“Philobiblon Society,” 50

Pickering, Anne Maria, 54
  Edward Hayes, 54
  Percival, 55
  Percival Andree, 54, 83
  P.S.U., 54, 83

Piel seafish hatchery, 31

Pine, William, 21

Place, Francis, 49

“Plataea and Olympia,” 54

Plowden, Sir Henry Meredith, 66
  Sir Trevor Chichele, 66

Plymouth, 4

“Poets on Poets,” 66

“Political Economy, Dictionary of,” 51

Political life, factors 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