Sir Francis Gal ton. 



much of this present article. This work gives in an appendix a list of all 

 his writings up to 1908. 



He received many other recognitions of his scientific eminence by public 

 bodies, besides those already mentioned. Thus in 1886 he was awarded by 

 the Royal Society one of the annual Royal Medals; in 1891 he became 

 Officier de lTnstruction Publique de France ; in 1894 and 1895 he received 

 the honorary doctorates of Oxford and of Cambridge; in 1901 and 1902 

 he received the Huxley Medal of the Anthropological Institute and the 

 Darwin Medal of the Royal Society ; in 1908 he was awarded the special 

 medal of the Linnaean Society, struck to celebrate the fiftieth year since 

 the presentation to that Society of the celebrated papers by Darwin and 

 Wallace, which were the prelude to the publication of the ' Origin of 

 Species.' Finally in 1910, only two months before his death, he received 

 the highest award of the Royal Society, namely, the Copley Medal, but he 

 was too infirm to receive it in person from the hands of the President. He 

 received besides the honour of knighthood by patent on the occasion of the 

 celebration of the birthday of King Edward VII in 1909. v All these honours 

 came to him very late in life, and the delay is to be attributed to the very 

 originality of his researches, which did not fit easily into the numerous 

 compartments into which scientific investigation has naturally come to be 

 divided. 



During his later years it was his habit to leave London during the winter, 

 and he died of acute bronchitis on January 17, 1911, at Grayshott House, 

 Haslemere, a house which he had taken for the winter months. He was 

 buried on January 21, at Claverdon, near Warwick, in the family vault. 

 His will contained some very remarkable provisions, which will become more 

 intelligible when a sketch has been given of his scientific career. 



Galton bore his full share in the administrative side of scientific enter- 

 prise. Thus from 1863 to 1867 he was the General Secretary of the British 

 Association for the Advancement of Science, a body whose functions it is 

 unnecessary to explain in these pages. It is well known that the success 

 of that Society depends in a very great degree on the activity of the 

 Secretary, and in his case the Council had made a good choice. Besides 

 this he was four times a Sectional President, and twice he felt himself 

 compelled to decline invitations to become President on account of his 

 deafness and failing strength. 



In 1863 Galton published an important book entitled ' Meteorographica, 

 or Methods of Mapping the Weather.' It was already known at that time 

 that storms consist of a " cyclonic " motion of the air round a region of low 

 barometric pressure, and that the circulation is counter-clockwise in the 

 northern hemisphere and clockwise in the south. In this work he pointed 

 out that the interstices between cyclones are filled in by systems, to which 

 he gave the name, now universally adopted, of " anticyclones," in which 

 the circulation takes place round a region of high pressure and is clockwise 

 in our hemisphere. He pointed out that the anticyclonic systems are of 



