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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:
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:
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:
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:
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:
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:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Sully
Date:
23 Dec 1875
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (MS ADD 158/1-6/1)
Summary:

Thanks JS for Sensation and intuition [1874]. Regrets that it was not published earlier, so he could have profited by some of the discussions.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Croom Robertson
Date:
19 Feb [1875]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (Croom Robertson: MS ADD 88/9–15/11)
Summary:

The plan of the new journal [Mind] seems excellent. CD regrets that he has so much work to do in natural history that it is improbable he can be a contributor.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project