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To Francis Galton 25 January [1868?]
Summary
FG’s congratulations [on publication of Variation] have given CD pleasure.
Trusts that FG is well again.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Galton |
| Date: | 25 Jan [1868?] |
| Classmark: | UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/7) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5800 |
To Francis Galton 22 September 1875
Summary
Agrees to write to William Ogle [about twins with crooked fingers].
Describes growth of sweetpeas for experiment.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Galton |
| Date: | 22 Sept 1875 |
| Classmark: | UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/16) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10164 |
To Francis Galton 12 August [1872]
Summary
The carrier will call at University College on Thursday 15 August.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Galton |
| Date: | 12 Aug [1872] |
| Classmark: | The Whiting family (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8464F |
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- … Francis. 1871. Experiments in pangenesis, by breeding from rabbits of a pure variety, into whose circulation blood taken from other varieties had previously been largely transfused. [Read 30 March 1871. ] Proceedings of the Royal Society of London 19 (1870–1): 393–410. Variation : The variation of animals and plants under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1868. …
To Francis Galton 4 January [1873]
Summary
Comments on FG’s article ["Hereditary improvement", Fraser’s Mag. 87 (1873): 116–30]. Finds it "the sole feasible, yet I fear utopian, plan of procedure in improving the human race".
Thanks for rabbits for Balfour.
Mentions reading W. R. Greg’s Enigmas [of life (1872)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Galton |
| Date: | 4 Jan [1873] |
| Classmark: | UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/14) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8724 |
