The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-01-19
SIR FRANCIS GALTON DEAD
ms UORk O\ HER' EIIl or
ann WtDE ~ IPDf N.
English student Attained Eminence as
an Explorer. MctrorOioGisi and IN.
thrOpOiOgist scd the statistical
Method IN Psy chOiOgN 80 Years OH.

SpcciM Cdblc Bespa'c1 10 THr SrN.
LONDON. Jan. is Sir Francis Galton.
tn. writer and member Of numerous
learned societies. died to-day.
Sir Francis Galton was a famous mid
century explorer whose studies in anthro-
pology led him into the field of psychology
He was born at Birmingham, England
February 10. ls?2. the third son of :. r.
Galton and Nioletta Darwin. the eldest
daughter Of DR.. Erasmus Darwin He
was educated at King Edwards School.
Birmingham. tn. Medical School of
Kings College. London and at Trinity
College. Cambridge. where he was grad
uated in is4+.
Two wears after hi- graduation he
set out for the Upper Nile which at that
tim. was almost ,neXplored. He went
far beyond tn. temples and upper cata-
racts. penetrating To the Sudan. lh.
interest which this journey awakened
in England and the enthusiasm which It
quick.ned IN the young explorer induced
him to undertake exploration in south
Africa In company with j. &. Anderson
he landed an expedition at Walfisch Bay
in August. 1850. and was engaged in
explor,ug Damaraland. now German
Southwest Africa, until January, 1852
This expedition was fertile IN dis
GOV cries He came upon the Ovampo
race. "A partly civilized agricultural people.
and reported for the first time upon the
whole region lying between Lake Ngami
and the seacoaSt ana IL minutes 25 sec
ond- south latitude.
A year after his return to England hs
received a gold medal from the Roya
Geographical Society. A narrative Of his
tourney appeared in the journal of that
society in 1852, and also in his book. Mar
rative of an Explorer in Tropical south
Africa He published about ,hia time
also his Art of Travel. or shifts anc
tontrivances IN Mlld countries me
book put into form accessible 10 explorers
and hunters the methods, many of them
hipbiy ingenious which Cation had per
f.cted during his Journeylngs III the
wi,ds 1t went through several editions
I'm 1885 or th-reabouf he turned his
attention to meteoroiogy. HIS work re
suited in the publication in 1888 of his
.Meteorographca. or Methods of Map
nine the Weather" The methods which
t;aIton here put forward served as tn.
basis of our present weather maps. H'
nropounded the theory Of an'icyCiones
which underlies the present system OF
weather forecasting. and AT various times
put out Inventions having 10 do VIII
lneteorOlogic reckoning
! The work which Galton put himself Ia
/ in perfecting his mcteorologic theories
served to make him expert in the handling
, Of statistics. and the facility which he 50
, derived he put into practice in HI.
snbseaient anthropological studies. Ir
1919 he published Hereditary Genius.
: and in ls74 English Men OF Science
r I'm 1883 appeared his Inquiries Into
Human Faculty" He applied his sta
iistical methods in his work Of thi'
3 neriod and invented system of com
posite portraiture and various means o
7 psychological measurement,
D In 1883 he framed and issued a blanl
Record of Family Faculties" to some
p $50 persons. and these. when they were
p fIled out. served as the basis of his "Natu
rnl Inheritance" which appeared in 1850
method OF studying variation. "Finge
4 Prints" was published in 1892 and SCOT
: after his Index Of Finger Prints" II
his paper which appeared in the Pro
= reedings oi me Royal Society on The
: Law of Ancestral Inheritance" he under
- took to place the study OF heredity on
u,iantitative footing.
. He has been consulting ediror OF
BiOmeiriku since 1902 and has continue,
ito write almost up to the present. Lat
terly he has given himself somewhat Il
the study OF eugen.cs, In 1908 he es'ah
lished laboratory for that purpose a
University College under the authorit,
Of the University of London
Hewas married in $50 to Louisa. dauGh
ter of the Very Rev q Butler. ID D., dear
Of Peterborough She died in / s87 III
was k nighted in 1909. was for many years
the degree Of ID, {. J.. from Oxford and
So ID. from Cambridge