS FOR TESTING THE DELICACY WITH WHICH WEIGHTS CAN BE DISCRIMINATED BY HANDLING THEM.
D. WHISTLES FOR TESTING THE UPPER LIMITS OF AUDIBLE SOUND IN DIFFERENT INDIVIDUALS.
E. QUESTIONS ON VISUALISING AND OTHER ALLIED FACULTIES
INDEX
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