Oct 21 • 29M
NARRATED: The Man Who Needs A Statue
Is there any country so rich in eminent men that it can afford to forget the likes of Sir Francis Galton?
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Written by Gavan Tredoux.
In January of 1885, Francis Galton wrote to the council of the city of Lichfield. The scientist urged the elders to erect a ‘suitable memorial’ to one of their most storied residents, his grandfather Dr. Erasmus Darwin—fellow of the Royal Society, poet, physician, inventor and early evolutionist. What Galton had in mind was inex…
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