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From:
?
To:
Darwin, Horace
Date:
[28 May 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 1995
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
No summary available.
Collecting information about antecedents of eminent men of science. Sends questionnaire.
Comments about questionnaire CD completed for FG [for Galton’s English men of science (1874)].
Describes his early interest in collecting and his education.
Asks about determining the mean heights of two groups of men.
Wants a picture of CD for a book he is writing on the history of natural sciences.
He will keep the portrait of CD.