To William Ogle 22 September 1875
Down, | Beckenham, Kent.
Sep 22. 75
My dear Dr Ogle
You will remember giving me a curious case about the fingers & teeth of twins, which I have quoted at Vol II p 253 of my Variation under Domn. Now will you kindly tell me whether the twins were named Macrae? I ask because F. Galton tells me of a similar case with twin Miss Macrae’s, & in this instance the crooked little fingers were inherited from their maternal grand mother.1 You will thus see why I wish to know whether the cases are distinct.
Pray believe me | Yours very sincerely
Footnotes
Bibliography
Variation: The variation of animals and plants under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1868.
Summary
Asks whether the twins WO reported to CD [see 5470] were named Macrae. F. Galton has told him of a similar case with twins so named who inherited crooked little fingers from the maternal side [see Variation, 2d ed., 2: 240]. [The twins referred to by WO were actually his sisters, see 10170.]
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-10165
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- William Ogle
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 261.5: 14 (EH 88205912)
- Physical description
- L 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10165,” accessed on 18 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10165.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 23
