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Born in the area of Birmingham, England. His father, Samuel Tertius Galton and his grandmother is, Erasmus Darwin. He became a child prodigy at an early age.
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Which won him a Gold Medal from the Royal Geographical Society and was the beginning of his scientific career. He writes about the people he encounters and the animals he sees.
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In 1850 he went on an exploration, with Dr. John Anderson, starting from Walfisch Bay. No one has ever been known to have journeyed this way before, and from his observations he wrote: Narrative of an Explorer in Tropical South Africa.
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After going on the expedition and writing Narrative of An Explorer in Tropical South Africa, Galton was rewarded the Gold Medal of the Royal Geographic Society.
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Galton is mainly associated with anthropology and heredity. In 1869 he published Hereditary Genius, its Laws and Consequences. This book was like a spark of life for science.
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After publishing Heriditary Genius: Its Laws and Consequences, many books followed. One of which is the English Men Of Science: Their Nature And Nurture, published in 1874.
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Galton came up with the idea of two people having the same fingerprint and studied their heritability and racial differences in fingerprints. He wrote about his ideas in three different books. Creating a classification system, that lasts until this day. Galton was interested in a way to identify criminals. After his theory was known more studies have been made about the study of fingerprints.
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Galton came up with the term eugenics in 1883 and wrote down many of his observations and conclusions in his book, Inquiries into human faculty and its development.
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In order to collect enough data to be testable he created an "Anthropometric Laboratory." The laboratory tested exhibit goers with instruments that Galton designed himself. He quickly produced many instruments and techniques, most of them were very successful.
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One of Galton's many books, Natural Inheritance was published in 1889.
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Francis established the Eugenics Society Of Great Britain to study his theories and ideas, and have other scientists help.
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On this day Francis Galton dies of an unknown cause.
