From Francis Galton 1 February 1872
42 Rutland Gate. SW.
Feb 1/72
My dear Darwin
If you can make it convenient to send, in separate hampers, 1 buck & 1 doe, I should be glad, as then my stock will be large enough to be above risk of accident As for the others, pray do what you like with them.1 Wd. you send the pair, as before, addressed to
Dr. Charles Carter2
University College
Gower St.
& if you cd. kindly let a postage card be sent to him, to say when they might be expected, they wd. be the more sure, to be immediately attended to
I grieve to say, that I find I must abandon the rats, as a task above my power to bring to a successful issue.3
I am most truly obliged to the care you have taken of the rabbits— I heartily wish for my part, that I could have done more in the way of experiment than I have affected.4
Very sincerely yours | Francis Galton
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
Asks to have one pair of rabbits sent to him; is abandoning experiments with the rats.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-8192
- From
- Francis Galton
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- London, Rutland Gate, 42
- Source of text
- DAR 105: A44–5
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 8192,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-8192.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 20
