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StorageSiteUCL Special Collections
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Reference Number GALTON/2/4/18/9/3
TitleNotes for Galton's Inquiry into the Indian Civil Service
Date1882-1883
DescriptionGalton's notes for his "Inquiry into the degree of correctness with which the relative merits of Indian Civil Servants in their manhood was foreshadowed in their youth by their place in the class lists".
These consist of notes taken from The Selection and Training of Candidates for the Indian Civil Service (Great Britain: the India Office; 1876), the comparison of data from Charles Prinsep's research with that published in Alfred Cotterell Tupp, The Competitive Civil Service of India: 1856-1882 (Bombay; 1882), plus Galton's calculations, tables and lists of candidates.
Extent33 folios
AccessStatusOpen
AccessConditionsThe 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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