Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development

Francis Galton was an English scientific writer and African explorer; born at Dudderton, near Birmingham, in 1822. He studied medicine in the Birmingham Hospital and in King's College, London, and graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1844. He then made two journeys of exploration, one in North Africa and one in South Africa. In 1853 he published an account of the latter journey in a Narrative of an Explorer in tropical South Africa.Among his other works are: The Art of Travel; or, Shifts and Contrivances in Wild Countries (1855); Hereditary Genius, its Laws and Consequences (I 869); English Men of Science; Their Nature and Nurture (1874); Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development, Record of Family Faculties, etc. (1883), and Natural Inheritance (1889).Galton, Francis is the author of 'Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development', published 2003 under ISBN 9781410210258 and ISBN 1410210251.