From Francis Galton [before 28 May 1873]
Summary
Collecting information about antecedents of eminent men of science. Sends questionnaire.
Author: | Francis Galton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 28 May 1873] |
Classmark: | Pearson 1914–30, 2: 177–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8889 |
To Francis Galton 28 May 1873
Summary
Comments about questionnaire CD completed for FG [for Galton’s English men of science (1874)].
Describes his early interest in collecting and his education.
Asks about determining the mean heights of two groups of men.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Galton |
Date: | 28 May 1873 |
Classmark: | UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/15); Pearson 1914–30, 2: 178 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8924 |
From Rudolf Hennig 28 May 1873
Author: | Rudolf Hennig |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 May 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 201: 14 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8925 |
From Arthur Mostyn-Owen 28 May 1873
Summary
He will keep the portrait of CD.
Author: | Arthur Mostyn Owen |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 May 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 173: 43 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8926 |
letter | (4) |
Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
Galton, Francis | (1) |
Hennig, Rudolf | (1) |
Mostyn Owen, Arthur | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
Galton, Francis | (1) |
Darwin in letters, 1847-1850: Microscopes and barnacles
Summary
Darwin's study of barnacles, begun in 1844, took him eight years to complete. The correspondence reveals how his interest in a species found during the Beagle voyage developed into an investigation of the comparative anatomy of other cirripedes and…
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- … forms (Living Cirripedia (1851): 214; (1854): 29, 528 n.) and, at another level, to explain the …