Definition of Francis Galton

1. Noun. English scientist (cousin of Charles Darwin) who explored many fields including heredity, meteorology, statistics, psychology, and anthropology; founder of eugenics and first to use fingerprints for identification (1822-1911).

Exact synonyms: Galton, Sir Francis Galton
Generic synonyms: Scientist

Lexicographical Neighbors of Francis Galton

Franche-Comté
Francia
Francic
Francie
Francis
Francis Albert Sinatra
Francis Aston
Francis Bacon
Francis Beaumont
Francis Crick
Francis Drake
Francis Edgar Stanley
Francis Everett Townsend
Francis Ferdinand
Francis Ford Coppola
Francis Galton (current term)
Francis Henry Compton Crick
Francis Hopkinson
Francis II
Francis Joseph
Francis Joseph I
Francis Peyton Rous
Francis Poulenc
Francis Richard Stockton
Francis Scott Key
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald
Francis Turner Palgrave
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Literary usage of Francis Galton

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H Warner (1902)
"Francis Galton (1822-) ?HE modern doctrine of heredity regards man less as an individual than as a link in a series, involuntarily inheriting and ..."

2. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1872)
"By Francis Galton, FRS Received May 7, 1872. I propose in this memoir to deduce, by fair reasoning from acknowledg facts, a more definite notion than now ..."

3. Popular Science Monthly (1901)
"BY Francis Galton, DCL, D.Sc., FRS, LONDON. TN fulfilling the honorable charge that has been entrusted to me of -*- delivering the Huxley lecture, ..."

4. Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science by Indiana Academy of Science (1922)
"Francis Galton was born one hundred years ago near Birmingham, England. Early in life he took up work in neglected fields. He became a great man of science ..."

5. Journal of the Statistical Society of London by Statistical Society (Great Britain) (1874)
"By Francis Galton, FRS [Read before the Statistical Society, 21st January, 1873.] THIS is an inquiry into the relative fertility of the labouring classes of ..."

6. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1884)
"... and Edited by Francis Galton, FRS Chairman of the Life History Sub-committee. London: Macmillan and Co. 1884. THE Collective Investigation Committee ..."

7. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1865)
"HEREDITARY TALENT AND CHARACTER BY Francis Galton. PART I. Tuu power of man over animal life, in producing whatever varieties of form he pleases, ..."

8. Report of the Annual Meeting (1894)
"Report of the Committee, consisting of Professor K. MELDOLA (Chairman), MR. TV HOLMES (Secretary), Mr. Francis Galton, Sir DOUGLAS GALTON, Sir RAWSON RAWSON ..."

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