Notes and Drafts for Hereditary Genius

Galton's notes and draft chapters for Hereditary Genius, consisting of:

A list of "names used [videlicet] statistics of health &c."

Draft of section on divorce, tyranny of customs, authority and morals.

Notes on religious men, their standing, intellect and achievement, taken from Erasmus Middleton, Biographica Evangelica (London: 1779-1786), and a summary of results.

Pedigree chart for Johann Sebastian Bach.

List of rowers marked "A1" in Watson's catalogue.

c1865-c1869

41 folios

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.

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

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.