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to the due appreciation of what Galtoii laboured to do and what he 

 hoped in the future might be done in this field. 



It is only fitting that I should jjut on record here the ready help 

 I have received in innumei'able ways from Francis Galton's relatives 

 and friends. For letters, papers and the reproduction of illustrative 

 portraits I have in the first place to thank Mr Edward Wheler Galton 

 of Claverdon ; to his sister, Mrs T. J. A. Studdy, I owe also much in 

 the way of facts and portraits. Mrs M. G. B. Lethbridge, Sir Francis 

 Galton's niece, did invaluable work in placing in order and indexing 

 the letters to her luicle from I860 onwards, 'i'o the thi-ee sons of 

 Charles Darwin, Mr William Erasmus Darwin, the late Sir George 

 Howard Darwin and Sir Francis Darwin, I owe much information and 

 many letters. Without their ever-ready and generous aid it would 

 not have been possible to put before my readers so completely as I have 

 done the ancestral history of Charles Darwin. To Mr Francis Rhodes 

 Darwin and to Colonel C W. Darwin I am much indebted for particulars 

 and photographs of the Darwin portraits at Creskeld Hall, and to Lady 

 George Darwin for kindly help after the death of her husband. The 

 Rev. Darwin Wilmot placed at my disposal most valuable manuscript 

 material as to his grandfather, Sir Francis Sacheverell Darwin, as to 

 his great-grandfather, Erasmus Darwin, and as to the family history of 

 tiie Darwins. Mrs William Wavell, great-granddaughter of Erasmus 

 Darwin, allowed me to see her Darwin portraits and manuscripts. 

 Several other members of the family also have most kindly shown me 

 illustrative material, or provided me with data. Many friends and 

 correspondents of Fi-ancis Galton have allowed me to take copies of his 

 letters, which will find due acknowledgment in my second volume, 

 where these letters are used. 



In the heavy pedigree work of this volume I have received con- 

 tinual assistance in search work from my colleague Miss Amy Barrington 

 and in the lal)orious drafting of the ])edigrees for engraving from the 

 Hon. Secretary of the Galton Laboratory, Miss H. Gertrude Jones. 

 My heartiest thanks are due to them both for the patience which 

 they have brought to their tasks, and the invariable suavity they 

 have shown to a frecpiently overworked and occasionally irascible 

 taskmaster. To my friend and colleague Professor W. Paton Ker 

 I am very grateful for a variety of suggestions and corrections 

 during proof 



