To Francis Galton 27 May [1872]
Summary
Agrees to care for FG’s rabbits and will breed from them.
Plans to go to Southampton for ten days.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Galton |
Date: | 27 May [1872] |
Classmark: | UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/10) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8354 |
To Francis Galton 1 August [1872]
Summary
George Snow, the carrier, now leaves Nag’s Head on Thursday mornings.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Galton |
Date: | 1 Aug [1872] |
Classmark: | UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/11) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8442 |
To Francis Galton 9 August [1872]
Summary
Alteration in the arrangements for the carrier to collect the rabbit from FG and bring it to Down.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Galton |
Date: | 9 Aug [1872] |
Classmark: | Union College, Schaffer Library, Special Collections and Archives (Mullen Collection, SCA-1181) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8461 |
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 |
To Francis Galton 8 November [1872]
Summary
Rabbits’ coats true in character. If the next ones are true, it is superfluous to keep trying.
Does not know why crying children rub eyes with knuckles.
Mentions FG’s article on prayer ["Statistical inquiries into the efficacy of prayer", Fortn. Rev. n.s. 12 (1872): 125–35].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Galton |
Date: | 8 Nov [1872] |
Classmark: | UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/12) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8608 |
To Francis Galton 30 December [1872]
Summary
F. M. Balfour wants to experiment on Pangenesis. Asks FG to recommend coloured rabbits that breed true.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Galton |
Date: | 30 Dec [1872] |
Classmark: | UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/13) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8697 |
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 |
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 |
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 25 September 1875
Summary
Thanks FG for issues of Revue [Scientifique vol. 7, containing lectures by Claude Bernard].
Ogle says twins [with crooked fingers] are his sisters.
Recommends book by M. A. Puvis [De la dégénération des variétés de végétaux (1837)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Galton |
Date: | 25 Sept 1875 |
Classmark: | UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/2/4/3/13/5) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10170 |
To Francis Galton 2 November [1875]
Summary
Has heard that FG will write on inheritance. Huxley does not believe in E. G. Balbiani’s views on subject.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Galton |
Date: | 2 Nov [1875] |
Classmark: | UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/17) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10237 |
To Francis Galton 4 November [1875]
Summary
In London yesterday for Vivisection Commission.
Is revising his chapter on Pangenesis [in Variation, 2d ed.] to allow that gemmules probably multiply in the reproductive organs.
Notes examples of inheritance of acquired characteristics cited by Brown-Séquard.
Doubts that double parentage is necessary for complex organisations.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Galton |
Date: | 4 Nov [1875] |
Classmark: | UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/18) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10241 |
To Francis Galton 7 November [1875]
Summary
Comments on FG’s paper ["A theory of heredity"]. Finds essay difficult to understand. Objects that FG’s theory conflicts with phenomenon of use and disuse. Conflicts also with rarity of bud-variations in nature.
Says he has ordered FG’s article ["The history of twins", Fraser’s Mag. 92 (1875): 566–76; revised in J. Anthropol. Inst. 5 (1876): 391–406].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Galton |
Date: | 7 Nov [1875] |
Classmark: | UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/19) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10245 |
To Francis Galton 10 November [1875]
Summary
Comments on FG’s paper ["The history of twins"].
CD is "in a passion with the Spectator who always muddles".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Galton |
Date: | 10 Nov [1875] |
Classmark: | UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/20) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10254 |
To Francis Galton 18 December [1875]
Summary
Mentions revisions [in Variation, 2d ed.].
Argues with FG’s theory of heredity, defending Pangenesis: "I cannot doubt that every unit of the hybrid is hybridised and sends forth hybridised gemmules."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Galton |
Date: | 18 Dec [1875] |
Classmark: | UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/21) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10305 |
To Francis Galton 13 January [1876]
Summary
Thanks FG for his report [on the statistical validity of CD’s experiments; see Cross and self-fertilisation, pp. 16–18]. Discusses FG’s comments, his own experiments, and the means by which the results may be analysed.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Galton |
Date: | 13 Jan [1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 202: 54 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10357 |
To Francis Galton 2 March [1876]
Summary
Sends signed enclosure.
FG will hear of germination of peas in a few days.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Galton |
Date: | 2 Mar [1876] |
Classmark: | UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/3/2/1/157) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10413 |
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 |
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 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 |
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