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Part of an Autograph Letter from Sir Francis Galton, 

 written in his eighty-ninth year. 



and, as is fitting, a member of a dis- 

 tinguished family. The tenets of his 

 grandfather did not prevent him from 

 making a large fortune by the sale of 



grandson of Erasmus Darwin and a 

 half cousin of Charles Darwin. His 

 wife also belonged to a distinguished 

 family — she was the daughter of the 



arms in time of war; he wrote about i 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- 



