Sir Francis Galton Greetings Card

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Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Sir Francis Galton NPG 3916

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Charles Wellington Furse

Pioneered statistical methods in biology, anthropology, and psychology: influenced by Darwin, his cousin, proposed that the human species could be improved by means of selected parenthood. Eugenics, as he called it, enjoyed wide currency around 1900 but was discredited after the rise and fall of Nazism.

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.

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