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DCP-LETT-8296

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
21 Apr [1872]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Encourages FG to carry out investigation [of spiritualism]. However, his own health is too uncertain to accept Daniel Dunglas Home’s offer. Discusses possibility of reproducing Crookes’s apparatus for sale.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8354

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
27 May [1872]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/10)
Summary:

Agrees to care for FG’s rabbits and will breed from them.

Plans to go to Southampton for ten days.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8442

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
1 Aug [1872]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/11)
Summary:

George Snow, the carrier, now leaves Nag’s Head on Thursday mornings.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8461

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
9 Aug [1872]
Source of text:
Union College, Schaffer Library, Special Collections and Archives (Mullen Collection, SCA-1181)
Summary:

Alteration in the arrangements for the carrier to collect the rabbit from FG and bring it to Down.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8464F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
12 Aug [1872]
Source of text:
The Whiting family (private collection)
Summary:

The carrier will call at University College on Thursday 15 August.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8608

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
8 Nov [1872]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/12)
Summary:

Rabbits’ coats true in character. If the next ones are true, it is superfluous to keep trying.

Does not know why crying children rub eyes with knuckles.

Mentions FG’s article on prayer ["Statistical inquiries into the efficacy of prayer", Fortn. Rev. n.s. 12 (1872): 125–35].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8697

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
30 Dec [1872]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/13)
Summary:

F. M. Balfour wants to experiment on Pangenesis. Asks FG to recommend coloured rabbits that breed true.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8724

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
4 Jan [1873]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/14)
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)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8924

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
28 May 1873
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/15); Pearson 1914–30 , 2: 178
Summary:

Comments about questionnaire CD completed for FG [for Galton’s English men of science (1874)].

Describes his early interest in collecting and his education.

Asks about determining the mean heights of two groups of men.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9136

From:
Henry Montagu Butler
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
7 Nov 1873
Source of text:
DAR 94: 1c
Summary:

Reports an incident of his "hereditary" habit of dozing, head in hand, such that he scratches his nose.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

RS-MM-000978

From:
Walter Frank Raphael Weldon
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
27 November 1893
Source of text:
MM/15/85, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

RS-MM-000980

From:
Walter Frank Raphael Weldon
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
15 January 1894
Source of text:
MM/15/89, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

RS-MM-000981

From:
Walter Frank Raphael Weldon
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
22 January 1894
Source of text:
MM/15/90, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

RS-MM-000984

From:
William Bateson
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
11 November 1897
Source of text:
MM/15/93, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
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WCP1434

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
3 February 1891
Source of text:
  • University College London, Special Collections: Galton 142/2B/3, Box 68
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/8/234
  • Pearson, K. (1930). In: The Life, Letters and Labours of Francis Galton. Vol. 3A. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [pp. 128-129]
Summary:

Suggests a Committee of the British Association "for the purpose of deciding the two great fundamental but disputed points in organic evolution" - whether individually acquired external characters are inherited, and the amount and character of sterility when species are crossed and hybrid offspring breed.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
Text Online

WCP3564

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
4 August 1876
Source of text:
Royal Geographical Society: RGS Corr. Block CB6 1871-80 WALLACE A. RUSSEL
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
Text Online

WCP3581

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
25 January 1883
Source of text:
Royal Geographical Society: RGS Corr. Block CB7 1881-1910 A. R. WALLACE
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
Text Online

WCP4133

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
4 July 1904
Source of text:
University College London, Special Collections: Galton 133/2W, Box 49
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
Text Online

WCP4134

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
2 December 1896
Source of text:
University College London, Special Collections: Galton 142/2B/3, Box 68
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
Text Online

WCP4136

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
6 February 1895
Source of text:
University College London, Special Collections: Galton 142/2B/3, Box 68
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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