To William Ogle 29 March [1867]1
Down. | Bromley. | Kent. S.E.
Mar 29.
Dear Sir
I am much obliged for your great kindness in writing to me.2 The subject of inheritance interests me greatly, & I have to treat of it in a book which I am now printing.3
I am glad to hear about the inheritance of deficient phalanges, but as several cases are recorded I do not feel as yet sure whether I will quote it.4
The case of the twins strikes me as extremely interesting, & I shd much like to quote it on yr authority; but I shd much wish to know, if you will not object to the trouble of writing again to me, whether the little finger which was crooked occurred on the same (right or left) hand in the 2 children; & 2ndly did the misplaced tooth occur in the first or second dentition & what tooth was it? Was it also the same tooth in the 2 children?5
I hope that you will excuse me asking these questions & accept my sincere thanks for yr kindness.
I beg leave to remain | my dear Sir | yours faithfully | Charles Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Variation: The variation of animals and plants under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1868.
Summary
Thanks WO for information on inheritance of deficient phalanges [Variation 2:73] and for interesting case of the occurrence of anomalous fingers and teeth in twins[Variation 2: 253].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-5470
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- William Ogle
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 261.5: 1 (EH 88205899)
- Physical description
- LS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 5470,” accessed on 24 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-5470.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 15