Data and Correspondence relating to Inquiries into Human Faculty and its Development

Date:
1864-1892
Reference:
GALTON/2/7/2
Part of:
Galton Papers
  • Archives and manuscripts

About this work

Description

Comprises letters, schedules, returns, notebooks, diagrams, drafts for plates, notes and newspaper reviews. The material relates to Francis Galton's psychometric surveys, particularly on individuals' capacity for visualising abstract concepts such as numerals, sounds and time by association with images of colours, patterns, landscapes and faces. It also touches on the working of the human imagination and hallucination. The surveys formed the groundwork for essays on "Visualised Numerals", "Visions of Sane Persons" and Statistics of Mental Imagery, and particularly for Galton's book Inquiries into Human Faculty and its Development (London: Macmillan, 1883).

Publication/Creation

1864-1892

Physical description

11 files

Location of duplicates

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

Terms of use

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.

Where to find it

Location of original

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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