To Francis Galton 25 September 1875
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.
Sep 25./75
My dear Galton
Many thanks for yr note & for the Révue which shall be returned in yr name to the R. Soc.1 Dr Ogle tells me privately that the twins were his own sisters, & that a child of one of the twins has the bicuspid tooth misplaced. I cannot make up my mind whether this case is one of reversion like yours.2 I have a book Puvis “Sur la Dégéneration” which when I get my catalogue I can find & which from its title may be worth your looking at, tho’ I can remember nothing about its merits.3
My dear Galton | Yrs very sincerely | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Marginalia: Charles Darwin’s marginalia. Edited by Mario A. Di Gregorio with the assistance of Nicholas W. Gill. Vol. 1. New York and London: Garland Publishing. 1990.
Puvis, Marc-Antoine 1837. De la dégénération et de l’extinction des variétés de végétaux propagés par les greffes, boutures, tubercules, etc., et de la création des variétés nouvelles par les croisemens et les semis. Paris: Mme Huzard, Libraire.
Variation: The variation of animals and plants under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1868.
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)].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-10170
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Francis Galton
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/2/4/3/13/5)
- Physical description
- LS 2pp
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Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10170,” accessed on 29 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10170.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 23