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Pabt of an Adtogbaph Letter fbom Sib E*ba!ici8 Gai,tok, 

 written in his eighty-ntntb year. 



and, as is fitting, a member of a dis- grandson of Erasmus Darwin and a 



tinguished family. The tenets of his half cousin of Charles Darwin. His 



grandfather did not prevent him from wife also belonged to a distinguished 



making a large fortune by the sale of family — she was the daughter of the 



arms in time of war; he wrote about dean of Peterborough and the sister of 



birds and was skilled in statistics, the master of Trinity College; it is the 



One of his grandsons was Sir Douglas irony of fate that they have left no 



Galton, the eminent engineer. On his lines of descent, 



mother's side Francis Galton was a It is not needful to review here Gal- 



