RESUME OF THE LIFE AND LABOURS OF 

 FRANCIS GALTON 



CHIEF EPOCHS IN THE LIFE OF FRANCIS G ALTON 



Bom February 16, 1822. Died January 17, 1911 



A. "Apprenticeship " 



Age Yi'iim 



5 Trained under Sister Adele 1827 



67 Dame School 18281829 



89 School at Boulogne ... ... 18301831 



1012 at Kenilworth ... 1832 1,-C, I 



1315 King Edward's School, Birmingham 18351837 



16 Medical Education, General Hospital, Birmingham ... ... 1838 



17 King's College, London 1839 



18 1st Journey, down Danube to Smyrna ... ... ... ... 1840 



1821 Mathematical Education, Cambridge 1840 1843 



B. " Journeyman Yrrirn " 



2nd Journey, Egypt, Khartoum, Syria ... ... ... ... 1844 1845 



2227 Hunting and Shooting 18451849 



2830 3rd Journey, Tropical Africa ... ... 18501852 



31 Marriage ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 1853 



C. "Master Craftsman" 



32 42 Art of Travel and Meteorology . ... 1854 1864 



New Influences : 



(a) Quetelet's Lettres sur la theorie des probabilitea appli- 



quee aux sciences morales et politiqnes (Translation, 



1849) ... 1849 



(b) Darwin's Origin of Species 1859 



43 First Research in Heredity (Hereditary Talent and Character) 1 8G5 



47 Hereditary Genius ... ... ... ... ... ... 1869 



50 Statistical Enquiries as to Prayer ... 1872 



