Psychometry
- Date:
- 1864-1899
- Reference:
- GALTON/2/7
- Part of:
- Galton Papers
- Archives and manuscripts
Collection contents
About this work
Description
Papers concerning Francis Galton's investigations on psychometry, the study of people's mental abilities and processes, through surveys. Galton's enquiries covered memory and the association of ideas, visualisation of abstract concepts, and examples of variety in written numerals. The material also comprises papers relating to essays on the human imagination and hallucination, the relative sensitivity of males and females, and the risk of misclassification. The majority of the investigative material in this series forms the basis of Galton's work Inquiries into Human Faculty and its Development (London: MacMillan, 1883).
Publication/Creation
1864-1899
Physical description
10 boxes
Terms of use
The papers are available at UCL Special Collections and Archives subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.
Location of duplicates
A digitised copy is held by the Wellcome Library as part of Codebreakers: Makers of Modern Genetics.
Where to find it
Location of original
The original material is held at UCL Special Collections. This catalogue is held by the Wellcome Library as part of Codebreakers: Makers of Modern Genetics.