Notebook of Twin Case Data

Date:
1874-1875
Reference:
GALTON/2/4/3/12/5
Part of:
Galton Papers
  • Archives and manuscripts

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Description

Notebook containing information on twin cases recorded by Galton. The contents are listed as:

  • Statistics of circulars sent.
  • Anecdotes of mistakes - extracts.
  • ditto sumarised for book.
  • Tabulated replies.
  • Results in a small table.
  • MS to book.
  • Extract from Lewis Physiology [Physiology of Common Life]
  • Extracts about simultaneous illness.
  • Extracts about dissimilar illness.
  • Extracts contrasted disposition in twins outwardly alike.
  • Appreciation of ideas, and similar remarks.
  • Considerable vigour, and both twins being alike.
  • Kleinwächter - chorion and placenta [notes from L Kleinwächter, Die Lehre von den Zwillingen]
  • A few statistics - elder or younger the stronger? Taken after relatives?
  • various notes.

    • Publication/Creation

    1874-1875

    Physical description

    1 notebook

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    The papers are available at UCL Special Collections and Archives subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

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    A digitised copy is held by the Wellcome Library as part of Codebreakers: Makers of Modern Genetics.

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    The original material is held at UCL Special Collections. This catalogue is held by the Wellcome Library as part of Codebreakers: Makers of Modern Genetics.

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