ABSTRACT
Catharine Morris Cox (later) Miles is most widely known in the fi eld of gifted education as the author of Terman’s second volume of Genetic Studies of Genius . One of several women researchers associated with the Terman studies (Rogers, 1999), Catharine undertook the examination of more than 300 eminent historical fi gures who were born between 1450 and 1850 to determine if their adult achievements might have been predicted by their childhood and adolescent IQs. To carry out such a study, ultimately her doctoral dissertation, Catharine and her team read over 3,000 biographies of the 301 men and women appearing in Volume II, The Early Mental Traits of Three Hundred Geniuses (Sears, 1986).
