Noteworthy Families (Modern Science)

About this eBook

Author

Schuster, Edgar, 1879-1969

Title

Noteworthy families (modern science) : An index to kinships in near degrees between persons whose achievements are honourable, and have been publicly recorded

Credits

E-text prepared by Suzanne Lybarger, Laura Wisewell, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team ( www.pgdp.net/)

Language

English

LoC Class

HQ: Social sciences: The family, Marriage, Sex and Gender

Subject

Eugenics

Category

Text

eBook-No.

17128

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/17128

Release Date

November 21, 2005

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.E-text prepared by Suzanne Lybarger, Laura Wisewell, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (https://www.pgdp.net/) — NOTEWORTHY FAMILIES (MODERN SCIENCE) AN INDEX TO KINSHIPS IN NEAR DEGREES BETWEEN PERSONS WHOSE ACHIEVEMENTS ARE HONOURABLE, AND HAVE BEEN PUBLICLY RECORDED
2. 2.CONTENTS
3. 3.INTRODUCTORY NOTE
4. 4.PREFACE — Chapter I.—General Remarks. — Chapter II.—Noteworthiness. — Chapter III.—Highest Order of Ability. — Chapter IV.—Proportion of Noteworthies to the Generality. — Chapter V.—Noteworthiness as a Measure of Ability. — Chapter VI.—Nomenclature of Kinship. — Chapter VII.—Number of Kinsfolk in each Degree — Chapter VIII.—Number of Noteworthy Kinsmen in each Degree. — Chapter IX.—Marked and Unmarked Degrees of Noteworthiness. — Chapter X.—Conclusions.
5. 5.NOTEWORTHY FAMILIES OF FELLOWS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY LIVING IN 1904.
6. 6.APPENDIX — ASTRONOMY. — GEOLOGY. — PHYSICS AND MATHEMATICS. — CHEMISTRY. — ENGINEER. — BIOLOGY. — BOTANY. — MEDICINE. — DIVINITY. — PHILOSOPHY. — LAW. — PUBLIC SERVICES. — HISTORIANS AND BIOGRAPHERS. — PAINTERS. — SCULPTOR. — ARCHITECT.
7. 7.INDEX
8. 8.MR. MURRAY'S Progressive Science Series.

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