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DCP-LETT-10237

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
2 Nov [1875]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/17)
Summary:

Has heard that FG will write on inheritance. Huxley does not believe in E. G. Balbiani’s views on subject.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10241

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
4 Nov [1875]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/18)
Summary:

In London yesterday for Vivisection Commission.

Is revising his chapter on Pangenesis [in Variation, 2d ed.] to allow that gemmules probably multiply in the reproductive organs.

Notes examples of inheritance of acquired characteristics cited by Brown-Séquard.

Doubts that double parentage is necessary for complex organisations.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10245

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

DCP-LETT-10254

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
10 Nov [1875]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/20)
Summary:

Comments on FG’s paper ["The history of twins"].

CD is "in a passion with the Spectator who always muddles".

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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