Interim report on the experiments with rabbits [to test Pangenesis].
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Interim report on the experiments with rabbits [to test Pangenesis].
Experiments are not going well, but the quantity of blood transfused was small.
Variety in rabbits less than he hoped for; will try a new mode of transfusion.
Better news about the rabbits.
The mark he had thought a variation is not, and he thinks his infusion still too small even when the blood is defibrinised.
Rabbits still running true; hopes to increase alien blood to 30%.
Good news: one little rabbit has a white forefoot.
Thanks CD for his help and encouragement in his series of experiments [to test Pangenesis].
Two, perhaps all three, doe [rabbits] are sterile after the transfusions; will try another method.
[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.