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The contents of the present volume consist principally of the papers read before the Sociological Society in its first session, during the spring and summer of, together with a report of the discussions which followed some of them.
A report of the address given at the opening meeting of the Society by Mr, Bryce serves and nothing could serve better as an Introduction,

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Sir Francis Galton, FRS was an English Victorian polymath: anthropologist, eugenicist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, meteorologist, proto geneticist, psychometrician, and statistician, He was knighted in. Galton produced overpapers and books, He also created the statistical concept of correlation and widely promoted regression toward the mean, He was the first to apply statistical methods to the study of human differences and inheritance of intelligence, and introduced the use of questionnaires and surveys for collecting data on human communities, which he needed for genealogical and biographical works and for his anthropometric studies.
He was a pioneer in eugenics, coining the term itself and the phrase nature

versus n Sir Francis Galton, FRS was an English Victorian polymath: anthropologist, eugenicist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, meteorologist, proto geneticist, psychometrician, and statistician.
He was knighted in. Galton produced overpapers and books, He also created the statistical concept of correlation and widely promoted regression toward the mean, He was the first to apply statistical methods to the study of human differences and inheritance of intelligence, and introduced the use of questionnaires and surveys for collecting data on human communities, which he needed for genealogical and biographical works and for his anthropometric studies.
He was a pioneer in eugenics, coining the term itself and the phrase "nature versus nurture", His book Hereditary Geniuswas the first social scientific attempt to study genius and greatness, As an investigator of the human mind, he founded psychometrics the science of measuring mental faculties and differential psychology and the lexical hypothesis of personality.
He devised a method for classifying fingerprints that proved useful in forensic science, He also conducted research on the power of prayer, concluding it had none by its null effects on the longevity of those prayed for.
As the initiator of scientific meteorology, he devised the first weather map, proposed a theory of anticyclones, and was the first to establish a complete record of short term climatic phenomena on a European scale.
He also invented the Galton Whistle for testing differential hearing ability, He was cousin of Douglas Strutt Galton and half cousin of sitelink Charles Darwin, sitelink.