RECORD: Darwin, C. R. & Francis Galton. [1873]. Questionnaire on family traits, with responses of Darwin filled in, pp. 1-2. [copy]. CUL-DAR144.480. (Cite as: John van Wyhe ed., 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed and edited by John van Wyhe 3.2026. RN1

NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin.

Questionnaire distributed for Francis Galton's English men of science: their nature and nurture. London: Macmillan, 1874. [CUL-DAR240 '23'] PDF]. See Darwin to Francis Galton 28 May 1873, Correspondence vol. 21. Parts of this were published in Life and letters, vol. 3, pp. 177-9. This copy was used by Francis Darwin in the preparation of that work. Parts were also published in Pearson ed. The life, letters and labours of Francis Galton. vol. 2.

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Question.

Yourself.

Christian name and surname of your father and your mother.

 

Designation & principal scientific titles of?

Darwin, Charles Robert Esqr. M.A. F.G.S. – F.L.S. – Hon. F.R.S.E. & M.R.I.A. Ord. Boruss. "Pour la Merite" Eq: Acadd. Imp. Reg. Sci. Vindob. Reg. Sci. Brux. et Soc. Asiat. Beng. Corresp. Acadd. Imp. Sci. Petrop. Reg. Sci. Berol. et Holm. Soc. Reg. Sci. Upsal. Acad. Caes. Nat.-Cur. Dresd. Soc. Sci. Neoc. et Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. Soc. Honor.  

Down, Beckenham, Kent.

Your father and your mother are they respectively, English, Welsh Scotch Irish Jewish or foreign? If foreign of what country?

(Make no entry in this space.)

 " "  " wholly or in what degree?

( ditto )

Was either your father or your mother descended from persons persecuted for political or religious opinions, or from political or religious refugees? If so state the precise relationship – mention whether their political or religious opinions became traditional in the family?

(Make reply in this space to the last paragraph only of question).

Date of the birth?

1809.

Place of the birth of: (if you do not remember that of either your father or mother, state where he or she resided in early life).

 

Occupation or profession of?

 

 

2.

Your Father.

Your Mother

Robert Waring Darwin M.D. F.R.S.

Enter here your mothers maiden name} Susanna Wedgwood.

The entry here is to refer to the father of your mother} Josiah Wedgwood Manufacturer

English.

English.

Wholly.

Wholly.

No.

No.

May 30th 1766.

 

Lichfied.

Etruria Staffordshire.

Physician

The entry here is to refer to the father of your mother. } Manufacturer of Pottery.

 

 


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