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INDEX. 



demerits, viz. : narrow edu- 

 cation, 246 ; want of system 

 and bad teaching, 251 ; bad, 

 unclassed, 252 ; summary, 253 ; 

 interpretation of educational 

 needs, 255 ; educational mono- 

 polies, 223, 259. 



Encouragement at home, 205 (see 

 also 197, 206, 259) ; of friends, 

 211 ; of tutors, 215. 



Energy, 38, 75 ; above average, 

 78 ; below average, 97 ; wasted 

 on trifles, 229. 



FAILURES, 230. 



Family characteristics, 69. 



Faraday, 124. 



Features inherited, study of, 40. 



Fellowship, of Royal Society, 3 ; 



medical, 226; travelling, 219. 

 Female influence, 206, 211, 259 ; 



hereditarily, 72. 

 Fertility, 36 (see 102). 

 Figure of parents, 28. 

 Figures and tabulation, instinct 



for, 194. 

 Friends, influence of, 211. 



GALTON, D., 47, 145 ; F., 47, 197. 

 Genius, 233. 

 Gilbert, 61, 62. 

 Grove, 3. 



HAIR, colour of, 29. 



Harcourt, 50, 65. 



Head, size of, 98. 



Health, 37, 99 ; of parents, 101. 



Heath, 24. 



Height of parents, 30 ; of scien- 

 tific men, 102. 



Helena, 15. 



Heraldry, 197. 



Herbert, 62; Spencer (see Pre- 

 face). 



HerecLity, 39. 



Hermia, 15. 



Hill, 51. 



Hinton, 61. 



Holland, Sir H., 63, 100. 



Home encouragement (see En- 

 couragement). 



Hooker, 49. 

 Humphrey, 68. 



IDIOTS, 108, 195, 232 ; among 



elder sons, 35. 

 Impulsiveness, 104. 

 Independence of character, 121, 



231 ; of parents, 122. 

 Innate tastes, 186 ; special, 193 ; 



not strongly hereditary, 196. 



JEVONS, 58. 



KANT, 8. 



Kirchhoff, 8. 



LAPLACE, 8. 



Latrobe, 54, 65. 



Lee, General, 55. 



Leverrier, 8. 



List of scientific men, 4, 6. 



Logic, 255. 



Love, 194. 



MAIN, 6. 



Map of birthplaces, 20. 



Marriage, best age for, 36. 



Maskelyne,65. 



Mechanical aptitudes, 124 ; draw- 

 ing, 255 ; manipulation, 256. 



Mechanicians, birthplace of, 19. 



Medical fellowships, 226. 



Memory, 107 ; good verbal, 109 ; 

 facts and figures, 111 ; form, 

 113 ; good, but no particukrs, 

 117 ; bad, 120. 



MiUer, Hugh, 135. 



Mill, J. S., 139, 148, 255. 



Milnes, 65. 



Ministers (see clergymen). 



Mitchell, Dr. A., 35. 



Moberly, 68. 



Moravians, 65, 124, 127. 



NATIONAL activity, 227. 

 Natural ability, 227, (see also 



18). 



Natural groups, 2. 

 Nature and nurture, 12. 

 Nonconformists, 126. 

 Nurture, 12. 



