Record

StorageSite	UCL Special Collections
Level	Piece
Reference Number	GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/15
Title	Darwin to Francis Galton
Date	28 May 1873
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.
Extent	1 letter
AccessStatus	Open
AccessConditions	The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

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