From Francis Galton 12 May 1870
Summary
Good news: one little rabbit has a white forefoot.
| Author: | Francis Galton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 May 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: A17–18 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7185 |
From Francis Galton 31 March 1870
Summary
Better news about the rabbits.
| Author: | Francis Galton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 31 Mar 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: 11–12 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7156 |
From Francis Galton 1 June 1870
Summary
Thanks CD for his help and encouragement in his series of experiments [to test Pangenesis].
| Author: | Francis Galton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 June 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: 19–20 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7212 |
From Francis Galton 22 March 1870
Summary
Variety in rabbits less than he hoped for; will try a new mode of transfusion.
| Author: | Francis Galton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Mar 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: 9–10 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7143 |
From Francis Galton 8 April 1870
Summary
The mark he had thought a variation is not, and he thinks his infusion still too small even when the blood is defibrinised.
| Author: | Francis Galton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Apr 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: A13–14 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7161 |
To Francis Galton [27 April 1870?]
Summary
Is much obliged for information [about rabbits?].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Galton |
| Date: | [27 Apr 1870?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: A16v |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7176 |
From Francis Galton 17 March 1870
Summary
Experiments are not going well, but the quantity of blood transfused was small.
| Author: | Francis Galton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Mar 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: 7–8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7139 |
From Francis Galton 25 June 1870
Summary
Two, perhaps all three, doe [rabbits] are sterile after the transfusions; will try another method.
| Author: | Francis Galton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 25 June 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: A21–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7245 |
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 |
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 G. J. Wilson 19 March 1877
Summary
Pangenesis supports the existence of gemmules; does not accept Galton’s experiments as disproving their existence or importance.
| Author: | George John Wilson |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 19 Mar 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 127 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10904 |
From Francis Galton 8 November 1875
Summary
Responds to suggestions and criticisms CD made to "theory of heredity" [see 10245].
| Author: | Francis Galton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Nov 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: A88–9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10250 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … letter to Francis Galton, 7 November [1875] ). Charles Édouard Brown-Séquard had communicated a paper ‘On apparent transmission of abnormal conditions due to accidental causes’ at the meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science at Liverpool in 1870, …
- … 1870), Transactions of the sections, p. 134). CD had referred Galton to a recent summary of Brown-Séquard’s research on the inheritance of acquired conditions ( Brown-Séquard 1875 ; see letter from Francis …
From Francis Galton 26 May 1872
Summary
Again seeks help with his rabbits; hopes one of CD’s men can take them.
| Author: | Francis Galton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 May 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: A57–8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8352 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … letter to Francis Galton, 14 April [1871] ). See letter to Francis Galton, 21 April [1872] . Galton refers to Daniel Dunglas Home and Catherine Fox , mediums. William Crookes , a chemist and science journalist, was investigating mediums ( ODNB ); he had published two papers in the Quarterly Journal of Science (Crookes 1870 and 1871) and published a further one in 1874 ( Crookes 1874 ). See letter to Francis Galton, …
To Francis Galton 1 August [1872]
Summary
George Snow, the carrier, now leaves Nag’s Head on Thursday mornings.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Galton |
| Date: | 1 Aug [1872] |
| Classmark: | UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/11) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8442 |
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 |
From Francis Galton 19 April 1872
Summary
Has attended one more séance, which he describes; tells of the freedom investigators have to check, although they cannot prearrange, experiments.
| Author: | Francis Galton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 19 Apr 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: A53–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8293 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 1870, and concluded that Home possessed a psychic force that could be used to modify gravity and produce musical effects ( ODNB ; see also letter from Francis Galton, 28 March 1872 ). The letter from Crookes has not been found, but may have described an apparatus for testing psychic abilities ( see letter to Francis …
From Edward Livingston Youmans 25 September 1870
Summary
Concerning an American edition of Descent by Appleton’s.
| Author: | Edward Livingston Youmans |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 25 Sept 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 183: 2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7324 |
From Francis Galton 15 March 1870
Summary
Interim report on the experiments with rabbits [to test Pangenesis].
| Author: | Francis Galton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Mar 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: 5–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7133 |
To J. D. Hooker 1 February [1871]
Summary
Returns pamphlets.
B. T. Lowne’s observation [Mon. Microsc. J. 4 (1870): 326–30] that boiling does not kill certain moulds is curious, but then how account for absence of all living things in Pasteur’s experiment?
Always delighted to see a word in favour of Pangenesis.
Thiselton-Dyer’s paper ["On spontaneous generation and evolution", Q. J. Microsc. Sci. 10 (1870): 333–54] is Spencerian.
The chemical conditions for first production of life are said to exist at present, but in some warm little pond today such matter would be absorbed or devoured, which would not have been the case before living creatures were formed.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 1 Feb [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 94: 188–9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7471 |
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| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
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