Notes for Galton's Inquiry into the Indian Civil Service
- Date:
- 1882-1883
- Reference:
- GALTON/2/4/18/9/3
- Part of:
- Galton Papers
- Archives and manuscripts
About this work
Description
Galton's notes for his "Inquiry into the degree of correctness with which the relative merits of Indian Civil Servants in their manhood was foreshadowed in their youth by their place in the class lists".
These consist of notes taken from The Selection and Training of Candidates for the Indian Civil Service (Great Britain: the India Office; 1876), the comparison of data from Charles Prinsep's research with that published in Alfred Cotterell Tupp, The Competitive Civil Service of India: 1856-1882 (Bombay; 1882), plus Galton's calculations, tables and lists of candidates.
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1882-1883
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33 folios
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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.