INDEX. 



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OCCUPATION of parents, 21. 



Opie, 42. 



Origin of taste for science, 144 ; 

 extracts at length, 149 ; analysis 

 of them, viz.: strongly innate, 

 186 ; not innate, 191 ; tastes 

 bearing on science, 194 ; tastes 

 not very hereditary, 196 ; fortu- 

 nate accidents, 198 ; indirect 

 motives, 199 ; professional, 202 ; 

 encouragement at home, 205 ; 

 by friends, 211 , by tutors, 215; 

 travel, 218 ; unclassed, 221. 



PALGRAVE, 49, 68. 



Paradoxes, book of, 232. 



Parents of scientific men, their 

 occupation, 21 ; physical pecu- 

 liarities, 27 ; health of, 201 ; 

 independence of character, 122; 

 relative influence of paternal 

 and maternal lines, 72, 197, 

 206. 



Parker, 48. 



Parkes, 63. 



Pedigrees, 40. 



Perseverance, 103. 



PhiUips, 100. 



Physical peculiarities of parents, 

 27. 



Photography, early, 7, 63. 



Photographic studies of features. 

 40. 



Playfair, 55, 65. 



Plum-pudding, 212. 



Politics, 207. 



Population, rates of scientific men 

 to, 10. 



Portraits, 40. 



Powell, B. ; 24. 



Practical business habits, 104. 



Priestly, 8, 45. 



Primogeniture, &c., 33. 



Prisoners, 76. 



Professions, influence of, 193, 202. 



Purity of type, 18, 32, 40. 



QUAKERS, 65, 124, 127. 

 Qualities, 74. 

 Questions, see Appendix. 



EACE, 16 ; ability of different, 18. 



Kail way statistics, 145. 



Bank of scientific men, 21 ; as 



regards ability, 22. 

 Eelatives, number of, 64. 

 Keligious bias, 126 ; sects, 123, 



126 ; creed, effect of, on research, 



135. 

 Keplies, 10 ; are 100 in number 



11. 

 Eesiduum, the, 23 ; unclassed of 



motives, 221. 

 Eome, 229. 

 Eoscoe, 41, 57. 



SANDEMANIANS, 124. 



Sanitary administration, 224, 



260. 

 Scientific men, list of, 4, 6 ; ratio 



to population, 9. 

 School productiveness of eminent 



men, 67. 

 Scotch system of education, 215, 



225, 255. 

 Scott, 68. 



Sexual selection, 32. 

 Shakespeare, 14. 

 Smith, W., 65 ; Arck, 157. 

 Social duties, 228. 

 Societies, scientific and clergymen, 



25. 



Somerville, Mrs., 108. 

 Sons, elder and younger, 34. 

 Speciality of taste, 193. 

 Statistics, 147 ; of heredity, 64. 

 Sterility, 37. 

 Stokes, 8. 

 Strachey, 58. 



TABULATION, instinct for, 197. 

 Taste for science, innate, 186 ; 



not innate, 191, (see Origin of 



taste). 



Taylors of Ongar, 41, 60, 65. 

 Temperaments of parents, 27. 

 Travel, 218. 

 Truthfulness, 141, 148. 

 Tutors, influence of, 211. 

 Turner (see Dawsou Turner, 48). 

 Twins, 13. 



