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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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.

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