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