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To Francis Galton   22 September 1875

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Agrees to write to William Ogle [about twins with crooked fingers].

Describes growth of sweetpeas for experiment.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Francis Galton
Date:  22 Sept 1875
Classmark:  UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/16)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10164

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  • letters and labours of Francis Galton. 3 vols. in 4. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Variation : The variation of animals and plants under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1868. …

To Francis Galton   4 January [1873]

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Comments on FG’s article ["Hereditary improvement", Fraser’s Mag. 87 (1873): 116–30]. Finds it "the sole feasible, yet I fear utopian, plan of procedure in improving the human race".

Thanks for rabbits for Balfour.

Mentions reading W. R. Greg’s Enigmas [of life (1872)].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Francis Galton
Date:  4 Jan [1873]
Classmark:  UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/14)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8724

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  • letters and labours of Francis Galton. 3 vols. in 4. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Variation : The variation of animals and plants under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1868. …
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