To Francis Galton 25 January [1868?]
Summary
FG’s congratulations [on publication of Variation] have given CD pleasure.
Trusts that FG is well again.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Galton |
| Date: | 25 Jan [1868?] |
| Classmark: | UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/7) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5800 |
To Francis Galton 22 September 1875
Summary
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 |
From Francis Galton 24 September 1875
Summary
Sends a lecture CD wished to see
and corrects himself about the twins.
| Author: | Francis Galton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Sept 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: A82 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10169 |
To Francis Galton 12 August [1872]
Summary
The carrier will call at University College on Thursday 15 August.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Galton |
| Date: | 12 Aug [1872] |
| Classmark: | The Whiting family (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8464F |
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- … 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. …
From Francis Galton 11 December 1869
Summary
Asks CD’s advice on procuring rabbits for experiments [to test Pangenesis by transfusing alien blood into does and breeding from them].
| Author: | Francis Galton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Dec 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: 1–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7026 |
From Francis Galton 25 April 1871
Summary
Upset to learn he has misrepresented CD’s doctrine on Pangenesis [in Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 19 (1871): 393–410]. Hopes that CD’s letter to Nature [3 (1871): 502–3; Collected papers 2: 165–7] will clarify the doctrine and attract attention to it.
| Author: | Francis Galton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 25 Apr 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: 28–29 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7717 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 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. …
From Francis Galton 9 January 1871
Summary
Definite results have been delayed, but he is optimistic.
| Author: | Francis Galton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 Jan 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: A23–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7432 |
From Francis Galton 2 May 1871
Summary
Is sending his reply to Nature, justifying his misunderstanding as well as he can [see 7717].
| Author: | Francis Galton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 May 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: 30 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7733 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 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. …
To Francis Galton 4 January [1873]
Summary
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 |
From Francis Galton 3 November 1875
Summary
Outlines a memoir he will give at the Anthropological Society in which he differs theoretically with Pangenesis.
| Author: | Francis Galton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Nov 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: A83–A86 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10238 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Francis. 1876a. The history of twins, as a criterion of the relative powers of nature and nurture. Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland 5 (1875–6): 391–406. [Reprint of Galton 1875a. ] Variation : The variation of animals and plants under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1868. …
From Francis Galton 22 September 1875
Summary
Thinks CD’s case of twins with crooked fingers may be one from his twin study.
| Author: | Francis Galton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Sept 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: A80–1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10163 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Francis Galton. 3 vols. in 4. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Variation 2d ed. : The variation of animals and plants under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2d edition. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1875. Variation : The variation of animals and plants under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1868. …
From Francis Galton 28 May 1872
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.
| Author: | Francis Galton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 May 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: A59–60 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8357 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 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. …
From Francis Galton 28 June 1870
Summary
[William Rathbone] Greg is author [of "Failure of ""natural selection"" in the case of man", Fraser’s Magazine 78 (1868): 353–62].
Comments on findings in J. M. Duncan [Fecundity, fertility, sterility and allied topics (1866)].
Saw A. D. Bartlett about monkeys.
| Author: | Francis Galton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 June 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 80: B160–1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7249 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 1868). Galton refers to James Matthews Duncan and Duncan 1866 ; there is an annotated copy of the second edition ( Duncan 1871 ) in the Darwin Library–CUL (see Marginalia 1: 215). CD cited Duncan (but not Duncan 1866 ) in Descent 1: 174 and n. 19. Galton refers to Abraham Dee Bartlett . For an earlier query from CD about crying monkeys, see Correspondence vol. 15, letter to Fritz Müller, 15 August [1867] and n. 5. In DAR 189: 138 there is a note in Francis …
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