File containing correspondence and papers relating to the Anthropometric Committee record cards and their use, including:
Outline history of the Galton apparatus and its use, including extracts from Philosophical Society Council minutes 1886, 1895 and 1924 relating to the apparatus and the committee set up to supervise its use, also the use by Karl Pearson of the data;
Photocopy of a letter from Horace Darwin to R T Glazebrook, 1886, concerning the costs of maintaining the apparatus and performing measurements;
Correspondence with UCL concerning the return in 1962 of cards borrowed by Karl Pearson in 1924;
‘A Victorian jack of all science’: article by D W Forrest from the Times Higher Education Supplement, 12 July 1974, concerning Sir Francis Galton;
Correspondence with various enquirers requesting to use the anthropometric record cards for research, 1986-87.