From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 June 1875
Source of text:
DAR 105: A79
Summary:
Interested to hear about the peas.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Sept 1875
Source of text:
DAR 105: A80–1
Summary:
Thinks CD’s case of twins with crooked fingers may be one from his twin study.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
22 Sept 1875
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/16)
Summary:
Agrees to write to William Ogle [about twins with crooked fingers].
Describes growth of sweetpeas for experiment.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Sept 1875
Source of text:
DAR 105: A82
Summary:
Sends a lecture CD wished to see
and corrects himself about the twins.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
25 Sept 1875
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/2/4/3/13/5)
Summary:
Thanks FG for issues of Revue [Scientifique vol. 7, containing lectures by Claude Bernard].
Ogle says twins [with crooked fingers] are his sisters.
Recommends book by M. A. Puvis [De la dégénération des variétés de végétaux (1837)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
2 Nov [1875]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/17)
Summary:
Has heard that FG will write on inheritance. Huxley does not believe in E. G. Balbiani’s views on subject.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Nov 1875
Source of text:
DAR 105: A83–A86
Summary:
Outlines a memoir he will give at the Anthropological Society in which he differs theoretically with Pangenesis.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
4 Nov [1875]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/18)
Summary:
In London yesterday for Vivisection Commission.
Is revising his chapter on Pangenesis [in Variation, 2d ed.] to allow that gemmules probably multiply in the reproductive organs.
Notes examples of inheritance of acquired characteristics cited by Brown-Séquard.
Doubts that double parentage is necessary for complex organisations.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Nov 1875
Source of text:
DAR 105: A87
Summary:
Sends a proof of his "Theory of heredity" from the Contemporary Review [27 (1875): 80–95; revised in J. Anthropol. Inst. 5 (1876): 329–48]. Welcomes CD’s help and criticism.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
7 Nov [1875]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/19)
Summary:
Comments on FG’s paper ["A theory of heredity"]. Finds essay difficult to understand. Objects that FG’s theory conflicts with phenomenon of use and disuse. Conflicts also with rarity of bud-variations in nature.
Says he has ordered FG’s article ["The history of twins", Fraser’s Mag. 92 (1875): 566–76; revised in J. Anthropol. Inst. 5 (1876): 391–406].
Contributor:
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From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Nov 1875
Source of text:
DAR 105: A88–9
Summary:
Responds to suggestions and criticisms CD made to "theory of heredity" [see 10245].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
10 Nov [1875]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/20)
Summary:
Comments on FG’s paper ["The history of twins"].
CD is "in a passion with the Spectator who always muddles".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Nov 1875
Source of text:
DAR 105: A90–1
Summary:
Thanks for the peas which arrived in "beautiful order".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
18 Dec [1875]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/21)
Summary:
Mentions revisions [in Variation, 2d ed.].
Argues with FG’s theory of heredity, defending Pangenesis: "I cannot doubt that every unit of the hybrid is hybridised and sends forth hybridised gemmules."
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Dec 1875
Source of text:
DAR 105: A92–3
Summary:
Outlines in simple form the statistical distribution of inherited characteristics in a theory of "organic units".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Galton
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
22 Dec 1875
Source of text:
DAR 105: A94–5
Summary:
Gives further explanations of his theory of stirps and his objections to Pangenesis, in answer to a question of CD’s.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
13 Jan [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 54
Summary:
Thanks FG for his report [on the statistical validity of CD’s experiments; see Cross and self-fertilisation, pp. 16–18]. Discusses FG’s comments, his own experiments, and the means by which the results may be analysed.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Feb 1876
Source of text:
DAR 76: B3–B11
Summary:
Sends packets of seeds of peas of different sizes [i.e., weights] for CD’s experiments; identifies size of the seeds that produced them. FG is experimenting "in the same direction" and is curious how his results will compare with CD’s.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
2 Mar [1876]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/3/2/1/157)
Summary:
Sends signed enclosure.
FG will hear of germination of peas in a few days.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Dec 1876
Source of text:
DAR 105: A96
Summary:
Gives another instance of curious habit in the Butler family.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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