Agrees to write to William Ogle [about twins with crooked fingers].
Describes growth of sweetpeas for experiment.
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Agrees to write to William Ogle [about twins with crooked fingers].
Describes growth of sweetpeas for experiment.
Asks whether the twins WO reported to CD [see 5470] were named Macrae. F. Galton has told him of a similar case with twins so named who inherited crooked little fingers from the maternal side [see Variation, 2d ed., 2: 240]. [The twins referred to by WO were actually his sisters, see 10170.]