From Francis Galton 12 May 1871
42 Rutland Gate
May 12/71
My dear Darwin
I have just seen Lionel Beale’s, not nicely conceived, letter in ‘Nature’ on Pangenesis and write at once to you, lest you should imagine that I in any way share the animus of the letter.1
I do not know him, at least, I have, perhaps twice, only, had occasion to converse with him,—& what he says, certainly does not express my own opinion as expressed eleswhere. or to others.— & I should not feel easy, if I did not disavow all share in it, to you.
Yours very sincerely | Francis Galton
My new experiments are not hopeful—alas!
I hope Pangenesis will get well discussed now.
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Summary
Writes that he does not share at all in Lionel Beale’s letter in Nature [4 (1871): 25–6];
his new experiments are not hopeful.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-7754
- From
- Francis Galton
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- London, Rutland Gate, 42
- Source of text
- DAR 105: 31–2
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp †
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 7754,” accessed on 13 November 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-7754.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 19
