Newspaper Cuttings Regarding Marriage, Hereditary, and Galton's Work

Date:
1877-1886
Reference:
GALTON/2/4/5
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Galton Papers
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Newspaper Cuttings Regarding Marriage, Hereditary, and Galton's Work. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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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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Description

Newspaper cuttings on marriage, heredity, and Francis Galton's lectures and publications. The cuttings consist of:

Review of Georges Lachaud, Choses d'amour, from an unknown French newspaper.

Graphs showing measurements of persons taken at the International Health Exhibition 1884.

Article from The Evening News and Post 25 July 1889, concerning a recent birth to the Butler family, and the hereditary principle.

Extract from Nature, 28 January 1886, featuring extracts from Galton's Presidential Address to the Anthropological Institute, 26 January.

Galton's letter to The Times concerning geography in public schools.

A story from the Daily News, 17 August 1882, regarding "a discredited Rosiere".

Reports of Galton's Royal Institution lecture on "Typical Laws of Heredity", from English and French newspapers.

Reviews of Inquiries into Human Faculty and its Development from Nature and The Guardian.

Publication/Creation

1877-1886

Physical description

12 folios

Location of duplicates

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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