Apparently Galton's desire to travel greatly outweighed his desire to learn organic chemistry, however, for after a mere five days he complained that he was not learning what he wanted to learn, and he left for Vienna. From there he visited Constantinople, Athens, Venice, and Milan. When he returned to England, he enrolled in Trinity College, Cambridge, to study mathematics to further his preparation as a physician. An illness left him with no hope of graduating with honors, and in 1844 he took a "poll" degree, one awarded to those whose work merited passing but no honors.
In October 1844 his father died, and Galton's inheritance left him wealthy enough to abandon his medical studies, with which he had become disillusioned. In October 1845 he left London for the Middle East, ostensibly to sail the Nile River, but his travels ranged more broadly than that.
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