Word Association Lists and Notes on Thought-Reading

Date:
1880-1886
Reference:
GALTON/2/7/1/3
Part of:
Galton Papers
  • Archives and manuscripts

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Description

Contains two original covers to notebooks used in psychometric experiments, and a note by Galton headed "Psychometric enquiries" with instructions for undertaking the experiment unassisted, dated 8 July 1882; cutting, possibly from a folder or envelope, labelled "Psychometric Inquiries 1876"; lists of conceptually related words headed "object to object less[ons]" with categories "materials", "products", "machines", "processes", and "physics"; lists of adjectives headed "Thrills and trills"; note on words, the number of times they were quoted and sense of their usage; notes on an article by James Sully titled "Illusion of Memory"; press cutting of an article "Muscle-Reading by Mr Stuart Cumberland", in Pall Mall Gazette, July 1884; and notes on an article by Cumberland in Nineteenth Century, 1886, titled "Thought Reading".

Publication/Creation

1880-1886

Physical description

13 folios

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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.

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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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