Notebook of Twin Case Data

Notebook containing information on twin cases recorded by Galton. The contents are listed as:

Statistics of circulars sent.

Anecdotes of mistakes - extracts.

ditto sumarised for book.

Tabulated replies.

Results in a small table.

MS to book.

Extract from Lewis Physiology [Physiology of Common Life]

Extracts about simultaneous illness.

Extracts about dissimilar illness.

Extracts contrasted disposition in twins outwardly alike.

Appreciation of ideas, and similar remarks.

Considerable vigour, and both twins being alike.

Kleinwächter - chorion and placenta [notes from L Kleinwächter, Die Lehre von den Zwillingen]

A few statistics - elder or younger the stronger? Taken after relatives?

various notes.

1874-1875

1 notebook

A digitised copy is held by the Wellcome Library as part of Codebreakers: Makers of Modern Genetics.

The papers are available at UCL Special Collections and Archives subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

The original material is held at UCL Special Collections. This catalogue is held by the Wellcome Library as part of Codebreakers: Makers of Modern Genetics.