Turing's Centenary

On Turing's Centenary I would like to post some random findings I think are interesting. This website, maintained by Andrew Hodges (author of Alan Turing: The Enigma) has an internet scrapbook full of information on Turing. 

For example, according to Hodges, Turing was interested in Edwin Brewster's, Natural Wonders Every Child Should Know:

A book which Preface claims to be: "an attempt to read children of eight or ten, first to ask and then to answer the question: What have I in common with other living beings, and how I differ from them?"

This book is amazing. There is a chapter called What little boys and girls are made of that opens up with this old nursery rhyme:

"What are little boys made of, made of?

What are little boys made of?

Snaps and snails and puppy dog's tails;

That's what little boys are made of.

What are little girls made of, made of?

What are little girls made of?

Sugar and spice and all that's nice;

That's what girls are made of."

Sweet. Turing's readings by age 10.