FLY-LEAF 



TO 



THE RECORD OF FAMILY FACULTIES. 



BY 



FRANCIS G ALTON, F.R.S. 



MR. FRANCIS GALTON offers ^"500 in prizes to those British 

 subjects resident in the United Kingdom who shall furnish him before 

 May 15, 1884, with the best Extracts from their own Family Records. 



These Extracts will be treated as confidential documents, to be 

 used for statistical purposes only, the insertion of names of persons and 

 places being required solely as a guarantee of authenticity and to enable 

 Mr. Gallon to communicate with the writers in cases where further 

 question may be necessary. 



The value of the Extracts will be estimated by the degree in which 

 they seem likely to facilitate the scientific investigations described in the 

 preface to the Record of Family Faculties}- 



More especially : 



(a) By including every direct ancestor who stands within the limits 

 of kinship there specified. 



(K) By including brief notices of the brothers and sisters (if any) 

 of each of those ancestors. (Importance will be attached both to the 

 completeness with which each family of brothers and sisters is described, 

 and also to the mimber of persons so described.) 



(c] By the character of the evidence upon which the information 

 is based. 



(d) By the clearness and conciseness with which the statements and 

 remarks are made. 



The Extracts must be legibly entered either in the tabular forms 

 contained in a duplicate copy of the Record of Family Faculties, (into 



1 Accord of family Faculties, (consisting of tabular forms and directions for entering data, 

 with an explanatory preface,) by Francis Gallon, F.R.S. Macmillan & Co., 1884. 



Works on similar subjects by the same author, and issued by the same publishers : 

 Inquiries into Human Faculty and its Development, 1883. 

 English Men of Science, their Nature and their Nurture, 1874. 

 Hereditary Genius, its Laws and Consequences, 1869. 



To these may be added the following, as one in which the author has taken part : 

 Life History Album, prepared by the direction of the Collective Investigation Committee 

 of the British Medical Association. Edited by F. Gallon, Chairman of the Life History 

 Sub-Committee, 1884. 



