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DCP-LETT-10309

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:
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DCP-LETT-10395

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.

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DCP-LETT-10694

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:
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DCP-LETT-10783

From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Jan 1877
Source of text:
Pearson 1914–30 , 2: 192
Summary:

Would like to see essay [on effects of conscription in France, see 10774]. Knows of Swiss memoir to the same effect. Author says Swiss yeomen apt to leave homestead to sickly son. Landed populations deteriorate.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10859

From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Feb 1877
Source of text:
DAR 105: A97–8
Summary:

Attributes the Castilian accent of speech of deaf and dumb men to imitation of their teachers’ lip movements.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11526

From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 May 1878
Source of text:
DAR 105A: 99–100
Summary:

Sends some "composite portraits", including three of their family ancestors, as described in Nature [18 (1878): 97–100].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-12094

From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 June 1879
Source of text:
DAR 210.9: 14
Summary:

Conveys some information about Dr Erasmus Darwin’s second wife and discusses photos of him and his wife.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12097F

From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 June 1879
Source of text:
DAR 210.14: 30
Summary:

Memorandum about Dr Erasmus Darwin’s bequests.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12313

From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Nov 1879
Source of text:
DAR 105: A101–2
Summary:

Praises CD’s biography of Erasmus Darwin;

asks CD to answer some queries he is circulating. Is particularly interested in "visualizing faculty" in CD and Dr Darwin.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-4730

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

DCP-LETT-7133

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:
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DCP-LETT-7139

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:
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DCP-LETT-7143

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:
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DCP-LETT-7156

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:
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DCP-LETT-7161

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:
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DCP-LETT-7175

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:
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DCP-LETT-7185

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:
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DCP-LETT-7212

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:
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DCP-LETT-7245

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:
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DCP-LETT-7249

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.

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