FLY-LEAF TO THE RECORD OF FAMILY FACULTIES. 



which, if more space is wanted, additional pages may be stitched,) or 

 they may be written in any other book with pages of the same size as 

 those of the Record, provided that the information be arranged in the 

 same tabular form and order. (It will be obvious that uniformity in 

 the arrangement of documents is of primary importance to those who 

 examine and collate a large number of them.) 



Each competitor must furnish the name and address of a referee 

 of good social standing (magistrate, clergyman, lawyer, medical prac- 

 titioner, &c.), who is personally acquainted with his family, and of whom 

 inquiry may be made, if desired, as to the genera! trustworthiness of 

 the competitor. 



The Extracts must be sent prepaid and by post, addressed to 

 Francis Galton, 42 Rutland Gate, London, S.W. It will be convenient 

 if the letters " R.F.F." (Record of Family Faculties) be written in the 

 left-hand corner of the parcel, below the address. 



The examination will be conducted by the donor of the prizes, aided 

 by competent examiners. 



The value of the individual prizes cannot be fixed beforehand. No 

 prize will, however, exceed ^^50, nor be less than ^^5, and ^500 will, 

 on the whole, be awarded. 



A list of the gainers of the prizes will be posted to each of them. 

 It will be published in one or more of the daily newspapers, also 

 in at least one clerical, and one medical journal. 



*^* The above conditions are in lieu of those provisionally sketched 

 out by Mr. Galton in the Fortnightly Review of August, 1883, for the 

 purpose of eliciting suggestions, and which were subsequently submitted 

 in a more elaborate form to many members of the medical profession. 

 Their present shape is fi.xed in accordance with the balance of opinions 

 elicited by these preliminaries, which was in favour of throwing them 

 open to general competition, and not to medical men only, as at first 

 intended. 



Mr. Galton would add, that extracts from the Records of any family 

 would be very acceptable to him, even such as may be too incomplete 

 in the opinion of their authors to have the chance of gaining a prize, 

 or which for any other reason should have the words, " not for competition," 

 written upon them. 



He sincerely trusts that his efforts to draw the attention of the 

 public to the utility of family records, to induce them to rescue facts 

 that are steadily gliding into oblivion, and to collect materials for serious 

 scientific study, will be taken in good part and in the spirit in which 

 they are made. 



December, 18S3. 



