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Index 



Pelly, Lady, III* 400, 433, III B 530, 587 



Pember, E. //., delivers Galton's lecture before Roy. 

 Soc. of Literature, III A 336 



Pom, Margaret, married Thomas Freame, I 32 



Pensioners, use of finger-prints of, I1I A 176 



Peppard, biometricians at, III A 135, 279 



Percentiles, Galton's method of, II 125, 236, 374-376, 

 381, 401^104; table of anthropometric, II 376. See 

 also Normal Curve and Ogive 



Perception, delicacy of, under varying conditions, II 308 



Perry, mathematical lectures of, at Cambridge, 1 142, 1 •">.'! 



Pern/, Sir E. Cooper, in the Temple with Karl Pearson, 

 III* 302 



Perry Coste, F. H., takes finger-prints in Polperro for 

 Galton, III B 522-524; correspondence of, with 

 Galton, IIIB 522-524, 616; colour faculty in son of, 

 III B 616 



Perseverance, heredity of, II 151 



Pertz, Miss, Galton meets, III B 513 



Pel Animals, II 70-72 



Petit, Dr, attends Mrs Francis Galton, III B 502 



Petrie, Flinders, Galton stays with in Egypt, III A 240, 

 III B 515-517 



Petworth, biometricians on holiday at, III* 322-326 



Phantasmagoria, II 244; in journalists, II 256 



Phidias, ability of, II 107 



Philanthropy, views of, III A 402, 403. See also Charities 



Philistis, Queen of Sicily, portraits of, and composite, 

 II 296 Plate XLII 



Phillimore, Sir W. and Lady, white ducks of, III A 360, 

 361; daughter of, killed in accident, III 8 530 



Phillips, Emma, Galton's appreciation of, III B 532 



Phillips, Prof. J ., retires from office of Secretary to 

 Brit. Assoc, III B 458 



Phillips, Mary, marries Darwin Galton, III B 454 



Phillips, Stephen, 'Nero' of, III B 572 



Philosophers, and mental imagery, II 240 



Photographic Researches of Galton, and portraiture, 

 II 283-333; indexing of profiles, etc., II 298-311; 

 method and study of mental characters, II 297; for 

 family records, importance of, II 302; reduction of 

 circle to ellipse, II 299, 300; bi-projection, II 300; 

 measurement of distance by, II 316, 317; measure- 

 ment of animals by, II 317, 318, 320-323; records of 

 pedigree stock by, II 321 ; lecture on composite 

 portraiture to Photographic Society, II 288 



Photography, air plane, colour and stereoscopic, II 29; 

 Galton turns to, II 229; composite, II 192, 204; 

 Galton's first announcement on, II 229; composite, 

 as method of measuring association of mental and 

 physical characters, II 229; analytical, II 311-316; 

 photograph of a smile, II 312; measurements by, 

 II 316-323; finger-prints and, III A 187, 196, 197 



Phrenology, I 157, III B 577; Captain Noel's interest in, 



I 180 



Phthia, Queen of Epirus, portraits of, and composite, 



II 296 Plate XLII 



Phthisical, diathesis and physiognomy, II 290-293, 

 composite portrait representing the, II 291 Plate 

 XXXIV 



Phthisis, inheritance of, II 292, II I A 73-76, 260, 326, 399 



' Phylornetry' and 'Biometry,' III 8 500 



Physical Characters, source of Galton's, I 55, 56; of the 

 Negro, II 31 ; inheritance of, II 76, 82, 135 (see also 

 under Heredity); resemblance of, in twins, II 127; 

 psychological significance of, II 212; correlation of, 

 II 390; correlation of, with mental qualities, II 128, 

 229 232 388 



Physical Efficiency, marks for, II 382, 386-396, III B 480; 

 measurement of, II 90, 336; ability and, II 94; 

 intelligence and, II 77 



Physical Overstrain, and mental overwork, II 351, 352 

 Physicists, mechanical aptitude in, II 151 

 Physiognomic Characters, and mental traits, II 231 233, 

 283; weight given to, II 301; and phthisical tendency, 



II 291-293, II 291 Plate XXXIV 

 Physiognomy, Charles Darwin on, II 335 

 Physique, correlation of, with ability, II 128; of the 



British. II 336, III A 252, 253; of school-children, and 



mental capacity, III A 356 

 Pietographs, of American Indians, II 411 

 Pictures, seen with closed eyes, II 244, 247; visualised. 



associated with words, II 243; signalling of, II 280 

 Piety, and health, II 101; hereditary nature of, II 101, 



103; and the sceptic, II 102; and the sense of sin. 



II 102; and moral oscillations, II 102; and instability 



of disposition, II 103 

 Pigmentation, and relative healthfulness, III d 476, 477 

 Pigments, internal and external, III A 372; in hair, 



analysis of, III A 97, 98; painting of trees in, 1II A 97 



Plates III, IV 

 Pigs, Gallon's interest in, III A 390, 391 

 Pinoushion Doll, legend regarding lady and doctor, 



1II» 553 

 Pimsent, Mrs Hume, on segregation of the feeble- 

 minded, III A 374 

 Pitch, of musical note, measure of sensitivity to, II 226, 227 

 Pitfalls, in experiments on theory of chance, II 405, 406 

 Plague, and Sir Francis S. Darwin, I 23 

 Planimeter, Amsler's, use of, II 144 

 Plants, laws of inheritance in, III A 251; in windy and 



still air, III* 131-133 

 Plato, ability of, II 107; eugenic passages in works of, 



III A 312 

 Playfair, Dr Lyon (afterwards Lord), Galton intro- 

 duced to, at Liebig's laboratory, I 130; on Catholic 



control and education, II 139 

 Ploetz, A., interest of, in Eugenics, III A 388, 389; 



'Kassen-Hygiene' of, III s 599; visits Galton, 



III A 429, 111° 806; letter of, to Galton, III B 545, 546 

 Plymouth, Galton at, III* 296, 297-310, III 8 579-581 

 Poem, of Dr Erasmus Darwin to Mrs Pole, 118 Plato XI ; 



of Galton on birth of Prince of Wales, I 167. See also 



Verses, Epigram, Ardennes 

 Poetry, and Science, III A 337, 338, 343; in educational 



srliPirtO T I 1 ^i t 



Poets, Galton on, II 99; fertility of, II 96, 99; and 

 expression of ideas, III A 337, 338 



Pole, Mrs Chandos. See Collier, Elizabeth 



Pole, W., on Roy. Soc. Committee on Colour-blindness, 

 II 227 



Pollaky, and finger-print work, III 8 590 



Pollocks, pedigree of, III A 343, 345 



Polperro, finger-prints from, III s 522-524 



Polydactyly, in siblings of twins, II 129 



Ponies, hearing of, II 216 



Poole, W. H., material on visualisation provided by, 

 II 237, 344 



Poor-Law, effect of working of, II 417 



Poppy, Shirley, work on inheritance in, III A 251, 279, 

 280, III 8 515 



Popular Lecture-'!, difficulties of, III A 246, 247 



Population, Galton on, II 335; error in treating 

 statistics of, II 147, 265, 266; of distinguished 

 scientists in British Isles, II 151; prediction of, from 

 measurement on small sample, II 179; and Malthas' 

 conclusions. II 265; effect of town life on, II 123- 

 126; stability of, III A 58, 61, 65; reproduction of a 

 stable, III A 28, 29; limitation of, III A 322; over- 

 growth of, III A 218; sudden advances in, III A 426, 

 427; descent of qualities in, III A 229; from early and 

 late marriages, II 266 



