Papers, 1826-1911.

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Papers, 1826-1911.

Correspondence, 1826-1911, and papers, including diaries, travel notebooks and sketches, 1830-1906; papers relating to his work on meteorology, heredity, statistics, psychometery, photography, fingerprints, etc., 1850-1910, and family history.

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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...