Letters and Publication Regarding Twins and Freemartins

Date:
1876
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GALTON/2/4/3/14
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Galton Papers
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Letters and Publication Regarding Twins and Freemartins. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Copy of The Livestock Journal, featuring a review of Galton's paper "The History of Twins, As A Criterion of the Relative Powers of Nature and Nurture" and a request for readers to send in information about "free-martins" [freemartins].

Letters received by Galton on the subject of freemartins.



[Freemartin is the term given to a female animal born as a twin to a male, typically sterile and in cattle partly maculinised].

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1876

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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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