Index 



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Sedley, Catherine (Countess of Dorchester), character 

 and ancestry of, I 19-20; portrait of, I 19 Plate XIV 



Sedley, Sir Charles, character of, I 20; notices of, I 20; 

 portrait of, I 27 Plate XXI 



Sedley, Sir William, founder of Sedleian professorship, 

 Oxford, ancestor of Francis Galton, I 21 



Seeds, inheritance of weight and diameter of, in mother 

 and daughter plants, II 392, III A 3-7 



Seeley, Prof. J. R., and 'The Reader,' II 68 



Segregation, of the feeble-minded, III- 4 365-367, and 

 their happiness under it, III- 4 373-374 



Selection, and variation, II 171; Darwin's Natural, II 171; 

 Galton's Germinal, II 171, 185, 186; Pearson's Repro- 

 ductive, III B 505 etc.; effect of long-continued, 

 II 399; and man, II 72-73; artificial, II 120; of plants 

 grown in windy and still air, III A 131-132, 133; 

 selection of germinal elements, II 172; stringent, in 

 man, II 263-264; effect of artificial, on birth-rate, 

 III A 92; effect of continued, III A 93, 94; and pro- 

 Ill- 4 94; and multiple regression, III A 94; and 

 correlation of characters in organism, III A 94; of size 

 of head in bull-dog, III A 94; retrograde, III A 95; 

 and variability, I1I A 27; natural, and new forms, 

 III- 4 32, 170; of size, and its limits, III A 49; observa- 

 tions on, III A 135; sexual, and finger-prints, 1II A 168- 

 169; natural, and finger-prints, III A 169 



Selector, Galton's mechanical, to pick out individuals 

 of given character, II 305, 306, III- 4 149 



<Sei!/, multiple nature of, II 246 



Self-Consciousness, in Galton, I 93, 94 



Self-Control, in criminals, II 230 



S, Injtriann, Dr, takes Galton round Vienna hospitals and 

 museums, I 96, 97 



■«, visited by Galton, I 133 



• 'ion, scale of, III B 493; and its source, Fechner's 

 Law, III B 464; limit of, II 307; variation in threshold 

 of, II 308; faint, and the imagination, II 307, 308 



Senses, keenness and discrimination of, II 359, .Stir) 



Sensitivity, of men and women, II 221; and ability, 

 II 222; to colour differences, Galton's instrument to 

 measure, II 226 



Sentiments, influence of early, II 256, 257 



. G., asks Galton's aid as to anthropometric instru- 

 ments, II 226; Galton meets in Italy, IIIB 474 

 it, Galton jumps on its tail, I 234 

 tee, the public, and marks for bodily efficiency, 

 II 387, 388 



Seton-Karr, hunter, III B 516 



/, Anna, and Dr Erasmus Darwin, II 192, 193 

 1 nd creative genius, II 99; necessity of, in complex 

 organisations, II 182; advantages of, II 185; and 

 mental imagery, II 242; associated with numbers, 

 II 253; and its origin, III- 4 135; and touch, III A 169; 

 of offspring of aged fathers, II 210 



Sextant, examination of, at Kew, II 49, 50, 59; super- 

 position of photographs by aid of, II 285, 287 



ness, and the origin of varieties, II 272, 

 273 



Si riial Generation and Cross-fertilisation, paper by 

 Galton, III A 318 



Similes, measurement of resemblance in, II 303 



Shm n, Margaret, recollections of Galton and Darwin, 

 II 196; at San Remo, III- 4 244; at Bordighera, 

 III 4 276 



Sharpi if. I'rnf., large size of head, III- 4 248 



Show, '■'. Bernard, 'Superman' of, II 109; on marriage 

 and Eugenics, HI* 260, 261 J lectures for Eugenics 

 Education Society, III 4 427 



. hermaphrodites in, 1II A 359; blood of, at different 

 seasons, II I B 564 



/-, incident with a, and Galton in Egypt, I 200, 205 



Shell-Shock, family history of cases of, II 173; and 



mental overwork, II 278 

 Sheppard, W. F., his table of deviates, II 401 ; table of 



centiles calculated by, III A 304, 312; letters of Galton 



to, IIIB 486, 487; dines with Galton, III B 487; his 



number form, III B 486 

 Shirreff, Emily, letters to Galton, II 132, 133; meets 



Galton in Italy, III B 474 

 Shooting, boar in Egypt, I 200; hippopotami in Egypt, 



I 202; lions in Africa, I 222, 223, 224; giraffe in 

 Africa, I 223; rhinoceroses in Africa, I 224, 237; 

 hyena and fowl in Africa, I 231; grouse in Scotland, 

 1 208 ; hunting and, 1 208-209 ; fox-hunting, finer sport 

 than big game, I 234 



Shorthouse, John Henry, and Abrahams family, I 39; 

 see also Pedigree Plate D in pocket of Vol. I 



Short-Lived families, Buttons, I 36, 37, 42, 43; Hubert 

 Galtons, I 53 



Shortsightedness, inheritance of, III A 356. See also 

 Sight 



Shyness, resemblance in brothers, III- 4 247 



Siblings, and 'sibs, ' origin of words, III A 332; finger- 

 prints in pairs of siblings, III A 189, 190, 191 



Sibship, of Francis Galton, I 63 



Sii-ily, W'eldon works on snails in, III A 251; induces 

 Galton to visit, III B 525, 526 



Sight, tests for, II 222, 223; maximum values for 

 keenness of, II 374; percentile values of keenness of, 



II 376 ; values of keenness of, at each rank, II 390 

 Silhouette Portraits, of Elizabeth Collier (Mrs Pole and 



her dog), I 21, Plate XVII, I 14 Plate IV bis (as 

 Mrs Erasmus Darwin) ; of Dr Erasmus Darwin and his 

 son Erasmus at chess, I 14 Plate IV; of Dr Darwin 

 alone, I 14 Plate IV bis; of Mrs Samuel Galton (Lucy 

 Barclay), I 44 Plate XXVI; of Tertius Galton with 

 his children, I 52 Plate XXXIV; of Mrs Schimmel- 

 penninck (Mary Ann Galton), I 54 Plate XXXV; of 

 Theodore Galton, and of Adele Galton, I 54 Plate 

 XXXV j of Erasmus Galton, I 69 Plate XLII; of 

 Francis Galton, as a child, I 62 Plato XXXIX; when 

 aged 65, II 310 

 Silhouettes, Galton's use of, II 304, 309; method of 

 taking, II 309, 310; photographic, examples of, 

 Galton's own, II 310; method of indexing, III A 826, 

 326; Galton's researches on, III B 577, 578; on a 

 collection, including members of Galton family, 

 II I B 580. See also Profiles 



[Sir B. M.\ consulted as to 'medical histories' of 

 individuals, II 869; Galton studies anatomy under, 

 at King's College, I 106 

 Simpson, Mrs (nee Senior), Galton visits, III B 513 

 Simpson, second wrangler to Cayley in 1842, I 164 

 Sin, original, influence of doctrine of, II 85 



prepotency of, in trotting horses, III A 99, 100, in 

 Basset hounds, III A 44 



r», composite portraits of, II 288 Plato XXXII, 

 II 288 Plate XXXIII 

 Sketches, of Breadsall Priory, I 74 Plate XLIII and 

 Breadaal] Church, I 74 Plate XLIV; and plan of 

 'The Larches,' I 75 Plate XLV; of Elston Hall, I 30 

 Plate XXIII; of Heydon Hall, I 246 Plate LXIV; 

 of Claverdon, House and Church, I 48 Plate XXIX; 

 of Loxton, of Dudson, of Whaley, of Hadzor, I 48 

 Plate XXIX ; of Duddeston House, I 48 Plate XXX; 

 from the Diarvof Sir Francis Darwin's Bovhood, I 16 

 Plate V, I 18 Elate X, I 22 Plate XIX; of Francis 

 Galton, by Evelyne Biggs, II viii, and II 425 Plate 

 LIV. by Frank Carter, II xi, and III 4 432 Plate XL; 

 of d'Arnaud Bey, III" 166 Plate XIA'I; water- 

 colour, of the eliiidrcn of Dr Erasmus Darwin and his 

 wife Elizabeth, I 246; of Francis Galton in the 



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