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Are any peculiarities either very uniformly developed, or else very irregularly developed among =

Yourself your brothers & sisters?

My brother had a taste for chemistry & mathematics, but none of my sisters had any scientific tastes.

Degree of Relationship.

State the No. of your Relatives in each of these degrees who have attained 30 years or thereabouts.

Names of Relatives in each degree who have occupied prominent positions.

Males

Females.

Grandparents {

The father & mother of your father.

The father & mother of your mother.

1

1

Erasmus Darwin, M.D. F.R.S.
Poet & Scientific Man.

1

1

Josiah Wedgwood. F.R.S.

Uncles & Aunts. {

The brothers & sisters of your Father.

Ditto   of your mother

*6

*(including Chas. D. who died elat 21)

3

Chas. Darwin

3

3.

Your own brothers & sisters-

1

4.

1st Cousins.{

The sons & daughters of the brothers of your father.

The — ditto ——— sisters of your father.

2.

3

8

6 or 7.

4.

6.

Fras. Galton.

Hensleigh Wedgwood.

Nephews & Nieces. {

The sons & daughters of your sisters.

4

4.

In other more remote degrees of Relationship {

Specify the Degree of Relationship.
Grandfathers (Eras: D). brother.

Mr Hadley (D or E) whom Geo: H. D.  has been informed was son of the illegit: son of Eras. D. the poet was tutor of St Johns Coll. Cam. & a good mathematician, he died about 6 years ago.

*Incorrect

Robt. Waring Darwin of Elston.

* in all F.G.'s Handwriting. [Francis Galton]

The Family of your Father?

The family of your Mother.

My fathers brother Erasmus had a great taste for genealogies and statistics.

My Mothers brother Thomas fond of Chemistry & Metaphysics — John published on Horticulture, but not an able man.

State their principal achievements.

Mention Biographies & Notices of them.

Relatives whose abilities in any respect was considerable but who did not become Public characters: (Vide schedule)

Author of Botanic Garden — Loves of the Plants. Zoonomia.

Miss Sewards & Dr Richardsons Lives.

Eras D.  F

"Father of English Pottery"

Miss Meteyards Life.

Josiah W.  F

Eminent Physician at Shrewsbury. Author of paper in Phil: Transactins. 

Robt. W.D.  E

Discoverer of distinction between pus & mucus(?) & very eminent as a medical student at Edinburgh.

Mentioned in sevl. Biographe Dictionaries

I suppose my uncle Charles ought to be included-
(Pencilled).

Miss

Miss Meteyards  Group of Eminent men.

Thos. Wedgwood – Discoverer of Photography.  D or E

7th Wrangler; Author of Entymolog. Dicty & Origin of Languages - Written on Metaphysics & a System of Geometry. (Trübner).

Henry Parker. Fellow of University Coll: Oxford. Distinguished classic good artist. & chemist – bad health.

Work on Botany. Principia Botanica 3rd Edit. 1810.

Brief notes concerning hereditary peculiarities of any kind in your family bodily or mental, would be acceptable.

Private

See the case in Domestic Animals vol II foot of p. 6 which refers to myself & daughter.

Four of my children suffered when young from curious feelings of the nervous system & heart which I believe to have been hereditary. Three sons suffer more or less from weakness of digestion from the same cause.

Pencilled Note.

[illeg] my son George, 2nd Wrangler & 2nd Smith's Prizeman and author of paper on the derivation of    to be included.

[illeg] Leonard always 2nd man in the very severe examination for Royal Engineers to be included.