Papers, 1850-1902.

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Papers, 1850-1902.

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Astronomical observations made in southwest Africa, 1850-1951; letters, including 230 to the Royal Geographical Society, 1855-1902; correspondence with E. J. Southon, 1880.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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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...