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  <dc:title>Maturin, Dr Charles Gabriel to Francis Galton</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Letters from Dr Maturin to Fraser's Magazine and thence to Galton.
Letter dated 01 December: Maturin offers to help Galton by providing information and statistics relating to illness, blindness and mutism amongst twins, and a copy of his report into the status of disease in Ireland. Maturin also provides details of a pair of twins with a speech impairment.
Letter dated 09 December: Maturin discusses identical simultaneous illness in twins, cases of mixed-sex twins, the investigations of Sir James Simpson, and the relationship between cousin-marriages and lesions.
Letter dated 07 February: Maturin thanks Galton for providing him with copies of letters and pamphlets, discusses Churchill's theories on the combination of sexes in twins, and encloses a newspaper article about the birth of quadruplets.</dc:description>
  <dc:date>Nov 1875-Feb 1876</dc:date>
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