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GENERAL REMARKS ix

II. NOTEWORTHINESS xi

III. HIGHEST ORDER OF ABILITY xiv

IV. PROPORTION OF NOTEWORTHIES TO THE GENERALITY xviii

V. NOTEWORTHINESS AS A STATISTICAL MEASURE OF ABILITY xx

VI. NOMENCLATURE OF KINSHIPS xxvi

VII. NUMBER OF KINSFOLK IN EACH DEGREE xxviii

VIII. NUMBER OF NOTEWORTHY KINSMEN IN EACH DEGREE xxxiii

IX. MARKED AND UNMARKED NOTEWORTHINESS xxxv

X. CONCLUSIONS xxxix

NOTEWORTHY FAMILIES:
OF SIXTY-SIX F.R.S.'S WHO WERE LIVING IN 1904 1

APPENDIX:
FATHERS OF SOME OF THE SIXTY-SIX F.R.S.'S CLASSIFIED
BY THEIR OCCUPATIONS 80

INDEX 85

INTRODUCTORY NOTE

The brief biographical notices of sixty-six noteworthy families
printed in this book are compiled from replies to a circular issued
by me in the spring of 1904 to all living Fellows of the Royal
Society. Those that first arrived were discussed in "Nature," August
11, 1904.

On Mr. Schuster's appointment by the University of London, in
October, 1904, to the Research Fellowship in National Eugenics, all
my materials were placed in his hand. He was to select from them
those families that contained at least three noteworthy kinsmen, to
compile lists of their achievements on the model of the
above-mentioned memoir, to verify statements as far as possible, and
to send what he wrote for final approval by the authors of the
several replies.

This was done by Mr. Schuster. The results were then submitted by him
as an appendix to his Report to the Senate last summer.

After preliminary arrangements, it was determined by the Senate that
the list of Noteworthy Families should be published according to the
title-page of this book, I having agreed to contribute the preface,
Mr. Schuster's time being fully occupied with work in another branch
of Eugenics.

So the list of "Noteworthy Families" in this volume is entirely the
work of Mr. Schuster, except in respect to some slight alterations
and additions for which I am responsible, as well