From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Nov 1872
Source of text:
DAR 105: A50–A51, A69–A70
Summary:
Agrees the rabbit experiment has gone on long enough, but would like one more litter.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Galton
To:
William Huggins
Date:
15 Feb 1873
Source of text:
DAR 105: A72–3
Summary:
Returns family documents about "Kepler" [William Huggins’ dog, see Collected papers 2: 170–1]; there is still some sort of investigation into the "precise mental condition" of "Kepler" and his relatives.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 28 May 1873]
Source of text:
Pearson 1914–30 , 2: 177–8
Summary:
Collecting information about antecedents of eminent men of science. Sends questionnaire.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 May 1873
Source of text:
DAR 105: A74–A76
Summary:
Thanks CD for completed questionnaire;
answers his query about determining mean heights of men.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Galton, Francis
To:
Darwin, Horace
Date:
18 June 1873
Source of text:
DAR 258: 1573
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Apr 1875
Source of text:
DAR 105: A78
Summary:
Is sending some seeds of sweetpeas, which George [Darwin] said CD would plant for him.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 June 1875
Source of text:
DAR 105: A79
Summary:
Interested to hear about the peas.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Sept 1875
Source of text:
DAR 105: A80–1
Summary:
Thinks CD’s case of twins with crooked fingers may be one from his twin study.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Sept 1875
Source of text:
DAR 105: A82
Summary:
Sends a lecture CD wished to see
and corrects himself about the twins.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Nov 1875
Source of text:
DAR 105: A83–A86
Summary:
Outlines a memoir he will give at the Anthropological Society in which he differs theoretically with Pangenesis.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Nov 1875
Source of text:
DAR 105: A87
Summary:
Sends a proof of his "Theory of heredity" from the Contemporary Review [27 (1875): 80–95; revised in J. Anthropol. Inst. 5 (1876): 329–48]. Welcomes CD’s help and criticism.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Nov 1875
Source of text:
DAR 105: A88–9
Summary:
Responds to suggestions and criticisms CD made to "theory of heredity" [see 10245].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Nov 1875
Source of text:
DAR 105: A90–1
Summary:
Thanks for the peas which arrived in "beautiful order".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Galton
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
22 Dec 1875
Source of text:
DAR 105: A94–5
Summary:
Gives further explanations of his theory of stirps and his objections to Pangenesis, in answer to a question of CD’s.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
