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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
