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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Farr
Date:
17 July [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 76–7
Summary:

Writes concerning the questions on consanguineous marriages which CD wishes to have inserted into the Census. Discusses the form the questions might take and the value of the information that would be gained from them.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
17 July 1870
Source of text:
DAR 261.7: 6
Summary:

CD would like questions on consanguineous marriages inserted in the Census to ascertain effects, if any, on fertility.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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