Leonard Darwin, Florence Henrietta Darwin, Maud de Puy Darwin, Francis Darwin, Horace Darwin, George Howard Darwin, Charles Galton Darwin, and Francis Galton were all members of eugenical societies.
When you consider how profoundly rooted the world-wide eugenics movement was in the fertile soil of the Darwin family, it is no surprise that the Darwin family should find itself exemplified as the model of good eugenic breeding, as they were in this poster: Galton-Darwin-Wedgeworth Family. If I were an adherent of the Darwinian view of heredity and variation, I would be tempted to conclude, after looking at that chart, that the eugenical cast of mind is hereditary, just like imbecility, feeble-mindedness, prostitution, and chronic unemployment. But I'm not.
