From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
7 Nov [1875]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/19)
Summary:
Comments on FG’s paper ["A theory of heredity"]. Finds essay difficult to understand. Objects that FG’s theory conflicts with phenomenon of use and disuse. Conflicts also with rarity of bud-variations in nature.
Says he has ordered FG’s article ["The history of twins", Fraser’s Mag. 92 (1875): 566–76; revised in J. Anthropol. Inst. 5 (1876): 391–406].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project