To Francis Galton 11 February [1877]
Summary
Sends enclosure regarding inherited handwriting from Life, letters, and journals of George Ticknor [ed. G. S. Hillard (1876)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Galton |
| Date: | 11 Feb [1877] |
| Classmark: | UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/24) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10839 |
To Francis Galton 9 January [1877]
Summary
Can FG come to lunch on Sunday? George Darwin wants to meet him.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Galton |
| Date: | 9 Jan [1877] |
| Classmark: | UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/22) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10776 |
To Francis Galton [6–12 January 1877]
Summary
Has received French essay on effects of conscription on [decreasing] height of men, due to unfit left at home to propagate race. Would FG care to see it?
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Galton |
| Date: | [6–12 Jan 1877] |
| Classmark: | UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/23) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10774 |
From Francis Galton 12 January 1877
Summary
Would like to see essay [on effects of conscription in France, see 10774]. Knows of Swiss memoir to the same effect. Author says Swiss yeomen apt to leave homestead to sickly son. Landed populations deteriorate.
| Author: | Francis Galton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Jan 1877 |
| Classmark: | Pearson 1914–30, 2: 192 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10783 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … From Francis Galton 12 January 1877 …
- … 1914–30 , 2: 192 Francis Galton London, Rutland Gate, 42 12 Jan 1877 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … See letter to Francis Galton, [6–12 January 1877] and n. 2. The essay was Tschouriloff …
- … George and CD on 14 January 1877 (see letter to Francis Galton, 9 January [1877] and n. …
From Francis Galton 22 February 1877
Summary
Attributes the Castilian accent of speech of deaf and dumb men to imitation of their teachers’ lip movements.
| Author: | Francis Galton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Feb 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: A97–8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10859 |
To Julius von Haast [c. 11 February 1877]
Summary
The extract from Ticknor [see 10722] is one of the most curious cases of inheritance CD has met with. He has sent it to Francis Galton as CD is not likely to write on inheritance again.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Francis Julius (Julius) von Haast |
| Date: | [c. 11 Feb 1877] |
| Classmark: | Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand (Haast family papers, MS-Papers-0037-051) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10756 |
Galton, Francis. 1877a. Typical laws of heredity. [Read 9 February 1877.] Proceedings of the Royal Institution of Great Britain 8 (1876–8): 282–301.
Galton, Francis. 1877b. Typical laws of heredity. Nature, 5 April 1877, pp. 492–5; 12 April 1877, pp. 512–14; 19 April 1877, pp. 532–3.
To [William Newton] 17 April 1880
Summary
Unable to comment on F. Lloyd’s criticism of Francis Galton’s Hereditary genius [?A scientific view of Mr Galton’s theories of heredity (1876)].
Sorry about Lloyd’s health.
Does not care much about abuse or fame, an advantage of age.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Newton |
| Date: | 17 Apr 1880 |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12580 |
From Francis Galton 16 February 1876
Summary
Sends packets of seeds of peas of different sizes [i.e., weights] for CD’s experiments; identifies size of the seeds that produced them. FG is experimenting "in the same direction" and is curious how his results will compare with CD’s.
| Author: | Francis Galton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 Feb 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 76: B3–B11 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10395 |
To G. H. Darwin 21 November [1877]
Summary
Asks GHD to determine whether there are worm-castings in cloisters of [Neville?] Court.
Enjoyed his visit to Cambridge. Asks for newspaper account of the LL.D.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | 21 Nov [1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 64 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11246 |
From Francis Galton 12 November 1879
Summary
Praises CD’s biography of Erasmus Darwin;
asks CD to answer some queries he is circulating. Is particularly interested in "visualizing faculty" in CD and Dr Darwin.
| Author: | Francis Galton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Nov 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: A101–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12313 |
From G. H. Darwin 19 April 1877
Summary
Has heard CD is about to be proposed again for the Académie Française, but Huxley is proposed at the same time and may succeed against CD "as being more orthodox!"
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 19 Apr 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 57 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10933 |
From G. J. Romanes 16 June [1877]
Summary
Galton agrees with GJR about rudimentary organs.
GJR’s note referred to possibility of selection acting on organic types as distinguished from individuals.
Thinks Grant Allen has not made out his point [in Physiological aesthetics (1877)], but his fundamental principle probably has much truth.
| Author: | George John Romanes |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 June [1877] |
| Classmark: | E. D. Romanes 1896, p. 55 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11004 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … 1877. Physiological aesthetics . London: Henry S. King & Co. Correspondence : The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–. Galton, Francis. …
- … 1877] . See letter to G. J. Romanes, 11 June [1877] . CD had commented on Romanes’s notes on the effect of intercrossing in swamping individual variations. In some of his recent work, Francis Galton …
To [Francis Lloyd] 1 May [1877]
Summary
CD does not feel a subscription could be got up to aid correspondent. Sends a cheque for £10.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Lloyd |
| Date: | 1 May [1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 202: 91 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10948 |
From Francis Galton 24 May 1878
Summary
Sends some "composite portraits", including three of their family ancestors, as described in Nature [18 (1878): 97–100].
| Author: | Francis Galton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 May 1878 |
| Classmark: | DAR 105A: 99–100 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11526 |
From Alphonse de Candolle 18 January [1881]
Summary
Thanks for Movement in plants. Praises the terms CD introduces, but criticises CD’s use of the teleological word "purpose".
Outlines his efforts to study the inheritance of characters in his family. F. Galton overemphasises the inheritance of good qualities.
| Author: | Alphonse de Candolle |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 Jan [1881] |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 25 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13017 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 1877–9): 427–80. Darwin, Francis. 1886. On the relation between the ‘bloom’ on leaves and the distribution of the stomata. [Read 4 February 1886. ] Journal of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 22 (1885–6): 99–116. Flourens, Marie Jean Pierre. 1842. Éloge historique de Pyramus de Candolle . Paris: Didot Frères. Galton, Francis. …
To G. A. Gaskell 15 November 1878
Summary
CD hopes GAG is right [see 11744]. His second law seems largely acted on in civilised societies. Evil that would follow from checking benevolence to weak and diseased would be greater than by allowing them to survive and procreate. CD doubts that artificial checks would be advantageous to the world at large. If birth could be prevented, and control were not thought immoral, "would there not be a danger of profligacy amongst unmarried women?"
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Arthur Gaskell |
| Date: | 15 Nov 1878 |
| Classmark: | DAR 144: 327 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11745 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Francis Galton’s paper ‘Hereditary improvement’, in which Galton suggested a plan for the improvement of the human race, including a register of the ‘most promising individuals’ and incentives for them to intermarry ( F. Galton 1873 ). When asked to testify in support of the birth-control advocates Charles Bradlaugh and Annie Besant the previous year, CD declined, as he believed such practices would in time spread to unmarried women, and that the consequent weakening of the family bond would be the ‘greatest of all possible evils to mankind’ ( Correspondence vol. 25, letter from Charles Bradlaugh, 5 June 1877 , …
From G. A. Gaskell 13 November 1878
Summary
Discusses three "laws of race preservation" which are evolving: (1) natural selection; (2) the sociological law of sympathetic selection, or indiscriminate survival; (3) moral law – social selection or the "Birth of the Fittest".
| Author: | George Arthur Gaskell |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Nov 1878 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 12 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11744 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Francis Galton , and William Rathbone Greg on the role of natural selection in human development, see Hale 2014 . Greg’s writings included a paper on the ‘failure of “natural selection” in the case of man’ ([W. R. Greg] 1868). See also Bashford and Levine eds. 2010. See especially Descent 1: 82. John Tyndall had used this expression in his presidential address to the Birmingham and Midland Institute on 1 October 1877; …
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