Sir Francis Galton Correspondence (MS 81) 1894-1936 1894-1907

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Sir Francis Galton Correspondence (MS 81) 1894-1936 1894-1907

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The Sir Francis Galton Collection includes letters written by Galton to Mrs. Maud Clark Gardiner.

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University of Colorado at Boulder Libraries. Special Collections Dept.

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Gardiner, Maud Clark

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Sir Francis Galton

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Sir Francis Galton (1822–1911), born in Birmingham, England, was an early human geneticist and eugenicist, the term "eugenics" coined by him in 1883. He laid the foundation for the science of biostatistics through his studies on the inheritance of mental traits. Galton was first cousin to Charles Darwin and influenced by Darwin's Origin of the Species, published in 1859. He began to publish on heredity in 1865; in 1889, he published Natural Inheritance, a summary of his work on the ...

Galton, Francis, 1822-1911

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Eugenicist. Fellow of the Royal Society. Born in Birmingham, England, educated in Boulogne, Kenilworth and King Edward's School, Birmingham; trained in medicine at Birmingham General Hospital and Kings College London until 1840; B. A. Trinity College, Cambridge. A generous inheritance allowed him to devote his life to travel, and to the study of a succession of virtually unexplored fields: the weather; physical and mental characteristics in man and animals; the influence of heredity on them; her...