Galton's fingerprint enlarging camera. The English geographer and anthropologist, Sir Francis Galton, (1822-1911) was born near Birmingham and educated at Cambridge. Galton's career began as explorer and traveler. In Meteorographica, he founded the modern technique of weather mapping, and discovered the term anticyclone. Galton always stressed the value of quantitative evidence in research. When Charles Darwin's work inspired him into questions of heredity, Galton began to investigate identical twins, height and mental ability, and mathematical ways to express human variation. He invented the statistical measure of correlation and also the term eugenics (breeding selective human traits). He devised a method for classifying fingerprints that proved useful in forensic science.