Galton
FRANCIS, scientist; grandson of Dr. Erasmus Darwin, and cousin of Charles Darwin; born at Birmingham, England, in 1822. He English was educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham; studied medicine at the Birmingham Hospital and King's College, London; and graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1844. Having in 1846 traveled in north Africa, he explored in 1850 lands hitherto unknown in south Africa, publishing his experiences in his "Narrative of an Explorer in Tropical South Africa," which obtained the gold medal of the Royal Geographical Society, and in "Art of Travel," which passed through five editions between 1855 and 1872. His investigations in meteorology are recorded in "Meteorographica," published investigations in meteorology are rein 1863. A member of a Meteorological Committee of the Board of Trade, he was appointed one of the committee intrusted with the parliamentary grant for the Meteorological Office. Later he specially devoted himself to the problem of heredity, publishing "Hereditary Genius; Its Laws and Consequences" (1869); "Experiments in Pangenesis" (1871); "Natural Inheritance" (1889); Genius; Its Laws and Consequences" Directory" (1906), "Memoirs of My Life" (1908), Directory" "Noteworthy Families" (1906), "Memoirs of My Life" (1908), Families" "Noteworthy emy of Sciences of his native city. He quarto edition in 1841-1842 by the Acad- Most of his writings were published in a emy of Sciences of his native city. He died in Bologna, Dec. 4, 1798. His statue was erected there in 1879. science to which an experiment by Galscience to which an experiment by Galvani gave birth. His wife, who was mak-