From Francis Galton 5 November 1875
42 Rutland Gate
Nov 5/75
My dear Darwin
3 proofs reached me from the Contemporary Review of my “Theory of Heredity”1 so I can spare one, and as I know you like to mark what you read, do not care to return it. I hope it will make my meaning more clear. The remarks printed as a note in p 5, but which I ought to have put in the text, will meet what you wrote about the Hymenoptera.2
I am most obliged for what you tell me about Brown-Séquard; I did not know of it, & will hunt up the passage to day (Thanks for the reference, received this morning)3
I should be truly grateful for criticisms which might enable me to modify or make clear before it is too late.
Ever yrs | Francis Galton
What a nuisance this modern plan is, of sending proofs in sheet, & not in slip. One can’t amend freely.
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Bibliography
Brown-Séquard, Charles Édouard. 1875. On the hereditary transmission of the effects of certain injuries to the nervous system. Lancet, 2 January 1875, pp. 6–7.
Summary
Sends a proof of his "Theory of heredity" from the Contemporary Review [27 (1875): 80–95; revised in J. Anthropol. Inst. 5 (1876): 329–48]. Welcomes CD’s help and criticism.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-10243
- From
- Francis Galton
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- London, Rutland Gate, 42
- Source of text
- DAR 105: A87
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp †
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10243,” accessed on 26 September 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10243.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 23