From Francis Galton to Francis Darwin 7 April 1871
Summary
CD will take care of the eight little rabbits. FG outlines their future.
| Author: | Francis Galton |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Apr 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: A25–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7662 |
From Francis Galton to William Huggins 15 February 1873
Summary
Returns family documents about "Kepler" [William Huggins’ dog, see Collected papers 2: 170–1]; there is still some sort of investigation into the "precise mental condition" of "Kepler" and his relatives.
| Author: | Francis Galton |
| Addressee: | William Huggins |
| Date: | 15 Feb 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: A72–3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8766 |
From Francis Galton 9 April [1871]
Summary
Arrangements for transfer of rabbits to CD.
| Author: | Francis Galton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 Apr [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: A41 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7671 |
From Francis Galton 25 April 1871
Summary
Upset to learn he has misrepresented CD’s doctrine on Pangenesis [in Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 19 (1871): 393–410]. Hopes that CD’s letter to Nature [3 (1871): 502–3; Collected papers 2: 165–7] will clarify the doctrine and attract attention to it.
| Author: | Francis Galton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 25 Apr 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: 28–29 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7717 |
From Francis Galton 2 May 1871
Summary
Is sending his reply to Nature, justifying his misunderstanding as well as he can [see 7717].
| Author: | Francis Galton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 May 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: 30 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7733 |
From Francis Galton 12 May 1871
Summary
Writes that he does not share at all in Lionel Beale’s letter in Nature [4 (1871): 25–6];
his new experiments are not hopeful.
| Author: | Francis Galton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 May 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: 31–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7754 |
From Francis Galton 13 September 1871
Summary
Is turning to experiments with rats, "Siamesed together" for cross-circulation.
| Author: | Francis Galton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Sept 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: A33–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7938 |
DCP-LETT-8059
| Author: | Francis Galton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | |
| Classmark: | unknown |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8059 |
From Francis Galton 21 November 1871
Summary
Asks that the rabbits CD has kept be sent to him; will continue [transfusion] experiments on rats, but using larger [surgical] connection.
| Author: | Francis Galton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 Nov 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: A35–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8080 |
From Francis Galton 24 November 1871
Summary
Going to Down to see the "most curious" results.
| Author: | Francis Galton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Nov 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: 37–8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8085 |
From Francis Galton 2 December 1871
Summary
The rabbits arrived safely.
| Author: | Francis Galton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Dec 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: A39 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8090 |
From Francis Galton 22 December 1871
Summary
Encloses "account of Dr H. M. Butler’s hereditary odd habit".
| Author: | Francis Galton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Dec 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: A40; DAR 195.4: 103 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8118 |
From Francis Galton [after 22 December 1871]
Summary
Gives his account of H. M. Butler’s apparently inherited habit.
| Author: | Francis Galton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 22 Dec 1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: A42–3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8126 |
From Francis Galton 1 February 1872
Summary
Asks to have one pair of rabbits sent to him; is abandoning experiments with the rats.
| Author: | Francis Galton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Feb 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: A44–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8192 |
From Francis Galton 28 March 1872
Summary
Endorses revised statement about Butler’s odd hereditary habit;
describes a séance at William Crookes’s.
| Author: | Francis Galton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 Mar 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: A46–9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8256 |
From Francis Galton 31 March 1872
Summary
Has forwarded CD’s letter to Crookes.
| Author: | Francis Galton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 31 Mar 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: A52 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8263 |
From Francis Galton 19 April 1872
Summary
Has attended one more séance, which he describes; tells of the freedom investigators have to check, although they cannot prearrange, experiments.
| Author: | Francis Galton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 19 Apr 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: A53–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8293 |
From Francis Galton 26 May 1872
Summary
Again seeks help with his rabbits; hopes one of CD’s men can take them.
| Author: | Francis Galton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 May 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: A57–8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8352 |
From Francis Galton 28 May 1872
Summary
Delighted CD’s groom will take the rabbits;
has just done proof of a paper to the Royal Society on "blood-relationship", defining kinship between parents and offspring.
| Author: | Francis Galton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 May 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: A59–60 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8357 |
From Francis Galton 29 May 1872
Summary
Cancelled: same as 8432.
May FG lunch with CD on Thursday and arrange about rabbits?
Spiritualists have given FG up. Cannot get invitation to séance.
| Author: | Francis Galton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 May 1872 |
| Classmark: | Pearson 1914–30, 2: 169 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8359 |
| Darwin, C. R. | (63) |
| Andersson, C. J. | (1) |
| Darwin, Francis | (1) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
| Huggins, William | (1) |
| Galton, Francis | (67) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (63) |
| Andersson, C. J. | (1) |
| Darwin, Francis | (1) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
