| Description | Bound proof copy of Galton's book English Men of Science: Their Nature and Nurture. An offprint of Galton's article "Statistics of Intercomparison with Remarks on the Law of Frequency of Error" reprinted from the Philosophical Magazine, January 1875, is stuck to the back cover, and a handwritten list of the "scientific men" surveyed is stuck inside the front cover.
Also includes loose folios, consisting of:
An offprint of "On the Causes which Operate to Create Scientific Men" by Galton, from the Fortnightly Review, 1 March 1873, preceded by his memorandum "Antecedents of Scientific Men", and enclosing an Inquiry schedule for completion.
Extract from The Examiner, 27 February 1875, containing a review of English Men of Science: Their Nature and Nurture. |