Maturin, Dr Charles Gabriel to Francis Galton

Letters from Dr Maturin to Fraser's Magazine and thence to Galton.

Letter dated 01 December: Maturin offers to help Galton by providing information and statistics relating to illness, blindness and mutism amongst twins, and a copy of his report into the status of disease in Ireland. Maturin also provides details of a pair of twins with a speech impairment.

Letter dated 09 December: Maturin discusses identical simultaneous illness in twins, cases of mixed-sex twins, the investigations of Sir James Simpson, and the relationship between cousin-marriages and lesions.

Letter dated 07 February: Maturin thanks Galton for providing him with copies of letters and pamphlets, discusses Churchill's theories on the combination of sexes in twins, and encloses a newspaper article about the birth of quadruplets.

Nov 1875-Feb 1876

4 letters

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