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Add. MS c/57/4
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Letter from Francis Galton to J. G. Frazer
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- 24 Jan. 1901 (Creation)
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42 Rutland Gate, S.W. - Has the second edition of 'The Golden Bough' and admires it; suggests a method be adopted to show the geographical distribution of the facts it relates to, either the small maps used by the Natural History Museum or the decimal system of the Geographical Classification about to be adopted by the Royal Society; comments on the general mourning occasioned by the death of Queen Victoria.
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A typescript copy of this letter is housed as Add.Ms.b.35.333.