Noteworthy Families (Modern Science) - An Index to Kinships in Near Degrees between Persons Whose Achievements Are Honourable, and Have Been Publicly Recorded by Edgar Schuster;Francis Galton
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Francis #GALTON# (b. 1822), D.C.L., Hon. Sc.D. (Camb.), F.R.S.,
traveller, anthropologist and biometrician; author of many works and memoirs on these and analogous subjects, including meteorology, heredity, identification by fingerprints; latterly a promoter of the study of Eugenics. Gold medal R. Geog. Soc., 1853, for travels in Damaraland, S. Africa; Royal medal, 1886, and Darwin medal, 1903, of the Royal Soc., for applications of measurement to human faculty; Huxley medal of the Anthropol. Institute, 1901.--["Ency. Brit.," and "Who's Who."] _fa si_, SCHIMMELPENNINCK (1778-1856), Mrs. Mary Anne, author of various works, mostly theological, and on the Port Royalists and Moravians.--["Dic. N. Biog."] _fa fa fa_, Samuel GALTON (1720-1799), cultured Quaker philanthropist, contractor and banker.--[See life of above M.A.S., and the "Annual Register."] _fa me ½ bro_, Robert Barclay ALLARDICE (1779-1854), commonly known as Capt. BARCLAY of Ury, pedestrian, noted for his walking feats, agriculturist.--["Dic. N. Biog."] _me fa_, Erasmus DARWIN, M.D., F.R.S.--See DARWIN. _me ½ bro son_, Charles Robert DARWIN, F.R.S., the naturalist.--See DARWIN. _si son_, Edward G. WHELER (b. 1850), a founder and president of the Land Agents' Society; commissioner and estate agent during sixteen years for 155,000 acres of various descriptions of property. |
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