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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
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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.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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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.

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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.

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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].

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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".

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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".

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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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.

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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.

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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.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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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.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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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].

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From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 June 1879
Source of text:
DAR 210.9: 14
Summary:

Conveys some information about Dr Erasmus Darwin’s second wife and discusses photos of him and his wife.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 June 1879
Source of text:
DAR 210.14: 30
Summary:

Memorandum about Dr Erasmus Darwin’s bequests.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Nov 1879
Source of text:
DAR 105: A101–2
Summary:

Praises CD’s biography of Erasmus Darwin;

asks CD to answer some queries he is circulating. Is particularly interested in "visualizing faculty" in CD and Dr Darwin.

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