● http://www.francisgalton.com/

If you're gasping in horror at the decision to devote this column to someone who pursued and defended eugenics, then this study of Sir Francis Galton in 11 PDF files could teach you a thing or two. Galton was a practical innovator, introducing the modern weather map, human fingerprinting, twin studies and coining the nature–nurture distinction. His statistical innovations laid the foundation for all social science. All in all, a true Victorian polymath.