conducive to noteworthiness in, xxi

"Political Studies," 61

Polynesian race, 78

Pope, Samuel, 39

Port Erin Biological Station, 31

Positivist Community, 7

Price, Professor Bonamy, xvi

PROPORTION OF NOTEWORTHIES TO THE GENERALITY, xviii

Prussia, Queen of, 9

Punakha, 26

"Punch," 56

"Q.J.M.S.," 39

Radium, 68

Ramsay, Sir Andrew C., 55
Sir William, 55
William, 55

Rathdonell, Lord, 43

Rayleigh, third Baron, 68, 81
Lady, 2

Reform Bill, 5
Movement, 74

Reid, Clement, 56
Margery A., 56

"Reminiscences of an Irish R.M." 78

Remoteness of kinship, degrees of, xxviii

Repute, built up by repeated testings of intelligence, energy, and
character, xix

"Richelieu," 41

"Rise and Progress of English Commonwealth," 51

Robarts, Lubbock and Co., 41

Robertson, Robert, 55

Roscoe, Henry, 57, 83
Sir Henry E., 7, 56, 83
Robert, 57
Thomas, 57
William, 57
W. Caldwell, 57
William Stanley, 57

Rosse, third Earl of, 52, 80
fourth Earl of, 52, 80

"Rothamsted Experiments, Lectures on the," 75

Routh, Dr. Amand J. McC., 59
Dr. C.H.F., 58
Edward J., 58
Sir Randolph I., 58

Royal Exchange Assurance Corporation, 41, 42

Royal Institution, Francis Galton's lecture before, in 1864, xiii

"Royal Society's Year Book," xiii, xxviii
Russell, Lord John, 5

"Rubayat" of Omar Khayum, 78

Salisbury, third Marquis of, 2

Sanderson, Sir James, 12

Sattara State, 28

Schimmelpenninck, 22

Scholastic successes, a doubtful indication of future performance, xxxiv

Scotland, number of counties of, xii

Scott, Charles Brodrick, 61
Charles William, 61
Dukinfield Henry, 59, 84
Edward Ashley, 61
General Edward William, 61
Ven. Edwin A., Archdeacon of Christchurch, New Zealand, 60
Professor Hercules, 72
George Digby, 61
Sir George Gilbert, 59, 84
George Gilbert, 60
Giles Gilbert, 60
Henry George, 60
James George, Archdeacon of Dublin, 61
James Smyth, 61
John, Lord Eldon, 13, 30
Sir John, 33
John Pendred, 60
Ven. Melville H., Archdeacon of Stafford, 60
Robert Henry, 60
Canon Thomas, 60
Thomas (Biblical commentator), 59
Thomas (of Queen's College, Cambridge), 59
William, Lord Stowell, 13, 30

"Scottish Character and Scenery, Etchings Illustrative of," 25

Secret history of family, importance of, x

Seeley, Sir John R., 15

Sex of one child no clue of importance to that of any other child in