(1)Noteworthy Families (Modern Science) (2) Mental and Moral Heredity in Royalty

Abstract

(1) IN the spring of 1904 a circular was issued to all Fellows of the Royal Society whose names appeared in the year-book for 1904 in which they were asked to give particulars of the achievements of their relatives. A statistical examination of the information thus furnished is made by Dr. Galton in the preface to the volume before us, while Mr. Schuster has selected from the returns particulars of sixty-six families containing at least three noteworthy kinsmen. The prominence given to the latter part of the work suggests that the primary object of the inquiry was not statistical, but was to form an index of those families now represented by men of science among what might be described as “the intellectual aristocracy.”

(1) Noteworthy Families (Modern Science).

By Francis Galton Edgar Schuster. Pp. xlii + 96. (London: John Murray, 1906.) Price 6s. net.

(2) Mental and Moral Heredity in Royalty.

By Frederick Adams Woods Pp. viii + 312. (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1906.)