s Hospital Reports_, vol. xxv.);
Photographic Chronicles from Childhood to Age (_Fortnightly Review_);
The Anthropometric Laboratory (_Fortnightly Review_);
1883: Some Apparatus for Testing the Delicacy of the Muscular
and other Senses (_Journal of Anthropological Institute_,
1883, etc.).

_Memoirs in Eugenics_.

1901: Huxley Lecture, Anthropological Institute (_Nature,_ Nov. 1901);
Smithsonian Report for 1901 (_Washington_, p. 523);
1904: Eugenics, its Definition, Scope and Aims
(Sociological Paper, vol. i., _Sociological Institute_);
1905: Restrictions in Marriage, Studies in National Eugenics,
Eugenics as a Factor in Religion (Sociological Papers, vol. ii.);
1907: Herbert Spencer Lecture, University of Oxford,
on Probability the Foundation of Eugenics.

The following books by the author have been referred or alluded to
in the following pages:--

1853: Narrative of an Explorer in Tropical South-Western Africa
(_Murray)_;
1854: Art of Travel (several subsequent editions,
the last in 1872, _Murray_);
1869: Hereditary Genius, its Laws and Consequences
(_Macmillan_);
1874: English Men of Science, their Nature and their Nurture
(_Macmillan_).

CONTENTS

PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION

INTRODUCTION

Origin and object of book.

VARIETY OF HUMAN NATURE

Many varieties may each be good of its kind; advantage
of variety; some peculiarities are, however, harmful.

FEATURES

Large number of elements in the human expression; of
touches in a portrait; difficulty of measuring the separate
features; or of selecting typical individuals; the typical
English face; its change at different historical periods;
colour of hair of modern English; caricatures.

COMPOSITE PORTRAITURE

(See Appendix for three Memoirs describing successive
stages of the method).--Object and principle of the process;
description of the plate--composites of medals; of family
portraits; of the two sexes and of various ages; of Royal
Engineers; the latter gives a clue to one direction in which
the English race might be improved; of criminals; of the
consumptive; ethnological application of the process.

BODILY QUALITIES

Anthropometric Committee; statistical anomalies in stature
as dependent on age; town and rural population; athletic
feats now and formerly; increase of stature of middle classes;
large number of weakly persons; some appearances of weakness
may be