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From:
Francis Galton
To:
unknown
Date:
19th century
Source of text:
MM/11/112, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles John (Carl Johann) Andersson
Date:
[after 22 Feb 1855]
Source of text:
National Library of South Africa, Cape Town
Summary:

Sends on CD’s list of enquiries about native breeds of animals in South Africa.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Dec 1859
Source of text:
DAR 98: B16 and DAR 106: D22
Summary:

Congratulates CD on Origin; has been "initiated into an entirely new province of knowledge".

Notes error involving rhinoceros.

Encloses other notes.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Francis Galton
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[21 June 1860]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.88
Summary:

Intends going to Spain for the eclipse to make observations on solar radiation. Would like advice on the type of actinometer to use.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Dec 1869
Source of text:
DAR 105: 1–2
Summary:

Asks CD’s advice on procuring rabbits for experiments [to test Pangenesis by transfusing alien blood into does and breeding from them].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Dec 1869
Source of text:
DAR 105: 3–4
Summary:

Greatly pleased by approbation from CD, whom he admires and whose Origin did much for him.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Jan 1871
Source of text:
DAR 105: A23–4
Summary:

Definite results have been delayed, but he is optimistic.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Francis Galton
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
7 Apr 1871
Source of text:
DAR 105: A25–7
Summary:

CD will take care of the eight little rabbits. FG outlines their future.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Apr [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 105: A41
Summary:

Arrangements for transfer of rabbits to CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Apr 1871
Source of text:
DAR 105: 28–29
Summary:

Upset to learn he has misrepresented CD’s doctrine on Pangenesis [in Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 19 (1871): 393–410]. Hopes that CD’s letter to Nature [3 (1871): 502–3; Collected papers 2: 165–7] will clarify the doctrine and attract attention to it.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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