iracteri&itioH, especially by Letter* 



Address now to 42, Rutland Gate. S.W. Awfmtt 29, 1906. 



Dejle Schtetex, Tbe advantage of Dowbledays work is ha direct way of —"'"g tbe 

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 fertile than another in one particular generation cannot be Unutcd altogether. It may well he 

 the case that the marriage rate is different in small and large families or again (for which some 

 grounds exist) that the ten den cy to fertility is more or less periodic- It is astonishing how 

 often large families have few descendants in the next fxnuatiun owing to < an r.n that may be 

 partly social, partly physiological, whose existence we may sus pe ct but of which we as yet 

 know next to nothing. "The fate of huge families" would be an interesting inquiry, in 

 its war. 



me more precisely the use that yon think might be nvade of Burke's LamJtJ Grmtry. 

 I leave Ockham to-dav for three nights in London and thence, first to Devonshire and after- 

 wards to tbe Midlands, but letters to 42. Rutland Gate, London, will always be fin raid e d on. 



Very sincerely yours. Fsxsras G altox. 



SepJy to a request on the part or -'deric Whyte to knotc 



tchat he thought of Phrenology, September, 1906. 



The localisation in quite modern times of the f u mtiow of the brain sends so far 

 aware no corroboration whatever, but quite the reverse, to the div i sion s of tbe 



j capable observers should have co — c to such strange rnwrtor i snn has to be accownted for— 

 most easily on the supposition of unconscious bias in co l bwjiag data. 



Whoever may seriously re-examine the notation must procure a collection of appropriate 

 cases by persons who know well the characters of the person nimrd, and who, if pwahle, should 

 he wholly unacquainted with the pm p ose s of the collection. 



A good way would be by fixing after much consideration on some strongly contrasted 

 characters appropriate to tbe inquiry, and then to obtain l e tni n s from masters, etc.. of huge 

 schools of the names of those boys in whom they were notably in excess or d efic i ency and to 

 photograph tbe heads of those boys on a uniform method for subs equen t comparison. 



Trustworthy conclusions might be r each ed ; but what qualified p e rs o na will undertake the 

 labour of what will probably end in showing phrenological hampn to he nteaningless? 



42. RrTLASD Gat - aliailir 12, 1906. 



M v peak Kv a. Will you verv kindly do the following job for me, and send the results to 

 me to Clarerdon Leys, Warwick I I have traced a few of Hbs Baden-PoweUa nilhont.Mi.il and 

 send them herewith. Also I send a sheet made up of 15 smaller ones pasted togUhu, all 

 numbered. I want two or three of the s i lho u e t tes enlarged according to the instructions by 

 the side of the sheet of numbers. All I want in the end it sonwthing like this on a very huge 

 scale. You can mess the paper with crayon as much as you please but 

 in each case draw a thin, firm, equally thick line through all the mem, 

 to indicate clearly the outline. Choose whichever of the silhouettes 

 you prefer, Marconi and myself being comparatively beardless womld — • 

 do for two of tbeiu. Generalise the hair and beard as much as yon 

 can. fancying it has to be worked in tapestry. I shall be so much 

 obliged for this, 



I have been working hard and getting on. The Athenaeum is 

 shut up and I don't care to go to its temporary substitute, but tea 

 and lunch and dine here. There are various little things to tell hardly worth writing about. 

 I got a big strong kit-bag yesterday, to replace the burnt one. Kindest remembrances to your 

 fellow-lodger. Ever afiectionately. Francis Gal 



Tell me your plans when you write ; I have somewhat forgotten what we arranged. 



brass Malthouse, Biburv. Fairford (Glos.). 



[Cutudox Lets.] Sunday, Srpttm h t r 16, 1906. 

 Dearest Miixy. Tbe past week seems to me an age through change of scene, though 

 there have been no notabh are barricaded, I suppose, more or less. Here at 



Claverdon, where I am at this moment, there are big waterworks going on. In a spare spot 

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