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The " tags " to his sisters (see Plate L) follow as usual : 

 " Dear Emma, since I wrote the first part of this letter I have been sketching most 

 tremendously — I took 33 drawings in the space of 4 liours or so in going from Bonn to 

 Coblentz. I have taken also a great many others. I am so very tired, that good bye 

 and l)elieve me ever your affectionate F. Galton. Dear Bess, I have duly kept your 

 precepts in mind about the immeasurable superiority oi Englishmen. 1 have not looked 

 out yet for vellum for you, because of carrying it such a distance. Dear Dellv, I am 

 very glad I did not bother my head with Dutch lingo. Get 20 phrases in your heatl, 

 and in a few weeks you will speak German like a house on tire. Give my love to 

 Erasmus and Darwin. Good bye, Francis Galton." 



In several towns the hospitals are visited. In Frankfort we read : 



" They say that this is a very clean hospital, but I never fully appreciated the value 

 of fresh air till I found myself without its wards." 



Then followed Darmstadt : 

 "Looked up the Museum; the jawltoneof the Dudotherium and all that sort of fossil 

 nonsense (!) " 



Then to Heidelberg and on to Stuttgart and Augsburg with the 

 Danube and Vienna as goal. Francis writes very patriotically; he is 

 thoroughly enjoying himself, but his mind is expanding : 



"There is certainly nothing more useful than travelling. The more you see the more 

 you are convinced of the superiority of England. However nothing can be so admirable 

 as a German or Frenchman who loves his country ; it must be a great and genuine 



patriotism to be able thus to prefer it I wish you were there to see all the beautiful 



scenery we have passed through. The views were by far the most splendid I have ever 

 seen. The architecture is very curious there is a great deal of the okl Roman style. T 

 have never seen a perfect building of that style in England." 



And again of Cologne Cathedral, "it is most splendid... I never 

 saw anything like it in England." Francis had yet to learn that the 

 existence of patriotism is not contingent on the possession of the best ! 

 In Heidelberg there was also experience of first class medical ability : 



" Tiedermann a top-sawyer of the medical line and a whole quantity of others. 

 There was also a Dr Cobalt to whom we had letters of introduction, a doctor who has 

 made himself celebrated by transferring a wax candle (without the wick) from a candlestick 

 into some holes in a skull i.e. as M.D.'s would call it, injecting the veinous system of the 

 Ijones with wax (I think that is the phrase)." 



In a letter from Munich we see that Francis has now to excuse his 

 coming conversion to Bessy. 



"Dear Bessy, I always keep your precepts in mind, but after all the Germans are 

 not so bad. Remember that as you told me the Hanoverians are our cousins, and the 

 other states are brothers to them, and so they are related to us. Also smoking is not 



