220 NATURAL INHERITANCE. 



WORKS ON HEREDITY BY THE AUTHOR. 



(Published by Messrs. Macmillan & Co.) 



Hereditary Genius. 1869. 

 EDglish Men of Science. 1 874. 

 Inquiries into Human Faculty. 1883. 



Record of Family Faculties. 1 1884. 2s. Gd. 



Life History Album 2 (edited by F. Galton). 1884. 3s. Qd. and 4s. 6d. 



1 The Record of Family Faculties consists ,of Tabular Forms and Directions 

 for entering Data, with an Explanatory Preface. It is a large thin quarto book 

 of seventy pages, bound in limp cloth.. The first part of it contains a preface, 

 with explanation of the object of the work and of the way in which it is to be 

 used. The rest consists of blank forms, with printed questions and blank spaces to 

 he fil : ed with writing. The Becord is designed to facilitate the orderly collection of 

 such data as are important to a family from an hereditary point of view. It allots 

 equal space to every direct ancestor in the nearer degrees, and is supposed to be filled 

 up in most cases by a parent, say the father of a growing family. If he takes 

 pains to make inquiries of elderly relatives and friends, and to seek in registers, 

 he will be able to ascertain most of the required particulars concerning not only 

 his own parents, but also concerning his four grandparents ; and he can ascertain 

 like particulars concerning those of his wife. Therefore his children will be pro- 

 vided with a large store of information about their two parents, four grandparents, 

 and eight great-grandparents, which form the whole of their fourteen nearest 

 ancestors. A separate schedule is allotted to each of them. Space is afterwards 

 provided for the more important data concerning many at least, of the brothers 

 and sisters of each direct ancestor. The schedules are followed by Summary 

 Tables, in which the distribution of any characteristic throughout the family at 

 large may be compendiously exhibited. 



- The Life History Album was prepared by a Sub-Committee of the Collective 

 Investigation Committee of the British Medical Association. It is designed to 

 serve as a continuous register of the principal biological facts in the life of its 

 owner. The book begins with a few pages of explanatory remaiks, followed by 

 tables and charts. The first table is to contain a brief medical history of each 

 member of the near ancestry of the owner. This is followed by printed forms 

 on which the main facts of the owner's growth and development from birth 

 onwards may be registered, and by charts on which measurements may be laid 

 down at appropriate intervals and compared with the curves of normal growth. 

 Most of the required data are such as any intelligent person is capable of record- 

 ing ; those that refer to illnesses should be brief and technical, and ought to be 

 filled up by the medical attendant. Explanations are given of the most con- 

 venient tests of muscular force, of keenness of eyesight and hearing, and of the 

 colour sense. The is. 6d. edition contains a card of variously coloured wools to 

 test the sense of colour. 



*£* These two works pursue similar objects of personal and scientific utility, 

 along different paths. The Album is designed to lay the foundation of a practice 



