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appended to it a reprint of a short article which I had 

 written in the Fortnightly Review early in 1873, 

 partly to show the interest with which I had pursued 

 cognate inquiries, and partly as a guarantee of the tone 

 and spirit in which the inserted communications would 

 be treated. Also I presumed, and, as it has proved, 

 not without reason, that being more or less personally 

 acquainted with a large majority of the scientific men 

 on my list, they would be inclined to put greater faith 

 in rny discretion than if I had been a stranger.' Sub- 

 ject to these preparatory explanations, the following are 

 the questions that I circulated : 



INQUIRY INTO THE ANTECEDENTS OF SCIENTIFIC MEN. 



Please return this schedule at your earliest con- 

 venience, with answers to as many of the questions as 

 you consider to be unobjectionable, and send on a sepa- 

 rate paper any further information that you may think 

 germane to the inquiry. Entries marked " Private " will 

 be dealt with in strict confidence; they will be used 

 only as data for general statistical conclusions. 



NOTE. Whenever you consider the grade of the 

 quality about which a question is asked, to fall near 

 mediocrity, do not make any entry at all. 



Christian names of yourself, your father, and your 



