A Diagram of Heredity

Date:
1898
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GALTON/2/4/11
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Galton Papers
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A Diagram of Heredity. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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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.

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Cutting from Nature, Vol 57 No. 1464, (1898), p. 293. Galton's letter to the editor titled "A Diagram of Heredity", in which Galton introduces his diagram illustrating the law of heredity, based on a diagram by A J Meston which appeared in the Horseman, 28 Dec 1897.

The clipping has been annotated by Karl Pearson: "Reproduce this diagram for slip 3 of Galton's life".

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1898

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1 folio

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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.

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