The Eugenics Laboratory Memoirs present the work of the Galton Laboratory for National Eugenics, which aimed to apply the principles of eugenics to improve the human race. This collection includes volumes 1-5, volumes 7-8, volume 10, and volumes 13-14, covering topics such as the inheritance of disease, the use of statistical methods in eugenics, and the relationship between race and intelligence. While eugenics is now widely discredited as a pseudoscience, this work remains an important historical record of the early 20th century eugenics movement. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

"... hardly any other living Englishman can point to so great an amount of truly scientific work applied to some of the fundamental problems of human welfare." -G.E. Gehlke, Political Science Quarterly (1910) In Memories of My Life (1908), Sir Francis Galton provided a detailed autobiography that starts with a description of his family of origin (he was a cousin of Charles Darwin), tells about his childhood, his education, and then describes each of his travels. Chapters are also devoted to his major scientific interests, including eugenics, which he regarded as a problem that might require state control. This autobiography offers a compelling insight into the life of one of the 19th century's leading scientists.