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StorageSiteUCL Special Collections
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Reference Number GALTON/3/2/3
TitleLetterbook of the Anthropometric Laboratory
Date1888-1895
DescriptionLetterbook 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.
Extent178 items
CustodialHistoryWhen 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.
AccessStatusRestricted access
AccessConditionsThis item is fragile and will not normally be produced in the reading room. Digitised surrogates of these letters are freely available online, please contact UCL Special Collections for details.
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