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MAY I be permitted, as an intimate friend of many years and under deep obligations to the late Sir Francis Gallon, to say a word upon a matter which is perhaps not sufficiently emphasised? I refer to his very deep and lasting interest in composite photography, and his conviction of its scientific value. He considered it capable of and well worth systematic development. This was a frequent subject of conversation between us; and he told me many times (sometimes with reference to the original contributions to photography of my brother, Colonel Stuart-Wortley) that he felt the method ought to be developed, not as a newspaper curiosity, but as a serious aid to sociology, and especially to the study of heredity.
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WELBY, V. Sir F. Galton and Composite Photography. Nature 85, 474 (1911). https://doi.org/10.1038/085474a0
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