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Homophones and Toponyms Sir Francis Galton (1822-1911) is probably best known for three things: being Charles Darwin’s half-cousin, being arguably the most prominent Social Darwinist of his day, and being the originator and promulgator of the term “eugenics,” beginning with his 1883 book, Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development. Galton is less well known for his innovations in numerous scientific disciplines from meteorology to statistics to psychology. Or for his travel writing—both nonfictional (Tropical South Africa, 1853) and fictional (The Eugenic College of Kantsaywhere and The Donoghues of Dunno Weir—each circa 1910, fragmentary, published online 2011). Karl Pearson, Galton’s