Fly-Leaf To The Record of Family Faculties. By Francis Galton, F.R.S. Mr. Francis Galton offers [British pound symbol]500 in prizes to those British subjects resident in the United Kingdom who shall furnish him before May 15, 1884, with the best Extracts from their own Family Records. These Extracts will be treated as confidential documents, to be used for statistical purposes only, the insertion of names of persons and places being required solely as as guarantee of authenticity and to enable Mr. Galton to communicate with the writers in cases where further question may be necessary. The value of the Extracts will be estimated by the degree in which they seem likely to facilitate the scientific investigations described in the pregace to the [italics]Record of Family Faculties.[end italics][superior 1] More especially: (a) By including [italics]every[end italics] direct ancestor who stands within the limits of kinship where specified. (b) By including brief notices of the brothers and sisters (if any) of each of these ancestors. (Importance will be attached both to the [italics]completeness[end italics]with which each family of brothers and sisters is described, and also to the [italics]number[end italics] of persons so described.) (c) By the character of the evidence upon which the information is based. (d) By the clearness and conciseness with which the statements and remarks are made. The Extracts must be legibly entered either in the tabular forms contained in a duplicate copy of the [italics]Record of Family Faculties[end italics], (into [footnote, superior 1][italics]Record of Family Faculties[end italics], (consisting of tabular forms and directions for entering data, with an explanatory preface,) by Francis Galton, F.R.S. Macmillan & Co., 1884. Works on similar subjects by the same author, and issued by the same publishers: -- [italics]Inquiries into Human Faculty and its Development, 1883. English Men of Science, their Nature and their Nurture, 1874. Hereditary Genius, its Laws and Consequences, 1869.[end italics] To these may be added the following, as one in which the author has taken part: -- [italics]Life History Album,[end italics] prepared by the direction of the Collective Investigation Committee of the British Medical Association. Edited by F. Galton, Chairman of the Life History Sub-Committee, 1884. [end]