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DCP-LETT-8724

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
4 Jan [1873]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/14)
Summary:

Comments on FG’s article ["Hereditary improvement", Fraser’s Mag. 87 (1873): 116–30]. Finds it "the sole feasible, yet I fear utopian, plan of procedure in improving the human race".

Thanks for rabbits for Balfour.

Mentions reading W. R. Greg’s Enigmas [of life (1872)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8924

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
28 May 1873
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/15); Pearson 1914–30 , 2: 178
Summary:

Comments about questionnaire CD completed for FG [for Galton’s English men of science (1874)].

Describes his early interest in collecting and his education.

Asks about determining the mean heights of two groups of men.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9136

From:
Henry Montagu Butler
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
7 Nov 1873
Source of text:
DAR 94: 1c
Summary:

Reports an incident of his "hereditary" habit of dozing, head in hand, such that he scratches his nose.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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