Notes on Ancestral Relationships
- Date:
- 1895
- Reference:
- GALTON/2/4/9
- Part of:
- Galton Papers
- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
About this work
Description
Galton's notes, titled "On the greatest number of ancestral relationships of like degree, to a member of a population that has sprung from a single couple"; plus a clipping from The Gardeners' Chronicle containing a letter written by Galton, requesting advice on a proposed experiment "intended to be carried on by a process of "backward selection"... to learn the number of generations that must elapse before the original form is reached, under specified conditions of culture and selection."
Publication/Creation
1895
Physical description
3 folios
Terms of use
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.
Location of duplicates
A digitised copy is held by the Wellcome Library as part of Codebreakers: Makers of Modern Genetics.
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Location of original
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.