From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 28 Mar 1872]
Source of text:
DAR 159: 114
Summary:
On colours and breeding of rabbits.
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:
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].
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.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Mar 1870
Source of text:
DAR 105: 5–6
Summary:
Interim report on the experiments with rabbits [to test Pangenesis].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Mar 1870
Source of text:
DAR 105: 7–8
Summary:
Experiments are not going well, but the quantity of blood transfused was small.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Mar 1870
Source of text:
DAR 105: 9–10
Summary:
Variety in rabbits less than he hoped for; will try a new mode of transfusion.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Mar 1870
Source of text:
DAR 105: 11–12
Summary:
Better news about the rabbits.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Apr 1870
Source of text:
DAR 105: A13–14
Summary:
The mark he had thought a variation is not, and he thinks his infusion still too small even when the blood is defibrinised.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
[27 Apr 1870?]
Source of text:
DAR 105: A16v
Summary:
Is much obliged for information [about rabbits?].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 May 1870
Source of text:
DAR 105: A17–18
Summary:
Good news: one little rabbit has a white forefoot.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 June 1870
Source of text:
DAR 105: 19–20
Summary:
Thanks CD for his help and encouragement in his series of experiments [to test Pangenesis].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 June 1870
Source of text:
DAR 105: A21–2
Summary:
Two, perhaps all three, doe [rabbits] are sterile after the transfusions; will try another method.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 June 1870
Source of text:
DAR 80: B160–1
Summary:
[William Rathbone] Greg is author [of "Failure of ""natural selection"" in the case of man", Fraser’s Magazine 78 (1868): 353–62].
Comments on findings in J. M. Duncan [Fecundity, fertility, sterility and allied topics (1866)].
Saw A. D. Bartlett about monkeys.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Jan 1871
Source of text:
DAR 105: A23–4
Summary:
Definite results have been delayed, but he is optimistic.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Galton
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
7 Apr 1871
Source of text:
DAR 105: A25–7
Summary:
CD will take care of the eight little rabbits. FG outlines their future.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Apr [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 105: A41
Summary:
Arrangements for transfer of rabbits to CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
14 Apr [1871]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/3/2/1/30)
Summary:
Reports safe arrival of rabbits.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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