Index 



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Spoglio, at Trieste quarantine station, 1840, Galton 

 'makes Spoglio,' I 139 



Sports, transmission of, III A 31; in evolution, III A 61, 

 62, 81, 87; and variation, III A 79, 80, 170; breeding 

 from, III A 81-82; source of, in 'positions of stability,' 

 III A 85; place in evolution according to Galton, 

 III A 94, 99, 126, 170, 370; prepotency of, III A 98-100; 

 part in Natural Selection, III A 170; in the human race, 

 III A 120, 121 ; are they essential to progress? III A 221. 

 See also Mutations 



Spottiswoode, W., and Galton, II 11, 36; size of head and 

 stature, II 150; large head of, III A 248; at exhibition 

 of scientific apparatus, II 215; letter to, when Pres. 

 Roy. Soc. from Galton on reform of meetings, III B 

 468; Gallon's obituary notice of, II 245 



Spring Fret, in Galton, I 197 



Squeeze of Hand, maximum value of, II 374; percentile 

 values of, II 376; values at each rank, II 390; corre- 

 lation with vital capacity, II 377; 'Punch,' and the 

 'squeeze of 86' in a lady, II 375 



Stability, or chronic variation in psychic characters, 

 suggestion that mean and personal variation are 

 correlated, II 103; of anthropometric constants, 

 II 380; organic, III A 61, 85-87; in a breed after 

 selection, III* 93; social, see Social Stability 



Stability nf Types, Galton's view, III A 240 



Stablemen, inferences from hats of, III A 249 



on, and quartiles, II 339, 1 1 I A 47; and 

 normal curve, III-*- 8. See also Variability 



Stanley, 11. M., Galton's opinion of, II 25, 27, 51; on 

 Congo travels, II 30; methods of exploration, II 30, 31 

 ley, Lady, Galton stays with, III 8 510 



Star Signals, i.e. to distant planets, II 279, 280 



Starvation, Galton's experience of, I 224 

 hip and Eugenics, III A 348 



Statesmen, neglect the future, III A 242; errors of ageing, 

 III A 365; and Eugenics, III A 311, 312; fertility of, 

 II 94; grading of, II 93 



Statistical, fallacies, in oceanic meteorological obser- 

 vations, II 54; inquiries of national importance, 

 II 156, 416-420; laboratories, schools as, II 344-345; 

 instincts of Galton, II 149-150; results, interference 

 by theocratic power with, II 258-259; material, 

 difficulties in obtaining, II 276, 357, 358, 368, 

 collection of, from schools, II 336, 337, 343-346, 370, 

 by schedules, II 348-356, trustworthiness of, II 361, 

 368; methods of Galton, II 150, 268, and psychology, 

 II 212, 236-238, and duty of Galton Research 

 Fellow, II I A 222, of Meteorological Office, II 53, first 

 applied to heredity, II 89, 92, 93, applied to grading 

 of intelligence, II 89, 90, illustration of use of, by 

 Galton, II 343-344, views of A. R. Wallace on, 

 III A 133, views of Darwin on, III-* 246, deficiency of 

 de Candolle in, II 146, 147; operations, a textbook 

 on, III A 248 ; ratios, stability of, and theocratic inter- 

 fereme. II 269; scale and the grading of the indi- 

 vi'lual, II 337; Statistical Society of London and 

 Galton, II 123 



. mechanical aptitude of, II 151; waste of 

 effort by, II 420 



Statistics, and Samuel Galton, I 48; and Samuel Tertius 

 Galton, I 52. 57; and Erasmus Darwin, the younger, 



I 57 J application of, to hereditary problems, III ' I 

 137, to anthropology, II 334-348, III-* 57; and the 

 Darwinian hypothesis, III-* 126; Galton's enthusiasm 

 for, III A 63; proposed Professorship of Applied, 



II 414-416, 424, Florence Nightingale on function of, 

 II 414-416; Gallon and, II 7<i, 129, III B 458; sources 

 of Galton's interest in, II 201 ; bearing on inheritance 

 of ability, II 77; on twins, II 128-129; Anscll's, of 

 families, il 128; and inheritance of stature, II 210; 



psychometric, II 236, 237; of population, II 265, 266; 

 necessity of, for testing and correcting impressions 

 and opinions, II 296, 297; and Eugenics, III A 221, 

 222; modern and old schools of, II 348; origin 

 of mathematical theory of, II 357 



Statoblasts, a paper on heredity of, III A 245 



Stature, of female reduced to male equivalent, III A 15; 

 statistics of, III-* 54; in husband and wife, II 149; 

 of scientists, II 150; of boys at various ages used by 

 Galton to illustrate his statistical methods, II 343; 

 means of racial, from small samples, II 179; French, 

 effect of conscription on, II 191; and its inheritance 

 (de Candolle), II 210; effect of diet on, II 210; 

 maximum values of, II 374; percentile values of, 

 II 376; values for each rank, II 390; correlation with 

 vital capacity, and the isograms, II 391; inheritance 

 of, III A 11-34 (and regression); Forecaster of, I1I A 13, 

 15, 17, and Fig. 5, III* 16; assortative mating in, 

 III-* 17; advantages of, as subject of study, III* 18, 

 19; prediction of, III-* 31; correlation with cubit, 

 III* 51; correlation table for cubit with, III A 52; 

 progression in, by continuous selection, III A 93; 

 genometer based on Pearson's data for stature, 

 III* 30 Plate I 



Steadfastness of Purpose, in Galton and his Quaker 

 ancestry, I 59 



Steadiness of Hand, in men and women, II 376 



Stellar Characters, controversy regarding their corre- 

 lation, III* 326 



Stelvio Pass, geographical model of, II 33, 34 Plate IV 



Sterilisation of the Unfit, III* 218 



Sterility, and genius, II 341; in experiments with 

 transfusion of blood, II 161; voluntary, in France, 

 II 142 



SI, wart, A ugusta R., second wife of Herman Galton, 

 IIIB 511 



Stewart, Balfour, and Galton, II 48, 49; and 'The 

 Header' and 'Nature,' II 68, 69 



Stewart, C. P., Galton's Cambridge friend, I 153; passes 

 'Little Go,' I 164; at last meeting of Caseo-Tostic 

 Club, I 181 Plate LIV 



/. Dugald, on generic image of man, II 298 



Stimulation, external and internal causes of, II 308 



Stirp, and race, II 171; definition of, II 185-186; 

 extinction of, II 343; and pure tines, II 171 



Siirpi'iilhire, or Eugenics, III* 259 



Stochis, i in finger-pants in different races, III A 140, 194 



Stokes, Prof. Sir <; . (!.. religious bias of, II 152; on Roy. 

 Soc. Committee on Colour-blindness, II 227; pains- 

 taking editorial labours of, III-* 331; Galton's letters 

 to, IIIB 466-468, 471-473; handwriting of, III B 522; 

 remarkable head of, III* 248 



States, Mr, Galton's interest in, III B 576 



Stoker, — , undergraduate at Trinity, 1842, overworks 

 and loses his scholarship, I 171 



Stout, Sir Robert, advocates Eugenics in New Zealand, 

 III B 612 



Strnchi y. Miss I'liili/ipa, III B 541 



Slrachey, Sir Richard, and Galton, II 44; and Kew 

 Observatory, scores off the Roy. Soc, II 60; and 

 maps, III B 462 



St rnlm 'a, Major-General, on use of finger-prints in India, 

 III* 153 



Strasbvrger, /.'.. Linnean Society medallist, III* 340; 

 death of, III* 342 



Strawberries, Linnams' cure for gout, III* 124 



Slniiiioiixiiess, national value of, III* 401-402 



Strickland, C. W., joins Galton on reading party, I 155, 

 169 



Strikers, in Italy, III B 540 



Strutl, marriage in Galton family, I 53 



