From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 22 Dec 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 105: A42–3
Summary:
Gives his account of H. M. Butler’s apparently inherited habit.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Gives his account of H. M. Butler’s apparently inherited habit.
Discussion of H. Spencer’s views on the origin of music.
Gives publication date for J. C. Lavater, L’Art de connaître les hommes, 1806–9, edited by J. L. Moreau. The first four volumes appeared in 1806.
Sends abstract, and will bring book on Saturday.
Summarises her theory about expression in music.
Thanks CD for papers he sent his wife. They will help her pass her time as an invalid.
Describes fly-catching activity of Drosera longifolia.
Experiments on Papilio asterias; sex of adult determined by length of larval feeding time.