Photographs of 'father of eugenics', Francis Galton (front and profile) as a criminal. Affixed to French criminal anthropometric card which allows more details of the criminal to be taken down.

Eugenics heading for a eulogy

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Will UCL find the courage to examine its murky past? A member of the UCL academic board has revealed that they suspect that the thorny legacy of Sir Francis Galton, a prolific nineteenth and twentieth century academic and scientist, will be a subject of major discussion at the university in the coming months and years. […]

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