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'''Francis Galton'''
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ESL Council 1863-64 Hon. Secretary<br />ESL Council 1864-65 Hon. Secretary<br />ESL Council 1865-66 Hon. Secretary<br />possibly more, check printed lists<br /><br />AI Council 1873 Member<br />AI Council 1874 Vice President<br />AI Council 1875 Vice President<br />AI Council 1876 Vice President<br />AI Council 1877 Vice President<br />AI Council 1878 Vice President<br />AI Council 1879 Vice President<br />AI Council 1880 Vice President<br />AI Council 1881 Vice President<br />AI Council 1882 Vice President<br />AI Council 1883 Vice President<br />AI Council 1884 Vice President<br />AI Council 1885 President<br />AI Council 1886 President<br />AI Council 1887 President<br />AI Council 1888 President
=== House Notes ===
1901 HML The possible improvement of the human breed under existing conditions of law and sentiment Delivered 29th Oct. in the lecture hall of the Society of Arts<br />death noted in the report of the council for 1911: To the death of Sir Francis Galton, who joined the Ethnological Society in 1862, allusion has already been made in Man ,1911, 22, and it is unnecessary to enlarge on his services to anthropological science before the Fellows of this Institute.
=== Notes From Elsewhere ===
16.2.1822-17.1.1911<br />anthropologist, eugenicist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, meteorologist, proto-geneticist, psychometrician, and statistician. He was knighted in 1909.<br /><br />Member of the Athenaeum club from 1855<br /><br />Born Birmingham; died Haslemere. Father was Samuel T. Galton, a very successful banker from whom he inherited a large fortune. His mother, Frances, a daughter of Erasmus Darwin, made him a first cousin of Charles Darwin. Both his grandfathers were members of the Birmingham Lunar Society. Married in 1883, Louisa Butler, daughter of George Butler, Dean of Peterborough and Headmaster of Harrow, and sister of the Master of Trinity.<br />Explored in Africa in 1850s.<br />Knighthood 1909. Meteorological Council 1868-1901; Honorary degrees from Oxford and Cambridge<br /><br />English polymath: traveller, geographer, meteorologist, statistician, geneticist and scientist.[111] Knighted in 1908. After his return from exploring South-West Africa, Galton met Burton at Dover, around January of 1853. Burton was staying there with his sister Maria Stisted. They were close friends through the 1850s and early 1860s, until the dispute between Burton and Speke produced a rift, after Galton had defended Speke in the columns of The Reader. They were reconciled in later years, as the correspondence reproduced in volumes 2 and 3 shows. <br /><br />