EUGENICS THE FUTURE OF MAN 



lows of the Royal Society. 1 Mr. Galton addressed 

 to every fellow of the society a form containing 

 queries concerning his relatives, which the fellow 

 addressed was to fill in with the details requested. 

 The inquiry has produced a mass of results which 

 have been subjected to strict mathematical analysis, 

 and which conclusively prove that there exist, in 

 this country at the present day, certain families 

 the individuals of which are of priceless value to 

 the community and to the race at large. Even 

 this limited inquiry has revealed the existence of 

 at least nine families of the very first distinction, 

 besides a large number of almost equal value, 

 among fellows of the Royal Society alone. 



Having done this piece of work, Mr. Galton saw 

 that the time for further action had come. He 

 therefore presented to the University of Lon- 

 don an initial sum of 1500, to be spent within 

 three years, for the establishment of the " Francis 

 Galton Research Fellowship in National Eugen- 

 ics." The first election to this fellowship has now 

 taken place, and the honor has been awarded 

 to Mr. Edgar Schuster, M.A., F.Z.S., late holder 

 of a science scholarship at New College, Oxford. 

 Mr. Schuster has already contributed important 

 papers to Biometrika, and has studied such sub- 



1 Mr. Galton's paper on eugenics, together with a discussion 

 to which the leading biologists and psychologists of the day 

 contributed, and his paper on the results of this inquiry are 

 to be found in Sociological Papers, a volume recently published 

 by Messrs. Macmillan for the Sociological Society. 

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