From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Apr 1870
Source of text:
DAR 105: A15–16
Summary:
Rabbits still running true; hopes to increase alien blood to 30%.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Rabbits still running true; hopes to increase alien blood to 30%.
Is much obliged for information [about rabbits?].
Will send deerhound puppy.
Is critical of Herbert Spencer.
Discusses the reasons for inserting questions on consanguineous marriages in the forthcoming Census.
On amount of modification and lines of descent in determining the position in man.
Reference to StGJM’s article "On the appendicular skeleton of the primates" Phil. Trans. R. Soc. [157 (1867): 299–430],
and his [and James Murie’s] article on lemurs ["On the anatomy of Lemuroidea"] Trans. Zool. Soc. [7 (1872): 1–114].
Aggressive behaviour of dogs and horses.