of Hie A///* i"l Ll>oin-x of l>'r<uic!x (,'iillon xxi 



Age 

 48 Heredity: Anthropometry ............... 1870 on wards 



Enylish Men of Mutu-f, //fir Nature anil Xin-lin-i- ... ... IS?. I 



.")! Heredity: Psychometry ......... ... 1876 onwards 



"p(i Portraiture work ..................... 1878 onwards 



Cl Hi/limn faculty ... ... ... ... ... ... 1883 



Personal Identification (arising from inquiry as to per ..... nency 



of characters). Finder prints ... ... ... 1 S,SS onwards 



67 Natural Inhmtarue ... ... ... ... ... ... 1889 



[Correlation and its applications. Tliis was the starting-point 



of the Biometric School. 



I'l First aeademic Lectures on Variation and Correlation accom- 

 panied by Laboratory work started at University College 

 October 1894. Start of /.'H. /,;, Ln/mnitory 1 ...... 1894] 



Measurement, of Plants and Animals Committee, Hoy.-il Society 189G 



67,77 Law of Ancestral Heredity ... ...... (1889)1897 



79 Biometrika founded, Gallon writes a preface and becomes con- 



sulting Editor ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 1901 



79 89 Eugenics movement ... ... ... 1901 1911 



Research Fellowship in Eugenics in University of London. 



"Eugenics Office" ... ........ .' ...... 1904 



i s "> Transformation of "Eugenics Office" into the "Eugenics Labora- 



tory" and its association with the Biometric Laboratory 1907 



S 9 Death and by bequest Foundation of the Ualton Professorship 



and Endowment of the Laboratory of Eugenics in the 

 University of London ... ... ... ... ... 1911 



CHIKF POSTS AND HONOURS 



Royal Geographical Society, Gold Medal (Member of Council for many 



years) 1853 

 Fellow of the Royal Societi/ (Gold Medal, 1886; Darwin Medal, 1902; 



Copley Medal, 1910; Member of Council, 1865-6, 70-2, 76-7, 82-4) 1S5C, 

 Ili-i/inh Association (Sectional President, three times, Geography 1872, 

 Anthropology 1877, 1885, and General Secretary 1863-7, .Member 

 of Council ; twice asked to be President) 

 Member of Meteorological Committee (Council) ............ 1868 1901 



Chairman of the Kew Observatory Committee ............ 1889 1901 



Anthropological Institute (President, 1885-9; Huxley Medal, 1901) 



Linnaean Society, Darwin-Wallace Medal ............... 1908 



Cambridge: Rede Lecturer ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 1884 



Honorary D.Sc. .................. 1895 



Honorary Fellow of Trinity College ... ... ... 1902 



Oxford: Honorary D.C.L ................... 1894 



,, Herbert Spencer Lecturer... ... ... ... ... ... 1907 



1 The Laboratory existed from this date ; the name niuniftric was given to it after the naming 

 in November 1900 of ninmetrikn, when the term Biometry was invented, see Life of Weldon, 



liiuini-trikil, vol. V, p. :'.5. 



