From Francis Galton 28 May 1872
42 Rutland Gate
May 28th 1872
My dear Darwin
You are indeed most kind & helpful and I joyfully will send the rabbits. But really & truly I must bear every expence to the full & will rely on your groom telling me, at the end,—in addition to his present.1
The rabbits are none of them absolutely recovered, at all events the buck & 1 doe are not, but they will want no further attention in respect to what remains unhealed of their wounds.2 Two of the does are believed to be in kindle having been left with the buck a fortnight & 10 days ago. I will tell Dr. Carter to label and send all particulars with them & to mark their backs with big numerals. in ink.3
The carrier4 should call at University College for them, asking the porter at the gate. I enclose a paper to him.
Once again, with sincere thanks | Ever yrs. | Francis Galton
I have just corrected proofs of a little paper to be shortly read at the Royal Society on “Blood-relationship” in which I try to define what the kinship really is, between parents & their offspring— I will send a copy when I have one; it may interest you.5
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Freeman, Richard Broke. 1977. The works of Charles Darwin: an annotated bibliographical handlist. 2d edition. Folkestone, Kent: William Dawson & Sons. Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, Shoe String Press.
Galton, Francis. 1871. Experiments in pangenesis, by breeding from rabbits of a pure variety, into whose circulation blood taken from other varieties had previously been largely transfused. [Read 30 March 1871.] Proceedings of the Royal Society of London 19 (1870–1): 393–410.
Variation: The variation of animals and plants under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1868.
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.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-8357
- From
- Francis Galton
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- London, Rutland Gate, 42
- Source of text
- DAR 105: A59–60
- Physical description
- ALS 4pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 8357,” accessed on 20 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-8357.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 20