Henslow, George
- Date:
- 1880
- Reference:
- GALTON/2/7/2/8/9
- Part of:
- Galton Papers
- Archives and manuscripts
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About this work
Description
Letters enclosing observations and sketches relating to Henslow's mental visions; dispatches from his survey of medical students on the subject of visualised numerals, and from his relations on visualising; description of his ability to conjure mental images, particularly the ability to picture the flowering of a rose bud; enclosures with notes on his "visual objects", "automatic memory", "double automatised", "simultaneous mental utterances" and "peculiarity of mental vision"; regarding the similarity of Mrs Haweis' visions to his own; and Francis Galton's statistics on the mental imagery results collected by Henslow.
Publication/Creation
1880
Physical description
15 letters, 2 postcards, plus 12 enclosures
Terms of use
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.