130 Lift' mul IaUcih of Vrnuch Callon 



(Violetta Darwin) alwo passed away. We may conclude this chapter with an 

 extract from L. G.'s Record, for it indiaites that the hirge amount of work 

 which Galton published in 1874 must have been done amid much stress. 



"1874. Uneasy from the very begiiiniiiji; alwut dear Mrs (ialt<in. Frank went to sen lier 

 early in Februarj-, and siie diet! February Titli a>;ed 90. This coming so soon after my dwir 

 mother inadea sad blank; Iwth homes gone. We wcnttode^r Emma ['Sister Emmy'] at Easter 

 for « week and then nia«le a few days visit to Winchester, Salisbury an<l Lyndhurst, tlie weather 

 not good. At Whitsuntide we visited the Jenkinsons and greatly enjoye<l their lovely country. 

 George and Josephine [Canon Butler and his still well-remembered wife, Mrs Jost^pliine Butler'] 

 came to us at the end of June. We were prevented going away by domestic l)others, wliicli have 



made the whole of this year sadly trying We jwid miiiiy visits during July and at the end 



went down to Cornwall spending a fortnight witii Adfile and Milly ['Sister Delly ' Mrs Bunlmry 

 and her daughter, afterwards Mrs Ix-thbridge] and visited Boscastle and Tintagel. After this 

 we went to N. Devon till September, when we visited the (irovrs at Cheetle near lilandford. 

 On the 14th I broke a blood vessel and was very near dying, but thro' God's mercy 1 came 

 back to life and felt so peaceful and happy in my quiet sickroom, that it was not a time of misery. 

 And all were so kind and gootl to nie, and Frank especially, that I felt sustained by love. We 

 moved to Bournemouth as soon as I was able and then in November to dear Eunna, and found 

 her well in her newly arranged house. We came home November 18th. Very severe weather 

 soon set in and lasted to the end of the year. Frank was ill in Decenil>er and hatl Dr A. Clarke'. 

 We had a quiet dull Xmas, no going out, and Frank had to give up his promised lectures at 

 Newcastle'. His book on the Nature and Nurture of Scientific Men came out in December; 

 occupied on inquiry about Twins. On the whole a year of sad memories." 



And yet Galton publislied one fundamental book, Enylish Mtni of Science, 

 and three memoii-s in this year and wrote at letist four others! He depended 

 singularly little upon a stable environment ; yet it must be rememberetl that 

 years were not needed then for the collection of data and its numerical 

 reduction, as in the case of modern biometric studies. 



' One of the protagonists for social purity. I remember many years ago, one evening in 

 Orindelwald, being struck by a very commanding personality, one of the most 'regal' women I 

 had yet met; it was Mrs Josephine Butler, .Mrs G;ilton's sister-in-law. 



• "What a pleasant man Dr Andrew Clarke is. He examined me most thoroughly, pro- 

 nounced it a concurrence of irregular gout with influenza and that my heart was weak. I mend, 

 but not overfast." Letter of Galton to George Darwin, Xmas Day 1874. Strange to say Sir 

 Andrew Clarke's directions for treatment, principally diet, have survived almost the half-century. 

 Perhaps the wiaest was: "W^alk at least half-an-hour twice a day, and do the most important 

 bead work after break fa.st, nol after dinner." 



' The manuscript draft of these lectures has survived. 



