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 |
From H. M. Butler to Francis Galton 7 November 1873
Summary
Reports an incident of his "hereditary" habit of dozing, head in hand, such that he scratches his nose.
Author: | Henry Montagu Butler |
Addressee: | Francis Galton |
Date: | 7 Nov 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 1c |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9136 |
letter | (3) |
Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
Butler, H. M. | (1) |
Galton, Francis | (3) |
Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
Butler, H. M. | (1) |