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Darwin Correspondence Project

William Newton

b. 1838/9

Editor. Worked in the civil branch of the Royal Engineers, 1871. Edited the work of his friend Francis Lloyd and wrote the introduction to Lloyd’s A scientific view of Mr. Francis Galton’s theories of heredity (1876).

Sources

Census returns of England and Wales 1871 (The National Archive: Public Record Office RG10/425/23/1)

Lloyd 1876a

Bibliography

Lloyd, Francis. 1876a. Modern ‘science,’ no. 1: a scientific view of Mr. Francis Galton’s theories of heredity. London: Trübner & Co.

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