Darwin to Francis Galton
- Date:
- 28 May 1873
- Reference:
- GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/13
- Part of:
- Galton Papers
- Archives and manuscripts
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Description
Letter from Charles Darwin to Galton regarding the questionnaire Darwin filled out for Galton's book English Men of Science. Darwin makes additional comments on his education and early influences and states that he "cannot remember the time when I had not a passion for collecting". His son Frank [Francis Darwin] wished to describe his father's character as "sober, honest & industrious". Darwin also questions Galton on a method for estimating the mean height of fifty men using only the measurements of the ten tallest.
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28 May 1873
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1 letter
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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.
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A digitised copy is held by the Wellcome Library as part of Codebreakers: Makers of Modern Genetics.
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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.