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- Chapter III Medical Studies
First experience - Tour with Mr. Bowman - Birmingham
Hospital - Accidents - Sense of pain - King's College - Professor
R. Partridge and others - Escape from drowning
- Chapter IX South-West Africa
Royal Geographical Society - Ch. J. Andersson
- Cape Town - Walfish Bay - Reach Damara Land - Hans - Negotiations
with Namaqua chiefs - Revs. Rath and Hahn - Wagons brought up
- Chapter X Lands of the Damaras,
Ovampo, and Namaquas
Size of caravan - Horrors of savagedom - Ovambonde
- To the Ovampo on ride - oxen - Back to Damara land - Journey
in Namaqua land - Bushmen - Large game - Back to Walfish Bay
- Home - Medal of Royal Geographical Society, and election to
Athenaum Club under Rule II.
- Chapter XVI
Kew Observatory and Meteorology
General Sir E. Sabine--Sextants and watches--Now
merged into National Physical Laboratory--Meteorological Committee,
subsequently Council of the Board of Trade - Self-recording instruments,
reduction of their tracings--Henry Smith [Transcription
incomplete]
- Chapter XX
Heredity
Early inquiries -- Hereditary Genius--English
Men of Science-Family records--Nature and Nurture--Experiments
on Free Will --Pangenesis and transfusion of blood--Heredity
concerned with deviations--Experiments on peas -- Regression--Ancestral
law
- Chapter XXI Race Improvement
Eugenics -- Passages from my early writings --
Original sin -- Breeding dogs for intelligence -- Great extension
of my work by Professor Karl Pearson -- Eugenics laboratory --
Duty towards race improvement
The following
review
was written by C.E Gehlke (Political Science Quarterly, 1910). |

Routes followed during Galton's travels
in Egypt, the Sudan and Palestine

Galton's Travels in South West Africa, which
launched his scientific career.

Galton as criminal, aged 71.
Taken in Paris, 1893, during a visit
to the Criminal Identification Laboratory
of the French criminologist Bertillon.
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