| Description | Partial manuscript draft of a text regarding a possible system of eugenic certificates. The pages are numbered 10 to 22; the whereabouts of the rest of the manuscript is unknown.
The text includes discussion of race improvement, Galton's work in the Anthropometric Laboratory in South Kensington, anthropometric measurements, examinations, the possibility of issuing eugenic certificates, hereditary influences, and possible public reaction to such a scheme.
Galton has also annotated the manuscript on ff 13r: "Won't do as it is, at all, at all! but reconsider perhaps don't tear up yet. 1893." |