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Index 



Dnnriiiiti/i Institute, a future possibility, III A Sll 



Data, storing of, III A 101 



Davenport, C, as American editor of ' Biomotrika,' 



[H A 244; on Inheritance of Eye Colour, III A 376; 



letter of, to Galton, III B 613 

 liar, i/. Sir Horace, honour conferred on, 1II B 494 

 Davies, l.hwelyn, meets Galton at Trinity College, 



IIIB 574 

 Day, Mr, marries Miss Parker, III B 462 

 Demi Sea, Galton proposes to navigate the, I 205 

 Deaf-mutes, speech of, II 192 ; pigmentation of membrane 



of perilymph chamber in, IIIA 372 

 Deafness, of Galton, II 280, III A 276; aided by 



imagination, II 308; apparatus for, III B 603-604; 



Galton's sympathy for sufferers from, III B 584 

 Death, age at, of various classes, II 116; statistics 



regarding, III A 70, 71 

 Debenham, W. E., on Galton's composite portraits, 



II 293 

 Decaisne, J., names a South African hyacinth 'Galtonia 



H. candicans,' III B 533, 534 

 Degeneracy, effect of differential fertility on, III A 9; 



a theory of, III-*- 372 

 Degenerate Stocks, social danger of, III A 373 

 Degeneration, of race, effect of conscription on, II 191, 



192 

 Deity, Galton's conception of, II 114 

 Demboa Lake, Galton determines to reach, I 220, 231 

 Demetrius Poliorcetes, composite portraits of, II 295, 



II 296 Plate XXXIX 

 Democracy, and evolution, II 385; and Eugenics, 



III* 348, 349 

 Democratic Judgment, trustworthiness of, II 403—405 

 Demographers, Galton's address to, III A 218 

 Dimolins, 'Anglo-Saxons' of, III B 553 

 Dendy, Miss Mary, data of, on the feeble-minded, 



III A 373 

 Denison, E. B., and Galton, on ability and fertility of 



judges and peers, II 93 

 Derby, The, Galton at, with Herbert Spencer, III A 123, 



124, IIIB 627; flush of excitement at, III A 124 

 Descent, on value of, II 84, 93, 364; diagram illustrating 



scheme of, III A 230, 231 

 Desert, Galton's experiences of the, I 201-203 

 Desirables, and undesirables, III A 348 

 Deviation, from an average, and degrees of independence 



in cattle, II 73. See also Variation, Standard Deviation 

 Devil, Catholics and the, III A 432, 433 

 Dew-Smith, anthropometric instruments of, II 226; 



photograph of Galton by, III A 217 Plate XXXI 

 Diagram, of instrument for compounding six objects, 



II 285; of camera, for composite portraiture, II 289; 



illustrating photographic reduction of circle to 



ellipse, II 300; of 'absolute values at each rank,' 



II 390; illustrating standard scheme of descent, 



III A 230; illustrating graphical process of finding 



slope of regression line, III A 52 

 Diamandi, arithmetic of, II 275, 276 

 Diary, Galton's, of school days, I 83-86 ; tiny diaries of 



his late years, III B 618 

 Dice, suitability of, for verification of laws of frequency, 



II 405 

 Dickinson, Lowes, portrait painter, III B 513 

 Dickson, J. D. H., and frequency surface, III A 12; and 



mathematical analysis of Galton's problems, III A 12, 

 13 

 Diet, effect of, on stature of races, II 210 

 Difference, just perceptible, II 307, 308; 'Greek girl,' 



to illustrate, III A viii Extra Plate, facing Table of 



Contents 

 Digital Defect, in twins, II 181 



Dinners, at Trinity College, Galton as undergraduate, 

 1844, complains of, I 182; in 1899, III" 513; in 1908, 

 III B 574 



Ih iiltidocus, Galton calls on the, III 8 543, 544 

 Diplomas (or register), for eugenically fit young people, 



II 120, 121, III A 231, 232, 234, 241, 242, 388. Sec also 



Certificates, ' Kantsaywhere ' 

 Discontinuity, in statistical frequencies, II 411-414; in 



evolution, III A 31, 32, 79-82, 84-87 

 Discoverers, plans for, II 27; scientific, and statesmen, 



II 135 

 Discovery, geographical, II 1, 2 

 Diseases, and piety, II 101 ; liability to, and hair colour, 



II 354, 371 ; screening of liability to, II 360, 368, 369; 



heredity of, III A 70-76; Galton's schedules for, 



III A 71-73; antagonistic, examples of, IIIA 73 

 Disraeli, not as other men, III" 568 

 Dissolute Lives, effect of, on weight, III A 136, 137 

 Distance, photographic measurement of, II 316-318 

 Distant Ancestry, appearance of traits from, II 84, 364 

 Divers, spectacles for, II 34 

 Divines, Galton on, II 99-103; of Middleton's Collection, 



II 100, 101; fertility of, II 96, 101; parentage of, 



II 101, 102; marriages of, II 101; sons of, II 101-103, 



137; moral oscillations of, II 102; health of, II 101, 



116; age at death of, II 101, 116 

 Dogs, hearing of, II 216; suggestion of, for breeding 



experiments, II 76; transmission of acquired habits 



in, II 147, 148; judge by smell, II 275; albino 



Pekingese, III A 356, 357, 389; and a pair of new 



trousers, III A 431 

 Dohrn, III A 290 

 Domestication, historical, II 70-72 ; Galton on, II 70-73 : 



258; suitable animals for, II 71; in Damaraland, II 



72-74 

 Dominance, and the Mendelian theory, III" 535 

 Donkeys, Galton's use of, and interest in, III" 515, 519, 



589-591, 593 

 Donovan, the phrenologist, on Galton's character, I 1.57 

 Dots, and continuous lines, II 308, 309. See also 



Difference, just perceptible 

 Doubleday, work of, III 8 577 



Double-image Prism, for optical superimposition, II 287 

 Dove, meteorological assistance of, II 39 

 Down, Darwin's home at, as station for experimental 



evolution, III A 133, 134, 287; a national possession, 



III A 135; photographof.il 134 Plate XIV; Darwin's 



study at, II 200 Plate XIX 

 Dowsing, III B 585 

 Drapers' Company, grants of, to Biometric Laboratory, 



III A 368, 384 

 Drawing, in education, II 155 



Dreams, genesis of, II 247; de Candolle on, II 205 

 Drowning, Galton's narrow escape from, I 116-118 

 Duddeston (or Dudson), home of Samuel Galton. I 49, 



50 ; visits to, I 74, 76 ; sketches of, 1 48 Plates X XIX. 



XXX 

 Duncan, on medical histories, II 359 

 Duncan, Dr J . M., data of, on fertility, II 265 

 Dosing, C, work of, on sex-incidence, etc., II 210 

 Dyer, Thiselton, on Committee for Measurement of 

 Plants and Animals, IIIA 127, 128, 290; resigns 



from, III A 291; on experimental breeding, III* 130, 

 131, 287; on Galton's contribution to theory of 



natural selection, III A 369 



Ear, convolutions of, and identification, II 306; syring- 

 ing the, III 8 464 

 Earle, Ann, and Galton ancestry, I 17 

 Earle, Erasmus, I 17; portrait of, I 246 Plate L.XV 

 Earle, Thomas, portrait of, I 246 Plate LXVI 



