From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Edward Shuttleworth
Date:
17 Feb [1874]
Source of text:
Wellcome Collection (MS.5134)
Summary:
At the suggestion of Crichton-Browne CD writes on behalf of his son George, who is making a study of marriages between first cousins and of their offspring to determine the proportion of the latter who may be among the insane, deaf and dumb, idiotic, blind etc. Is GES willing to ask his patients [at the Royal Albert Asylum] for the information relevant to this study?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project