Table of Contents

Preface; 1. Foreword; 2. The ancestry of Francis Galton; 3. Childhood and boyhood; 4. Lehrjahre and wanderjahre I – Medical studies and the flight to Constantinople; 5. Lehrjahre and wanderjahre II – Mathematical studies and Cambridge pleasures; 6. Fallow years, 1844–1849; 7. The reawakening: scientific exploration; Appendix.

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First published between 1914 and 1930, this biography offers a fascinating insight into the life of the eugenicist Francis Galton.