Description | Letterbook of the Anthropometric Laboratory, from February 1888 to its close in June 1895. A large scrapbook filled with letters, press cuttings, circulars and other items of interest. Approximately in date order. Correspondents include the following: Anderson, Charles Wilgress (memorandum) Bertillon system (pamphlet) Bevine, A R Blythe, Alexander Wynter Bowditch, Henry Pickering (tables and calculations) Brewington, F G Brichall, Edward British Association, Bath Meeting Brough, Joseph Burne, A R Chaplin, A Crombie, Margaret C Crosse, William Henry Cunningham, Daniel John Donnelly, Sir John Fretcheville Dykes Downes, Arthur Edridge-Green, Frederic William Farrington, Thomas Galton, Sir Francis (8 letters, notes and MSS) Garson, John George Goldie, Sir George Dashwood Taubman Groves, William Guinness, H F Houston-Hill, John Jones, Edward [Jordan] Lewin, Thomas Herbert Lucas, Frances, E MacMillan and Company Marion and Company Mead, Thomas Meagher, P Mitchell, Mary Jane Moore, E Graham Newel, W Nightingale, Robert C O'Neill, Aeneas Peek, Sir Cuthbert Edgar Pitt, John Marsh (2 letters) Prior, Richard Chandler Alexander Pye, James Ralph, Benjamin Randall, A I Rathbone, Alice F Roberts, H Royal Niger Company Science and Art, Department of Simmons, E M (2 letters) Smith, H E Smith, Wilberforce Span, The tables and calculations on the measurement of Sparkes, J Stokes, Ethel (3 letters) Stokes, Fanny Tait, Mary Stewart (2 letters) Truman, A H Turnbull, George Lindsay Waddington, J W Watney, Vernon James Whistle, table of the smallest Williams, John E (2 letters) Bright, Addison Myers. |
CustodialHistory | When the Galton collection was re-catalogued in 2012-2014, the binding of this item was in such poor condition that it could not be handled safely. The contents of the book were removed from the book binding and placed in fasicules, maintaining their original order. |