Material relating to the Erasmus Darwin Memorial

Material relating to the Erasmus Darwin Memorial in Lichfield Cathedral, consisting of the following:

Drafts of the memorial inscription text, 6 ff.

Photograph of St Mary's Church, Lichfield.

Francis Galton's notes on an inscription found on an iron plate attached to the outhouse of E Darwin's old property in Derby.

Cutting from the Lichfield Mercury, 30 January 1885, regarding a memorial drinking fountain in honour of E Darwin.

Three drinking fountain and water trough designs from the Metropolitan Drinking Fountain and Cattle Trough Association.

1885-1887

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

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.

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.