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From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Dec 1869
Source of text:
DAR 105: 1–2
Summary:

Asks CD’s advice on procuring rabbits for experiments [to test Pangenesis by transfusing alien blood into does and breeding from them].

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Dec 1869
Source of text:
DAR 105: 3–4
Summary:

Greatly pleased by approbation from CD, whom he admires and whose Origin did much for him.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
13 May [1860]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/6)
Summary:

Does FG know Mansfield Parkyns well enough to submit query to him? [Probably about domestication of Columba guinea in Abyssinia. See Variation 1: 183.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
25 Jan [1868?]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/7)
Summary:

FG’s congratulations [on publication of Variation] have given CD pleasure.

Trusts that FG is well again.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
23 Dec [1869]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/8)
Summary:

Praises FG’s book [Hereditary genius (1869)]. CD is converted by its argument. Previously CD believed men did not differ much in intellect, but only in zeal and hard work.

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Darwin Correspondence Project