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From Robert Swinhoe 2 February 1870
Summary
Sends a copy of Notes and Queries for Francis Galton, as it contains a reply to Galton’s circular on hereditary genius.
RS much refreshed by his trip to Down.
| Author: | Robert Swinhoe |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Feb 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 333 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7095 |
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- … 1864 ). There are no offprints of the paper in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL. According to Emma …
- … Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). Galton enquired in Notes and Queries on China and Japan 2 (1868): 120 whether the history of public competition in China tended to show that certain families were ‘eminently endowed with scholastic ability’. A reply appeared in the issue for October 1868, and Galton cited it in Galton 1869 , p. 335. No other reply has been found. Swinhoe refers to his paper, ‘On a new rat from Formosa’, first published in the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London for 1864 ( …
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| Swinhoe, Robert | (1) |
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| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
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| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Swinhoe, Robert |
