A biographical summary of the pre-eminent men of Britain grouped by profession. The extensive survey draws from information including college graduation, reputation during career, fellowships, and even known relatives. Includes discussions on findings and observations as well as referenced appendices. ( Leon Harvey)
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I found this copy at archive.org doing an internet search using the title and author's name. I hope you are looking for a dpl. I've been interested in FG for quite some time.
I got a scanned copy that has some minor errors such as an extra .stop. in the middle of a sentence, and there is a note about error corrections in the original text and additional print editions from Galton.org website.
im estimating each section will take about an hour because of a large amount of appendix references in each chapter that cant really be separated from the context.
I have changed the links accordingly - please always give the link to the main page (and not to a pdf or other format) so your dpl can choose which format to use.
Anyway, let's finally move this over to "going solo". Have fun!
Cheers, Ava.
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i will fix that when I'm back at my desk. Having a little problem with some of the recordings I made with broken tracks. I think when I dropped my portable hard drive some of the data might have been screwed up, otherwise the laptop might have a few bugs in it
I had to start one of them from scratch because of a corrupted file, and had to take some time off during university exams. next week I should have a new track ready for upload
3 PL OK.
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