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	Francis Galton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Galton also devised a technique called composite photography which he believed could be used to establish racial and social 'types' which could aid the improvement of society.
		Galton was the first to describe and explain the common phenomenon of regression toward the mean, which he first observed in his experiments on the size of the seeds of successive generations of sweet peas.
		Galton wrote about the technique (inadvertently sparking a controversy between Herschel and Faulds that was to last until 1917), identifying common pattern in fingerprints and devising a classification system that survives to this day.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Francis_Galton (1973 words)

	Samuel Tertius Galton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Samuel Tertius Galton (1783-1844) was a businessman and scientist.
		Samuel Tertius, though less distinguished, was not an exception to the rule of scientific endeavour in his family.
		Though fascinated by economics (he wrote papers on the subject) Samuel preferred to be less 'hands-on' in the running of the business than his father and spent much of his time living off the revenue of his considerable estate.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Samuel_Tertius_Galton (212 words)

	Francis Galton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Francis Galton was born in Birmingham on 16 February 1822 and died at Grayshott House, Haslemere, Surrey on 17 January 1911.
		In the period between 1865 and 1885 Galton made fundamental contributions to the empirical and statistical methods by which the mind is studied, and to our understanding of both the nature of the mind and the factors that influence diversity among minds.
		From Quetelet, Galton learned of the Laplace—Gauss distribution or, at it is often called, the ‘normal curve of variation from an average’, and of the fact (at least as claimed by Quetelet) that physical characteristics of human beings such as height and chest size are normally distributed.
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		Galton owed the evenness of his temper, his placid acceptance of criticism, but his power of steady persistence in his own work and his own views, very largely to his Quaker ancestry, to the Galton and Barclay blood.
		To Galton is due the honour of having reached the first simple measure of this relationship, and in the earlier writings of his keen disciple Weldon, we find it called ``Galton's Function,'' a name which had to be dropped as the conception became more general and its types differentiated and classified.
		Galton had reached from his graph the fundamental idea of the simplest type of correlation surface -- the generalised Gaussian with linear ``regression,'' and he was not slow to realise its great importance and its wide application to the inter-relationship of contemporaneously varying or associated phenomena.
	www.york.ac.uk /depts/maths/histstat/galton.htm (4217 words)

	Francis Galton biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The method of identifying criminals by their fingerprints had been introduced in the 1860s by William Herschel (civil servant) in India, but their potential use in forensic work was first proposed by Dr Henry Faulds in 1880.
		In a Royal Institution paper in 1888 and three books (1892, 1893 and 1895) Galton wrote about the technique (inadvertantly sparking a controversy between Herschel and Faulds that was to last until 1917), identifying common pattern in fingerprints and devising a classification system that survives to this day.
		Galton invented the Quincunx, also known as the bean machine as a tool for demonstrating the law of error and the normal distribution.
	francis-galton.biography.ms (386 words)

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		Galton's older sister Elizabeth remembered the teenaged Charles as "a very pleasant lad," whom they teased good-naturedly about his marksmanship with a gun, and with whom she and her sisters made "a merry party of cousins" (Pearson, 1914, pp.
		Thus Galton in 1865 formulated the major ideas that would dominate him for the rest of his life, but in a form that was disorganized, confused, and generally unconvincing to anyone who did not already share his views.
		And Galton came to disagree with Darwin's theory of "pangenesis," according to which units of inheritance called "gemmules" circulate throughout the organism and are capable of transmitting acquired as well as innate characteristics.
	htpprints.yorku.ca /archive/00000123/01/Galton-Darwins.html (4610 words)

	Galton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Galton was the cousin of Charles Darwin, so perhaps it was natural that he should be one of the first to be converted by the book.
		Galton may be described as the founder of the study of eugenics.
		Galton realised that the off-spring tended to revert towards the mean size.
	www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /~history/Mathematicians/Galton.html (2076 words)

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		Galton's bicycle speedometer, for example, required the rider to measure the diameter of his wheels, and count and time their revolutions with a hand-held hourglass as he rode.
		Born in 1822, Galton was part of the intermarrying dynasty descended from that astonishingly creative group of Midland entrepreneurs, inventors, scientists and freethinkers that constituted the famous Lunar Society at the end of the 18th century.
		Galton's last years brought a knighthood, and the establishment of a laboratory at University College London that still bears his name, though no longer that of eugenics, which was expunged in disrepute following its Nazi apotheosis.
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	Samuel Tertius Galton -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Samuel Tertius Galton (1783-1844) was a (A commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it) businessman and (A person with advanced knowledge of one of more sciences) scientist.
		Samuel married Violetta (Francis Anne Viollette) Darwin, one of the twelve children of his father's old colleague and fellow Lunar Society member (Click link for more info and facts about Erasmus Darwin) Erasmus Darwin.
		Though brought up a (One who quakes and trembles with (or as with) fear) Quaker, Samuel converted to the (The national church of England (and all other churches in other countries that share its beliefs); has its see in Canterbury and the Sovereign as its temporal head) Church of England in 1807.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/sa/samuel_tertius_galton.htm (188 words)

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		Galton himself has gained the reputation of having been a "genius." The main source of this reputation was a 1917 paper by the psychologist Lewis Terman, who examined some evidence from Galton's childhood and concluded that young Galton routinely performed intellectual tasks at about half the age at which normal children first learn them.
		Galton's reputation as a genius, combined with his own distinguished pedigree, has led to a common impression that his general theory of hereditary genius was at least in part a vehicle for self-serving vanity.
		Galton did well enough in the first year's preliminary examinations to keep his hopes alive, and at the beginning of his second year was accepted for private study by William Hopkins, Cambridge's most famous "coach" of mathematics students.
	htpprints.yorku.ca /archive/00000121/00/Galton_and_phrenology.html (3954 words)

	Encyclopedia: Samuel "John" Galton
		Galton Bridge at Smethwick is named in his honour and he is remembered by the Moonstones in Birmingham and a tower block in the centre of that City.
		Galton Bridge is a canal bridge in Smethwick, England built by Thomas Telford in 1829.
		He was the father of Samuel Tertius Galton.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Samuel-%22John%22-Galton (386 words)

	Revolutionary Players \| Lunar People \| Samuel Galton jnr (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Samuel Galton junior was born in Birmingham in 1753, the son of the gunmaker, Samuel Galton Senior.
		Galton was very interested in science and experimented in the areas of optics, light and colour.
		When Samuel Galton junior retired in 1795, leaving his son in sole charge, he was forced to mount a strong defence of his involvement in gun manufacturing.
	www.bmag.org.uk /players/rplunarsocietysg.htm (281 words)

	History of the Great Lakes. Volume II : G
		It was in 1877 that Captain Galton first adopted a lake-faring life as wheelsman on the tug George B. McClellan, with Captain Hiram Ames, going with the same captain on the lake tug Mocking Bird the next season.
		In the spring of 1887 Captain Galton entered the employ of Capt. John Mitchell, as mate on the steamer William H. Gratwick, and the next season was promoted to the position as master, and sailed her three seasons.
		In the spring of 1896 Captain Galton assumed command of the new steel steamer Lagonda, 3,647 tons, and sailed her three seasons or until he took charge of the new boat completed at the yard of the Globe Ship Building Company in 1898.
	www.hhpl.on.ca /GreatLakes/Documents/HGL2?ID=s417 (761 words)

	The Galton Family - page1
		John Galton and Bridget had two sons, the elder died unmarried and the younger John, born in 1671, married Sarah Button of Taunton, on 4 September 1703.
		The second son of Samuel and Frances was Erasmus (1815-1909), who became the Lord of the Manor of Loxton, and the third son was Francis (1822-1911).
		The wife of Samuel Tertius Galton, Frances Anne Violetta Darwin was the daughter of Erasmus Darwin.
	www.loxtonsomerset.org.uk /people/lhstgt01.html (747 words)

	Francis Galton
		Francis Galton Sir Francis Galton FRS (February 16, 1822 - January 17, 1911) was an English explorer, statistician, anthropologist, creator of modern eugenics (he coined the term), and investigator of the human mind.
		In a Royal Institution paper in 1888 and three books (1892, 1893 and 1895) Galton wrote about the technique (inadvertently sparking a controversy between Herschel and Faulds that was to last until 1917), identifying common pattern in fingerprints and devising a classification system that survives to this day.
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	Francis Galton
		English anthropologist, son of S. Galton, of Duddeston, Warwickshire, was born on the 16th of February 1822.
		Galton was a member of the meteorological committee (1868), and of the Meteorological Council which succeeded it, for over thirty years.
		Galton was the author of memoirs on various anthropometric subjects; he originated the process of composite portraiture, and paid much attention to fingerprints and their employment for the identification of criminals, his publications on this subject including Finger Prints (1892), Decipherment of Blurred Finger Prints (1893) and Finger Print Directories (1895).
	www.nndb.com /people/247/000098950 (493 words)

	Etty_Darwin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Samuel "John" Galton FRS (1753-1832) was an arms manufacturer from Birmingham.
		Sir Francis Galton FRS (1822–1911) made important contributions to statistics and is known as the father of eugenics.
		Charles Galton Darwin 1887-1962 was the son of George Howard Darwin (see above) and was a noted physicist.
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	The Galton Family - page5
		Alongside is a photograph of Mrs Edward Wheler (née Elizabeth Anne Galton) aged 96 taken in 1904.
		Elizabeth Anne Galton was the daughter of Samuel Tertius Galton and the eldest sister of Erasmus Galton, and during her life met many interesting and influential people.
		When she was an old lady her children persuaded her to write her memoirs, which have been handed down and copied by various descendants of the Galton family.
	www.loxtonsomerset.org.uk /people/lhstgt05.html (2587 words)

	Mendel Newsletter n.s. 12 (2003)
		Galton invented the technique of composite photography — superimposing photographs of several people's faces to make a single face — to see if certain groups of people shared common physical features; to see if there were "physical types" of people, for instance a "criminal type" or a "Jewish type".
		Galton's work in the fields of identity and heredity led him to consider whether social and racial differences might be evident from an analysis of an individual's fingerprints.
		Galton was also a key player in the development of the fingerprinting technique, and of the system of print classification: the latter system is essentially still used by police today.
	www.amphilsoc.org /library/mendel/2003.htm (11441 words)

	The Galton Family - page3
		In 1806 Mary Anne Galton (1778-1856) the daughter of Samuel John Galton, married Lambert Schimmelpennick, a Dutch tobacco trader.
		Many of the Galton family became clergymen or barristers, and others served in various branches of the armed forces.
		Among the most notable is a cousin of Erasmus Galton, Sir Douglas Strutt Galton, K.C.B., Late Capt. R.E. He was the son of John Howard Galton of Hadzor House, Worcestershire, and lived at Himbleton, Worcestershire.
	www.loxtonsomerset.org.uk /people/lhstgt03.html (737 words)

	Francis Galton, Sir Biography / Biography of Francis Galton, Sir Main Biography
		The English scientist, biometrician, and explorer Sir Francis Galton (1822-1911) founded the science of eugenics and introduced the theory of the anticyclone in meteorology.
		Francis Galton was born on Feb. 16, 1822, at Birmingham, the son of Samuel Galton, a businessman, and Violetta Galton.
		The death of Galton's father in 1844 left him with considerable independent means, and he abandoned further medical study to travel in Syria, Egypt, and South-West Africa.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/francis-galton-sir (245 words)

	Life of Francis Galton by Karl Pearson Vol 1 : image 11 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Uncle of Mrs Samuel Galton (Lucy Barclay), greatuncle to Tertius Galton and to Mrs Fry, and grandfather to Hudson Gurney.
		From a portrait by Langastre at Claverdon in the possession of Mr Wheler Galton 43
		From a pastel portrait by Langastre at Claverdon in the possession of Mr Wheler Galton 46
	www.mugu.com /browse/galton/search/pearson/vol1/pages/vol1_0011.htm (261 words)

	Lichfield City News
		Erasmus Darwin House and the Samuel Johnson Birthplace Museum are presenting an illustrated talk by Dr Malcolm Dick which will explore the ideas and activities of the Lunar Society within the anti-slavery movement at the Lichfield Cathedral Visitors Centre, on Friday 28th October at 7pm.
		Throughout October, in celebration of Black History Month, Erasmus Darwin House and the Samuel Johnson Birthplace Museum are producing a small joint display to explore the attitudes of Darwin and Johnson on the question of slavery.
		Samuel Johnson is well known as the author of the first English Dictionary — but there’s a little problem with this claim — the fact that 642 English books with the word ‘dictionary’ had already been published before his!
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	Revolutionary Players - 1776 - 1783 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Construction of the Ironbridge by Abraham Derby III spanning the River Severn at Coalbrookdale.
		Samuel Crompton developed the Spinning Mule combining features of the Spinning Jenny and Water Frame for cotton spinning.
		James Keir patented Muntz Metal, which could be forged or wrought when it was cold as well as red-hot.
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	AIM25: University College London: Galton, personal and family papers
		Finding aids: Published catalogue A list of the papers and correspondence of Sir Francis Galton (1822-1911) held in the Manuscripts Room, the Library, University College London compiled by M Merrington and J Golden (University College London, 1976); name and subject index.
		Immediate source of acquisition: The papers were deposited in University College London by Sir Francis Galton's executors soon after his death in 1911.
		They were added to by gifts from his nephew, Edward Galton Wheler-Galton, and from other members of the family.
	www.aim25.ac.uk /cats/13/2863.htm (178 words)

	Samuel Tertius Galton - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Samuel Tertius Galton - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
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	The Galton Family - page2
		The Lord of the Manor of Loxton Erasmus Galton, J.P., was the brother of Sir Francis Galton, cousin to Sir Douglas Strutt Galton, and half-cousin to Charles Darwin.
		In 1841 Major Erasmus Galton was living in the manor house with his sister Millicent.
		John Lethbridge was the great-nephew of Erasmus Galton, being the grandson of Mrs.
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	Life of Francis Galton by Karl Pearson Vol 1 : image 271 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		On October 9 the party moved to 57 Marina, where Mrs Galton and her daughter Bessy joined them.
		A fortnight afterwards (October 23) Tertius Galton died, and to Francis Galton fell the melancholy task of accompanying his father's coffin to Claverdon,.where the funeral took place on October 31.
		Mrs Galton went in the May of the following year to live at Claverdon.
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