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NOTEWORTHY FAMILIES

(MODERN SCIENCE)

AN INDEX TO KINSHIPS IN NEAR DEGREES BETWEEN PERSONS WHOSE ACHIEVEMENTS ARE HONOURABLE, AND HAVE BEEN PUBLICLY RECORDED

BY FRANCIS GALTON, D.C.L., F.R.S.
HON. D.Sc (CAMB.)

AND EDGAR SCHUSTER
GALTON RESEARCH FELLOW IN NATIONAL EUGENICS

VOL I
OF THE PUBLICATIONS OF THE EUGENICS RECORD OFFICE
OF THE UNIVERSITY OF LONDON

LONDON
JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET
1906

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CONTENTS

•   page
• Introductory Note vii
• Preface ix
• chapter
  1. general remarks ix
  2. noteworthiness xi
  3. highest order of abilityxiv
  4. proportion of noteworthies to the generality xviii
  5. noteworthiness as a statistical measure of ability xx
  6. nomenclature of kinshipsxxvi
  7. number of kinsfolk in each degreexxviii
  8. number of noteworthy kinsmen in each degree xxxiii
  9. marked and unmarked noteworthinessxxxv
  10. conclusions xxxix
• Noteworthy Families:
  of sixty-six f.r.s.'s who were living in 1904 1
• Appendix:
  fathers of some of the sixty-six f.r.s.'s classified by their occupations 80
• Index 85

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INTRODUCTORY NOTE

The brief biographical notices of sixty-six noteworthy families printed in this book are compiled from replies to a circular issued by me in the spring of 1904 to all living Fellows of the Royal Society. Those that first arrived were discussed in “Nature,”

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