Author:Francis Galton

Francis Galton
(1822–1911)

Francis Galton

Works

• Narrative of an explorer in South Africa. London. (1853) (external scan)
• The art of travel (1855) (external scan)
• Vacation tourists and notes of travel, 1861 (external scan)
• The first steps towards the domestication of animals, 1863 (external scan)
• Law of Ancestral Inheritance
• Hereditary Genius. (1869) (external scan)
• English men of science: their nature and nurture, 1874 (external scan)
• Inquiries into human faculty and its development, (1883) (external scan)
• Life history album, 1884 (external scan)
• Record of family faculties, 1884 (external scan)
• A descriptive list of anthropometric apparatus, 1887 (external scan)
• Natural Inheritance. (1889) (external scan)
• Narrative of an Explorer in Tropical South Africa, 1889 (external scan)
• Finger prints, 1892 (external scan)
• Supplementary chapter to 'Finger prints'. Decipherment of blurred finger prints, 1893 (external scan)
• Fingerprint directories, 1895 (external scan)
• Mind. With others. 1902 (external scan)
• Probability, the foundation of eugenics, 1907 (external scan)
• Memories of my life, 1908 (external scan)

Articles in Popular Science Monthly

• "On the Causes Which Operate to Create Scientific Men" in Popular Science Monthly, 3 (May 1873)
• "The History of Twins, as a Criterion of the Relative Powers of Nature and Nurture" in Popular Science Monthly, 8 (January 1876)
• "Composite Portraits" in Popular Science Monthly, 13 (August 1878)
• "Psychometric Facts" in Popular Science Monthly, 14 (April 1879)
• "Generic Images" in Popular Science Monthly, 15 (August 1879)
• "Mental Imagery" in Popular Science Monthly, 18 (November 1880)
• "The Visions of Sane Persons" in Popular Science Monthly, 19 (August 1881)
• "Measurements of Men" in Popular Science Monthly, 21 (May 1882)
• "Measurement of Character" in Popular Science Monthly, 25 (October 1884)
• "The Possible Improvement of the Human Breed Under the Existing Conditions of Law and Sentiment" in Popular Science Monthly, 60 (January 1902)
• "Probability, The Foundation of Eugenics" in Popular Science Monthly, 71 (August 1907)

Works about Galton

• "Sketch of Francis Galton" in Popular Science Monthly, 29 (May 1886)
• “The Works and Work of Francis Galton,” by Frederick Starr in The Dial Volume 15, July 1, 1893
• "Galton, Francis," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1912 supplement, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1912) in 3 vols.
• "Galton, Sir Francis, F.R.S., D.C.L.," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Galton, Sir Francis," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)